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Warm-up• Update Table of Contents• Write your homework – leave it out to be
stamped• Article 5 of the Constitution describes how
the Constitution can be amended, or formally changed…why was this such an important idea for our Founding Fathers to include?
Date Session#
Activity Page#
11/27 28 The Structure of The Constitution 47
The Bill of Rights 48
The Bill of Rights
• The First 10 Amendments to the Constitution
• How many amendments are there total?
1st Amendment• 1st Amendment: Religious and Political
Freedom guarantees freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petition.
• This means:• we can practice any religion we want to• to speak freely• to assemble (meet)• to address the government (petition/protest)• to publish newspapers, TV, radio, Internet
(press)
1st Amendment Quiz
•Do you know your first amendment rights?
2nd Amendment
• The 2nd Amendment: The Right to Bear Arms
• This means:we have the right to own a gun
3rd Amendment
• The 3rd Amendment: Quartering Troops
• This means:• that we cannot be forced to house
or quarter soldiers.
4th Amendment
• 4th Amendment: Search and Seizure
• This means:• that the police must have a warrant to
enter and search our homes • it also means the government cannot take our
property, papers, or us, without a valid warrant based on probable cause (good reason)
5th Amendment
• 5th Amendment: Rights of Accused Persons
• This Means: protects people from being held for committing a crime unless they are properly indicted (accused)
• You may not be tried twice for the same crime (double jeopardy)
• You don’t have to testify against yourself in court. (self-incrimination)
6th Amendment• 6th Amendment: Right to a
Speedy, Public Trial • This Means: you can’t be kept
in jail for over a year without a trial
• an impartial jury (doesn’t already think you are guilty)
• that the accused can confront witnesses against them
• the accused must be allowed to have a lawyer
7th Amendment
• 7th Amendment: Trial by Jury in Civil Cases
• This Means:• A civil trial differs from a criminal
trial. A civil trial is when someone sues someone else. A criminal trial is when the state tries to convict someone of a crime.
8th Amendment
• 8th Amendment: Limits of Fines & Punishments
• This Means: • punishments will be fair
and not cruel, and that extraordinarily large fines will not be set.
9th Amendment
• 9th Amendment: Rights of People
• This Means:• all rights not stated in the Constitution
and not forbidden by the Constitution belong to the people.
• This means that the states can do what they want if the Constitution does not forbid it.
10th Amendment
• 10th Amendment: Powers of States and People
• This Means:• states that any power not granted
to the federal government belongs to the states or to the people.
Amendment Charades• Take 5 minutes with a partner to read
through and make clarifying notes on all 27 amendments on your “Structure of the Constitution” hand out (pages 266-277 in Creating America)
• You will pick an amendment out of the bowl to act out, and your team will have 30 seconds to guess the amendment
Words to Know
• Suffrage Bail• Abolish/Abolition Civil vs. Criminal• Repeal Assembly• Quartering Succession• Seizure• Petition• Prohibit/Prohibition
Amending the Constitution
• If the Constitution were being written today what would you add, get rid of and clarify?
• Chose one thing from the Constitution for each and create a chart to explain your “amendments”
Amending the Constitution Example
Add, Get Rid of and Clarify Reason for changing
I would clarify what is meant by “cruel and unusual” punishment in Amendment 8.
This needs clarification because some states support the death penalty…
I would add…
I would get rid of…