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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. What is the term for a sum of money put up by arrested individuals to ensure their return, so they may be released until the time of their trial?
(a) Bail.
(b) Bale.
(c) Braille.
(d) Bile.

2. Where, in accordance with Amendment 23 (1961) and as Congress directs, may electors be appointed for President and Vice President as if it were a state?
(a) Panama, Guam.
(b) Panama, Puerto Rico.
(c) District of Columbia.
(d) Puerto Rico, Guam.

3. What is a written court order allowing the arrest, search, and seizure of certain persons or certain property?
(a) Waiver.
(b) Warrant.
(c) Grant.
(d) Warranty.

4. Giving a limited amount of power to the central government and allowing each state to keep the majority of laws and powers was what?
(a) The basis of the revised document.
(b) The basis for a centralized government.
(c) The basis of the initial document.
(d) The basis of a socialist document.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it stipulate in Amendment 9?

2. The arrest, confiscation, or taking one's belongings best describes what term?

3. What does to speak or write in favor of mean?

4. The President is afforded the ability to set up a Cabinet of advisers including how many members?

5. The amount of money put up by arrested individuals to ensure their return at the time of their trial is generally set how?

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