Key Constitutional Amendments and Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Prevents unreasonable searches and seizures by the government

• 1st Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 4th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

Protects Americans' right to "keep and bear arms"

• 1st Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 4th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

Guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and the right to peacefully protest

• 1st Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 4th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

You can’t be forced to provide evidence or testimony against yourself (aka “you have the right to remain silent”)

• 1st Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 4th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

If you're born here you're a citizen, and all citizens have "equal protection" under the law

• 6th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

Forbids "cruel and unusual" punishment

• 6th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

Says all powers not given to the federal government are reserved by the states

• 6th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

Gives people the right to a fair trial

• 6th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

Case where the Supreme Court established the idea of "separate of equal," basically legalizing segregation for the next 60 years

• Engel v. Vitale

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Tinker v. Des Moines

Case where the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools violates the Constitution, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson

• Engel v. Vitale

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Tinker v. Des Moines