13. Legal Assistance

The value of the Auto-Magic* method in simplifying memorization of legal terms is exemplified by its use in relation to the amendments to the Constitution. For instance, in order to memorize these most easily, you could picture them in place on the Auto-Magic* automobile; number one, dealing with freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, could be pictured as a big Liberty Bell, or a Bible, printing press, or one of the objects or group of objects, placed upon the radiator ornament of the car. For the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, you could have two bare arms hanging out of the two headlights. For number three, which pertains to the housing of soldiers, several soldiers in little toy houses could be placed along the bumper of the car.

Amendment number four, dealing with unlawful search and seizure, could be pictured as someone seizing the tire from your car and carrying it stealthily away, meanwhile holding a searchlight. For Amendment number five, double jeopardy, you could have two door handles or double door handles with a witness sitting on one and yourself sitting on the other with reference to the phrase that deals with not bearing witness against yourself. For Amendment number six, you could have the automobile window being wound up rapidly with reference to the "speedy trial by jury" and have the jurors sitting inside the window casing. Number seven, the trial by jury, could be shown by having the horn blown to assemble the jurors or the veniremen to sit around the horn button.

Number eight, in reference to excessive bail, could be pictured as rowboats around the steering wheel with some­one bailing water out. For number nine, you might have two windshield wipers on the right-hand side of the windshield, instead of one in front of you, to exemplify the phrase . . . "all rights not otherwise listed"; and so on through the twenty-two amendments, each of them being pictured and placed on an object of the car.

The Twenty-first Amendment, dealing with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, being more than the twenty in the Auto-Magic* system, could be placed alongside the Eighteenth Amendment on one of the two taillights of the car. The Twenty-second Amendment, dealing with two terms for presidents, could be placed farther back down the high­way, behind the Twentieth Amendment, as seen in the mirror on the car. These can be memorized permanently or on a temporary basis, as is true in any use of the Auto-Magic* system.

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