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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: The Bill of Rights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What length of term do members of the Senate serve?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 2 years.

2. Powers denied the Congress are in which section of Act I?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

3. Amendment 1 includes which freedom?
(a) Inability of Congress to pass a law prohibiting free exercise of religion.
(b) Freedom from unreasonable search.
(c) Citizens may seek redress via criminal lawsuits for damaging insults.
(d) Freedom from unreasonable seizure.

4. Which section of Article IV deals with admission of new states?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

5. The Constitution stipulates senators must have been a U.S. citizen a minimum of 9 years, live in the state they represent, and what minimum age?
(a) 18.
(b) 30.
(c) 25.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cullop states that the Constitution is meaningless unless who enforces it?

2. Some say the American government is one in which elected officials act on behalf of the people, or what Cullop says is the definition of what?

3. The federal government is based on the concept that it should benefit the majority, which means what?

4. The first major document of the U.S. government was the Declaration of Independence which was signed in what year?

5. The author stipulates that how many different kinds of democracy exist?

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