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Which amendments apply and what are the answers? Do NOT find a compromise, complain about the people described or suggest that the people “get a life.” The assignment is simple. Which amendments are involved and what answers, backed by the Bill of Rights, would you give?

1. The town hall wants to display a nativity scene on the front lawn during the week before Christmas.

2. The local police bugged a telephone of a man who was suspected of dealing drugs. With that information, they obtained a warrant and searched the house, finding enough material to have him arrested and charged.

3. College students at an anti-war demonstration burn a United States flag to show their disagreement with the government’s stand.

4. A woman claims her right to an education, but the judge points out that “education” is not in the Bill of Rights.

5. During a field test for alcohol sobriety, a woman drops her purse and police see a large roll of money inside. When the officer lifts out the money to ask the woman about it, he also sees marijuana cigarettes and several crack vials. He arrests her on possession of an illegal substance.

6. A father who says he is an atheist objects to the school having his student say the Pledge of Allegiance daily because it contains the words “under God.”

7. During the two weeks of a trial for murder, the judge and several of the local police force who worked on the case all have lunch daily with the jury.

8. Amish parents in Hartville, Ohio, will not send their children to school beyond the eighth grade because their religion tells them to be “separate from the world.” That’s against state law that requires education until the age of 16.

9. The state of Michigan decides that doctor-assisted suicide is legal.

10. A beaten homeless man is in the hospital. It’s not guaranteed that he will live. Police take the two teens suspected of beating him to the hospital to be identified by the man rather than waiting for an official line up.

11. Civil War enactors, in full uniform, are arrested in the diner where they met for breakfast. The charge is carrying firearms in public.

12. There was no specific law passed by any legislature regarding a particular case in front of the judge, but such cases had been decided by juries many times before.

13. After a terrorist attack, it is necessary to move National Guard, extra police, medical technicians, teams of specialists and rescue personnel into your city. These people take over a local school and the large apartment building next to it in order to have a central organizational point, moving people out into shelters temporarily.

14. Members of an isolated First Nation Native American religion use illegal hallucinogenic drugs as part of their worship.

15. A woman testifies against someone by videotape because it is impossible for her to be at the trial itself.

16. A homeless man is arrested for attempted child abduction. To keep him off the streets, the judge sets the bail at a price that she knows the homeless man cannot pay.

17. There is new blood evidence in the murders for which O.J. Simpson was found not guilty. He is rearrested on the strength of that evidence.

18. A college football team requires its player to take unscheduled drug tests.

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