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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Amendments Since the Bill of Rights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Twelve to twenty-three persons selected to decide if evidence against an accused person is sufficient for holding a trial, best defines which term?
(a) Federal jury.
(b) Jury of prudence.
(c) Grand jury.
(d) Evidence jury.

2. In Amendment 26 (1971) the legal age to vote was lowered to how many years?
(a) 18.
(b) 19.
(c) 20.
(d) 17.

3. Some say the government of the U.S. is one in which the people are responsible for self-governing, or what Cullop calls what?
(a) Independence.
(b) Confederation.
(c) Republic.
(d) Democracy.

4. Attending the convention in Philadelphia for revision of the Articles of Confederation were delegates from all but which state?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Virginia.

5. Being tried again for a crime already found not guilty of is the definition of what?
(a) Double indemnity.
(b) Indemnity.
(c) Double jeopardy.
(d) Jeopardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Amendment 17 (1913), when a state has a Senate vacancy, who can make a temporary appointment?

2. Any powers not denied them by the Constitution, and that are not the exclusive powers of the U.S. government, are whose?

3. Amendment 17 (1913) stipulates that to vote for the senators from his state, a person must meet what qualifications?

4. What form of government is defined as representative?

5. Congress was given the power to do away with Section 3 of Amendment 14, concerning certain supporters of the Confederacy, by a 2/3 vote, and did so in what year?

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