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8^th Amendment 4^th Amendment 2^nd Amendment 5^th Amendment 10^th Amendment

1) Virginian who, along with James Madison, helped draft the Bill of Rights:___________.

2) The English document establishing certain rights of Englishmen that the King

could not infringe:_______________.

3) The English thinker who said all person are born equal and have as a matter of

nature certain rights:_______________.

4) One of the three basic rights which this thinker (3) said society is made to protect:_________.

5) The provision in the Bill of Rights that guarantees that a person may own a gun:_____________.

6) The provision in the Bill of Rights that allows a person to not testify when accused

of a crime:______________.

7) The provision in the Bill of Rights that prevents the police from “unreasonably”

searching your home or seizing your stuff:_____________.

8) The provision in the Bill of Rights that guarantees a person may practice his or

her religion:_______________.

9) The provision in the Bill of Rights that guarantees that a person will not be subject

to cruel or unusual punishment:_________________.

10) The provision in the Bill of Rights reserves all rights not mentioned to the states

or to the people:___________________.

Thought Question: What were some of the reasons people said that a Bill of Rights

was not necessary to protect people’s rights in this Constitution?