Quiz ~ Bill of Rights

_______states that punishments must be fair, cannot be cruel, and that fines that are extraordinarily large cannot be set.

• 9th amendment

• 5th amendment

• 6th amendment

• 8th amendment

________ protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home

• 1st amendment

• 2nd amendment

• 3rd amendment

• 4th amendment

the ____ ___________ forbids the forcible housing of military personnel in a citizen’s home during peacetime and requires the process to be “prescribed by law” in times of war.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people is contained in the ____ ________

• 10th amendment

• 8th amendment

• 4th amendment

• 2nd amendment

The ___ ________ is covered in suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

• 5th amendment

• 6th amendment

• 7th amendment

• 8th amendment

The ___ _________ guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition.  It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices.

The ___ __________ guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you.

• Eighth Amendment

• Fifth Amendment

• Seventh Amendment

• Sixth Amendment

The Constitution, through the _____ ___________, protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. The Fourth Amendment, however, is not a guarantee against all searches and seizures, but only those that are deemed unreasonable under the law.

• First

  Amendment

• Fourth Amendment

• Sixth Amendment

• Tenth Amendment

The _____ ___________ of the United States Constitution states that the federal government doesn't own the rights that are not listed in the Constitution. Instead, they belong to the people. It also states that the rights not specified in the Constitution belong to the people, not the federal government.

• Ninth Amendment

• Tenth Amendment

• Third Amendment

• First Amendment

This amendment provides chiefly that no person be required to testify against himself or herself in a criminal case and that no person be subjected to a second trial for an offense for which he or she has been duly tried previously.

• 4th Amendment

• 3rd Amendment

• 4th Amendment

• 5th Amendment