A Practicing Muslim

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You are a practicing Muslim. Some of your prayer times occur during your work hours. Where is your right to pray? You and your friends decide to participate in a march to protest government policies relating to climate change. Where is your right?

 

 

  1. You are a woman and you go to vote. Where is your right?

 

  1. You are arrested and charged with burglary of an inhabited dwelling. You want a jury trial. Where is your right?

 

 

  1. You are born in the US and therefore a citizen. Where is your right to citizenship?

 

 

  1. You want to buy a gun. Where is your right?

-Second Amendment

 

 

  1. You get arrested for theft from Target. You want to get out on a reasonable bail. Where is your right?

 

 

  1. You are charged with murder. You do not want to testify at your trial. Where is your right?

 

  1. The police knock on your door and demand entrance. You refuse to let the police in your house. Where is your right?

 

 

  1. You writ e  an article criticizing your mayor and publish it in the local paper. Where is your right?

 

  1. You are walking to the train station after your exciting Federal Government class at the El Centro Campus. The police stop you and demand to search your person. You refuse. Where is your right?

 

 

  1. You are 18 years old and you vote. Where is your right?

 

  1. You must pay a federal income tax. Where is your obligation?

 

 

  1. You have a whiskey on Friday night. Where is your right?

 

  1. Where is the end of slavery in the US Constitution?

 

 

 

  1. It is 1900. You are a former slave. You go to the polls to vote. Where is your right?

 

  1. It is 1951, Topeka, Kansas. Black children and white children are required to attend separate elementary schools. Your daughter Linda Brown, a third grader, is required to walk through a dangerous railroad switchyard to get to a bus stop to ride a bus to her all-black elementary school. Sumner Elementary School, a white school, is 7 blocks from your house. You try to enroll your daughter Linda in the school closest to your house. The school district refuses. You sue the school district. What amendment do you use?

 

 

  1. You go to the polls to vote. A poll worker tries to make you take a test and pay a fee in order to vote. You refuse. Where is your right?

 

 

 

  1. It is 1924. Do you have a right to a bourbon on a Saturday night?

 

  1. You have been President of the US for 8 years. You decide to run again.  Do you have this right?

 

 

 

  1. You are convicted of speeding in a school zone. You are sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. What amendment do you use to appeal your sentence?

 

 

 

  1. You are charged with armed robbery. You want a lawyer. Where is your right?

 

 

 

  1. You are injured in a car accident. You sue the other driver for $10,000 in damages. You want a jury trial. Where is your right?

 

 

  1. It is May 2022 (before Roe v. Wade is overturned in June of 2022), your friend is pregnant and decides to get an abortion. Where is her right?

 

 

  1. It is 2021. You are a member of the US Congress upset by the actions of other politicians during and before the attack on the US Capitol on January 6th. How might you use the 14th Amendment?

 

 

  1. Any powers that the Constitution does not give to the US government belong to ________________.