Honors Civics & Economics



Name: _____ ANSWER KEY __Unit 2 Study Guide:1st Amendment (Freedom of Expression)What rights are protected by the 1st Amendment?What is censorship and what are some examples of when material can be censored?What is the difference between slander and libel?4th Amendment (Right to Privacy)What is a search warrant and why are they required before the police can search?What do police need in order to get a search warrant from a judge?When are 3 situations in which a search warrant is not required?5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments (Rights of the Accused)Why is it important that an accused person’s rights are protected?What does it mean to have due process of law?What is the purpose of indictment by a grand jury?How does eminent domain protect landowners?What is double jeopardy and why are accused people protected from it?What rights are guaranteed to a person before a trial starts, while the trial is going on, and after the trial is over?Other AmendmentsExplain how the Quartering Act led to the addition of the 3rd Amendment.What rights does the federal government have to regulate guns even though the 2nd Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms?How does the 9th Amendment expand the powers of the citizens?How does the 10th Amendments expand the power of the state governments?What right is guaranteed in the 7th Amendment?How does the 14th Amendment provide equal protection under the law?Name that Constitutional Principle: 7. “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present” (I:3)8. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people”.-10th Amendment9. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States (I:8) 10. “The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a North Carolina Supreme Court ruling on Monday that had upheld the state’s Republican-drawn legislative and congressional districts.” 11. “The U.S. justices said the state’s highest court must reconsider whether legislators relied too heavily on race when drawing the 2011 maps, which shape how state and federal elections will be decided until at least 2020.” 12. “The Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge?Sonia Sotomayor?as the nation’s first Hispanic?Supreme Court?justice, concluding a 10-week battle with a resounding victory for the White House.” 13. “Article II, Section 9, of the California Constitution provides for the referendum process in California. Electors have the power to approve or reject statutes or parts of statutes, with the exception of urgency statutes, statutes calling elections, and statutes providing for tax levies or appropriations for usual, current state expenses.” 14. "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just?powers from the consent of the governed,?That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the?Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." Declaration of Independence ................
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