First Amendment: Freedom of speech, press, worship, assembly, and petition. The first amendment helps protect your basic rights to ensure your happiness.
EX: you feel angered by the latest election, your allowed to criticize the president (no death threats).
Second Amendment: This amendment protects your right to bear arms.
EX: the Government may not take your guys away unless authorized to or have a warrant.
Third Amendment: This Amendment make it so you are not required to quarter soldiers in your home.
EX: in a time of war, a soldier comes and asks you to house them, you are able to deny their request.
Fourth Amendment: This Amendment protects your right of privacy. You have the right to deny any official access to anything of your ownership, unless they have a legal warrant.
EX: If a officer asks for permission into your home, you are allowed to deny their access, unless they have a warrant authorizing it.
Fifth Amendment: This Amendment helps prevent the government from harassing political opponents. If the government wanted to accuse someone of a big crime, they must get a jury of ordinary citizens. If the government loses the case, they cannot sue again This helps restrict the government's ability to take away your "life, liberty, or freedom" without some sort of legal document. If they needed the property they must pay the resident or owner some sort of compensation.
EX: If the Government ever wanted the land you own, they must pay you for it. They are not allowed to seize your property.
Sixth Amendment: This amendment mainly helped give citizens that committed a crime a right to a fair, but speedy trial. It also adds the ability to meet their prosecutor, and he could be allowed to have a lawyer to help him in his case.
EX: You have committed a crime and are in jail, this right makes it able for you to get a fast but fair trail so you don't spend a amount of time in jail.
Seventh Amendment: This amendment gives the jury the restriction is they must be random American citizens not having ties with any of the people.
EX: If you are accused of something and are taken to court, you are not against the odds. The jury is neutral at the begging, not knowing you or the person that accused you.
Eight Amendment: If you commit a crime, your judge can not give you excessive bail or a cruel or unusual punishment, making your punishment more just.
EX: if you commit a petty crime, the judge cannot make you pay massive amounts of money or time in jail.
Ninth Amendment: This gives the people a undeniable amount of power that cannot be corrupt.
EX: You have power right as you are born and it cannot be taken from you, even if the government tries to.
Tenth Amendment: This also gives an insurance of citizen and state rights.
EX: If the Government shuts down, the state still has the power to control its self keeping society alive.
EX: you feel angered by the latest election, your allowed to criticize the president (no death threats).
Second Amendment: This amendment protects your right to bear arms.
EX: the Government may not take your guys away unless authorized to or have a warrant.
Third Amendment: This Amendment make it so you are not required to quarter soldiers in your home.
EX: in a time of war, a soldier comes and asks you to house them, you are able to deny their request.
Fourth Amendment: This Amendment protects your right of privacy. You have the right to deny any official access to anything of your ownership, unless they have a legal warrant.
EX: If a officer asks for permission into your home, you are allowed to deny their access, unless they have a warrant authorizing it.
Fifth Amendment: This Amendment helps prevent the government from harassing political opponents. If the government wanted to accuse someone of a big crime, they must get a jury of ordinary citizens. If the government loses the case, they cannot sue again This helps restrict the government's ability to take away your "life, liberty, or freedom" without some sort of legal document. If they needed the property they must pay the resident or owner some sort of compensation.
EX: If the Government ever wanted the land you own, they must pay you for it. They are not allowed to seize your property.
Sixth Amendment: This amendment mainly helped give citizens that committed a crime a right to a fair, but speedy trial. It also adds the ability to meet their prosecutor, and he could be allowed to have a lawyer to help him in his case.
EX: You have committed a crime and are in jail, this right makes it able for you to get a fast but fair trail so you don't spend a amount of time in jail.
Seventh Amendment: This amendment gives the jury the restriction is they must be random American citizens not having ties with any of the people.
EX: If you are accused of something and are taken to court, you are not against the odds. The jury is neutral at the begging, not knowing you or the person that accused you.
Eight Amendment: If you commit a crime, your judge can not give you excessive bail or a cruel or unusual punishment, making your punishment more just.
EX: if you commit a petty crime, the judge cannot make you pay massive amounts of money or time in jail.
Ninth Amendment: This gives the people a undeniable amount of power that cannot be corrupt.
EX: You have power right as you are born and it cannot be taken from you, even if the government tries to.
Tenth Amendment: This also gives an insurance of citizen and state rights.
EX: If the Government shuts down, the state still has the power to control its self keeping society alive.