Bookmarks by Kuliciah Wallace

Amendment 1- Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:22:29 UTC

provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise

cox v. New Hampshire. Protest and freedom to assemble

Amendment 2 - Rights to beat arms

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:28:53 UTC

It means that Americans have the right to have weapons such as guns to protect their selves

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen (2022)

Amendment 3- Quartering of soldiers

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:32:22 UTC

It protects Americans from the forced quartering of troops in their homes

President Harry Truman attempted to forcibly seize Steel Mills that were privately owned.

Amendment 4- Search and arrest

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:34:40 UTC

the police cannot search a person's private property without a likely cause that a crime has been committed.

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Amendment 5- Rights in criminal cases

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:38:48 UTC

The Fifth Amendment protects people from being put in “double jeopardy,” meaning they cannot be punished more than once for the same criminal act and that once found innocent of a crime they cannot be prosecuted again for the same crime.

New York v. Quarles (1984)

Amendment 6- Right to a fair trial

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:41:37 UTC

sets rules about how a person must be treated when accused of a crime and goes to trial. These rules include the right to a lawyer, a public and speedy trial, and a jury.

Carey v. Musladin. Victims' free expression rights and defendants' rights to an impartial jury.

Amendment 7- Bail, fines, punishment

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:46:01 UTC

civil cases, or lawsuits based on disagreements between people or businesses, have a right to be decided by a jury in federal court.

Amendment 8- Excessive bail shall not be required.

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:49:22 UTC

forbids the government from using torture as well as excessive fines and bail to punish people who have broken the law

Greg v Georgia is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that death penalty for murder was not in and of itself a cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments

Amendment 9- Rights retained by the People

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:51:53 UTC

all the rights not listed in the Constitution belong to the people, not the government. the rights of the people are not limited to just the rights listed in the Constitution.

Planned Parenthood vs. Casey1992

Amendment 10-States' rights

kuliciah_wallace25 — 2024-01-11 16:53:22 UTC

any power or right not specifically listed in the Constitution as belonging to the federal government belongs to individual states or the American people themselves.

State of Missouri v. Holland 252 U.S. 416 (1920)