Select one freedom found in Amendments 1, 2, 4-8, 14, 15, 19, and 26. Think about each amendment and choose carefully.  

 

In an informative/argumentative essay, explain why the amendment exists, establish its relevance in modern times, and take a clearly defined stance on why it’s an important amendment using evidence to support your claim using research. Also, consider how your evidence could be interpreted differently by your opponent in order to counter them.

 

Your essay should include:

1. Introduction:  Write an introduction with a hook, line, and sinker. This introduction should explain the amendment in your own words, and why it is important to the Constitution. Make sure you paraphrase the amendment.

2. Body Paragraph 1: Discuss the historical events that lead up to the amendment including researching the history of why the amendment exists. Is it based on a historic event(s)? If so which one(s)?  

3. Body Paragraph 2: Introduce a modern issue as to how this amendment has been debated by discussing a court case(s) involving this amendment. You will discuss the history of how the debate started and if the debate has changed over the years.  

4. Body Paragraph 3:  Take a clearly defined stance on why it is an important amendment  using evidence to support your stance.

5. Body Paragraph 4/Counter Paragraph: Counter an opponent by considering how your evidence could be viewed differently.

6. Conclusion:  Restate the claim in your own words to tie your paper together.  Discuss the implications for if your stance is followed or the implications  if your opponents’ views are followed.

 

Rights You Can Select From:

 

 

Amendment 1:

 

1. Freedom of Religion,

2. Freedom of Petition,

3. Freedom of Speech,

4. Freedom of Assembly,

5. Freedom of Press

 

Amendment 2:

1. Right to Create a Militia,

2. Right to Keep and Bear Arms

 

Amendment 4:

 

1. Freedom of No Illegal Search and Seizure

 

Amendment 5:

 

1. Right to due process of law,

2. Right to not self-incriminate,

3. Right not to have double jeopardy,

4. Right to just compensation for the government taking personal property (Eminent Domain)

 

Amendment 6: Rights of Accused Persons

 

1. Right to know what you are being accused of,

2. Right to an attorney,

3. Right to a fair public and speedy trial

 

Amendment 7:

 

1. Right to a trial in civil cases

 

Amendment 8:

 

1. Freedom from excessive bail,

2. Freedom from cruel and unusual punishments.

 

Amendment 14:

 

1. All laws are equally applied to all citizens

 

Amendment 15:

 

1. Voting rights were extended to all citizens regardless of race

 

Amendment 19:

 

1. Voting rights were extended to all citizens regardless of gender

 

Amendment 26:

 

1. Voting rights were extended all citizens 18+

 

Websites to be used

Amendment 1:

 

Freedom of Religion,

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Supreme Court Cases on Freedom of Religion

  • Standing to sue

    • Flast v. Cohen (1968)

    • Valley Forges and people Christian high school v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State (1982)

  • Tax exemption to religious institutions

    • Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)

    • Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)

    • Texas Monthly, Inc. v. Bullock (1989)

  • Legislative chaplains

    • Marsh v. Chambers (1984)

    • Town of Greece v. Galloway (2014)

  • Government-sponsored religious displays

    • Lynch v. Donnnelly (1984)

    • Board of Trustees of Scarsdale v. McCreary (1985)

    • County of Allegheny v. ACLU Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1989)

    • McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005)

    • Van Orden v. Perry (2005)

    • Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (2009)

  • Religion in public education

    • McCollum v. Board of Education (1948)

    • Zorach v. Clauson (1952)

    • Engel v. Vitale (1962)

    • Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)

    • Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)

    • Stone v. Graham (1980)

    • Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1995)

    • Agostini v. Felton (1997)

    • Mitchell v. Helms (2000)

  • Prayer in public schools

    • Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)

    • Lee v. Weisman (1992)

    • Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe (2000)

    • Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004)

  • Teaching of creationism in public schools

    • Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)

  • Governmental aid to church-related schools

    • Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education (1930)

    • Everson v. Board of Education (1947)

    • Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)

    • Board of Education v. Allen (1968)

    • Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)

    • Tilton v. Richardson (1971)

    • Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Nyquist (1973)

    • Meek v. Pittenger (1975)

    • Roemer v. Board of Public Works of Maryland (1976)

    • Wolman v. Walter (1977)

    • Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan (1980)

    • Mueller v. Allen (1983)

    • Aguilar v. Felton (1985)

    • Grand Rapids School District v. Ball (1985)

    • Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (1993)

    • Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)

    • Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (2011)

  • Blue laws

    • McGowan v. Maryland (1961)

    • Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)

    • Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Mass., Inc. (1961)

    • Thornton v. Caldor (1985)

  • Religious institution functioning as a government agency

    • Larkin v. Grendel’s Den (1982)

    • Bowen v. Kendrick (1988)

    • Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School v. Grumet (1994)

  • Unequal government treatment of religious groups

    • Larson v. Valente (1982)

  • The free exercise of religion- Polygamy

    • Reynolds v. United States (1878)

    • Davis v. Beason (1890)

  • Religion and the right to work

    • Sherbert v. Verner (1963)

    • Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977)

    • Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Dayton Christian Schools (1986)

    • Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos (1987)

    • Employment Division v. Smith (1990)

  • Religious tests for public service or benefits

    • Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)

    • Torcaso v. Watkins (1961)

    • McDaniel v. Paty (1978)

    • Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division (1981)

    • Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)

    • Bowen v. Roy (1986)

  • Free exercise and free speech

    • R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul (1992)

    • Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal (2006)

    • Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001)

  • Free exercise and public education

    • Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)

    • Widmar v. Vincent (1981)

    • Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)

    • Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)

    • Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995)

  • Free Exercise and public property[edit]

    • Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995)

  • Solicitation by religious groups

    • Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)

    • Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)

    • Cox v. New Hampshire (1941)

    • Jones v. City of Opelika (I) (1942)

    • Marsh v. Alabama (1942)

    • Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943)

    • Jones v. City of Opelika (II) (1943)

    • West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)

    • Prince v. Massachusetts (1944)

    • Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (1981)

  • Free exercise and eminent domain

    • Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988)

    • City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

  • Ritual sacrifice of animals

    • Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993)

  • Government intervention in church controversies

    • United States v. Ballard (1944)

    • Kedroff v. Saint Nicholas Cathedral (1952)

    • Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church (1969)

    • Jones v. Wolf (1979)

    • Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012)

  • Free Exercise and Freedom of Speech in Art

    • Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018)

 

Freedom of Petition,

 

 

 

 

 

Supreme Court Cases

• Kings Mall vs Wenk

• Edwards vs South Carolina

• McDonald Vs Smith

 

Freedom of Speech,

 

 

 

 

 

 

              Supreme Court Cases

 

Sedition and imminent danger

• Debs v.  (1919)United States

• Schenck v.  (1919)United States

• Abrams v.  (1919)United States

• Gitlow v. New York (1925)

• Whitney v. California (1927)

• Dennis v.  (1951)United States

• Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board (1955)

• Yates v.  (1957)United States

• Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)

False speech

• United States v. Alvarez (2012)

• Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus (2014)

Fighting words and the heckler's veto

• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)

• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)

• Terminiello v. Chicago (1949)

• Feiner v. New York (1951)

• National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977)

• R. A. V. v.  (1992)City of St. Paul

• Snyder v. Phelps (2011)

Symbolic speech

• United States v. O'Brien (1968)

• Cohen v. California (1971)

• Texas v. Johnson (1989)

• United States v. Eichman (1990)

• City of Erie v. Pap's A.M. (2000)

• Virginia v. Black (2003)

Loyalty oaths and affirmations

• American Communications Association v. Douds (1950)

• Garner v. Board of Public Works, (1951)

• Adler v. Board of Ed. of City of New York, (1952)

• Wieman v. Updegraff, (1952)

• Speiser v. Randall, (1958)

• Cramp v. Board of Public Instruction, (1961)

• Keyishian v. Board of Regents, (1965)

• Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb, (1974)

School speech

Speech by students in public secondary schools (for cases involving teachers' free-speech rights, see Public employees, below).

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)

• Board of Education v. Pico (1982)

• Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986)

• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

• Poling v. Murphy(1989)

• Guiles v. Marineau (2006)

• Morse v. Frederick (2007)

Obscenity

Generally

Cases concerned with the definition of obscenity and whether a particular work or type of material is obscene.

• Roth v.  (1957)United States

• Alberts v. California, (1957)

• One, Inc. v. Olesen, (1958)

• MANual Enterprises v. Day, (1962)

• Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)

• Memoirs v. Massachusetts, (1966)

• Kois v. Wisconsin (1972)

• Miller v. California (1973)

• Jenkins v. Georgia (1974)

• New York v. Ferber (1982)

• Osborne v. Ohio (1990)

• United States v. Stevens (2010)

 

Search, seizure and forfeiture[edit]

Cases involving the search and seizure of allegedly obscene material

• Marcus v. Search Warrant, (1961)

• Quantity of Books v. Kansas (1964)

• Lee Art Theatre, Inc. v. Virginia (1968)

• United States v. Thirty-seven Photographs (1971)

• United States v. 12 200-ft. Reels of Film (1973)

• Roaden v. Kentucky (1973)

• Lo-Ji Sales, Inc., v. New York (1979)

• Maryland v. Macon (1985)

• New York v. P.J. Video, Inc. (1986)

Internet

Cases involving laws meant to restrict obscenity online

• Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997)

• Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union (2002)

• Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002)

Government-funded speech

Cases about restrictions on speech by third parties funded by the government.

• Rust v. Sullivan (1991)

• Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez (2001)

Speech by public employees

• Pickering v. Board of Education (1968)

• Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972)

• Perry v. Sindermann (1972)

• Madison School District v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (1976)

• Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle (1977)

• Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District (1979)

• Snepp v. United States (1980)

• Connick v. Myers (1983)

• Rankin v. McPherson (1987)

• Waters v. Churchill (1994)

• United States v. National Treasury Employees Union (1995)

• Board of Commissioners, Wabaunsee County v. Umbehr, (1996)

• San Diego v. Roe (2004)

• Garcetti v. Ceballos (2007)

• Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri (2011)

• Lane v. Franks (2014)

• Heffernan v. City of Paterson (2016)

Political activity and Hatch Act of 1939

• Ex parte Curtis (1882)

• United Public Workers v. Mitchell (1947)

 

Freedom of Press

 

 

 

 

Supreme Court Cases

Prior restraints and censorship

• Near v. Minnesota (1931)

• Lovell v. City of Griffin (1938)

• Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)

• New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

• Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo (1974)

• Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart (1976)

• Houchins v. KQED, Inc. (1978)

• Tory v. Cochran (2005)

Privacy

• Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967)

• Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn (1975)

• Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia (1980)[1][2]

• Florida Star v. B. J. F. (1989)

• Wilson v. Layne (1999)

Taxation and privileges

• Grosjean v. American Press Co. (1936)

• Branzburg v. Hayes (1972)

• Minneapolis Star Tribune Company v. Commissioner (1983)

Defamation

• Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952)

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)

• Garrison v. Louisiana (1964)

• Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts (1967)

• Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974)

• Time, Inc. v. Firestone (1976)

• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. (1981)

• Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc. (1985)

• McDonald v. Smith (1985)

• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. (1990)

• Hoeper v. Air Wisconsin (2014)

Broadcast media

• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC (1968)

• CBS v. Democratic National Committee (1973)

• FCC v. League of Women Voters of California (1984)

• FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1989)

• Turner Broadcasting v. FCC (1995)

Government speech

Cases pertaining to whether or not extending protections to speech constitutes government endorsement of speech.

• Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (2015)

• Matal v. Tam (2017)

 

Freedom of Assembly

 

 

 

 

Supreme Court Cases:

Freedom of assembly and public forums

• Hague v. CIO (1939)

• Schneider v. New Jersey (1939)

• Martin v. Struthers (1943)

• NAACP v. Alabama (1958)

• Edwards v. South Carolina (1963)

• Cox v. Louisiana (1965)

• Brown v. Louisiana (1966)

• Adderley v. Florida (1966)

• Carroll v. Princess Anne (1968)

• Coates v. Cincinnati (1971)

• Organization for a Better Austin v. Keefe (1971)

• Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad (1975)

• Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980)

• Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (2010)

 

 

Amendment 2:

 

 

 

• Two Major Debates

 

 

 

Right to Create a Militia,

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

• United States v. Cruikshank

• Presser v. Illinois

• Miller v. Texas

• Robertson v. Baldwin

• United States v. Miller

• District of Columbia v. Heller

• McDonald v. City of Chicago

• Caetano v. Massachusetts

• New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York

 

Amendment 4:

 

Freedom of No Illegal Search and Seizure

 

 

 

 

• Terry v. Ohio (Stop-and-Frisk) (1968)

• United States v. Robinson (Search incident to arrest) (1973)

• United States v. Dionisio (Voice samples) (1973)

• United States v. Mara (Handwriting analysis) (1973)

• Cupp v. Murphy (Scraping under an arrestee’s fingernails) (1973)

• Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives’ Association (Testing blood, urine, breath of public employees in safety positions) (1989)

• Veronica School District v. Acton (Drug testing student athletes) (1995)

• Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls, et al. (Drug testing students) (2002)

• Safford Unified School District v. Redding (Strip searching students) (2006)

• Florence v. County of Burlington (Strip searching arrestees) (2012)

• *United States v. Jones (Use of GPS tracking technology) (2012)

• Missouri v. McNeely (Warrantless drawing of blood in DWI)  (2013)

• Maryland v. King (Taking an arrestee’s DNA) (2013)

• Florida v. Jardines (2013) 

• Illinois v. Caballes (2005) 

• United States v. Place (1983) Warrantless dog sniffs at airports upheld.

 

 

Amendment 5:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right to due process of law,

 

 

Right to not self-incriminate,

 

 

Right not to have double jeopardy,

 

 

Right to just compensation for the government taking property (Eminent Domain)

 

 

 

• Supreme Court Cases

  • Grand Jury Clause

    • Hurtado v. California, 110 U.S. 516 (1884)

    • Ex parte Wilson, 114 U.S. 417 (1885)

    • United States v. Petit, 114 U.S. 429 (1885)

    • Mackin v. United States, 117 U.S. 348 (1886)

    • Ex parte Bain, 121 U.S. 1 (1887), overruled in part by United States v. Cotton, 535 U.S. 625 (2002)

    • Parkinson v. United States, 121 U.S. 281 (1887)

    • McNulty v. California, 149 US 645, 648 (1893)

    • Wong Wing v. United States, 163 U.S. 228 (1896)

    • Maxwell v. Dow, 176 U.S. 581, 584–86 (1900)

    • Lem Woon v. Oregon, 229 U.S. 586 (1913)

    • United States v. Moreland, 258 U.S. 433 (1922)

    • Costello v. United States, 350 U.S. 359 (1956)

    • Lawn v. United States, 355 U.S. 339, 349 (1958)

    • Green v. United States, 356 U.S. 165, 183–87 (1958)

    • Stirone v. United States, 361 U.S. 212 (1960)

    • Beck v. Washington, 369 U.S. 541, 545–55 (1962)

    • United States v. Miller, 471 U.S. 130 (1985)

    • Midland Asphalt Corp. v. United States, 489 U.S. 794, 802 (1989)

    • United States v. Cotton, 535 U.S. 625 (2002)

  • Double Jeopardy Clause

    • United States v. Perez, 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 579, 580 (1824)*

    • United States v. Wilson, 32 U.S. (7 Pet.) 150, 159–60 (1833)*

    • United States v. Randenbush, 33 U.S. (8 Pet.) 288, 290 (1834)*

    • Fox v. Ohio, 46 U.S. (5 How.) 410 (1847)

    • Moore v. Illinois, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 13 (1852)

    • United States v. Nickerson, 58 U.S. (17 How.) 204 (1854)*

    • Ex parte Lange, 85 U.S. (18 Wall.) 163 (1873)

    • Ex parte Bigelow, 113 U.S. 328 (1885)

    • Coffey v. United States, 116 U.S. 436 (1886), overruled by United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms, 465 U.S. 354 (1984)

    • Ball v. United States, 163 U.S. 662 (1896)

    • Burton v. United States, 202 U.S. 344, 378–81 (1906)

    • Brantley v. Georgia, 217 U.S. 284 (1910) (per curiam), overruled by Price v. Georgia, 398 U.S. 323 (1970)

    • United States v. La Franca, 282 U.S. 568 (1931)

    • Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299 (1932)

    • Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (1937), overruled by Benton v. Maryland, 395 U.S. 784 (1969)

    • Helvering v. Mitchell, 303 U.S. 391, 398–405 (1938)

    • United States ex rel. Marcus v. Hess, 317 US 537, 548–52 (1943)

    • Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947)

    • Bryan v. United States, 338 U.S. 552 (1950), overruled by Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1 (1978)

    • Sapir v. United States, 348 U.S. 373 (1955), overruled by Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1 (1978)

    • Rex Trailer Co. v. United States, 350 U.S. 148 (1956)

    • Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957), overruled by Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1 (1978)

    • Green v. United States, 355 U.S. 184 (1957)

    • Hoag v. New Jersey, 356 U.S. 464 (1958), overruled by Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436 (1970)

    • Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121 (1959)

    • Forman v. United States, 361 U.S. 416 (1960), overruled by Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1 (1978)

    • Fong Foo v. United States, 369 U.S. 141 (1962)

    • United States v. Tateo, 377 U.S. 463 (1964)

    • Baxstrom v. Herold, 383 U.S. 107 (1966)

    • North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1969)

    • Benton v. Maryland, 395 U.S. 784 (1969)

    • Waller v. Florida, 397 U.S. 387 (1970)

    • Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436 (1970)

    • Price v. Georgia, 398 U.S. 323 (1970)

    • Serfass v. United States, 420 U.S. 377 (1973)

    • Wilson v. United States, 420 U.S. 332 (1975)

    • United States v. Jenkins, 420 U.S. 358 (1975), overruled by United States v. Scott, 437 U.S. 82 (1978)

    • United States v. Dinitz, 424 U.S. 600 (1976)

    • Ludwig v. Massachusetts, 427 U.S. 600 (1976)

    • United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co., 430 U.S. 564 (1977)

    • Brown v. Ohio, 432 U.S. 161 (1977)

    • Harris v. Oklahoma, 433 U.S. 682 (1977) (per curiam)

    • Arizona v. Washington, 434 U.S. 497 (1978)

    • Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1 (1978)

    • Crist v. Bretz, 437 U.S. 28 (1978)

    • Sanabria v. United States, 437 U.S. 54 (1978)

    • United States v. Scott, 437 U.S. 82 (1978)

    • Whalen v. United States, 445 U.S. 684 (1980)

    • Oregon v. Kennedy, 456 U.S. 667 (1982)

    • Tibbs v. Florida, 457 U.S. 31 (1982)

    • Missouri v. Hunter, 459 U.S. 359 (1983)

    • United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms, 465 U.S. 354 (1984)

    • Justices of Boston Municipal Court v. Lydon, 466 U.S. 294 (1984)

    • Garrett v. United States, 471 U.S. 773 (1985)

    • Heath v. Alabama, 474 U.S. 82 (1985)

    • Morris v. Mathews, 475 U.S. 237 (1986)

    • United States v. Halper, 490 U.S. 435 (1989), overruled by Hudson v. United States, 522 U.S. 93 (1997)

    • Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508 (1990), overruled by United States v. Dixon, 509 U.S. 688 (1993)

    • United States v. Felix, 503 U.S. 378 (1992)

    • United States v. Dixon, 509 U.S. 688 (1993)

    • Department of Revenue of Montana v. Kurth Ranch, 511 U.S. 767 (1994)

    • Rutledge v. United States, 517 U.S. 292 (1996)

    • Hudson v. United States, 522 U.S. 93 (1997)

    • United States v. Lara, 541 U.S. 193 (2004)

    • Smith v. Massachusetts, 543 U.S. 462 (2005)

    • Yeager v. United States, 557 U.S. 110 (2009)

    • Renico v. Lett, 130 S. Ct. 1855 (2010)

    • Blueford v. Arkansas, No. 10–1320 (May 24, 2012)

  • Self-Incrimination Clause

    • Concerning only incrimination that occurs in the courtroom

    • Twining v. New Jersey, 211 U.S. 78 (1908)

    • Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965)

    • Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)

    • Tehan v. United States ex rel. Shott, 382 U.S. 406 (1966)

    • Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970)

    • Brooks v. Tennessee, 406 U.S. 605, 607–12 (1972)

    • Lakeside v. Oregon, 435 U.S. 333 (1978)

    • James v. Kentucky, 466 U.S. 341 (1984)

    • Mitchell v. United States, 526 U.S. 314 (1999)

 

Amendment 6: Rights of Accused Persons

 

 

 

 

1. Right to know what you are being accused of, right to know who is accusing you, and the right to have witnesses testify in your defense

2. Right to an attorney,

 

 

1. Right to a fair public and speedy trial

Supreme Court Cases

 

 

 

Amendment 7:

Right to a trial in civil cases