Thursday , Jan. 16

Thursday, Jan. 16

1. Get out your spiral and put your binder on the floor.

2. Update your Table of ContentsDate Title Entry #1/13 Warm up’s: Jan. 13th to 17th 691/13 Bill of Rights Picture Analysis 701/14 United States Citizenship notes 711/15 1st Amendment Scavenger Hunt worksheet 72

3. Turn to entry #69. Turn to page 165 in the gray book on your desk. Write and answer #13 (just the question, not the quote)

4. Get out your Bill of Rights packet (we started going over it yesterday)

1st Amendment – 5 Freedoms

(5) 1. A. SpeechB. ReligionC. AssemblyD. PressE. Petition


2. To threaten someone, yell fire in a crowded movie theater, yell bomb at the airport, write untruths about someone


3. Jail, fines, sued


4. Sacrifice, polygamy


5. Petition = formal request to a superior or one in authority for some favor, privilege, or redress of a grievance

Assembly = to gather or bring together

4th Amendment – Search and Seizure

1. persons, houses, papers, and effects

4th Amendment – Search and Seizure

2. The date, what they expect to find, the location, a judge’s signature, and the area to be searched

5th Amendment: Fair Trial in Open Court

1. Capital Crime = death penalty is a punishment

Infamous crime = a serious crime such as murder, rape, or robbery but the death penalty is not a punishment


2. Legal accusation returned by a grand jury, charging the commission or omission of some act, which is punishable by law


3. To decide if a person should be tried in a federal court; they examine the evidence against the accused to determine if there is enough evidence against him to merit a case going to court


4. 12 to 23


5. True bill = enough evidence to go to trial

No true bill = not enough evidence


6. Means a person can not be tried twice for the same crime


7. Nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself


8. The right of the accused to be treated fairly and according to the law

1st 5 amendments“Wrecking Ball”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoqKjzuiBBk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoqKjzuiBBk

8th Amendment: Excessive Bail and Punishment

1. Security given to the court to obtain the temporary release of a prisoner and guaranteeing his appearance at a designated time.


2. Intolerable Acts – closed the port of Boston; officials accused of crimes stood trial in Britain

Salem Witch Trials – hanged for accusation of witchcraft


3. Death penalty = opinion

10th Amendment: Rights of the States

1. Given to the states and to the people of the states

ex. Divorce laws, speed limits, marriage laws

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