Civics exam prep / Strategies Review of Key Quizzes & Correct Answers.
What is the supreme law of the land? - Answer: The Constitution.
What does the constitution do? - Answer: Sets up the government, defines the government, and protects basic rights of Americans.The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these
words? - Answer: We the people.
What is an amendment? - Answer: A change(to the constitution) and an 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, and 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. 1 / 2
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: No one is above the law, everyone must follow the law.Name one branch or part of the government. - Answer: Congress, legislative, president, executive, the courts, or 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, senate and house, legislature.
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.
We elect a U.S. senator for how many years? - Answer: 6.
Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now? - Answer: Rand Paul.
The House of Representatives has how many voting members? - Answer: 435.
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