CIVIC LITERACY EVALUATION 2026 TEST ALL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Amendment 5 - ✔✔Amendment that lists the rules for indictment by grand jury, and
eminent domain. Protects the right to due process. Prohibits self-incrimination and
double jeopardy
✔✔Amendment 6 - ✔✔Amendment that protects the right to a fair and speedy trial.
Gives you the right to be notified of accusations, confront the accuser, and obtain a
witness for or against you
✔✔Amendment 7 - ✔✔Amendment that provides the right to trial by jury in civil cases
✔✔Amendment 8 - ✔✔Amendment that prohibits cruel & unusual punishment
✔✔Two-Party System - ✔✔An electoral system with two dominant parties that compete
in national elections. Our two major parties are the Republicans and the Democrats.
✔✔Amendment 21 - ✔✔Amendment that repeals the 18th Amendment; empowered
Congress to regulate liquior industries
✔✔Amendment 22 - ✔✔Amendment that limits the Presidnet to two full terms in office
, ✔✔Amendment 23 - ✔✔Granted voters in the District of Columbia the right to vote for
president and vice president
✔✔Amendment 24 - ✔✔Amendment that forbade requiring the payment of a poll tax to
vote in a federal election
✔✔Amendment 25 - ✔✔Amendment that provided for succession to the office of
president in the event of death or incapicity and for filling vacancies in the office of the
vice president
✔✔Amendment 26 - ✔✔Amendment that guaranteed the right to vote to 18 year olds
✔✔Amendment 27 - ✔✔Amendment that banned Congress form increasing its
members' salaries until the next election
✔✔Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 - ✔✔Supreme Court case that ruled separate but equal
public accommodations for the races was constitutional
✔✔Civic Duty - ✔✔A belief that one has an obligation to participate in civic and political
affairs.
✔✔Civic Responsibility - ✔✔the responsibilities of a citizen, examples include voting,
serving on juries, holding public office
✔✔Supremacy Clause - ✔✔clause of the Constitution that says the Constittution is the
highest law of the land. Article 6, Clause 2
✔✔concurrent powers - ✔✔powers shared by the state and federal government
Ex: power to tax citizens
✔✔delegated powers - ✔✔powers specifically stated in Article 1, Section 8 of the
Constitution as being granted to Congress
Ex: power to establish post offices, power to regulate commerce
✔✔Elastic Clause (Necessary and Proper Clause) - ✔✔clause in Article 1, Section 8 of
the Constitution that gives Congress the right to make all laws "necessary and proper"
to carry out powers not expressly stated but necessary; cited in the Supreme Court
landmark case McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
✔✔enumerated/expressed/delegated powers - ✔✔powers Congress has that are
specifically stated in the Constitution
Ex: power to coin money and set its value, power to declare war
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Amendment 5 - ✔✔Amendment that lists the rules for indictment by grand jury, and
eminent domain. Protects the right to due process. Prohibits self-incrimination and
double jeopardy
✔✔Amendment 6 - ✔✔Amendment that protects the right to a fair and speedy trial.
Gives you the right to be notified of accusations, confront the accuser, and obtain a
witness for or against you
✔✔Amendment 7 - ✔✔Amendment that provides the right to trial by jury in civil cases
✔✔Amendment 8 - ✔✔Amendment that prohibits cruel & unusual punishment
✔✔Two-Party System - ✔✔An electoral system with two dominant parties that compete
in national elections. Our two major parties are the Republicans and the Democrats.
✔✔Amendment 21 - ✔✔Amendment that repeals the 18th Amendment; empowered
Congress to regulate liquior industries
✔✔Amendment 22 - ✔✔Amendment that limits the Presidnet to two full terms in office
, ✔✔Amendment 23 - ✔✔Granted voters in the District of Columbia the right to vote for
president and vice president
✔✔Amendment 24 - ✔✔Amendment that forbade requiring the payment of a poll tax to
vote in a federal election
✔✔Amendment 25 - ✔✔Amendment that provided for succession to the office of
president in the event of death or incapicity and for filling vacancies in the office of the
vice president
✔✔Amendment 26 - ✔✔Amendment that guaranteed the right to vote to 18 year olds
✔✔Amendment 27 - ✔✔Amendment that banned Congress form increasing its
members' salaries until the next election
✔✔Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 - ✔✔Supreme Court case that ruled separate but equal
public accommodations for the races was constitutional
✔✔Civic Duty - ✔✔A belief that one has an obligation to participate in civic and political
affairs.
✔✔Civic Responsibility - ✔✔the responsibilities of a citizen, examples include voting,
serving on juries, holding public office
✔✔Supremacy Clause - ✔✔clause of the Constitution that says the Constittution is the
highest law of the land. Article 6, Clause 2
✔✔concurrent powers - ✔✔powers shared by the state and federal government
Ex: power to tax citizens
✔✔delegated powers - ✔✔powers specifically stated in Article 1, Section 8 of the
Constitution as being granted to Congress
Ex: power to establish post offices, power to regulate commerce
✔✔Elastic Clause (Necessary and Proper Clause) - ✔✔clause in Article 1, Section 8 of
the Constitution that gives Congress the right to make all laws "necessary and proper"
to carry out powers not expressly stated but necessary; cited in the Supreme Court
landmark case McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
✔✔enumerated/expressed/delegated powers - ✔✔powers Congress has that are
specifically stated in the Constitution
Ex: power to coin money and set its value, power to declare war
