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1.Congress can't make any law about your 

religion, or stop you from practicing your 

religion, or keep you from saying whatever 

you want, or publishing whatever you want 

(like in a newspaper or a book). And Congress 

can't stop you from meeting peacefully for a 

demonstration to ask the government to 

change something

2.Congress can't stop people from having and 

carrying weapons, because we need to be able to 

defend ourselves

3.You don't have to let soldiers live in your 

house, except if there is a war, and even then 

only if Congress has passed a law about it

4.Nobody can search your body, or your house, 

or your papers and things, unless they can 

prove to a judge that they have a good reason 

to think you have committed a crime.

5.You can't be tried for any serious crime 

without a Grand Jury meeting first to decide 

whether there's enough evidence for a trial. 

And if the jury decides you are innocent, the 

government can't try again with another jury. 

You don't have to say anything at your trial. 

You can't be killed, or put in jail, or fined, 

unless you were convicted of a crime by a jury. 

And the government can't take your house or 

your farm or anything that is yours, unless the 

government pays for it. 

6.If you're arrested, you have a right to have 

your trial pretty soon, and the government 

can't keep you in jail without trying you. The 

trial has to be public, so everyone knows what 

is happening. The case has to be decided by a 

jury of ordinary people from your area. You 

have the right to know what you are accused 

of, to see and hear the people who are 

witnesses against you, to have the government 

help you get witnesses on your side, and you 

have the right to a lawyer to help you.

7.You also have the right to a jury when it is a 

civil case (a law case between two people 

rather than between you and the government).

8.The government can't make you pay more 

than is reasonable in bail or in fines, and the 

government can't order you to have cruel or 

unusual punishments (like torture) even if you 

are convicted of a crime.

9.Just because these rights are listed in the 

Constitution doesn't mean that you don't have 

other rights too.

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