tuesday, jan. 17

Tuesday, Jan. 171. Get out your Bill of Rights packet if you did not turn it in to me

last week and a sheet of paper (if you do not have any paper get some from the box behind my desk) and title it Bill of Rights Picture Analysis

2. We will start your new spiral on Thursday so you need a new one by then

1st Amendment – 5 Freedoms

(5) 1. A. SpeechB. ReligionC. AssemblyD. PressE. Petition


2. To threaten someone, yell fire in a crowded movie theater, yell bomb at the airport, write untruths about someone


3. Jail, fines, sued


4. Sacrifice, polygamy


5. Petition = formal request to a superior or one in authority for some favor, privilege, or redress of a grievance

Assembly = to gather or bring together

2nd Amendment – Right to Bear Arms

1. They can not be infringed upon

2nd Amendment – Right to Bear Arms

2. Grace period; felons can’t own guns; concealed weapons

3rd Amendment – Quartering of Soldiers

Quartering Act – before the Revolution colonists were forced to house British soldiers

4th Amendment – Search and Seizure

1. persons, houses, papers, and effects

4th Amendment – Search and Seizure

2. The date, what they expect to find, the location, a judge’s signature, and the area to be searched

5th Amendment: Fair Trial in Open Court

1. Capital Crime = death penalty is a punishment

Infamous crime = a serious crime such as murder, rape, or robbery but the death penalty is not a punishment


2. Legal accusation returned by a grand jury, charging the commission or omission of some act, which is punishable by law


3. To decide if a person should be tried in a federal court; they examine the evidence against the accused to determine if there is enough evidence against him to merit a case going to court


4. 12 to 23


5. True bill = enough evidence to go to trial

No true bill = not enough evidence


6. Means a person can not be tried twice for the same crime


7. Nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself


8. The right of the accused to be treated fairly and according to the law

6th Amendment: The Rights of a Person in Court

1. Held in the district where the crime took place


2. So secret witness cannot bear witness against the accused


3. Subpoena

7th Amendment: Jury Trials

1. $20

7th Amendment: Jury Trials

2. a. Where there was a question on a point of law

b. Where there has been a technical injustice in the court procedure.

8th Amendment: Excessive Bail and Punishment

1. Security given to the court to obtain the temporary release of a prisoner and guaranteeing his appearance at a designated time.


2. Intolerable Acts – closed the port of Boston; officials accused of crimes stood trial in Britain

Salem Witch Trials – hanged for accusation of witchcraft


3. Death penalty = opinion

9th Amendment: Other Rights

1. Right of Privacy; education; work where you want

9th Amendment: Other Rights

2. Article I Section 8 describes the necessary and proper clause (elastic clause) which is the basis for the implied powers or laws that aren’t listed in the Constitution

ex. Health Care

10th Amendment: Rights of the States

1. Given to the states and to the people of the states

ex. Divorce laws, speed limits, marriage laws

Homework

Find an article in the newspaper or the internet that has to do with one of the first 10 amendments. Summarize the article and tell me which amendment it describes and why.

Bill of Rights Picture AnalysisDescribe what is

happening in the pictureRight

RepresentedAmendment

numberExplanation on

why you choose this

amendment.A

B

C

D

Bill of Rights Picture AnalysisDescribe what is

happening in the pictureRight

RepresentedAmendment

numberExplanation on

why you choose this

amendment.E

F

G

H

tuesday, jan. 17

Documents

law5th amendment

evidence5th amendment

punishment5th amendment

himself5th amendment

searched5th amendment

court5th amendment

place6th amendment

accused6th amendment