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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. Which is among the rights of an individual accused of crime?
(a) A judge of their choosing to ensure impartiality.
(b) Any counsel of their choosing will be provided free of charge.
(c) To hear the testimony of witnesses.
(d) A jury of their choosing to ensure impartiality.

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

3. The Constitution would also call for what to ensure the branches would have equal power?
(a) A system of equal balances.
(b) A system of checks and balances.
(c) A system of balanced measures.
(d) A system of weights and balances.

4. Drafting the Constitution was a difficult task, and there had to be how many main compromises in order to arrive at a final decision?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. Amendment 13, Section 2 (1865) stipulates Congress has the power to enforce this article by what means?
(a) Judicial decree.
(b) Appropriate legislation.
(c) Executive order.
(d) Congressional order.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is among the freedoms in Amendment 1?

2. Section 10 of Article I covers power that are denied to whom?

3. Which amendment is often referred to as the right to have a fair and speedy trial?

4. Amendment 18 was repealed in what year, ending the period encompassing the 1920s known as Prohibition?

5. Each house of Congress keeps a journal of what it does day to day, and each morning Congress is in session these are published where?

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