Important Amendments

Question 1

First Amendment

Answer 1

• Establishment Clause & Free Excercise Clause!
• Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Question 2

Second Amendment

Answer 2

• The right to keep and bear arms.

Question 3

Third Amendment

Answer 3

• Citizens do not have to house soldiers.

Question 4

Fourth Amendment

Answer 4

• The government cannot search your house or seize your belongings without probable cause.

Question 5

Fifth Amendment

Answer 5

• Before being charged with a crime, a grand jury must agree there is enough evidence to send them to trial.
• They shall not be deprived of their life, liberty, or property without the due process of law.
• They shall not be compelled to be a self-witness and cannot be subjected to double jeopardy.
• The government must justly compensate for taken private land.

Question 6

Sixth Amendment

Answer 6

• The right to a speedy and public trial.
• The right to be told what they are being charged with; ask their accuser questions; call witnesses to testify for them; and get a lawyer.

Question 7

Seventh Amendment

Answer 7

• The right to a trial by jury in civil cases.

Question 8

Eighth Amendment

Answer 8

• No excessive bail, fines, or cruel and unusual punishment.

Question 9

Ninth Amendment

Answer 9

• There are other rights besides the ones listed in the Bill of Rights and the federal government cannot violate those rights.

Question 10

Tenth Amendment

Answer 10

• Any rights not given to the federal government are given to the states and people.

Question 11

Fourteenth Amendment (Section 1)

Answer 11

• Gives birthright citizenship.
• No State abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
• Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
• Nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Question 12

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 12

• Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude.

Question 13

Seventeenth Amendment

Answer 13

• Establishes the direct election of United States senators by popular vote.

Question 14

Twenty-fourth Amendment

Answer 14

• Prohibits the revocation of voting rights based upon failure to pay taxes.
• Removed poll taxes.

Question 15

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Answer 15

• Lowers the voting age to 18 years.