Trivia Questions About the US Constitution
The Fourth Amendment (1791) protects people against unreasonable what?
A: Searches and seizures of either self or property by government officials.
A seizure occurs when the government does what?
A: Takes control of an individual or something in his or her possession.
Items that are seized often are used as evidence when the individual is what?
A: Charged with a crime.
It also imposes certain limitations on police investigating a crime and prevents the use of illegally obtained what?
A: Evidence at trial.
What does the Fifth Amendment (1791) establish?
A: The requirement that a trial for a major crime may commence only after an indictment has been handed down by a grand jury.
The Fifth Amendment protects individuals from double what?
A: Jeopardy, being tried and put in danger of being punished more than once for the same criminal act.
The Sixth Amendment (1791) provides several protections and rights to an individual accused of what?
A: A crime.
The accused has the right to a fair and speedy what?
A: Trial by a local and impartial jury.
Likewise, a person has the right to a what?
A: Public trial.
The Sixth Amendment also guarantees a right to legal counsel if what?
A: Accused of a crime and guarantees that the accused may require witnesses to attend the trial and testify in the presence of the accused, and guarantees the accused a right to know the charges against them.
In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled that, with the Fifth Amendment, this amendment requires what has become known as the what?
A: Miranda warning.
The Seventh Amendment (1791) extends the right to a jury trial to what?
A: Federal civil cases, and inhibits courts from overturning a jury's findings of fact.
The Eighth Amendment (1791) protects people from having bail or fines set at a what?
A: An amount so high that it would be impossible for all but the richest defendants to pay and also protects people from being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
What does the Ninth Amendment (1791) declare?
A: That individuals have other fundamental rights, in addition to those stated in the Constitution.
Because the rights protected by the Ninth Amendment are not specified, they are referred to as what?
A: Unenumerated.
The Supreme Court has found that unenumerated rights include such important rights as what?
A: The right to travel, the right to vote, the right to keep personal matters private and to make important decisions about one's health care or body.
The Tenth Amendment (1791) was included in the Bill of Rights to do what?
A: Further define the balance of power between the federal government and the states.
The Tenth Amendment states that the federal government has only those powers specifically granted by what?
A: The Constitution.
What do these powers include?
A: The power to declare war, to collect taxes, to regulate interstate business activities and others that are listed in the articles or in subsequent constitutional amendments.
Any power not listed is, says the Tenth Amendment, what?
A: Left to the states or the people.