27 Amendments & Ways to
remember them Exam Questions and
Answers
1 - -Free Speech, press, religion, and assembly
- 2- Two bear arms - -Right to bear arms
- 3- Three's a crowd - -No quartering of troops in homes
- 4- Four doors on a car (think the police want to search your car) - -No
unreasonable searches/seizures
- 5 (I plead the 5th) - -A person may not be tried twice for the same crime
and does not have to testify against themself
- 6- Speedy Six - -Right to speedy and public trial and right to lawyer and
counsel
- 7- You're lucky (777) to get a trial - -Right to trial by jury in civil cases
- 8- Sideways handcuffs - -No excessive bail, fines, cruel/unusual
punishment
- 9- Makes more rights mine - -Rights not enumerated retained by people
- 10- Federal laws are what are writTEN - -Powers not delegated to Congress
or prohibited to states belong to states or people
- 11- 1 on 1 - -No federal cases between state, citizen of other state
- 12- 1 ballot, 2nd ballot - -The electoral college will vote seperately for
president and VP rather than together in one ballot
- 13- Free - -Slavery is outlawed!
- 14-Citizenize - -Citizenship to former slaves
- 15- Vote - -Right to vote can't be denied by race
- 16- Turn 16= job - -Congress can levy individual income taxes
- 17- senators seventeen - -Direct election of senators
remember them Exam Questions and
Answers
1 - -Free Speech, press, religion, and assembly
- 2- Two bear arms - -Right to bear arms
- 3- Three's a crowd - -No quartering of troops in homes
- 4- Four doors on a car (think the police want to search your car) - -No
unreasonable searches/seizures
- 5 (I plead the 5th) - -A person may not be tried twice for the same crime
and does not have to testify against themself
- 6- Speedy Six - -Right to speedy and public trial and right to lawyer and
counsel
- 7- You're lucky (777) to get a trial - -Right to trial by jury in civil cases
- 8- Sideways handcuffs - -No excessive bail, fines, cruel/unusual
punishment
- 9- Makes more rights mine - -Rights not enumerated retained by people
- 10- Federal laws are what are writTEN - -Powers not delegated to Congress
or prohibited to states belong to states or people
- 11- 1 on 1 - -No federal cases between state, citizen of other state
- 12- 1 ballot, 2nd ballot - -The electoral college will vote seperately for
president and VP rather than together in one ballot
- 13- Free - -Slavery is outlawed!
- 14-Citizenize - -Citizenship to former slaves
- 15- Vote - -Right to vote can't be denied by race
- 16- Turn 16= job - -Congress can levy individual income taxes
- 17- senators seventeen - -Direct election of senators
