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Amendment sin the bill of rights with their main idea, provisions, and clauses
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Second Amendment
Recognizes the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Third Amendment
Prohibits the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent during peacetime.
Fourth Amendment
Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures; warrants must be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.
Fifth Amendment
Provides the rights to a grand jury and due process, prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy, and requires eminent domain
Due Process Clause: Guarantees that legal proceedings will be fair.
Self-Incrimination Clause: Protects against being forced to testify against oneself.
Sixth Amendment
Guarantees the rights to speedy and public trial, an impartial jury, and notice of accusation
Confrontation Clause
You have the right to confront (question) witnesses who testify against you.
Compulsory Process Clause
You can call witnesses in your favor and force them to testify with a subpoena.
Assistance of Counsel Clause
You have the right to a lawyer. If you can’t afford one, the court must provide on
Seventh Amendment
Guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases.
Eighth Amendment
Prohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments.
Ninth Amendment
Affirms that the enumeration of certain rights in the Constitution does not deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.
Tenth Amendment
States that powers not delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
First Amendment
Protects the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government.