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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 15, Section 2 (1870) stipulate?
(a) Judicial oversight to ensure compliance.
(b) How the Congress may enforce Amendment 15.
(c) Who is accountable if those granted the right to vote are denied.
(d) Limits on electorate if those granted the right to vote are denied.

2. What do the states that make up the U.S. constitute?
(a) A symposium.
(b) A confederation.
(c) A community.
(d) A federation.

3. Together the group in Philadelphia constructed the Constitution requiring a federal government comprised of which three branches?
(a) Executive, legislative, and judicial.
(b) Democratic, Republican, and Independent.
(c) President, Senate, and House of Representatives.
(d) Democratic, Republican, and Whig.

4. No citizen shall be forced to supply room and board to soldiers except in the time of war, and even then it is only acceptable when what?
(a) Congress has declared war by majority rule.
(b) Congress passes a law to this effect.
(c) Supreme Court approves.
(d) States pass a law to this effect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a written court order allowing the arrest, search, and seizure of certain persons or certain property?

2. To supply room and board means to what?

3. What is known as congressional immunity protects all members from being arrested while attending a session of their house, or while going to or from it, except for what?

4. Cullop states the government in the U.S. is referred to by many different names, but by which two most frequently?

5. Amendment 12 (1804) changes a part of Article 2, Section 1, and outlines the process by which individuals to which offices are elected?

(see the answer key)

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