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Most of the First Eight Amendments Are Currently Applicable to State

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Most of the first eight amendments are currently applicable to state, local, and federal governments equally. Which of the following provisions of the Bill of Rights originally provided protection solely against the federal government?


A) The Third Amendment safeguards against the involuntary quartering of troops.
B) The Fifth Amendment guarantees the requirement that defendants be indicted by a grand jury.
C) The Seventh Amendment guarantees the right to a trial by jury in civil cases.
D) The Eighth Amendment safeguards against excessive bail, fines, cruel and unusual punishment.
E) All of these choices are correct.

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