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Amendments

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Choose the description to go with the correct amendment

1

What does the 1st Amendment do?

Provides a right to trial by jury in criminal cases; knowledge of accusation; right to counsel
Provides a Right to keep and bear arms
Prohibition of excessive fines, bail or cruel punishment
Provides a Right of a Trial by jury in civil cases
Provides freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech, the press, assembly and petition

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What does the 2nd Amendment do?

Provides a right to trial by jury in criminal cases; knowledge of accusation; right to counsel
Prohibition of excessive fines, bail or cruel punishment
Provides a Right to keep and bear arms
Protection for the accused; grand jury; double jeopardy; protection from self incrimination; due process; eminent domain.
Freedom from unreasonable search; right to privacy

3

What does the 3rd Amendment do?

Addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Provides a Right to keep and bear arms
Provides a right to trial by jury in criminal cases; knowledge of accusation; right to counsel
Prohibition of excessive fines, bail or cruel punishment
The quartering of soldiers in peace time prohibited

4

What does the 4th Amendment do?

Addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Protection for the accused; grand jury; double jeopardy; protection from self incrimination; due process; eminent domain.
Gives the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Provides a right to trial by jury in criminal cases; knowledge of accusation; right to counsel
Freedom from unreasonable search; right to privacy

5

What does the 5th Amendment do?

Addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Freedom from unreasonable search; right to privacy
Protection for the accused; grand jury; double jeopardy; protection from self incrimination; due process; eminent domain.
Provides a right to trial by jury in criminal cases; knowledge of accusation; right to counsel
Provides a Right of a Trial by jury in civil cases

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What does the 6th Amendment do?

Protection for the accused; grand jury; double jeopardy; protection from self incrimination; due process; eminent domain.
Provides a Right of a Trial by jury in civil cases
Addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Gives the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Provides a right to trial by jury in criminal cases; knowledge of accusation; right to counsel

7

What does the 7th Amendment do?

Provides a right to trial by jury in criminal cases; knowledge of accusation; right to counsel
Provides a Right of a Trial by jury in civil cases
Prohibition of excessive fines, bail or cruel punishment
Addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Provides a Right to keep and bear arms

8

What does the 8th Amendment do?

Gives the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Provides a right to trial by jury in criminal cases; knowledge of accusation; right to counsel
Prohibition of excessive fines, bail or cruel punishment
Protection for the accused; grand jury; double jeopardy; protection from self incrimination; due process; eminent domain.

9

What does the 9th Amendment do?

Addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Provides a Right of a Trial by jury in civil cases
Protection for the accused; grand jury; double jeopardy; protection from self incrimination; due process; eminent domain.
Gives the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Prohibition of excessive fines, bail or cruel punishment

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What does the 10th Amendment do?

Provides a Right of a Trial by jury in civil cases
Addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Gives the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Provides a right to trial by jury in criminal cases; knowledge of accusation; right to counsel
Prohibition of excessive fines, bail or cruel punishment

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