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Understanding Your Rights in the Amendments - Scenarios Analysis

Learn about different Amendment scenarios, rights, and responsibilities in the Bill of Rights through specific scenarios and agreements or disagreements on their application.

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Understanding Your Rights in the Amendments - Scenarios Analysis

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  1. Know your Rights Amendment Scenarios

  2. A person enters a room and screams "Bomb!" just to see the reaction of the people in the room. He is protected under provisions in the Bill of Rights. • Agree/Disagree: Disagree • Amendment/Why: 1st…Freedom of speech must be used responsibly

  3. Members of Congress can learn many different things -- such as what you like and dislike about the area where you live -- from letters you send to them. • Agree/Disagree: Agree • Amendment/Why: 1st...Right to petition for grievances

  4. A police officer comes to your door and asks to search your home without probable cause. You don't want to allow the officer to enter, but he is allowed to search your home. • Agree/Disagree: Disagree • Amendment/Why: 4th…All government officials must have a warrant of probable cause

  5. Violence is getting to the point in our society where they should stop letting civilians own guns. • Agree/Disagree: Disagree • Amendment/Why: 2nd…Citizens have the right to own a weapon

  6. The Death Penalty is a good way to punish those who murder another human being. • Agree/Disagree: Disagree or Agree (subjective) • Amendment/Why: Disagree - 8th…Protects against cruel and unusual punishment Agree -5th…Cannot be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law

  7. A person is convicted of murdering another human being. Later, it is discovered that the victim of that murder actually faked his death. Under those circumstances, it would be legal for the person convicted of the murder to kill the person who faked his death. Agree/Disagree: Agree (technically) • Amendment/Why: 5th…Protects against double jeopardy, tried for same offense twice

  8. Your parents own a house. They invest hours of time and thousands of dollar into it. The government can take your parents house and land so a highway can be built. • Agree/Disagree: Disagree • Amendment/Why: 5th…Government cannot take private property away for public use without payment

  9. If a power is not expressed in the Constitution, then it is the responsibility of the individual states to protect citizens' rights. • Agree/Disagree: Agree • Amendment/Why: 10th…States given powers not granted to the national government

  10. After the attacks on September 11th, the U.S. Congress has resolved that people are not allowed to practice the Islamic religion in the United States. • Agree/Disagree: Disagree • Amendment/Why: 1st…Federal government cannot make a law prohibiting a religion

  11. A person involved in a monetary (money) dispute is permitted to take his or her complaint to court. • Agree/Disagree: Agree • Amendment/Why: 7th…All persons in a civil case are guaranteed a jury trial

  12. President Obama is allowed to call you at home and tell you that you must let soldiers stay in your home. • Agree/Disagree: Disagree • Amendment/Why: 3rd…Government cannot force you to lodge or supply (quarter) soldiers

  13. Everybody in the United States has the right to a free education. • Agree/Disagree: Agree • Amendment/Why: 9th…People have rights that cannot be taken away 10th…Powers reserved to the states (states control public schools)

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