Across
- 2. Provides the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases.
- 4. Guarantees due process of law, protection against self-incrimination ("pleading the fifth"), and protection against double jeopardy (being tried twice for the same crime).
- 7. Protects the freedoms of speech, religion, the press, assembly, and petition.
- 11. Prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes during peacetime.
- 13. Guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury, the right to legal counsel, and the right to confront witnesses.
- 14. Guarantees the right to bear arms.
- 15. A formal charge or claim that a person has committed an offense
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- 1. Reserves powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution to the states or to the people
- 3. Prohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments.
- 5. Stipulates that the listing of specific rights in the Constitution does not mean that other unenumerated rights retained by the people are not protected.
- 6. A formal change or addition to the U.S. Constitution.
- 8. Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and requires a warrant based on probable cause for any search of property or person.
- 9. To gather together peaceably, often for a common purpose like protest or a meeting.
- 10. A system of government where power is shared between the national (federal) governments.
- 12. Weapons (the right to "keep and bear Arms").