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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. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state may deny any person, under its government, what?
(a) Right to be read "Miranda Warning" upon arrest.
(b) Right to be read "Miranda Warning" prior to questioning.
(c) Equal wages for equal labor.
(d) Equal protection of the law.

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

3. The President is charged with ensuring what?
(a) Seeing that the Supreme Court enforces the laws.
(b) Seeing that laws are enforced.
(c) Seeing that Congress enforces the laws.
(d) Seeing that laws are proposed to Congress, signed by Supreme Court.

4. Articles within the Constitution are further divided into categories called Sections for what purpose?
(a) Separate various ideas within the article.
(b) Separate various citizens within the article.
(c) Separate various laws within the article.
(d) Separate various states the article concerns.

5. Amendment 18 was repealed in what year, ending the period encompassing the 1920s known as Prohibition?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. Amendment 16 (1913) changes Article 1, Section 2, and declares that the government can collect taxes, regardless of a state's what?

2. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state can make laws that do what to citizens of the U.S.?

3. Which is among the freedoms in Amendment 1?

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

5. The President has the power to appoint ambassadors with the approval of what group?

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