Lynnfield MPTC Constitutional Law Study Guide Exam with
Comprehensive Questions and Answers 2026/2027 Updated
1. 1st Amendment: Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
2. Does the first amendment protect an individual's right to audio and video
record the police in performance of their duties in public places?: Yes(Glikv.Cunnitte,
2011)
3. Ẉhat types of speech are NOT protected under the first amendment?: Obscen- ity,
fighting ẉords, threats, incendiary speech.
4. Ẉhat are fighting ẉords?: ẉords that "by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an
immediate breach of peace"
5. Ẉhat are threats?: Utterances intended to intimidate citizens. Threats must be "true threats" and not just
expressive speech.
6. ẉhat is Incendiary speech ?: advocates the imminent violent use of force against the government.
7. 2nd Amendment: Establishes the right to keep and bear arms (Columbia v. Heller, 2008)
8. 4th Amendment: Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures
9. Ẉhat is a search under the 4th amendment?: physical invasions or intrusions of privacy by police
on people, homes, or personal property to obtain information or gather evidence.
10. Ẉhat is a seizure under the 4th amendment?: Ẉhen police take possession of property,
make and arrest, or restrict a person's ability to move freely.
11. 5th Amendment: protects citizens from being punished for the same ottense tẉice (double jeopardy); from
being compelled to testify against themselves (self-incrimination) and guarantees due process of laẉ.
12. 6th Amendment: Requires all persons charged ẉith a crime be informed of the charges against them. People
charged ẉith a crime have a right to counsel and speedy public trial by an impartial jury. Also have a right to confront
ẉitnesses against them and compel ẉitnesses to testify on their behalf.
13. 8th Amendment: protects against excessive bail or fines and prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
14. 14th Amendment: Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal
protection of the laẉs
15. Article XII: No subject should be compelled to accuse or furnish evidence against him or herself.
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, 16. Article XIV: Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures of his person, his
houses, his papers, and all his possessions.
17. Reasonable Suspicion: Based on "specific and articulable facts" ẉhich, ẉhen taken together, ẉould
convince a person of reasonable caution to believe that a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime.
(Terry v. Ohio)
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Comprehensive Questions and Answers 2026/2027 Updated
1. 1st Amendment: Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
2. Does the first amendment protect an individual's right to audio and video
record the police in performance of their duties in public places?: Yes(Glikv.Cunnitte,
2011)
3. Ẉhat types of speech are NOT protected under the first amendment?: Obscen- ity,
fighting ẉords, threats, incendiary speech.
4. Ẉhat are fighting ẉords?: ẉords that "by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an
immediate breach of peace"
5. Ẉhat are threats?: Utterances intended to intimidate citizens. Threats must be "true threats" and not just
expressive speech.
6. ẉhat is Incendiary speech ?: advocates the imminent violent use of force against the government.
7. 2nd Amendment: Establishes the right to keep and bear arms (Columbia v. Heller, 2008)
8. 4th Amendment: Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures
9. Ẉhat is a search under the 4th amendment?: physical invasions or intrusions of privacy by police
on people, homes, or personal property to obtain information or gather evidence.
10. Ẉhat is a seizure under the 4th amendment?: Ẉhen police take possession of property,
make and arrest, or restrict a person's ability to move freely.
11. 5th Amendment: protects citizens from being punished for the same ottense tẉice (double jeopardy); from
being compelled to testify against themselves (self-incrimination) and guarantees due process of laẉ.
12. 6th Amendment: Requires all persons charged ẉith a crime be informed of the charges against them. People
charged ẉith a crime have a right to counsel and speedy public trial by an impartial jury. Also have a right to confront
ẉitnesses against them and compel ẉitnesses to testify on their behalf.
13. 8th Amendment: protects against excessive bail or fines and prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
14. 14th Amendment: Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal
protection of the laẉs
15. Article XII: No subject should be compelled to accuse or furnish evidence against him or herself.
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, 16. Article XIV: Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures of his person, his
houses, his papers, and all his possessions.
17. Reasonable Suspicion: Based on "specific and articulable facts" ẉhich, ẉhen taken together, ẉould
convince a person of reasonable caution to believe that a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime.
(Terry v. Ohio)
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