Ch 9 - Amendments

Question 0

Amendment 2

Answer 0

Gun rights

Question 1

Amendment 1

Answer 1

Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition

Question 2

Amendment 3

Answer 2

No quartering of soldiers

Question 3

Amendment 4

Answer 3

No unreasonable searches (privacy)

Question 4

Amendment 5

Answer 4

No one forced to testify against themselves

Question 5

Amendment 6

Answer 5

Speedy and public trial

Question 6

Amendment 7

Answer 6

Trial by jury

Question 7

Amendment 8

Answer 7

No cruel and unusual punishment

Question 8

Amendment 9

Answer 8

Just because it’s not in the constitution doesn’t mean it’s not a right

Question 9

Amendment 10

Answer 9

All powers not of the government are for the people

Question 10

Amendment 11

Answer 10

Lawsuits between states

Question 11

Amendment 12

Answer 11

Separate ballots for Pres and VP

Question 12

Amendment 13

Answer 12

Abolished slavery

Question 13

Amendment 14

Answer 13

Abolished slavery, did citizenship stuff

Question 14

Amendment 15

Answer 14

Suffrage for former slaves

Question 15

Amendment 16

Answer 15

Income tax

Question 16

Amendment 17

Answer 16

Popular election of senators

Question 17

Amendment 18

Answer 17

Prohibited production, transportation, and sale of alcohol

Question 18

Amendment 19

Answer 18

Women’s suffrage

Question 19

Amendment 20

Answer 19

Lame duck amendment - Changed date in which newly elected presidents, senators, and reps take office

Question 20

Amendment 21

Answer 20

Repealed prohibition (18)

Question 21

Amendment 22

Answer 21

Pres limited to 2 terms, 10 years max

Question 22

Amendment 23

Answer 22

Granted DC number of electors equal to smallest state (3)

Question 23

Amendment 24

Answer 23

No poll taxes

Question 24

Amendment 25

Answer 24

Pres and VP succession

Question 25

Amendment 26

Answer 25

Suffrage for 18-year-olds

Question 26

Amendment 27

Answer 26

Congress can't raise it's own salary

Question 27

Bill of rights

Answer 27

Statement of individual citizens legal privileges

Question 28

3 documents that formed the background to the American bill of rights

Answer 28

Massachusetts Body of Liberties, English Bill of rights, virginia declaration of rights

Question 29

Establishment clause

Answer 29

Congress shall make no law concerning an establishment of religion

Question 30

Free exercise clause

Answer 30

Congress shall not prohibit the free exercise of religion

Question 31

3 purposes of establishment and free exercise clauses

Answer 31

1) to prevent the establishment of a national religion 2) to safeguard the right to freedom of religion 3) to permit states to deal with religious establishment as they saw fit

Question 32

Lemon tests 3 criteria

Answer 32

1) laws primary purpose must be secular 2) laws net effect on religion must be neutral 3) law must not entangle government with religion

Question 33

First free exercise case

Answer 33

Reynolds v. United States (Supreme Court rules that Mormon polygamy

Question 34

Slander

Answer 34

False speech used to destroy another's reputation

Question 35

Libel

Answer 35

False writing used to destroy another's reputation

Question 36

Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire

Answer 36

Justice Murphy ruled that the right to free speech does not include lewd, profane, obscene, and libelous speech

Question 37

Dennis v. United States

Answer 37

Court upheld conviction of eleven leaders of the American communist party for advocating revolution

Question 38

Pornography

Answer 38

Obscene writings or pictures designed to arouse immoral thoughts, feelings, and desires

Question 39

Prior restraint

Answer 39

Federal approval of all punished material before printing

Question 40

Roth v. United States

Answer 40

Defined obscenity as anything without redeeming social value

Question 41

Miller v. California

Answer 41

Court rejected its previous social value test

Question 42

Militia

Answer 42

The armed citizenry

Question 43

Brady law

Answer 43

Restricts sale of handguns by requiring a waiting period for the purchase of a handgun

Question 44

Warrant

Answer 44

A written statement issued by a judge which gives a law officer the authority to search for a specific thing in a specific place

Question 45

Capital crime

Answer 45

Punishable by death

Question 46

Felony

Answer 46

Other serious crime (but not capital)

Question 47

Court martial

Answer 47

Courts for trying members if the armed forces

Question 48

Eminent domain

Answer 48

The right of civil government to take over a persons land or other private property for public use

Question 49

Bail

Answer 49

A sum of money that a person deposits with the court in order to be temporarily released from jail

Question 50

Volstead act

Answer 50

Enforced 18th amendment

Question 51

Lame duck

Answer 51

An officeholder who continues I. His capacity although he has not been reelect end