Constitution Test!! ( Part One )

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1st amendment

Protects freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.

2nd amendment

Protects the right to keep and bear arms.

3rd amendment

Prohibits the quartering of troops in private homes without the owner's consent.

4th amendment

Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.

5th amendment

Protects the rights of individuals in criminal cases, including the right to due process and protection against self-incrimination.

6th amendment

Guarantees the right to a fair trial, including the right to counsel and an impartial jury.

7th amendment

Guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases.

8th amendment

Prohibits excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment.

9th amendment

Affirms that the enumeration of certain rights in the Constitution does not deny or disparage others retained by the people.

10th amendment

Reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people.

11th amendments

amendment Limits the ability of individuals to sue states in federal court.

12th amendment

amendment Establishes the procedure for electing the President and Vice President of the United States.

13th amendment

abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

14th amendment

grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and ensures equal protection under the law.

15th amendment

prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

16th amendment

allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states.

17th amendment

establishes the direct election of U.S. Senators by popular vote.

18th amendment

prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

19th amendment

grants women the right to vote.

20th amendment

sets the terms of the President and Congress, known as the "Lame Duck" amendment.

21st amendment

repeals the 18th amendment, allowing the manufacture and sale of alcohol.

22nd amendment

limits the President to two terms in office.

23rd amendment

grants Washington D.C. electoral votes in presidential elections.

24th amendment

prohibits poll taxes in federal elections.

25th amendment

establishes procedures for presidential succession and disability.

26th amendment

grants the right to vote to citizens who are 18 years of age or older.

27th amendment

restricts congressional pay increases until after the next election. What

What are the first 10 amendments called?

Bill of Rights

How many electoral votes does Washington Dc receive due to the Amendment process?

Three

Article I created the _______ branch of our Government

Legislative

Article II of the Constitution creates the ______ branch of our Government

Executive

Article III of the Constitution creates the ______ branch of our Government

Judicial

The ________ Clause is the Chief Part of the ____ Article

supremacy, 6th

How many Congressional votes do you need to propose an Amendment to the U.S constitution?

2/3

How many states are needed to approve an Amendment to the U.S constitution?

3/4

What Article does the Constitution deal with the Amendment Process?

5th

What best describes the conditions in the Post-revolutionary War United States that contributed to Shay’s Rebellions and the necessity of the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

Many of the states were near bankrupt, the economy was bad and farmers were being imprisoned over owed debts.

What were the concerns surrounding the Constitution that emerged from the Philadelphia convention of 1787?

A fear that the new national government would have too much power and people too little power

What best expresses the reasons why some groups wanted a Bill of Rights added to the Constituion?

There was a genuine fear for individual liberty from a powerful federal government.

What best describes the concept of limited government?

Government must operate within certain bounds set by people.

What is the best associated with the idea of separation of powers in the U.S Constitution?

Power is distributed among three independent branches of government

When all citizens participate in the creation of laws and policies, what type of government do they have?

Direct Democracy

The government set up by the Articles of Confederation had

Only a legislative branch, consisting of a unicameral ( one house ) Congress

Soon after arriving at the Philadelphia Convention, the delegates agreed to

Draft an entirely new constitution

At the Constitutional Convention the biggest issue related to

How representation in the Legislative branch of government would be decided.

The issue of how to count slaves towards representation in the House of Representatives was solved by the

The Three-Fifths Compromise

According to John Locke, man was born into perfect freedom ______

but gave up some of that freedom to create governments and establish order

The compromise at the Constitutional Convention would keep the Federal government from addressing slavery for at least 20 years

Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

In order for the new Constitution to become valid, __ of 13 states would have to ratify it.

9

Both the Connecticut Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise were crucial to the small States because

Without them, the small States would have had little influence in the new government

One of the reasons the Anti-Federalists did not like the new Constitution was

That it lacked a Bill of Rights

One of the biggestweaknesses of the Articles of Confederation was that ____

The federal government lacked the power to tax which sent the country into economic turmoil

The U.S Constitution was written in the summer of ___

1787

The U.S Constitution was written in which city?

Philadelphia

The two primary plans for a new government that emerged during the Constitutional Convention were from the states of

New Jersey and Virginia

What statement about the Bill of Rights is NOT true

The amendments were ratified at the exact same time as the Constitution

Which basic principle of the Constitution means that government can govern only with the consent of the governed?

Popular Sovereignty

Of the 4 types of government, this is the one used in the United States today

Representative Democracy

Before being sent to the states for ratification, an amendment to the Constitution must get the support of _____ of the members in both houses of the Congress

2/3

Once an amendment is passed by the Congress, it must be ratified by at least ____ of the states for it to take effect

3/4

Which of the following best describes the Federalist Papers?

They were a collection of essays supporting the ratification of the newly proposed constitution

Article that outlines Relations between the States

Article IV

Article that deals with the Amendment Provisions/Passage

Article V

Article that deals with Federal Supremacy of Laws and Oaths

Article VI

Article that deals with the Ratification of the Constitution

Article VII

Shared Powers between the Federal Government and the States, like Taxes are known as ____ Powers according to the Constitution

Concurrent

What is the best way to describe the purpose of the Neccessary and Proper Clause in the Constituion?

It stretches Congressional power to help them carry out the expressed/specific powers

What is a similarity between the House of Representatives and the Senate?

The method of direct election by the people

In each Congressional election, a great deal of attention is paid to which party holds a majority in each chamber of Congress. What is the best explanation for this attention?

The majority party has advantages in the law-making process such as more members on a committee.

What is the impact of the practice of Gerrymandering?

Congressional elections tends to be less competitive

What describes a difference between the U.S House and the U.S Senate

House members are up for election more frequently

The Senate was intended to be a stabilizing factor in the Congress

Since House members represent a single district they are more responsive to the people

Senators were given more shared powers with the President such as approving Presidential appointments to certain government positions

( aka all of the above )

Prior/before this Constitutional Amendment U.S Senators were appointed by the state legislatures, rather than directly elected by the people?

17th

Once a year Congress must meet to conducts its business, this period of time is called

Session

Which group generally used its power to gerrymander Congressional districts? In others words, who typically draws the maps in most states?

State legislatures

What are the qualifications for senators?

At least 30 years old

Must live in the State from which elected

Must be a US citizen for at least nine years.

The area in which the House and Senate tend to DIFFER most in the law-making process is _____

The rules for how bills are debated in each chamber

What’s the (closest) annual salary of a member in Congress

$174,000

Who is in charge of initially VOTING TO start impeachment proceedings against Federal Officers

The House

Every two years?

Approximately 1/3 of the Senate is up for re-election

The majority of the daily work in Congress is accomplish through the use of ______

Committees and Subcommittees

The number of U.S Representatives that Illinois currently has in the US House of Reps?

17

The TOTAL NUMBER of Representatives serving in the U.S. House of Representatives is _______

A fixed number determined by Congress that they can choose to raise or lower if needed

Gerrymandering is done in order to

Give a political party an advantage in Congressional elections

There are ___ total members of Congress

535

The Chief leadership Position in the U.S House of Reps is the _______

Speaker of the House

The primary result of the case Gibbons v. Ogden was that

The Commerce Power of Congress was defined in such a way that it essentially included all commercial business transactions between states and the nation

Conference Committees ______

Produce a compromise Bill that both the House and Senate will hopefully accept in a final vote in both chambers

Most bills introduced in the Congress die/fail at which of these steps?

Committee or subcommittee

Under the Constitution, Congress has the sole power to

Declare war

Congress may override a Presidential Veto with a _____ vote in both chambers?

2/3

The purpose of a filibuster is to

Prevent or delay action/voting on a bill

Very soon after a Bill is FIRST introduced in Congress, it usually then referred to

A committee and then a subcommittee that deals with that type of legislation

What statement about the Senate is TRUE

It has exactly two members from each State

The salary for all Senators is _________

Equal to members of the House of Representatives

What best represents the meaning of the word constituent

A constituent is a person directly represented by an elected official

What statement about Congressional districts is true?

They function as voting boundaries to elect members to the House of Representatives from each State

CCHS is the ______ U.S Congressional District for Illinois

12th

When members of Congress vote to give themselves a pay raise that goes above and beyond their normal cost of living adjustment _____

It does not take effect until after the next Congressional election

Once a Bill that is ORIGINATED/STARTED in the Senate has been voted on befre the full Senate for the first time and approved, it then _____

goes to the House of Representatives where the law-making process starts all over again