Quiz Answers
Bill of Rights Quiz Answers
1. Why were the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?
Best Answer: To clarify that there were individual rights that the government could not infringe upon.
Many states would not have ratified the Constitution without the promise of a Bill of Rights that would add to the Constitution guarantees of personal freedoms and rights and clear limitations upon government power.
2. Which Amendment deals with an individual's freedom of speech and right to assemble?
Best Answer: The First Amendment
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.
3. Which two Amendments were dealt with in the Supreme Court's Miranda decision?
Best Answer: Fifth and Sixth Amendments
The US Supreme Court in Miranda v Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) held that a defendant’s confession could not be used as evidence against him unless, prior to the confession, he had been advised of his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and his Sixth Amendment right to an attorney.
4. What was the reason for the Tenth Amendment?
Best Answer: To prevent overreach by the Federal Government.
"The Tenth Amendment has further been interpreted as a clarification of the federal government being largely limited and enumerated, and that a government decision is not to be investigated as a potential infringement of civil liberties, but rather as an overreach of its power and authority.” Rights to the States or to the People, August 29, 2022 By US National Archives, Posted In Constitutional Amendments, Student Resources.
5. What was the reason for the Second Amendment?
Best Answer: To clarify that the Federal Government should not have the power to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
"The Second Amendment conceded nothing to the Anti-Federalists’ desire to sharply curtail the military power of the federal government, which would have required substantial changes in the original Constitution. Yet the Amendment was easily accepted because of widespread agreement that the federal government should not have the power to infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms, any more than it should have the power to abridge the freedom of speech or prohibit the free exercise of religion.”
Common Interpretation, https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-ii/interpretations/99
Best Answer: To clarify that there were individual rights that the government could not infringe upon.
Many states would not have ratified the Constitution without the promise of a Bill of Rights that would add to the Constitution guarantees of personal freedoms and rights and clear limitations upon government power.
2. Which Amendment deals with an individual's freedom of speech and right to assemble?
Best Answer: The First Amendment
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.
3. Which two Amendments were dealt with in the Supreme Court's Miranda decision?
Best Answer: Fifth and Sixth Amendments
The US Supreme Court in Miranda v Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) held that a defendant’s confession could not be used as evidence against him unless, prior to the confession, he had been advised of his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and his Sixth Amendment right to an attorney.
4. What was the reason for the Tenth Amendment?
Best Answer: To prevent overreach by the Federal Government.
"The Tenth Amendment has further been interpreted as a clarification of the federal government being largely limited and enumerated, and that a government decision is not to be investigated as a potential infringement of civil liberties, but rather as an overreach of its power and authority.” Rights to the States or to the People, August 29, 2022 By US National Archives, Posted In Constitutional Amendments, Student Resources.
5. What was the reason for the Second Amendment?
Best Answer: To clarify that the Federal Government should not have the power to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
"The Second Amendment conceded nothing to the Anti-Federalists’ desire to sharply curtail the military power of the federal government, which would have required substantial changes in the original Constitution. Yet the Amendment was easily accepted because of widespread agreement that the federal government should not have the power to infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms, any more than it should have the power to abridge the freedom of speech or prohibit the free exercise of religion.”
Common Interpretation, https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-ii/interpretations/99