Chapter 4 Section 1
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- What issue is being discuss about the second amendment?
- Whether individuals still have the right to have guns.
- The Second,Third,and Fourth amendments help protect Americans against what?
- It protects them againstabuses of power by government officials or their represenatives.
- The Second Amendment gaurantees Americans what right?
- The right to serve in a state militia and to bear arms.
- What was a militia at the time this amendment was written?
- It was a local army made up of volunteer soldiers.
- The first amendment in the Constitution protects what 5 basic freedoms essential to the American way of life?
- The 5 basic freedoms are freedom of religion,freedom of speech,freedom of the press,freedom of assembly and freedom to petition the government.
- Because governemnt did not supply the militia with money and they had to supply their own weapons,the right to bear arms was necessary to do what?
- It was necessary to maintain the militias.
- The second amendement also gives citizens the rightto do what?
- Maintain a well regulated mili
- Why does it give Americans the right to bear arms?
- It gives them the right to bear arms in order to maintain "a well-regulated militia".
- The first 10 amendments in the Constitution are known as the what?
- They are known as the Bill of Rights.
- What do the Bill of Rights reflect?
- They reflect the belief of the Framers of the Constitution in the principle of limited government.
- The amendments place strict limits on what?
- They place strict limits on how the national government can use its powers over the people.