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Understanding the Bill of Rights: Rights, Restrictions & Amendments

Learn about the first amendment, current events questioning the second amendment, and how amendments protect the rights of the accused with examples. Explore the importance of the Bill of Rights in limiting government powers and safeguarding civil liberties.

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Understanding the Bill of Rights: Rights, Restrictions & Amendments

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  1. Bill of Rights 328-343 Explain the first amendment and provide examples What current event has questioned the need for the second amendment? Explain one of the amendments that protects the rights of the accused-provide a current event

  2. Bill of Rights: 1st 10 amendments • Limits the powers of government • Protects civil liberties of individuals • Limits freedoms by consideration of other individuals’ rights

  3. 1st Amendment BIG FIVE

  4. 2nd Amendment “keep and bear arms”

  5. Rights of Accused (Amendments 4/5/6/8)

  6. 7th Amendment • Civil cases: disagreementsbetween people ratherthan crimes

  7. 18th Amendment • Prohibition • Prohibited production, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States • Difficult to enforce • Repealed by Amendment XXI, the only amendment ever passed to overturn an earlier amendment

  8. 19th amendment • Women right to vote

  9. 25th Amendment • vice president • Established process for VP to take over leadership when president dies, resigns, or is removed from office. • Set procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of vice president • Was used in 1973, when Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned from office

  10. 26th Amendment • Segregation: social segregation of races • Civil rights: 1970s provide more opportunities for minorities and women in the workplace and other areas, the government began affirmative action programs

  11. How is the Constitution amended? • Step 1: Proposal • 2/3 Congressional • 2/3 National convention • Step 2 Ratification • Three-fourths of the 50 states

  12. Amendments to the Constitution must be ratified by _______ of the states before they take effect. • one-half • two-thirds • three-fourths • All

  13. The First Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms • True • False 2ndamendment

  14. The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures of property • True • False

  15. What Amendment gave woman the right to vote in all state and national levels? • 1st Amendment • 5th Amendment • 19th Amendment • 25th Amendment

  16. Violation of the allegiance owed by a person to his or her own country • TREASON • EXTRADITION • IMPEACHMENT • INDICTMENT

  17. A court orderallowinglawenforcementofficers to search a suspect’s home or business & takespecific items as evidenceisknown as an • Indictment • Search Warrant • Bail • Habeus Corpus

  18. The practice of forcing AfricanAmericans to sit in separate sections of restaurants and theaterswasknown as • Civil Rights • Affirmative Action • Segregation • Racial Profiling

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