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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Article III covers the judicial branch and includes how many sections?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.
2. Under the Articles of Confederation, there would be what?
(a) A central power, executive, and judiciary.
(b) A central power, but no executive or judiciary.
(c) No central power, executive, or judiciary.
(d) A central power and executive, but no judiciary.
3. When Cullop states the U.S. has a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," whom is he quoting?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.
4. What is one check on the Congress held by the President?
(a) May veto bills of Congress with Supreme Court majority approval.
(b) May withhold information from Congress.
(c) May appoint Supreme Court justices for 10-year terms.
(d) May adjourn Congress at will.
5. The government under the Articles of Confederation would be supervised by an assembly of people called a Congress, restricted in what fashion?
(a) Could not impose laws, or raise an army.
(b) Could not impose laws, or introduce taxes.
(c) Could not raise an army, or introduce taxes.
(d) Could not impose laws, raise an army, or introduce taxes.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one check on the Supreme Court held by the Congress?
2. Article V addresses amending the Constitution in which two steps?
3. Some say the government of the U.S. is one in which the people are responsible for self-governing, or what Cullop calls what?
4. The main body of the Constitution is separated into how many blocks, known as Articles?
5. The return of a fugitive by one authority to another is the definition of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the final three sections of Article I delineate?
2. What authority does Amendment 16 grant the federal government?
3. How is it that the U.S. government is seen to operate in the best interests of its citizens?
4. Why did the founding fathers replace the Articles of Confederation?
5. What is the reason this book's author believes there have been only 27 amendments to the Constitution in over 200 years?
6. What was the first plan for national government in the U.S.?
7. Do Americans live in a democracy or a republic?
8. Why does the author believe everyone living in the United States should study the Constitution?
9. What is addressed in the first five sections of the longest article of the Constitution, Article I?
10. What does Amendment 23 lay out?
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