7th Grade Civics - Chap 10 Amendments

Question 1

What are the five parts of the first amendment (p235)

Answer 1

The right to freedom of:
-Speech
-Press
-Religion
-Assembly
-Petition the Government

Question 2

What is the second amendment (p235)

Answer 2

The right to bear arms

Question 3

What is the third amendment

Answer 3

The right not to have troops quartered without permission in one’s home during peacetime

Question 4

What is the 4th amendment (p235)

Answer 4

No search or seizure without a warrant or a reasonable exception

Question 5

What is the 5th amendment (P235)

Answer 5

No double jeopardy, no self-incrimination, no taking away of “life, Liberty, or Property” without “due prosses of law”

Question 6

What is the 6th amendment

Answer 6

Guarantees fair and speedy jury trial and the rights to know: the accusation, the accuser, and to find counsel and witnesses.

Question 7

What is the 7th amendment

Answer 7

the right to a fair trail by jury in some civil matters

Question 8

what is the 8th amendment

Answer 8

no excessive bail; no excessive; and no “ cruel and unusual”

Question 9

what is the 9th amendment

Answer 9

Reserves the rights of citizens which are not specifically mentioned by the U.S. Constitution

Question 10

what is the 10th amendment

Answer 10

Rights not given to the federal government are “Reserved” for the states and the people

Question 11

what is the 11th amendment

Answer 11

state sovereign immunity. states are protected from suits by citizens living in another state or foreigners that do not reside within the state borders. Ratified: Feb 7, 1795

Question 12

what is the 12th amendment

Answer 12

modifies and clarifies the procedure for electing vice-presidents and presidents.

Question 13

what is the 13th amendment

Answer 13

except as punishment for criminal offense, forbids forced-slavery and involuntary servitude

Question 14

what is the 14th amendment

Answer 14

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States

Question 15

what is the 15th amendment

Answer 15

reserves citizens the suffrage rights regardless of their race, color, or previous slave status

Question 16

what is the 16th amendment

Answer 16

Reserves the U.S. government the right to tax income

Question 17

what is the 17th amendment

Answer 17

establishes popular voting as the process under which senators are elected

Question 18

what is the 18th amendment

Answer 18

denies the sale and consumption of alcohol

Question 19

what is the 19th amendment

Answer 19

reserves women’s voting rights

Question 20

what is the 20th amendment

Answer 20

also known as the “lame duck amendment” establishes date of term starts for congress & the president

Question 21

what is the 21st amendment

Answer 21

the repeal of the 18th amendment

Question 22

what is the 22 amendment

Answer 22

limits the terms to 2. anymore and they cant be elected more than once.

Question 23

what is the 23rd amendment

Answer 23

reserves the right of citizens residing in the district of Columbia to vote for their own electors for presidential elections

Question 24

what is the 24th amendment

Answer 24

citizens cannot be denied their voting rights for not paying a poll tax or any taxes

Question 25

what is the 25th amendment

Answer 25

establishes the procedures for a successor of a president.

Question 26

what is the 26th amendment

Answer 26

lets people 18 or older be able to vote

Question 27

what is the 27th amendment

Answer 27

denies any laws that vary the salaries of congress members until the beginning of of the next terms of office for representatives

Question 28

how do they ratify an amendment

Answer 28

a majority of 3/4 of state legislators ratify (approve) the amendment

Question 29

what’s a proposal

Answer 29

when 2/3 of each house of congress proposes an amendment