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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: The Constitution of the United States, Part VI: Know Your Q's and A's.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which amendment addresses Congress's inability to prohibit citizens from worshiping how and when they please?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

2. Amendment 16 (1913) changes Article 1, Section 2, and declares that the government can collect taxes, regardless of a state's what?
(a) Location.
(b) Population.
(c) Territorial size.
(d) Durable goods produced.

3. Amendment 27 (1992) provides that no law varying the compensation for the services of the senators and the representatives shall take effect until when?
(a) An election of representatives shall have intervened.
(b) An election of a President and Vice President shall have intervened.
(c) An election of senators shall have intervened.
(d) The annual budget has been ratified.

4. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state can make laws that do what to citizens of the U.S.?
(a) Take away or restrict any rights, privileges, protections.
(b) Impose lesser penalties for state crimes than those for similar federal.
(c) Impose stiffer penalties for state crimes than those for similar federal.
(d) Exceed any rights, privileges, protections.

5. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was introduced in what year?
(a) 1783.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1777.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one check on the President held by the Congress?

2. Being tried again for a crime already found not guilty of is the definition of what?

3. When Cullop states the U.S. has a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," whom is he quoting?

4. Listing by number best defines which of the following terms?

5. Inheritance, corporations, laws concerning education, marriage and divorce all are under the jurisdiction of what government?

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