10 Amendments: 1) Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition. –exactly what it says. 2) Bearing Arms-Right to carry a weapon. 3) Quartering Troops 4) Searches and Seizures- Can search ONLY with a warrant and reasonable suspicion. 5) Criminal Proceedings, Due Process, Eminent Domain-Right to be Silent 6) Criminal Proceedings 7) Civil Trials 8) Punishment for Crimes 9) Unenumerated Rights 10) Powers Reserved to the States. VOCAB=1.Civic Values: The values we learn to respect as citizens.2.Capital Punishment: The death penalty. 3.Affirmative Action: Specific actions in recruitment, hiring, upgrading and other areas designed and taken for the purpose of eliminating the present effects of past discrimination, or to prevent discrimination. 4. Affirm: To check and make sure its right. 5. Overturn: Bend 6. Free Exercise Clause: The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment has often been interpreted to include two freedoms: the freedom to believe, and the freedom to act. 7. Dissent: (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority; "he expressed his dissent in a contrary opinion". 8. Concur: To agree. 9.Due Process: A process by which government must treat accused persons fairly according to rules established by law. 10. Eminent Domain: The power of the government to take private property for public use. 11.Woman’s Suffrage: The international movement for women's suffrage, led by suffragists (commonly called suffragettes), was a -social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (that is, the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather than universal suffrage (abolition of discrimination due to, for instance, race), which was considered too radical. 12. Assembly: The act of putting together.
COURT CASES-------------------------------
1. Wis v. Yoder- about Amish people wanting their children able to not go to school because of their religion says they are not supposed to. They passed it. 2. NJ v. TLO: girl got caught smoking cig. And they wanted to search her bad for other substances. They found weed. She said she was innocent but she got put in jail and then she tried to pass a law saying that teachers cannot look in their bags and such and some liked it and some didn’t, so they didn’t pass it.
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