Florida Civic Literacy Test Questions with answers

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What is the supreme law of the land - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔▪The constitution
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What does the constitution do? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔▪ sets up the government
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▪ defines the government
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▪ protects basic rights of Americans
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The idea of self-government is in the first three words of
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the Constitution. What are these words? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔▪ We the people |\ |\ |\ |\




What is an amendment? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔▪ a
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change (to the Constitution) |\ |\ |\




▪ an addition (to the Constitution)
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What do we call the first ten amendments to the
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Constitution? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔▪ The Bill of Rights |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\

,What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?*
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- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔▪ Speech
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▪ Religion
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▪ Assembly
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▪Press
▪ Petition the government
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How many amendments does the Constitution have? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔▪ twenty-seven (27) |\ |\ |\ |\




What did the Declaration of Independence do? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔▪ announced our independence (from
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Great Britain) |\




▪ declared our independence (from Great Britain)
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▪ said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)
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What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔▪ life
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▪ liberty
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▪ pursuit of happiness
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What is freedom of religion? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔▪
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You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
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, What is the economic system in the United States?* -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔▪ capitalist economy
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▪ market economy
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What is the "rule of law"? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔▪
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Everyone must follow the law |\ |\ |\ |\




▪ Leaders must obey the law
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▪ Government must obey the law
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▪ No one is above the law
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Name one branch or part of the government.* - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔▪ Congress |\ |\




▪ legislative
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▪ President
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▪ executive
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▪ the courts
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▪ judicial
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What stops one branch of government from becoming too
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powerful? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔▪ checks and
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balances
▪ separation of powers
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