1. Every state is guaranteed to have a minimum of ____ candidates within Congress

            Answer: 3

2. Every ten years what happens in the house of representatives to the allotment of seats

Answer: Reapportion

3. Due process and trial rights have for the accused are protected under what Amendments

Answer: 5th and 6th

4. Checks and balances is the idea that governments can only do what the people have given it the power to do

Answer: False

5. The “Necessary and Proper” Clause is also called the Elastic Claus because…

Answer: overtime, it has stretched to cover so many implied powers

6. What constitutional right is involved in the case Miranda v. Arizona

Answer: right to remain silent

7. Individuals vote for candidates within Representative Democracy

Answer: True

8. Drafting people into the military to raise and support an army is an example of a/an…

Answer: Implied Power

9. A Senate member’s term is..

Answer: 6 years

10. A President’s term is…

Answer: 4 years

11. What is the process of impeachment?

Answer: Investigation, Impeachment, Senate Trial

12. What is Judicial Review?

Answer: Ability of Courts to overturn acts by the Legislature or Executive branch deemed unconstitutional

13. Who has the power to tax the people?

Answer: Congress

14. What is the purpose of the US Constitution?

Answer: Establishes a basic structure of government and defines the governments powers, provides the supreme law for the country, and institutionalize political freedoms 

15. What article outlines the Executive Branch

Answer: 2nd

16. Who has a lifetime appointment?

Answer: Judge

17. In the majority of U.S. elections, how are winners selected?

Answer: Plurality vote within single member, winner-takes-all districts

18. The people elect a President through a popular vote

Answer: False

19. How might a state, in 2022, limit fraud within an election?

Answer: Registry

20. The party that control the most seats in Congress is called the..

Answer: Majority

21. Which article outlines the relationship between the national and state governments

Answer: 4th

22. Which of the following describes the amendments associated with the voting rights of a specific group of Americans?

Answer: 15th, 19th, and 26th

23. A bill vetoed by the President can not still become a law

Answer: False

24. What concept did Thomas Jefferson borrow from John Locke in writing the Declaration of Independence?

Answer: Natural rights, liberty, and property

25. What is a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with the power to make and enforce laws? 

Answer: A state

26. Which article outlines the Judicial Branch?

Answer: 3rd

27. What is the purpose of the US Constitution?

Answer: Establishes a basic structur of government and defines the government’s power, Provides the supreme law for the country, and institutionalized political freedoms.

28. The militry holds delegated, or expressed, powers.

Answer: False

29. A House member serves for ___ years

Answer: 2 years

30. When power is distributed among all branches of government, there are/is

Answer: Separation of powers6

31. Concurrent powers are…

Answer: Powers held by both Federal and State

32.  Government can best be described as?

Answer: The institution through which society makes and enforces public policies

33. Which article outlines the Legislative Branch?

Answer: 1st

34. When power is distributed among all districts of the government there is..

Answer: Separation of Powers

35. According to the ruling made in Texas v. Johnson, it was determined that…

Answer: being punished for burning a flag is a violation of your first amendment rights

36. What is not a right in the bill of rights?

Answer: Right for women to vote

37. What are checks and balances in the federal government?

Answer: Restraints on each branch of the government from the other branches

38. Which of the following is not a power of Congress?

Answer: Veto bills

39. With the words, “ We the people do ordain and establish”, the constitution receives its authority on the basis of…

Answer: Popular sovereignty

40. The____ is known as the introduction to the Constitution

Answer: Preamble