Florida Civic Literacy Exam Questions & Answers
What is the supreme law of the land?
Correct Answer:
the Constitution
What does the Constitution do?
Correct 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?
Correct Answer:
We the People
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What is an amendment?
Correct Answer:
-a change (to the Constitution) -an addition (to the Constitution)
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Correct Answer:
the Bill of Rights
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Correct Answer:
-speech -religion -assembly -press -petition the government
How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Correct Answer:
twenty-seven
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What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Correct 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?
Correct Answer:
-life -liberty -pursuit of happiness
What is freedom of religion?
Correct Answer:
You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
What is the economic system in the United States?
Correct Answer:
-capitalist economy -market economy
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What is the "rule of law"?
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-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.
Correct Answer:
-Congress -legislative -President -executive -the courts -judicial
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Correct Answer:
-checks and balances -separation of powers
Who is in charge of the executive branch?
Correct Answer:
the President
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