Amendment Violations - David Lanman | Library

Instructions

Read the following hypothetical situations and decide whether each one contains a violation of the Bill of Rights.  If it is a violation, indicate which amendment is being violated.

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A 20 year old college student starts his own newspaper, which often prints articles making fun of the local mayor. The mayor is angry and gets his aides to take the papers off the stand before they can be distributed.

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Which amendment is involved in the above scenario? __________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

9th amendment

no violation

2nd amendment

7th amendment

4th amendment

6th amendment

1st amendment

8th amendment

5th amendment

10th amendment

3rd amendment

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A woman is being tried for murder. The prosecuting attorney forces her to take the stand and testify.

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Which amendment is involved in this scenario? __________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

4th amendment

6th amendment

7th amendment

1st amendment

8th amendment

5th amendment

3rd amendment

10th amendment

9th amendment

2nd amendment

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A student wears a button to school urging people to vote for a certain candidate for President of the United States. Some other students don't like the candidate and ask the principal to force the student to take off the butoon. The principal refuses to tell the student to remove the button.

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Which amendment is involved in this scenario? __________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

10th amendment

6th amendment

2nd amendment

4th amendment

3rd amendment

8th amendment

5th amendment

1st amendment

9th amendment

7th amendment

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A dentist is being sued for $500,000. He wants a jury to hear the case but the judge refuses his request.

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Which amendment is involved in this scenario? __________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

3rd amendment

1st amendment

7th amendment

10th amendment

5th amendment

8th amendment

4th amendment

2nd amendment

9th amendment

6th amendment

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A young woman is being tried for treason. She is accused of selling plans for building a nuclear weapon to Iran. The judge believes it would be dangerous to let the public hear her ideas. He refuses to allow anyone to view the trial.

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Which amendment is involved in this scenario? __________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

6th amendment

3rd amendment

2nd amendment

8th amendment

9th amendment

5th amendment

7th amendment

4th amendment

10th amendment

1st amendment

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A group of teenagers gather quietly on a street corner. Neighbors complain and ask the police to arrest them for getting together as a group. The police refuse.

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Which amendment is involved in this scenario? __________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

8th amendment

4th amendment

3rd amendment

7th amendment

6th amendment

2nd amendment

1st amendment

10th amendment

5th amendment

9th amendment

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A town needs more land to build a new elementary school. A woman's property is needed, but she wants to keep it. The town forces her to sell and gives her twice the property's actual value. She sues to get her land back.

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Which amendment is involved in this scenario? __________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

10th amendment

2nd amendment

5th amendment

4th amendment

3rd amendment

1st amendment

6th amendment

9th amendment

8th amendment

7th amendment

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The government tries a man for murder and loses the case. A jury says he is innocent. The district attorney who prosecuted the case is mad and promises to keep trying him until they get a jury to convict him. The defendant thinks this is unfair.

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Which amendment is involved in this scenario? __________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

9th amendment

2nd amendment

5th amendment

10th amendment

8th amendment

1st amendment

6th amendment

7th amendment

4th amendment

3rd amendment

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The Postmaster General of the United States has a cross and a nativity scene installed at all Post Offices throughout the country during Christmas time. Government funds are being used to purchase the cross and nativity scene. The mayor of a predominantly Jewish town demands that the cross and nativity scene be removed from her town.

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Which amendment is involved in this scenario? __________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

3rd amendment

4th amendment

5th amendment

9th amendment

6th amendment

2nd amendment

7th amendment

1st amendment

8th amendment

10th amendment

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A man living on a quiet residential street erects a giant billboard on his front lawn. The billboard has neon lights advertising a new breakfast cereal that the man invented. The city has zoning laws against this type of sign in a residential neighborhood and demands that it be removed.

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Which amendment is involved in this scenario? ___________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

9th amendment

7th amendment

5th amendment

8th amendment

1st amendment

10th amendment

3rd amendment

2nd amendment

6th amendment

4th amendment