By: Taina QuilesMarch 19, 2012Gr. 8 – HR B227 Computer Enrichment

Constitution: Bill of Rights

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1. Congress can’t make a law that doesn’t let you practice your religion, changes your religion, keep you from saying what you want about anything, or publishing whatever you like in a book or magazine.

Congress also can’t stop you from organizing a meeting a peaceful meeting to ask the government to change something.

Today you have freedom of speech which is part of this commandment. In America, you can speak your mind peacefully without getting punished.

Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion, and Petition

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free

exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to

assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of

grievances.

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2. Congress can’t stop us from having or carrying weapons to defend

ourselves. Today only certain states allow

someone to use a weapon to defend themselves. This commandment isn’t

as useful today.

Right to Keep and Bear ArmsA well-regulated militia, being

necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

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3. You don’t have to let soldiers in your house

unless if there is a war and even then they need permission by law.

Today police may not go in your house without a

warrant. The state must approve of their reason to

come into your house. Now, police may come into your house even when there is

no war happening.

Conditions for quarters of soldiersNo soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of

war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

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4. Nobody may search your body, house, or paper and things. If they can prove that they have a good reason to think you have committed a crime then they

have the right to do so.Today when police stop you in town they

may search your car and look through your papers for any reason. This law isn’t

used today.

Right of Search and Seizure RegulatedThe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and

effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be

violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported

by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things

to be seized.

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5. You can't be tried for any serious crime without a Grand Jury meeting first to decide whether there's enough evidence for a trial. If the jury decides you are innocent, the government can't try again with another jury. You don't have to say anything at your trial. You can't be killed, or put in jail, or fined, unless you were convicted of a crime by a jury. And the government can't

take your house or your farm or anything that is yours, unless the government pays for it. Today you may be put into any trial without much evidence at all and into the trial is when they search for evidence. The trial can take as long as it needs to be unless if they find you innocent.

Provisions Concerning ProsecutionNo person shall be held to answer for a capital,

or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval

forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any

person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty,

or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use

without just compensation.

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6. If you're arrested, you have a right to have your trial pretty soon, and the

government can't keep you in jail without trying you.

The trial has to be public, so everyone knows what is

happening. The case has to be decided by a jury of

citizens from your area. In the trial you have the right

to know what you are accused of, to see and hear

the people who are witnesses against you, to have the government help you get witnesses on your

side, and to have a lawyer to help you. Today you have to be kept in jail until your trial

begins. You may be realeased until your trial

begins if you have paid you bail which is usually a large

amount of money.

Right to a Speedy Trial, Witnesses, etc.In all criminal

prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a

speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the

State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district

shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature

and cause of the accusation; to be

confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for

his defense.

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Right to a Trial by Jury

7. You have the right to a jury when it is a civil case. Today you have a jury for a major case not a minor one. Jury’s are more used for major cases just to have an opinion of

what people may think. If someone is found not guilty, when everyone thinks they were

a jury may try to play against it.

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall

exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved,

and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any

court of the United States, than according to the rules of the

common law.

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Excessive Bail, Cruel Punishment

8. The government can't make you pay more than is reasonable in bail or in fines, and the government can't order you to have cruel or

unusual punishments even if you are convicted of a crime.

Today the bails are usually an excessive amount like 1 million dollars that no ordinary person can

pay. If you are convicted of a serious crime death may result in it.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines

imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

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Rule of Construction of Constitution9. Just because

only these rights are listed in the

constitution does not mean

you do not have any other rights

also.Today all laws

are listed. Some are not really

regulated. Congress may make useless laws today but

keep them anyway.

The enumeration

in the Constitution,

of certain rights, shall

not be construed to

deny or disparage

others retained by the people.

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Right of States Under Constitution

10. Anything that the Constitution doesn't say that Congress can do should be left up to the states, or

to the people.Today only state laws are left to the state. The

states may not change any national laws. People may vote for some national laws and state laws

but, must be a citizen.

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.

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Hope you enjoyed it

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