Chapter 2 Constitutional Rights part 2

Which of these documents is not considered a basis of the U.S. Bill of Rights?

• Magna Carta

• Petition of Rights of 1628

• English Bill of Rights

• All of the above are considered bases for the U.S. Bill of Rights

Personal, natural rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution are known as

• peripheral rights.

• civil rights.

• due process rights.

• legal rights.

The three branches of the U.S. government are

• President, House of Representatives, and Senate.

• executive, legislative, and judicial.

• President, Vice President, and Supreme Court.

• President, Congress, and Supreme Court.

The Nineteenth Amendment clarified the voting rights of what group of U.S. citizens?

• blacks

• women

• 18 year olds

• all of these

While listening to a national newscast, Masami learned that the Vice President of the United States was being impeached for bribing some of the members of the House of Representatives. The legislative body that would have the sole power to conduct the impeachment trial to follow is the

Bonnie and her friends are concerned that their community's outlying areas may be used as a nuclear waste dumping ground. They decide to organize a public protest on the steps of one of the county buildings. On the day of the protest, the police arrive but make no arrests because Bonnie and her friends are allowed to "peaceably assemble" under the __________Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The groundwork for the Internet was laid in the late 1960s during the Cold War by the U.S. Department of __________

The major Internet-related Constitutional issues involves the First Amendment right of_____

A right vital to the protection of all the others, the right of ________was, nonetheless, only legitimized by a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1960s.

Ira and Ingrid own some property located where the local extension of an interstate highway is to be built. The couple receives notification that the government will seize the property for public purposes and compensate them at 95 percent of the market value of the property. Fair compensation for private property taken by the government for public purposes is part of the _____ Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.