What is one thing that secures judicial independence?

1. What is one thing that secures judicial independence? • Name one right given to the accused in the Bill of Rights. • Investigators of the Lime St. Experiment said that this helped prove the prosecution’s OR defense’s case. • When Hurst looked at the evidence, he said WIlingham’s house was burned down due to accidental fire or arson? Is it important for a teacher to be flexible in his/her rules or activities?

2. Amendability • I. Philosophy • II. Bill of Rights

3. I. Philosophy • Avoid violent revolutions • If a government has a long train of abuses, it is the right of the people to ____ or ___ it • Secure particular rights from the government • “Against the majority in favor of the minority”

4. II. Bill of Rights • Created as a compromise for anti-federalists to secure ratification of the Constitution • First 10 Amendments to the Constitution • freedom of religion, press, speech, and assembly; • the right to keep and bear firearms; • the right to refuse to house soldiers on private property; • the right to trial by jury and due process of law; • protection against unreasonable searches and seizures; and protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

5. II. Bill of Rights • 10th Amendment: all powers not given to the federal government in the Constitution are given to the states or to the people

6. II. Bill of Rights • Applied to the states with the 14th Amendment