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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 does Amendment 12 (1804) also address the importance of?
(a) Electoral vote.
(b) Congressional vote.
(c) Secret ballot.
(d) Free vote.

2. Amendment 1 addresses which of the following five freedoms?
(a) Congress cannot prevent appointment of Supreme Court justices.
(b) Congress cannot prevent peaceful assembly.
(c) Congress cannot prevent or inhibit legally sanctioned elections.
(d) Congress cannot prevent riotous assembly.

3. The President is afforded the ability to set up a Cabinet of advisers including how many members?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 13.
(d) 18.

4. The Constitution could not be put into effect until it had been ratified by three fourths of the states, or how many of the original states?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 13.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To be a member of the House of Representatives for any state having more than two representatives, the individual must live in the district within the state he or she represents, except for which two states?

2. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates anyone born in the U.S. and governed by it is what type of citizen?

3. Which freedom is included in Amendment 1?

4. What type of democracy is one in which the people elect officials in order to represent them in all aspects of government?

5. What type of democracy is that in which the people handle government matters on their own behalf?

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