100 Civics Questions - A: Principles of American Democracy

1. What is the supreme law of the land?

the Constitution

2. What does the Constitution do?

. sets up the government

3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?

We the People

4. What is an amendment?

. a change (to the Constitution)

5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

the Bill of Rights

6. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?*

. speech

7. How many amendments does the Constitution have?

twenty-seven (27)

8. What did the Declaration of Independence do?

. announced our independence (from Great Britain)

. declared our independence (from Great Britain)

. said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)

9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?

. life

. liberty

. pursuit of happiness

10. What is freedom of religion?

You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.

11. What is the economic system in the United States?*

. capitalist economy

. market economy

12. What is the "rule of law"?

. Everyone must follow the law.

. Leaders must obey the law.

. Government must obey the law.

. No one is above the law.