2.4 Limiting and Safeguarding Rights

In 1919, a US Supreme Court Case Schenk vs. The United States, found that rights can be limited when:

• You take public transportation.

• Yell "fire" in a crowed theatre.

• Wish to purchase certain tools at a hardware store.

• Try to dine at certain restaurants.

Justice Oliver Holmes indicated that all of the following examples are times when your rights could be limited by law, EXECPT which one?

• Presenting a clear and present danger to the nation.

• Publishing factual news about the actions of a school principal on television.

• Working against the United States government interests.

• Causing people to riot at a protest near your school.

The Constitution lists very specific examples of actions that the US government cannot take against individuals for very good reasons. One of these is called: "Bill of attainder", which means what?

• Charging multiple people with having committed a crime and then taking them to court.

• Charging someone with a crime for something they did when it was legal when they did it!

• Holding someone against their will in jail until they agree to testify in open court about a crime someone else committed.

• Charging one person or a specific group of people with a crime even though they did not actually do it, but to target them.

One of the ways that the US Constitution safeguards your rights is by listing very specific examples of when the government may not interfere with the actions of people in their own home, unless a crime is being committed. This right is found in which of the following amendments?

• Amendment 1

• Amendment 5

• Amendment 6

• Amendment 4.

Another very important safeguard for protecting the individual's right to think and believe virtually anything they want. They can even practice these beliefs even if it might not be what others believe or thing is acceptable, so long as it does not violate the right of others to do the same. This is found in amendment?

• 1

• 8

• 5

• 10

The US Constitution has some important structural safeguards for protecting individual rights. One of these safeguards is a separate but equal judicial branch of government. Like the other two branches, the judicial branch has very specific duties that it must be able to preform without the interference of the other two. One of these roles is referred to as:

• checks and balances

• separation of powers

• judicial independence

• judicial law making

Judicial independence is very important in our system of government this means that the executive and legislative branches must not do "this"?

• pass unfair laws.

• punish judges for the rulings that they make in specific cases.

• exercise powers not specifically given to the other two branches of government.

• chose not to follow certain parts of the Constitution.

The right of "due process" is an important concept in US Civics. It means that the government and legal system must be fair to everyone and use the same procedures to anyone who may get into trouble with the law. Due process if found in which two amendments of the US Constitution?

• 5th and 1st

• 5th and 14th

• 14th and 1st

• 5th and 6th

Safeguarding rights is very important in American civics. One of the important ways that rights are protected is by ensuring very one in America, especially US citizens, that they receive equal protection and benefits from the law. This idea of equal protection is found where in the US Constitution?

• The 5th amendment's "due process" clause.

• The 6th amendment's right to fair and speedy trial.

• The 13th amendments right not to be a slave clause!

• The 14th amendment's citizenship clause.

Another important way in which the Constitution safeguards people's rights is found in the right to a fair and speedy public trail and the right to have a lawyer provided by the state for your defense. This is found in which amendment?

• The 1st amendment.

• The 5th amendment.

• The 6th amendment.

• The 7th amendment.