The following quiz is presented for free use by students and teachers and was created by myself in my years teaching high school. 1.How many words and sections is the Constitution? (76)
2.What is an article?
3.What does article 1 establish?
4.What does article 2 establish?
5.What does article 3 establish? (77)
6.What does article 4 do?
7.What is jurisdiction?
8.What does article 6 do?
9.What is the supremacy clause?
10.What does article 7 do?
11.What is an amendment?
12.How many amendments are there?
13.What is popular sovereignty?
14.What is federalism?
15.Why was federalism created? (78)
16.What is separation of powers?
17.What are checks and balances? (79)
18.What is vetoing?
19.What are some other checks each branch of government has?
20.What is Judicial Review?
21.How did Judicial review come about?
22.Why is judicial review controversial?
23.What is limited government?
Section 2
24.What does ratified mean? (80)
25.In what 2 ways can the Constitution be amended?
26.What is a balanced budget?
27.Why could constitutional conventions be unpredictable?
28.How are amendments to the Constitution approved by the states?
29.What was the one time ratifying conventions have been used? (81)
30.In modern times, how long do states have to ratify an amendment?
31.What are the barriers to the passage of amendments?
32.Describe the history of the ERA amendment (82-83)
33.What was the fate of the ERA amendment?
34.When were the first 10 ammendments ratified?
35.What is the name given to the first 10 ammendments?
36.When was the second proposal to amend the Constitution ratified?
37.What does the Bill of rights do?
38.Did the Bill of Rights originally apply to state government?
39.What does the first amendment cover? (86)
40.Does the first amendment state that there is a separation of Church and state?
41.What is prior restraint?
42.What is slander?
43.What is libel?
44.What are some other rights guaranteed in the 1st amendment? (87)
45.What does the 2nd amendment guarantee?
46.What is a militia?
47.What is the 3rd amendment? (88)
48.What is the 4th amendment?
49.What is probably cause?
50.What is a search warrant?
51.What is an arrest warrant?
52.What is the 5th amendment?
53.What is due process of law?
54.What is eminent domain?
55.What is the 6th amendment?
56.What is a change of venue?
57.What is the 7th amendment? (89)
58.What is the 8th amendment?
59.What is the 9th amendment?
60.What is the 10th amendment?
61.What are the Civil War amendments?
62.What does the 16th amendment do?
63.What does the 17th amendment do?
64.What did the 18th and 21st amendments do?
65.What does the 19th amendment do?
66.What does the 20th amendment do?
67.What does the 22nd amendment do?
68.What does the 23rd amendment do?
69.What does the 24th amendment do?
70.What does the 25th amendment do?
71.What does the 26th amendment do?
72.What does the 27th amendment do?
Section 4
73.How is the constitution informally changed through law?
74.How is the constitution changed through Congressional practices? (92)
75.How is the presidential succession an informal change to the Constitution?
76.How do foreign affairs informally change the Constitution? (93)
77.What is a treaty?
78.What is an executive agreement?
79.How do domestic affairs informally change the Constitution?
John Daniels is a former High School teacher turned computer technician. He has over 6 years of experience in the field and operates a site that gives daily tech tips at www.broketech.com It is part of the John W. Daniels network at www.johnwdaniels.com.
