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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a court-martial?

2. 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?

3. If force is necessary to see that a U.S. law is carried out, the Congress has the power to add what to the U.S. military forces?

4. Section 1 of Article I outlines that Congress is comprised of how many bodies of delegates from each state?

5. The U.S. government is currently located where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Sections 6 and 7 of Article I cover?

2. Amendment 15 deals with what issue?

3. What was the first plan for national government in the U.S.?

4. How does the federal government get the power it has?

5. What does Article IV spell out?

6. What right does Amendment 19 afford?

7. What does Amendment 9 arrange for?

8. What do the founding fathers lay out in Article V?

9. What does Amendment 22 spell out?

10. Over what types of cases do federal courts have jurisdiction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What article does Amendment 11 (1798) change? Why is this amendment significant?

Essay Topic 2

What are the duties of the President?

Essay Topic 3

What is the Great Compromise? What issues did it stem from?

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