{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"17545695","dateCreated":"1259634331","smartDate":"Nov 30, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"MissZielinski","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/MissZielinski","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1259170135\/MissZielinski-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/misszielinski-civics-period1.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/17545695"},"dateDigested":1532253187,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Bill of Rights Quiz","description":"Read each of the situations below and respond to this post by identifying if the situation is LEGAL or ILLEGAL and which amendment applies in each situation. Be sure to number your answers.
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\n1. During a time of peace, a few soldiers from the army come into your home and announce they are going to stay in your home for a week and you must give them a bed and feed them.
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\n2. You have been accused of robbing a bank. You go through a trial and are found not guilty. Five years later, with new technology, there is new evidence against you. You are notified that next week a new trial will be held against you for the bank robbery.
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\n3. You are very involved in your religion. Every Thursday, you attend services in a building that was built from donations and is on your own private property. The city decides to enact a law that forbids you and your members from worshiping at your building or anywhere.
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\n4. You are convicted of a minor traffic violation, but instead of paying a small fine, they revoke your license for life. There is no way for you to ever get it back.
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\n5. You are accused of a crime, but no one will tell you what it is. You are immediately arrested, convicted, and put in jail for four years. You are never told what your crime was or who accused you.
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\n6. You are at home watching TV when someone knocks on your door. Before you answer, the police burst into your home and begin to look through your things. When you ask what they are doing, they tell you that someone has accused you of doing something illegal and they are looking for evidence. When they are done, they take boxes of your things away.
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\n7. Why can I, as an individual citizen, get up in the morning, go to work, eat the foods I want, and pretty much live my life without worrying that I\u2019m violating the Supreme Law of the Land--the Constitution\u2014because these liberties aren\u2019t specifically listed?
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\n8. Sara, an eighteen-year-old college
\nstudent, is arrested for stealing a classmate\u2019s term paper and selling it on the Internet. When she appears before the judge, she asks for a lawyer to help defend
\nher. The judge tells her if she is smart enough to be in college, she knows enough to defend herself. Besides, she is not being charged with a felony, so the stakes are not very high.
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\n9. Neighbors are suing the Joneses because a tree in the Jones\u2019 yard fell on their roof during a hurricane. The neighbors want
\nthe Jones family to pay $850 to have their roof repaired. Mr. Jones requests that a jury be present to hear this case. The judge says it is not necessary since the amount of the repairs is so small.
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\n10. Carolyn is arrested for shoplifting
\na candy bar from a neighborhood convenience store. At trial, she is found guilty. The judge decides that the appropriate punishment is to cut off Carolyn\u2019s hands so
\nthat she will not be able to shoplift again.
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\n11. Mr. Reynolds, an avid hunter, opens the door of his home one day to find agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms outside. They inform him that certain provisions of a new federal law allow them to confiscate his rifles so that he may not engage in terrorist activities or plot against the United States government. They have no evidence that he is
\nconnected to any such activities.
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\n12. Your science teacher asks the class
\nto exchange papers to correct last night\u2019s homework. Your friend, Jamie, refuses to do so and is sent to the principal.
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\n13. Jesse, a fourteen-year old student, decides to protest the war in Iraq. He wears a T-shirt to school with a picture of the White House and the caption \u201cWeapon of Massive Misinformation.\u201d His principal pulls Jesse aside and asks him not to wear the shirt again because it is disruptive to the learning environment. Jesse wears it the next week and is suspended from school
\nfor three days.
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\n14. Sixteen-year-old Ryan is the captain of the football team. Before the Friday night game, he and his teammates are required to submit to a drug test. Ryan\u2019s test shows traces of marijuana. He is not allowed to participate in the game and he is suspended from school.
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\n15. A known drug dealer is arrested for suspected connections to an inner city murder. The police do not inform him of his rights and immediately begin to interrogate
\nhim. They continue until he admits he knows the victim of the crime and was in the neighborhood where the murder took place.
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\n16. Your parents are very religious people, but you are not. Today, your parents are going to a service at their place of worship and they expect you to come along. You refuse. They make you come
\nanyway and they ground you for the following month.
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\n17. Because of the budget deficit, the United States government is looking for ways to cut costs. They have announced a plan during peacetime to house unmarried soldiers in the homes of American citizens who do not have children.
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\n18. Because Members of Congress are unhappy with students\u2019 standardized test scores in many states, they pass a federal law that abolishes local school boards and
\nrequires a standardized national curriculum.
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\n19. You are in the security line at the
\nairport. The transportation safety agent requires you to take off your coat, take off your shoes, and empty your pockets. The agent also completes a pat-down search.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}