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Our Rights - Supreme Court Activity

Balancing Individual Rights and Public Safety - If eliminating any of these rights would protect public safety, which would you choose? Why?

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Some of Our Rights Under the Constitution

_______ Right to freedom of speech

_______ Right to bear arms

_______ Right to an attorney

_______ Right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment

_______ Right to freedom of the press

_______ Right to a jury trial

_______ Right to freedom of religion

_______ Right to peaceably assemble

_______ Protection from self-incrimination (testifying against yourself in a criminal trial)

_______ Right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures

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