Citizenship Test first 50
questions with solutions
What is the supreme law of the Constitution
the land?
Practice questions for this set
Terms in this set (50)
What does the sets up the government
Constitution do?
The idea of selfgovernment We the People
is in the first three words
of the Constitution. What
are these words?
What is an amendment a change to the Constitution
What do we call the first the Bill of Rights
ten amendments to the
Constitution?
What is one right or speech, religion, assembly, press, petition the government
freedom from the First
Amendment?
How many amendments twenty-seven (27)
does the Constitution
have?
What did the Declaration of announced our independence from Great Britain
Independence do?
, What are two rights in the life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
Declaration of
Independence?
What is freedom of religion? You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
What is the economic capitalist economy
system in the United
States?
What is the "rule of law"? Everyone must follow the law. No one is above the law.
Congress--legislative
Name one branch or part of
President--executive
the government.
Courts--judicial
What stops one branch of checks and balances separation of
government from becoming powers
too powerful??
Who is in charge of the the President
executive branch?
Who makes federal laws? Congress (Senate and House of Representatives).
What are two parts of the the Senate
U.S. Congress? the House of Representatives
How many U.S. Senators are one hundred (100)
there?
We elect a U.S. Senator for six (6)
how many years?
Who is one of your state's (answers will vary)
U.S. Senators?
The House of four hundred thirty-five (435)
Representative has how
many voting members?
questions with solutions
What is the supreme law of the Constitution
the land?
Practice questions for this set
Terms in this set (50)
What does the sets up the government
Constitution do?
The idea of selfgovernment We the People
is in the first three words
of the Constitution. What
are these words?
What is an amendment a change to the Constitution
What do we call the first the Bill of Rights
ten amendments to the
Constitution?
What is one right or speech, religion, assembly, press, petition the government
freedom from the First
Amendment?
How many amendments twenty-seven (27)
does the Constitution
have?
What did the Declaration of announced our independence from Great Britain
Independence do?
, What are two rights in the life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
Declaration of
Independence?
What is freedom of religion? You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
What is the economic capitalist economy
system in the United
States?
What is the "rule of law"? Everyone must follow the law. No one is above the law.
Congress--legislative
Name one branch or part of
President--executive
the government.
Courts--judicial
What stops one branch of checks and balances separation of
government from becoming powers
too powerful??
Who is in charge of the the President
executive branch?
Who makes federal laws? Congress (Senate and House of Representatives).
What are two parts of the the Senate
U.S. Congress? the House of Representatives
How many U.S. Senators are one hundred (100)
there?
We elect a U.S. Senator for six (6)
how many years?
Who is one of your state's (answers will vary)
U.S. Senators?
The House of four hundred thirty-five (435)
Representative has how
many voting members?
