Civics Exam Mizzou Study Guide With Correct Answers 2023 What is the supreme law of the land? - Answer the Constitution What does the Constitution do? - Answer sets up the government, defines the government, protects basic rights of Americans What are the first three words of the Constitution? - Answer We the People What is an amendment? - Answer a change or addition to the Constitution What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? - Answer the Bill of Rights What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? - Answer speech, religion, assembly. press, petition the government How many amendments does the Constitution have? - Answer 27 What did the Declaration of Independence do? - Answer announced our independence from Great Britain What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? - Answer life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness What is freedom of religion? - Answer You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion What is the economic system in the United States? - Answer capitalist economy/market economy What is the "rule of law"? - Answer Everyone must follow the law, including leaders and the government. No one is above the law Name one branch or part of the government - Answer Congress, legislative, President, executive, the courts, judicial What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? - Answer checks and balances, separation of powers Who is in charge of the executive branch? - Answer the President Who makes federal laws? - Answer Congress What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress? - Answer the Senate and House of Representatives How many U.S. Senators are there? - Answer 100 How many Representatives are there in the House? - Answer 435 1 / 2
Civics Exam Mizzou Study Guide With Correct Answers 2023 We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years? - Answer 6
Who is one of your state's U.S. Senators now? - Answer IL: Dick Durbin, Tammy
Duckworth
MO: Josh Hawley, Roy Blunt
We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years? - Answer 2 Name your U.S. Representative - Answer Lauren Underwood, IL 14 Who does a U.S. Senator represent? - Answer all people of the state Why do some states have more Representatives than other states? - Answer Because of the state's population We elect a President for how many years? - Answer 4 In what month do we vote for President? - Answer November What is the name of the President of the United States now? - Answer Donald Trump What is the name of the Vice President of the United States now? - Answer Joe Biden If the president can no longer serve, who becomes President? - Answer Vice President If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President? - Answer the Speaker of the House Who is the Commander in Chief of the military? - Answer the President Who signs bills to become laws? - Answer the President Who vetoes bills? - Answer the President What does the President's Cabinet do? - Answer advises the President What are two Cabinet-level positions? - Answer Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, etc.What does the judicial branch do? - Answer Reviews laws, explains laws, resolves disputes, decides if a law goes against the Constitution What is the highest court in the United States? - Answer the Supreme Court
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