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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 can make laws that do what to citizens of the U.S.?
(a) Take away or restrict any rights, privileges, protections.
(b) Impose stiffer penalties for state crimes than those for similar federal.
(c) Impose lesser penalties for state crimes than those for similar federal.
(d) Exceed any rights, privileges, protections.

2. Under Amendment 14, Section 5 (1868) Congress was given the power to enforce this amendment in what manner?
(a) Executive order.
(b) Appropriate legislation.
(c) Judicial decree.
(d) Congressional decree.

3. 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?
(a) Arizona, Utah.
(b) New Mexico, Nevada.
(c) North Dakota, Nevada.
(d) New Mexico, North Dakota.

4. The U.S. is a group of individual states that afford certain specific duties and responsibilities to which government?
(a) Independent.
(b) State.
(c) Central.
(d) United.

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?
(a) "Congressional Record".
(b) "Congressional Journal".
(c) "Legislative Journal".
(d) "Washington Post".

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the Constitution go into effect?

2. Some say the American government is one in which elected officials act on behalf of the people, or what Cullop says is the definition of what?

3. 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?

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

5. Elections give all citizens the opportunity to make their voices known, and to choose the official that would do what?

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