(2025) – 117 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
Part 1: Principles of American Government
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 or 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: Speech, religion, assembly, press, or petition the government.
7. How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Answer: Twenty-seven (27)
8. What did the Declaration of Independence do?
, Answer: Announced/declared our independence from Great Britain.
9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Life, liberty, or the 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 or market economy.
12. What is the "rule of law"?