1. BILL OF RIGHTS

2. DO NOW MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR TEXTBOOK
What rights do you have as a United States citizen (list as many as you can)
Are these rights ever violated? If so provide an example from your life or from something you may have heard.

3. BILL OF RIGHTS The first 10 amendments to the Constitution
Was not part of original document
Lists specific restrictions on governmental power

4. BILL OF RIGHTS
1st Amendment: Provides the basic rights of expression for U.S. citizens
2nd,3rd,4th Amendments: All relate to colonial disputes with Great Britain before the American Revolution
5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Amendments: Provide guidelines for trying people accused of crimes
9th and 10th Amendments: Provide general protections for individual rights not addressed by the first eight amendments.

5. Directions Textbook Page 239-240
Carefully examine the placard and answer the following questions
Describe what is happening in the picture (1-2 sentences)
Right represented
Indentify which amendment
Explain why this amendment was chosen (2-3 sentences)
When you are finished take your matrix and placard to the teacher for review
Get another placard and continue the above process

6. PLACARD D

7. FIRST AMENDMENT The 5 Freedoms
Religion
Speech
Press (written word)
Assembly (meeting)
Petition (make a request) to the government
“Rights supply people amazing protections.”

8. Without First Amendment freedoms…

9. PLACARD H

10. Right to form a militia for defense
Second Amendment
The right to have a gun
Right to form a militia for defense

11. PLACARD G

12. No soldiers in people’s homes
Third Amendment
No soldiers in people’s homes

13. PLACARD A

14. Fourth Amendment
No “unreasonable searches and seizures” without a warrant
warrant - written orders authorizing a person to make an arrest or a search

15. PLACARD E

16. Fifth Amendment Rights about judicial process
“Due process” – fair application of laws
No requirement to testify against yourself
No double jeopardy

17. PLACARD J

18. Sixth Amendment – Rights at Trial
Quick trial by jury
Know the charges against you
Hear and question witnesses against you
Right to a lawyer

19. PLACARD C

20. Seventh Amendment
Right to a trial by jury in civil cases where two people disagree (instead of when the government puts someone on trial)

21. PLACARD B

22. Eighth Amendment
People accused of a crime can post bail $ to get out of jail
No cruel or unusual punishment

23. PLACARD F

24. People have other rights not stated in the Constitution
Ninth Amendment
People have other rights not stated in the Constitution

25. PLACARD I

26. Tenth Amendment
Individual states have powers not given to the federal government in the Constitution

27. CLOSING QUESTIONS
Directions: At the bottom of your notes follow the below steps
1. Rank the 10 amendments from most important to least important with 1 being the most important and 10 being the least important
For each amendment give a 1-2 sentence response explaining why you feel it is important or not important