1-was 2-were

3-weren't

4-was

5-were

6-wasn't

7-weren't

8- were

1.​ law protects (present simple) and directs (present simple) the actions of all people equally. 2.​ most cases — and some of the best-known — that come (present simple) before the supreme court involve (present simple) charges that individual rights or freedoms have been violated (present perfect passive) 3.​ whatever is done (present simple)  to try (the infinitive) to decrease (the infinitive) criminal activity, it will be done (future simple passive) within the strict rules provided (present somple passive) by the constitution and watched (present somple passive) over carefully by the system of courts, which has (present simple) the supreme court as its head. 4.​ a charge was made (past simple passive) that a state government agency was breaking (past continuous) the law. 5.​ he had been reading (present perfect continuous) law books in the prison library, so he wrote (past simple)to the supreme court, saying he had been denied (past perfect passive) the right to be represented (the infiniteve passive) by a lawyer.