The Bill of Rights
What is the Lemon Test?
1. Purpose of aid must be secular 2. must have a neutral effect on religion 3. must not create excessive entanglement between church and state
How many amendments after State
10+1
How many to Senate
12
How many bills were passed from the house
17
What percent were the bills voted on
2/3
Whats a captial crime
A crime that could lead to the death penalty
What's a grand jury?
A jury to look over evidence to see if they need to go to court. only court that works in privicy
What is a Super pack
A person who makes an ad for someone running. CAN NOT mention canadint name
What group made the bills of rights
Anti Federalist
What happend is civil court when the value is less then 20 dollors
Bench Trial
Whats a nick name for amendment 9
Catch all
Whats it called when they change location for a court
Change of Venue
What are the two clauses to the first amendment
Establishment, Free exercise
Whats the Gideon vs Wainwright
Gideon did not get a lawyer to defend him and appealed to the supreme court and had another court case
Whats cheaper, Killing or prison
Killing is 10x more cheaper
Who was the author of the bills
James madison
what are the 5 legal methods of killing
Lethal Injection Chair Firing squad Hang Gas Chamber
Whats a Inditment
Order for you to appear in court by evidence
What are the three ways we measure freedom of speech
Place Time Manner
What are the 5 rights in the first amendment
Religion, Speech, Press, assembly, Petition,
What dose the second amendment mean
Right to bear arms
whats habius corpus
Right to have a judge tell you why you are in jail
Eminit domain
Right to take private property
What do you call a jury that has one opinion
Tainted Jury
whats amendment 8 talk about
The Eighth Amendment bars excessive bail and fines and cruel and unusual punishment.
what is amendment 9 about
The Ninth Amendment states that listing specific rights in the Constitution does not mean that people do not have other rights that have not been spelled out.
What dose amendement 7 talk about
The Seventh Amendment extends the right to a jury trial in Federal civil cases.
what dose the 6th amendment talk about
The Sixth Amendment provides additional protections to people accused of crimes, such as the right to a speedy and public trial, trial by an impartial jury in criminal cases, and to be informed of criminal charges. Witnesses must face the accused, and the accused is allowed his or her own witnesses and to be represented by a lawyer.
Amendment 10
The Tenth Amendment says that the Federal Government only has those powers delegated in the Constitution. If it isn't listed, it belongs to the states or to the people.
whats a bench trial
Trial with only judge
whats a Subpena
court order for a witness to come talk
Whats a infamous crime
bad ratification
What dose the fourth amendment mean
bars the government from unreasonable search and seizure of an individual or their private property.
What are the two types of court
civil Criminal
Whats the money called that is used for a super pack
dark money
Who chooses the speed in criminal court
defendent
Is bail a punishment
no
What dose the fith amendment mean
provides several protections for people accused of crimes. It states that serious criminal charges must be started by a grand jury. A person cannot be tried twice for the same offense (double jeopardy) or have property taken away without just compensation. People have the right against self-incrimination and cannot be imprisoned without due process of law (fair procedures and trials.)
Who were the Federalists?
supporters of the Constitution
Can a judge not make you have a bail and why or why not
yes, Flight risk Danger to people
What percentage of State legislates needed to ratify bills
3/4
How many original amendments did james wright
39
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
people who opposed the Constitution
What dose the third amendment mean
prevents government from forcing homeowners to allow soldiers to use their homes.
