ARIZONA CIVICS EXAM REVIEW
1. What is the supreme law of the land?
Answer the Constitution
2. What does the Constitution do?
Answer sets up the government, defines the government, protects basic rights of Americans
3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the constitution. What are these
words?
Answer We the People
4. What is an amendment?
Answer a change (to the Constitution), or an addition (to the Constitution)
5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Answer the Bill of Rights
6. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Answer Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom to petition the
government
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,7. How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Answer 27
8. What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Answer declared our independence (from Great Britain)
9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Answer life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
10. What is freedom of religion?
Answer You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
11. What is the economic system in the United States?
Answer capitalist economy, market economy
12. What is the "rule of law"?
Answer Everyone must follow the law. Leaders must obey the law. Government must obey the law.
No one is above the law.
13. Name one branch or part of the government.
Answer Legislative Branch (Congress) Executive Branch (President)
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, Judicial Branch (court system, Supreme Court)
14. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Answer checks and balances, or separation of powers
15. Who is in charge of the executive branch?
Answer President of the United States
16. Who makes federal laws?
Answer Congress or Senate and House of Representatives
17. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
Answer Senate and House of Representatives
18. How many U.S. Senators are there?
Answer 100
19. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
Answer 6
20. Who is one of your state's U.S. Senators now?
Answer Mark Kelly or Ruben Gallego
21. The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
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1. What is the supreme law of the land?
Answer the Constitution
2. What does the Constitution do?
Answer sets up the government, defines the government, protects basic rights of Americans
3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the constitution. What are these
words?
Answer We the People
4. What is an amendment?
Answer a change (to the Constitution), or an addition (to the Constitution)
5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Answer the Bill of Rights
6. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Answer Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom to petition the
government
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,7. How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Answer 27
8. What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Answer declared our independence (from Great Britain)
9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Answer life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
10. What is freedom of religion?
Answer You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
11. What is the economic system in the United States?
Answer capitalist economy, market economy
12. What is the "rule of law"?
Answer Everyone must follow the law. Leaders must obey the law. Government must obey the law.
No one is above the law.
13. Name one branch or part of the government.
Answer Legislative Branch (Congress) Executive Branch (President)
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, Judicial Branch (court system, Supreme Court)
14. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Answer checks and balances, or separation of powers
15. Who is in charge of the executive branch?
Answer President of the United States
16. Who makes federal laws?
Answer Congress or Senate and House of Representatives
17. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
Answer Senate and House of Representatives
18. How many U.S. Senators are there?
Answer 100
19. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
Answer 6
20. Who is one of your state's U.S. Senators now?
Answer Mark Kelly or Ruben Gallego
21. The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
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