1. Objective: Describe the rights granted in the Bill of Rights, explain its purpose, and analyze its efficacy
Guiding Question: Why do we have the 1st 10 Amendments?
The Bill of Rights

2. The Bill of Rights: Context
The Constitution outlines what our government can and can’t do.
The Bill of Rights is the list of Amendments at the end of the Constitution that protects individual rights.
In the Civil Rights movement people fought for the recognition of their rights as people. And won.

3. The Bill of Rights: Concepts
The Constitution is the highest form of law in the United States. It is the way we measure whether laws are fair.
Due Process is the idea that the government must protect the legal rights of all citizens (a fair trial, etc.)
The Original Bill of Rights was made up of ten amendments

4. Freedoms of: religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
1st Amendment
Freedoms of: religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
80 Americans “occupy” Wall Street in NYC to protest businesses that mistreat workers (2011)

5. 2nd Amendment The right to own a gun.
The NRA argues that the 2nd amendment means gun use shouldn’t be regulated.

6. Soldiers need permission to stay in your home.
Third Amendment
Soldiers need permission to stay in your home.
Because of our history with the British soldiers, Americans wanted to prevent this from happening.

7. They can’t search you or your property without a warrant/ a reason.
Fourth Amendment
They can’t search you or your property without a warrant/ a reason.
In Arizona, a law passed that accepts racial profiling as reasonable cause.

8. Fifth Amendment Right to a fair trial and due process.
Can’t be tried for the same crime twice.
Right to remain silent.

9. Before he was a President, Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer.
Sixth Amendment
Fast and public trial by jury
Right to a lawyer
Before he was a President, Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer.

10. Seventh Amendment Trial by jury (in civil cases)
Why might this amendment be outdated?
(Look at the quotation for clues!)

11. The U.S. is the only Western democracy to use death as a punishment.
Eighth Amendment
Fair punishments that fit the crime.
The U.S. is the only Western democracy to use death as a punishment.

12. The Original Bill of Rights
Ninth Amendment
This list of rights can’t be used to deny us other rights.
The Original Bill of Rights

13. Tenth Amendment
States’ Rights

14. The Reconstruction Amendments were added after the Civil War, in 1968
15th Amendment
Right to vote no matter your race.
The Reconstruction Amendments were added after the Civil War, in 1968

15. 19th Amendment Women can vote.
Passed in 1920 after women, who called themselves “suffragettes” fought for their rights.