BILL OF RIGHTS TEST REVIEW
2nd Amendment
Militia
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)
McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
Collective Rights vs. Individual Rights
3rd Amendment
Quartering
Quartering Act (1765)
Engblom v. Carey
4th Amendment
Search & seizure
Exclusionary Rule
Probable Cause
Warrant
Plain View/Open Field
Checkpoints
Katz v. U.S. (1967)
Terry v. Ohio (1968)
Kyllo v. U.S. (2001)
5th Amendment
Grand Jury
Indictment
Double Jeopardy
Self-Incrimination/Plead the Fifth
Due Process
Just Compensation/Fair Market Value
Eminent Domain
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)/Miranda Rights
Sixth Amendment
Speedy & Public Trial
Impartial Jury
Fair Cross Section
Confrontation Clause
Compulsory Process
Right to Counsel
Powell v. Alabama (1932)/Scottsboro Boys
Gideon v. Wainwright (1965)
U.S. v. Nixon (1974)/Watergate
7th Amendment
Civil Trial
Complexity Exception
Twenty Dollar Clause
Tort Reform
Caps On Damages
Arbitration
8th Amendment
Cruel & Unusual Punishment
Excessive Bail
Trop v. Dulles (1958)/Trop Test
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Gregg v. Georgia
9th Amendment
Enumerated Rights vs. Unenumerated Rights
‘The Forgotten Amendment
Right to Privacy
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
10th Amendment
Reserved Powers
Federalism
States Rights
Sectionalism/Secession
Nullification
14th Amendment
Due Process
Equal Protection of the Laws
Incorporation
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Segregation/Integration
Affirmative Action
Potential Essay Qs:
- There are two interpretations of the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Describe each. Which do you support? Why?
- Thomas Jefferson and his supporters believed that a Bill of Rights was absolutely crucial to the protection of liberty. Do you think this conclusion has proven to be correct? Use examples from history or from the present to show your reasoning.
- How is the right to “privacy” protected by the Bill of Rights if the word itself does not appear in that document? Examine modern examples of actions which are or are not protected under the right to privacy.
- The framers of the Constitution created a political system based on limited government. The original
Constitution and the Bill of Rights were intended to restrict the powers of the national government.
Later constitutional developments also limited the powers of state governments.
(A)Explain how each of the following two provisions in the Bill of Rights limits the powers of the national
government.
• Establishment clause
• Guarantee of a public trial
(B) Choose one of the following and explain how it limits the power of state governments.
• Citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
• Selective incorporation
- The National Constitution Center displays the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Why do people consider these the “documents of freedom?” How do these documents work together to define and protect our rights?
- Explain how average citizens have changed the meaning of the Bill of Rights through Supreme Court cases. Provide at least three individuals and their stories.