1. Welcome to the Bill of Rights!

2. Our rights are relative, not absolute!

3. Though listed in the Bill of Rights, our rights are clarified through case law, or legal precedents: The decision in one case serves as a guide for similar cases.

4. Freedom of expression.

5. 1 st Amendment: Freedom of Speech (Expression) Free Exercise of Religion Separation of Church and State Right to Petition Right to Assemble

6. “I’m applying for the pre-school job you posted.”

7. Who is to say what beauty is?

8. Obscenity? Inciting violence?

9. Right to assemble, petition.

10. Free Exercise of religion?

11. 2 nd Amendment: Because we need a well-organized militia, people have the right to keep and bear arms.

12. Right to bear arms.

13. The 2 nd Amendment ain’t about hunting!

14. 3 rd Amendment: No quartering of troops except in wartime and according to the law.

15. 4th Amendment: Protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.

16. “Can we look in your trunk, son?”

17. Expectation of privacy?

18. 5 th Amendment: No double-jeopary Right against self-incrimination Due Process

19. 6 th Amendment: Trial by jury Right to counsel Speedy and public trials Right to confront witnesses

20. Does my attorney have to be a muppett?

21. 7 th Amendment: Right to jury trial in civil cases in which $20 or more is involved. Huh?

22. 8 th Amendment: No cruel and unusual punishment No excessive bail

23. Cruel and unusual punishment?

24. 9 th Amendment: Unenumerated Rights

25. 10 th Amendment: Powers not reserved to the Federal Gov’t or denied to the States go to the States and the People