Bill of Rights Video Script
Video - You will research the bill of rights and compile a video that identifies the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights, defines the specific rights and provides real-life examples of these rights in action. Your assessment is the video and to what extent you showed your understanding of the amendments and their application in our country today.
Title: The Bill of Rights- Lila Rubin, Period 4
1st Amendment: The first amendment is the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. It says that Congress can’t make a law restricting five basic rights which include: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. The freedom of religion means that the government is not allowed to set an …show more content…
This amendment guarantees the right to a jury trial in all lawsuits where the amount of money at stake is more than $20. An appeals court, or a court that hears appeals from a lower court, can set aside a verdict if the trail is unfair.
Example: A real life example of the seventh amendment is the Feltner vs. Columbia Pictures Television Inc. case. In 1991, Columbia Pictures ended agreements licensing television series to TV stations owned by C. Feltner. Columbia then sued Feltner when the series continued to be broadcast. The District Court denied Feltner’s request for a jury trial and gave Columbia statutory damages after a trial. This was because the seventh amendment does not provide a right to a jury trial on statutory damages.
8th Amendment: The eighth amendment is about bails, fines, and cruel punishments. It says that punishments cannot be unfair, unusual, or cruel, and fines cannot be unreasonably large. The amendment also protects people from having to pay an extremely large amount of bail money in order to be released from prison before they go to trial. Bail is money that is given to the court to say that an accused person will show up for a trail. If the accused does not appear for trial the court keeps the …show more content…
Virginia. In 1998, Daryl Atkins and a friend robbed and then shot Eric Nesbitt. Atkins was found guilty of the robbery and shooting, and was sentenced to death despite Dr. Evan Nelson’s confirmation that Atkins had a mild mental disability. Atkins repealed his case to the Supreme Court because he thought that his eighth amendment rights were being violated because his punishment was too cruel. The Supreme Court agreed with Atkins and then said that sentencing someone with a mental disability to death was unconstitutional.
9th Amendment: The ninth amendment is about unenumerated rights. This means that people have more rights than just the ones listed in the Bill of Rights. The government cannot say that the people’s rights are limited to the ones in the Bill of Rights.
Example: A real life example of the ninth amendment is the Public Workers vs. Mitchell case.
10th Amendment: The tenth amendment is about reserved powers to the states. This amendment says that powers that the federal government doesn't have belong to the states or the people. The state’s powers are not listed in the Constitution.
Example: A real life example of the tenth amendment is the case of New York vs. The United States. In 1985 the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act Amendments were put into place saying that states had to dispose of their radioactive waste within their state borders. Two counties in New York were
Video - You will research the bill of rights and compile a video that identifies the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights, defines the specific rights and provides real-life examples of these rights in action. Your assessment is the video and to what extent you showed your understanding of the amendments and their application in our country today.
Title: The Bill of Rights- Lila Rubin, Period 4
1st Amendment: The first amendment is the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. It says that Congress can’t make a law restricting five basic rights which include: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. The freedom of religion means that the government is not allowed to set an …show more content…
This amendment guarantees the right to a jury trial in all lawsuits where the amount of money at stake is more than $20. An appeals court, or a court that hears appeals from a lower court, can set aside a verdict if the trail is unfair.
Example: A real life example of the seventh amendment is the Feltner vs. Columbia Pictures Television Inc. case. In 1991, Columbia Pictures ended agreements licensing television series to TV stations owned by C. Feltner. Columbia then sued Feltner when the series continued to be broadcast. The District Court denied Feltner’s request for a jury trial and gave Columbia statutory damages after a trial. This was because the seventh amendment does not provide a right to a jury trial on statutory damages.
8th Amendment: The eighth amendment is about bails, fines, and cruel punishments. It says that punishments cannot be unfair, unusual, or cruel, and fines cannot be unreasonably large. The amendment also protects people from having to pay an extremely large amount of bail money in order to be released from prison before they go to trial. Bail is money that is given to the court to say that an accused person will show up for a trail. If the accused does not appear for trial the court keeps the …show more content…
Virginia. In 1998, Daryl Atkins and a friend robbed and then shot Eric Nesbitt. Atkins was found guilty of the robbery and shooting, and was sentenced to death despite Dr. Evan Nelson’s confirmation that Atkins had a mild mental disability. Atkins repealed his case to the Supreme Court because he thought that his eighth amendment rights were being violated because his punishment was too cruel. The Supreme Court agreed with Atkins and then said that sentencing someone with a mental disability to death was unconstitutional.
9th Amendment: The ninth amendment is about unenumerated rights. This means that people have more rights than just the ones listed in the Bill of Rights. The government cannot say that the people’s rights are limited to the ones in the Bill of Rights.
Example: A real life example of the ninth amendment is the Public Workers vs. Mitchell case.
10th Amendment: The tenth amendment is about reserved powers to the states. This amendment says that powers that the federal government doesn't have belong to the states or the people. The state’s powers are not listed in the Constitution.
Example: A real life example of the tenth amendment is the case of New York vs. The United States. In 1985 the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act Amendments were put into place saying that states had to dispose of their radioactive waste within their state borders. Two counties in New York were