Bill of Rights Crossword Printable

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Answer key: Bill of Rights Crossword

1JU2STO3D4PLACE5RDNE6TIY7LAWYERIERGNI8TWI9CEOYH10JUNEU11ARMSC12OATH

Across 1 JUST · 4 PLACE · 7 LAWYER · 8 TWICE · 10 JUNE · 11 ARMS · 12 OATH

Down 2 SOLDIER · 3 DENY · 5 RELIGION · 6 TWENTY · 9 CHURCH

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First Amendment 26

  • Abridging First Amendment: cutting short; no law may be "___ the freedom" to talk or publish
  • Assemble First Amendment: to come together in a group, as the people may do without violence
  • Assembly A gathering of people; the First Amendment protects the kind that stays calm
  • Belief Something a person holds to be true; the First Amendment keeps the government out of it
  • Censor To stop words from being published or said; the First Amendment limits the government's power to do it
  • Church Building for Sunday services; the First Amendment keeps the government from setting up an official one
  • Congress The first word of the First Amendment: the body that "shall make no law"
  • Establishment First Amendment: a setting up; no law "respecting an ___" of an official faith
  • Exercise First Amendment: the practice of what a person believes, as in "the free ___ thereof"
  • Grievances First Amendment: complaints, the last word of its one sentence
  • March To walk down a street together for a cause, one kind of peaceful gathering
  • News Reports of what has happened lately; the First Amendment protects those who publish it
  • Opinion What you think about something; the First Amendment lets you share it
  • Peaceably First Amendment: calmly and without violence, the way crowds may meet
  • Petition First Amendment: to ask leaders, often in writing, to fix a wrong
  • Pray To talk to God, an act the First Amendment leaves free
  • Press First Amendment: newspapers, books and reporters share this one-word name
  • Print To put words on paper with ink and a machine; the First Amendment protects the result
  • Protest An open show of disagreement, protected by the First Amendment when it stays peaceful
  • Rally Large outdoor meeting held to support a cause, a peaceful gathering under the First Amendment
  • Redress First Amendment: the setting right of a wrong, which the people may ask for
  • Religion First Amendment: the first thing it protects, a person's beliefs about God
  • Reporter Writer who collects the facts for a story in the paper; the First Amendment protects the work
  • Speech First Amendment: talking; its second freedom lets you say what you think out loud
  • Voice What you raise when you speak up; the First Amendment keeps the government from silencing it
  • Worship To honor God in prayer or song, an act the First Amendment protects

Second, Third and Fourth Amendments 28

  • Affirmation Fourth Amendment: solemn statement that may stand in for a sworn promise
  • Arms Second Amendment: weapons, in the word the text uses
  • Bear Second Amendment: to carry; the second verb in "keep and ___"
  • Consent Third Amendment: permission, which must come from the person the home belongs to
  • Describing Fourth Amendment: telling in detail; a search order must be "particularly ___" where to look
  • Effects Fourth Amendment: an old word for belongings, the fourth thing the people are to be safe in
  • House Third Amendment: the building where troops may not be lodged without permission
  • Infringed Second Amendment: broken or cut back; its last word, after "shall not be"
  • Militia Second Amendment: a body of citizen soldiers, described in the text as "well regulated"
  • Necessary Second Amendment: needed; "being ___ to" the safety of a free State
  • Oath Fourth Amendment: a solemn promise that what you say is true; it must back a search order
  • Owner Third Amendment: the person a home belongs to, whose permission is needed
  • Papers Fourth Amendment: letters and documents, the third thing the people are to be safe in
  • Peace Third Amendment: "in time of ___", when no fighting is going on
  • Persons Fourth Amendment: the people themselves, their own bodies, named first in its list of four
  • Place Fourth Amendment: a search order must describe "the ___ to be searched"
  • Prescribed Third Amendment: laid down as a rule; the text ends "to be ___ by law"
  • Probable Fourth Amendment: likely; a search order needs "___ cause"
  • Quartered Third Amendment: given a room to live in, as troops may not be in a family's home in peacetime
  • Searches Fourth Amendment: what officers carry out when they look through a home for evidence
  • Secure Fourth Amendment: safe from harm; "The right of the people to be ___"
  • Security Second Amendment: safety, as in "the ___ of a free State"
  • Seizures Fourth Amendment: takings of people or belongings by the government
  • Soldier Third Amendment: member of an army; the text begins "No ___ shall"
  • Unreasonable Fourth Amendment: without good grounds; the word that says which searching is banned
  • Violated Fourth Amendment: broken; the right to be safe at home "shall not be ___"
  • War Third Amendment: "in time of ___", troops are lodged only in a way the law sets out
  • Warrants Fourth Amendment: written court orders that allow a search or an arrest

Fifth Amendment 23

  • Answer Fifth Amendment: to reply to a charge; "No person shall be held to ___" without a formal charge
  • Capital Fifth Amendment: describes a crime of the most serious kind
  • Compelled Fifth Amendment: forced; no one "shall be ___" to speak against himself in court
  • Compensation Fifth Amendment: payment; the last word of the text
  • Criminal Fifth and Sixth Amendments: describes a court case about a broken law, not about money
  • Deprived Fifth Amendment: stripped of something; the verb that comes right before "of life"
  • Due process Fifth Amendment: fair legal steps the government must follow before it punishes a person
  • Forces Fifth Amendment: an army and a navy are the armed ___ of a nation
  • Grand jury Fifth Amendment: group of citizens that decides whether a serious charge should go to court
  • Indictment Fifth Amendment: formal written charge of a serious crime
  • Infamous Fifth Amendment: disgraceful; the word right before "crime" in its first line
  • Jeopardy Fifth Amendment: danger; being tried again for one crime is nicknamed double this
  • Just Fifth Amendment: fair; the word that describes the payment owed for land the government takes
  • Liberty Fifth Amendment: freedom, which may not be taken away without fair legal steps
  • Limb Fifth Amendment: an arm or a leg; "life or ___"
  • Naval Fifth Amendment: of ships and sailors; cases among troops and sailors follow rules of their own
  • Offence Fifth Amendment: a crime, spelled with a c in the text of 1789
  • Presentment Fifth Amendment: an old word for a formal charge that a group of citizens lays before a court
  • Property Fifth Amendment: land and belongings; a government that takes them for a road or a school must pay
  • Service Fifth Amendment: duty in an army or a navy; "when in actual ___"
  • Silent What a person in court may stay, since the Fifth Amendment says no one can be forced to speak against himself
  • Twice Fifth Amendment: no one may be put in danger of punishment this many times for one crime
  • Witness Person who tells a court what they saw; the Fifth Amendment says you need not be one against yourself

Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments 35

  • Accusation Sixth Amendment: the charge; a person must be told its "nature and cause"
  • Accused Sixth Amendment: "the ___", its name for a person charged with a crime
  • Assistance Sixth Amendment: help, capitalized in the text, that an attorney gives
  • Bail Eighth Amendment: money left with a court so a charged person can go home until the hearing
  • Common law Seventh Amendment: body of rules built up by judges over time, named two times in the text
  • Compulsory Sixth Amendment: required by law; a "___ process" makes helpful people come to court
  • Confronted Sixth Amendment: brought face to face with those who speak against you in court
  • Controversy Seventh Amendment: a dispute; what the two sides in a court case are arguing over
  • Counsel Sixth Amendment: the text's word for an attorney
  • Cruel Eighth Amendment: causing pain on purpose; the first of two words for banned penalties
  • Defence Sixth Amendment: a charged person's side of the case, spelled with a c in the text
  • District Sixth Amendment: the area where the crime happened, from which jurors must come
  • Dollars Seventh Amendment: the unit of money it names
  • Excessive Eighth Amendment: too much; its first word, used two times in one sentence
  • Fact Seventh Amendment: something jurors have found to be true, which courts may not simply look at again
  • Favor Sixth Amendment: a charged person may call people to speak "in his ___"
  • Fines Eighth Amendment: money paid as a penalty, which may not be too large
  • Guilty What jurors call a charged person when they decide the crime was proved
  • Impartial Sixth Amendment: fair to both sides, as jurors must be
  • Imposed Eighth Amendment: laid on someone as a burden, the way a money penalty is
  • Inflicted Eighth Amendment: its last word, meaning forced on someone
  • Informed Sixth Amendment: told; a charged person must be ___ of what the charge is
  • Judge Person in a robe who runs a courtroom
  • Juror One member of the group of citizens that decides a court case
  • Jury Panel of citizens that hears a court case and reaches a decision
  • Lawyer Trained person who argues your side in court; the Sixth Amendment promises the help of one
  • Preserved Seventh Amendment: kept safe; the right to jurors in money cases "shall be ___"
  • Punishments Eighth Amendment: penalties for breaking the law
  • Speedy Sixth Amendment: quick; a person charged with a crime must not be kept waiting for years
  • Suits Seventh Amendment: court cases one side brings against another over money or land
  • Testify To tell a court what you know after promising to tell the truth
  • Trial Court hearing where a case is decided; the Sixth and Seventh Amendments both use the word
  • Twenty Seventh Amendment: the number in its money rule
  • Unusual Eighth Amendment: not ordinary; the second of two words for banned penalties
  • Verdict What jurors announce when they have decided a case

Ninth, Tenth and How It Passed 33

  • Abuse Wrong use; the 1789 document wants "to prevent misconstruction or ___" of what the Constitution allows
  • Amend To change a document in a formal way
  • Article What the 1789 document calls each proposal, as in "___ the tenth"
  • Clauses Parts of a legal text; the States wanted "further declaratory and restrictive ___" added
  • Confidence Trust; the 1789 document hopes to extend the ground of this "in the Government"
  • Construed Ninth Amendment: read or understood in one way or another
  • Delegated Tenth Amendment: handed over; what was "not ___ to the United States" stays with the States or the people
  • Deny Ninth Amendment: to refuse; a list of some rights is no reason to ___ the rest
  • Disparage Ninth Amendment: to belittle; rights that are not listed must not be treated as lesser
  • Enumeration Ninth Amendment: a list made one by one; the second word of the text
  • Federal Describes the national government, whose reach the Tenth Amendment limits
  • Fourths "Three ___": the share of the States that had to approve each amendment
  • June Month of 1789 in which a list of amendments was first introduced to the lawmakers, on the 8th
  • Legislatures Bodies of lawmakers in the States, which had to approve each amendment
  • Limit A line that may not be crossed; each amendment of 1791 sets one for the government
  • New York City where the national lawmakers were meeting in 1789, spelled with a hyphen in the old document
  • October Month of 1789 in which copies of the proposed amendments went out to the States
  • Powers Tenth Amendment: what a government is allowed to do; the second word of the text
  • Prohibited Tenth Amendment: forbidden; "nor ___ by it to the States"
  • Ratified Approved by the States; the Bill of Rights was ___ on December 15, 1791
  • Reserved Tenth Amendment: kept back for someone; the word tells where leftover authority goes
  • Resolution The document on display is a "Joint ___" passed by both chambers of the national legislature
  • Respectively Tenth Amendment: each one separately; the word that follows "to the States"
  • Retained Ninth Amendment: kept; other rights are "___ by the people"
  • Rotunda Round hall of the National Archives Museum where the 1789 document is on display
  • Senate Upper chamber of the national legislature; its Secretary signed at the foot of the 1789 document
  • September Month of 1789 in which the national lawmakers agreed on the amendments to propose, on the 25th
  • Seventeen How many amendments the lower chamber first passed in 1789, before the list was cut down
  • Speaker Title of the lower chamber's presiding officer, the first name signed under the 1789 document
  • Ten How many amendments make up the Bill of Rights
  • Thirds "Two ___": the share of both chambers that agreed to propose the amendments
  • Twelve How many amendments were proposed in 1789; two of them were not approved in 1791
  • Wednesday Day of the week named in the opening line of the 1789 document

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site for grade 4 to 8 civics classes, one set for each group of amendments. Quoted words and spellings follow the National Archives transcription of the Bill of Rights and of the 1789 joint resolution (archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript); dates follow the Archives page How Did It Happen. The clues explain words and are not legal advice, and none was copied from a published puzzle. Licence: own work

How it works

This Bill of Rights crossword, printable on Letter or A4, is a criss-cross grid that opens on 12 easy words such as Religion, Soldier and Oath.

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Five sets, one group of amendments each

First Amendment has Religion, Speech, Press, Assemble and Petition. Second, Third and Fourth Amendments has Militia, Quartered, Searches and Warrants. Fifth Amendment has Indictment, Witness and Due process. Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments has Speedy, Counsel, Bail and Cruel. Ninth, Tenth and How It Passed has Retained, Reserved and Ratified.

Spelled as in 1789

Answers keep the spelling and the plurals of the text: Offence and Defence with a c, Searches, Seizures and Warrants as written. Twelve is an answer too. Congress proposed twelve amendments in 1789, and ten were ratified on December 15, 1791.

  • Hand out a copy of the ten amendments with the sheet: most clues name the amendment to look in.

Questions and answers

Are these printable Bill of Rights crosswords free?

Yes, with no sign-up. Each press of New puzzle draws another grid from the same set, and the answer key prints last.

Which amendments does the crossword cover?

All ten. Each has answers of its own, from Religion in the First to Reserved in the Tenth, so the sheet doubles as a review of which right sits where.

What grade is the Bill of Rights crossword for?

Easy Bill of Rights Words suits grades 4 and 5, with answers such as Speech, Jury, Bail and Peace. The five amendment sets suit grades 6 to 8. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

Where do the quoted words in the clues come from?

From the National Archives transcription of the Bill of Rights and of the 1789 joint resolution that proposed it. Every quoted phrase was checked against that transcription.

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