Term

Article I, Sections 9 / 10 prohibit government from passing: __ (law that declares an individual / group guilty of a crime and imposes punishment without a trial) __ laws (a crime that was previously legal and people who committed could now be prosecuted or increasing punishment of a crime / altering rules of evidence)

Definition

bills of attainder, ex post facto

Term

Civil liberties: habeas corpus (Article I, Section 9) allows an incarcerated person to challenge __ of incarceration. Article VI prohibits the federal government from requiring __ for office.

Definition

legality, religious tests

Term

Congress submitted twelve amendments to the states and ten of them—the Bill of Rights—were adopted in __.

Definition

1791