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Civics Chapter 4
Rights and Responsibilities
Pages 88-106
What you will learn:
Section 1:
 Why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution
 How the First Amendment protects personal freedoms
 What rights the Bill Guarantees
Section 2:
 How the 13th and 14th amendment extended civil liberties
 The amendments that extend voting rights
Section 3:
 The duties of citizenship
 The responsibilities of citizenship
Chapter 4 Section 1:
The Bill Of Rights:
1. What are the five basic freedoms protected by the 1st amendment?
a. b. c. d. e. 2. What does the second amendment of the constitution protect?
3. Use the boxes below to explain the debate over the 2nd amendment:
We should have guns:
We should not have guns:
4. What does the 3rd amendment of the constitution do?
5. What does the 4th amendment protect US from?
6. What makes a search considered reasonable?
7. What is a search warrant?
8. Does the constitution give us the right to privacy?
9. Who does the 5th amendment protect?
10. What are 3 things it protect them from?
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b. -
c. -
11. What does indict mean?
12. What does self incrimination mean?
13. What does double jeopardy mean?
14. What is due process of law?
15. What is eminent domain?
16. What does the 6th amendment guarantee to people who have been accused of a crime?
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b. -
c. -
d. -
17. What does the 7th amendment guarantee?
18. What 2 things does the 8th amendment forbid?
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b. 19. What does the 9th amendment imply?
20. Why was this put in place?
21. What does the 10th amendment state?
Chapter 4 Section 2:
Guaranteeing Other Rights:
The 13th amendment
1. When was the 13th amendment ratified?
2. What was the purpose of it?
The 14th amendment
3. When was the 14th amendment ratified?
4. What was it intended to do?
5. What was the purpose of the first part of it?
6. What was the purpose of the second part of it?
The 15th amendment
7. What did the 15th amendment do?
8. What is suffrage?
9. When did congress make it fully equal for everyone to vote?
The 17th amendment
10. What right did the 17th amendment give?
11. Why was this important?
The 19th amendment
12. When was the 19th amendment ratified?
13. What was its purpose?
The 23rd amendment
14. Who did the 23rd amendment affect?
15. What did it give them the right to do?
16. Why weren’t they allowed to do this before?
The 24th amendment
17. What was the purpose of the 24th amendment?
18. What is a poll tax?
19. Why did they outlaw it?
The 26th amendment
20. What did the 26th amendment do?
21. What was the reasoning behind lowering the voting age?
Chapter 4 Section 3:
Citizens Duties and Responsibilities:
I. What are the duties of an American Citizen?
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II. Write a paragraph that explains what might happen if a citizen could not perform these duties.
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III. What are the responsibilities of an American citizen?
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IV. Write a paragraph that explains which responsibility you think is most beneficial and why.
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V. Describe some of the things YOU DO that you feel benefit our community or society as a whole. (you must
have at least 2)
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