The Bill of Rights (Vocabulary)

in a legal case, the group of people who decide if someone is guilty or not guilty.

• right

• jury

• soldier

• punishment

a moral or legal claim to have something or to act in a certain way.

• punishment

• jury

• soldier

• right

a penalty for doing something wrong.

• soldier

• jury

• punishment

• right

to begin legal action against.

• process

• incriminate

• assemble

• seize

to own and carry weapons.

• bear arms

• assemble

• punishment

• process

a person serving in the armed forces, especially one who is not an officer.

• punishment

• soldier

• jury

• right

to come or bring together; to form a group.

• process

• assemble

• seize

• incriminate

the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing fundamental rights to the people of the United States.

• punishment

• right

• Bill of Rights

• soldier

to make it appear or to suggest that someone did something wrong or illegal.

• process

• seize

• assemble

• incriminate

to forcibly take possession of something.

• seize

• incriminate

• assemble

• process