Constitution and Bill of Rights quiz - 9/22

What is Article I about?

Legislative Branch, Congress, and its powers.

What is Article II about?

Executive Branch, President, and presidential powers.

What is Article III about?

Judicial Branch and federal courts.

What is Article IV about?

Relations among states and between states and the federal government.

What is Article V about?

The process for amending the Constitution.

What is Article VI about?

Federal supremacy, debts, oaths, and no religious test.

What is Article VII about?

Ratification of the Constitution.

Article I, Section 1: What does it establish?

Congress as the legislative branch, with lawmaking power.

Article I, Section 2: What does it establish?

House of Representatives, elections, qualifications, and impeachment.

Article I, Section 3: What does it establish?

Senate, senators, qualifications, and impeachment trials.

Article I, Section 4: What does it cover?

State control of congressional elections and congressional meetings.

Article I, Section 5: What does it cover?

Congress judging elections, rules, records, and discipline.

Article I, Section 6: What does it cover?

Congressional pay, privileges, and restrictions on members.

Article I, Section 7: What does it cover?

How bills become laws and presidential vetoes.

Article I, Section 8: What does it cover?

Powers of Congress, including taxing, spending, and regulating commerce.

Article I, Section 9: What does it cover?

Limits on Congress's powers.

Article I, Section 10: What does it cover?

Limits on the powers of states.

What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?

Congress may make laws needed to carry out its constitutional powers.

What is the Commerce Clause?

Congress can regulate commerce with foreign nations, states, and tribes.

Article II, Section 1: What does it cover?

President, Vice President, elections, terms, qualifications, and oath.

Article II, Section 2: What are the President's major powers?

Commander in chief, appointments, treaties, pardons, and other executive powers.

Article II, Section 3: What are the President's duties?

Enforce laws, report on the Union, receive ambassadors, and commission officers.

Article II, Section 4: What does it establish?

President, Vice President, and civil officers can be removed through impeachment.

Article III, Section 1: What does it establish?

The Supreme Court and federal courts, with judges serving during good behavior.

Article III, Section 2: What does it cover?

Federal judicial jurisdiction and types of cases federal courts can hear.

Article III, Section 3: What is treason?

Levying war against the U.S. or aiding its enemies.

Article IV, Section 1: What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?

States must recognize other states' public acts, records, and judicial proceedings.

Article IV, Section 2: What does it cover?

Privileges of citizens, extradition, and returning escaped persons.

Article IV, Section 3: What does it cover?

Adding new states and managing federal territories.

Article IV, Section 4: What does it guarantee?

A republican government and federal protection for every state.

What is Article V?

It establishes how the Constitution can be amended.

What is Article VI?

Federal law is supreme; officials take oaths; no religious test for office.

What is Article VII?

Ratification by nine states would establish the Constitution.

What is the Supremacy Clause?

The Constitution, federal laws, and treaties are supreme over conflicting state laws.

What is the Bill of Rights?

The first ten amendments to the Constitution.

1st Amendment: What five freedoms are protected?

Religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

2nd Amendment: What right is protected?

The right to keep and bear arms.

3rd Amendment: What does it prohibit?

Quartering soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent in peacetime.

4th Amendment: What does it protect against?

Unreasonable searches and seizures.

What does the 4th Amendment generally require for warrants?

Probable cause and a specific description of the place and things or people searched or seized.

5th Amendment: What major protections does it provide?

Grand jury, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, due process, and compensation for takings.

What does "pleading the Fifth" mean?

Using the right against self-incrimination.

6th Amendment: What rights does it provide?

Speedy public trial, impartial jury, notice of charges, witnesses, confrontation, and counsel.

7th Amendment: What right is protected?

Jury trial in certain federal civil cases.

8th Amendment: What does it prohibit?

Excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments.

9th Amendment: What does it say about rights?

People have rights beyond those specifically listed in the Constitution.

10th Amendment: What does it establish?

Powers not given to the federal government are reserved to states or the people.

1st Amendment: What is freedom of petition?

The right to ask the government to address grievances.

1st Amendment: What is freedom of assembly?

The right to gather peacefully.

5th Amendment: What is due process?

Government must follow fair legal procedures before depriving protected rights.

5th Amendment: What is double jeopardy?

Protection against being tried twice for the same offense.

5th Amendment: What is eminent domain protection?

Government must provide just compensation when taking private property for public use.

6th Amendment: What is the right to counsel?

The right to legal representation in criminal prosecutions.

What is the main difference between the 9th and 10th Amendments?

9th protects unlisted individual rights; 10th reserves undelegated powers.

Which amendment protects freedom of speech?

1st Amendment.

Which amendment protects against unreasonable searches?

4th Amendment.

Which amendment protects against self-incrimination?

5th Amendment.

Which amendment guarantees a speedy public criminal trial?

6th Amendment.

Which amendment addresses excessive bail and cruel punishment?

8th Amendment.

Which amendment reserves undelegated powers?

10th Amendment.

Which amendment protects the right to bear arms?

2nd Amendment.

Which amendment protects against quartering soldiers?

3rd Amendment.