Exam 1 (The Constitution) Flashcards
Article I
Legislative article:
Article II
Executive article:
Article III
Judicial article:
Article IV
States’ Relations:
Article V
Mode of Amendment:
Article VI
Prior Debts, National Supremacy, Oaths of Office:
1st Ammendment
- Religion
- Speech
- Press
- Peaceable Assembly
- Petition the Government
The only exception made is when granting these rights allows people to violate criminal law.
2nd Ammendment
- Right to bear arms
2. Right to have a “well regulated militia”.
3rd Ammendment
Quartering soldiers: If soldiers come to your house and demand to stay there, you can say “no”.
4th Ammendment
Search & Seizure:
- Exclusionary Rule - Improperly collected evidence is inadmissible in court.
- Search warrants require probable cause.
- Search warrants must be issued by a “neutral magistrate”.
(probable cause can be a very small protection, but it’s more than nothing.
What is a reasonable search and seizure?
- Stop & Frisk: Mere suspicion
- Incident to a lawful arrest: If someone is arrested, they can be searched along with the area they were arrested in.
- Incarceration: You can be searched if you are in prison
- Under authority of a search warrant.
- Probable cause, but no time to get a warrant.
- Vehicle Lawfully in Custody: (Traffic violation or something similar)
- Evidence in plain view.
- Consent to Search.
- Any other reasonable search and seizure.
5th Ammendment
Right of Persons:
- Self incrimination: (only applies to criminal penalties, which include fine, imprisonment, and death).
- Indictment for capital or infamous crimes: (Indictment means there is enough evidence to precede to trial)( Grand Juries are those that decide on indictments).
- Double Jeopardy.
- Due Process
Types of Due Process
Procedural:
a) Reasonable Notice
b) Fair Hearing
(Laws can be challenged on all the following)
c) Too Broad
d) Too Narrow
e) Too Vague
Substantive:
a) Does it have a proper purpose?
b) Does the penalty bear a reasonable relationship to that purpose?
c) Is the law arbitrary?
d) Discriminatory in its application?
6th Ammendment
Right of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions:
- Speedy trial: (varies according to the severity of the crime).
- Impartial Jury.
- Must be informed of the accusation (arraignment).
- Confrontation of witnesses (cross examination).
- Ability to obtain witnesses in your favor.
- Right to an attorney at any critical stage.
8th Ammendment
Further Guarantees in Criminal Cases:
- Prohibits excessive bail
- Prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment”