nts? Why the exception in the amendment? What
mention of quartering soldiers in the Declaration of Independence?

Get and read a warrant of arrest. A search warrant. Has a warrant always
been needed as authority for arrest? Are arbitrary arrests, searches and
seizures permitted in any civilized countries today?

What is a capital crime? An infamous crime? A presentment? An indictment?
A grand jury? How do the proceedings of a grand jury compare with those of
a petit jury? Why the differences? Why the exception in the first clause
of the amendment? Can a convicted and sentenced person ask for a new
trial? Under what other circumstances can persons be tried again? In what
connections have you heard of private property being taken for public use.

Taking each guarantee in the sixth amendment, show the wrongs which an
accused person, presumably innocent, would suffer if the provision were
not recognized or that guarantee removed.

Find out all you can about _common law_. What is meant by a _civil_ suit
as distinguished from a _criminal_ suit? What is meant by a case in
_equity?_ When an appeal is taken what is subject to re-examination? What
is not? Why?

What conditions determine the just amount of bail? Of fines? What cruel
punishments have you heard or read of as being administered by public
authority? When and where were such punishments not "unusual"? Was the
eighth amendment necessary? What limit is there to things which "The
People" may do? To the powers of the United States government? To those of
a State government?

Find the history behind each provision in the ten amendments. From what
country did we obtain the notions that the rights here preserved belong to
freemen? From under what other country could the Colonies have come ready
to be the United States as we love it, or from what other country could we
have inherited such notions?

Since these ten amendments are intended for the protection of individuals
against governmental oppression, it will be an excellent scheme now for
the student to arrange in the form of a tabulation the various directions
in which such protection is guaranteed by the constitution as amended. The
following is simply suggestive:

I. From Legislative Oppression.--1. Thought; 2. Expression; 3. Bills of
Attainder; 4. _Ex post facto_ laws; 5. Social distinctions; 6. Assembly;
7. Petition.

II. From Executive Oppression.-1. Military; 2. Searches and seizures; 3.
Life, Liberty, or P