government
Gary Nelson
NAME: ____________________________________
The Bill of Rights
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9. The Eighth Amendment prohibits
punishments that are both cruel and
______.
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10. The Seventh Amendment
preserves the ancient common law
distinction between 'suits at common
law' and 'cases in _____.'
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17. The Sixth Amendment guarantees
several rights related to prosecution
for a criminal offense, including the
right to an _______ jury. This means
that the jurors cannot have prejudged
the case.
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13. The Fourth Amendment is
typically enforced by application of
the ______ rule.
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19. Generally, the Seventh
Amendment preserves the common
law right to a jury trial in cases
seeking the award off _______.
20. The Fifth Amendment
presupposes, and therefore preserves,
the government's power to take away
your property -- the power of ______
domain -- but makes it clear that you
must be paid for the property taken.
23. res _______ = 'a thing decided'
2. The Fifth Amendment prohibits any
person from being tried twice for the same
criminal offense - a process popularly known
as double ____.
6. The Fifth Amendment, and the Fourteenth
Amendment, prohibit the deprivation of 'life,
liberty or property, without ___ process of law.'
7. Under the Seventh Amendment one suing to
have the court issue an order to stop someone
from doing something, called an ______, is not
guaranteed a trial by jury.
25. The Seventh Amendment ('the
board in the bed that forever prohibits the true marriage of
law and equity') guarantees the right to a jury trial only in
'suits at _____ law.'
26. The Fifth Amendment guarantees, among other
things, that criminal defendants have the right to have
the evidence against them presented to a ____ jury before
the case proceeds to trial.
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1. In Texas, if a grand jury does not think there
is enough evidence to hold someone for trial they
will issue a '__ bill.'
3. The 8th Amendment prohibits both bails and
fines which are ______.
4. The Fourth Amendment has become known as the ____
Amendment.
5. One of the criminal rights guaranteed by the Sixth
Amendment is the right to have the court issue a _____ to
force witnesses to appear on behalf of the criminal defendant.
8. The ______ Amendment, together with the Fourth
Amendment, has been held to imply the right of a woman to
choose to have an abortion.
11. 'The ____ is entitled to every man's testimony,' with the
exceptions implied by the Fifth Amendment.
12. 'No ____ shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any
house, without the consent of the owner; ....' So says the
Third Amendment.
14. The Fifth Amendment includes the right to not
incriminate yourself by testifying in a _____ case against you.
15. There are two types of _____ law: 'suits
at common law' and cases in equity.
16. The Sixth Amendment protects the right to a
_____ trial. This right is also protected, says the
Supreme Court, by the 14th Amendment's 'due process'
clause.
18. The Fourth Amendment implies the right to choose an
abortion. So said the Supremes in the landmark case of ____
v. Wade.
19. The Seventh Amendment makes it clear that facts
decided by a jury will remain _______.
21. The Sixth Amendment's right to cross-examine witnesses
against you when you are charged with a crime has been
called 'the greatest engine for the discovery of _____' in legal
history.
22. The Ninth Amendment has been turned from a shield
against the encroachment of federal power into a ____ in the
hands of the federal Supreme Court -- used to strike down
state laws it finds offensive.
24. A Texas grand jury indicts a person by issuing a ____
bill