Civics Test 2023
GRADED A+ (ACTUAL TEST ) Questions and Answers (Solved)
- 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
- 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) an addition (to the
Constitution)
- What d owe call the first ten amendments to the constitution?
Answer: the Bill of Rights
- Wat is one right of freedom from the First Amendment?
Answer:
Speech Religion assembly press petition the government
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- How many amendments does the constitution have?
Answer: twenty-seven (27)
- What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Answer:
•announced our independence (from Great Britain) • declared our independence (from Great Britain) • said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)
- What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Answer:
life liberty 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.• Leaders must obey the law.• Government must obey the law.• No one is above the law.
- Name one branch or part of the government.
Answer: Congress legislative
President executive 2 / 3
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 Senate and House (of Representatives)
(U.S. or national) 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: one hundred (100)
- We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
Answer: 6 years
- Who is one of your state's U.S. Senators now?
Answer: Mitt Romney, Mike Lee
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