FCLE EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
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◉ What is the "rule of law?"
Answer: No one is above the law.
◉ First Amendment
Answer: 5 freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly, petition
◉ What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Answer: the bill of rights
◉ What is the supreme law of the land?
Answer: U.S. Constitution
◉ What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Answer: checks and balance/ Separation of powers
◉ Judicial Branch
Answer: Interprets the laws
◉ Legislative Branch
Answer: Makes laws
, ◉ Executive Branch
Answer: Enforces laws
◉ Who does a U.S.senator represent?
Answer: all people of the state they serve
◉ What powers belong to the state?
Answer: Provide schooling and education
Provide protection (police)
Provide safety (fire departments)
Give a driver's license
Approve zoning and land use
◉ What is one power of the federal government?
Answer: To print money
To declare war
To create an army
To make treaties
◉ Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Administration (1988)
Answer: ruled that you cannot stop public programs that don't prohibit
the exercise of religion. (first amendment)
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
PASS
◉ What is the "rule of law?"
Answer: No one is above the law.
◉ First Amendment
Answer: 5 freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly, petition
◉ What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Answer: the bill of rights
◉ What is the supreme law of the land?
Answer: U.S. Constitution
◉ What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Answer: checks and balance/ Separation of powers
◉ Judicial Branch
Answer: Interprets the laws
◉ Legislative Branch
Answer: Makes laws
, ◉ Executive Branch
Answer: Enforces laws
◉ Who does a U.S.senator represent?
Answer: all people of the state they serve
◉ What powers belong to the state?
Answer: Provide schooling and education
Provide protection (police)
Provide safety (fire departments)
Give a driver's license
Approve zoning and land use
◉ What is one power of the federal government?
Answer: To print money
To declare war
To create an army
To make treaties
◉ Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Administration (1988)
Answer: ruled that you cannot stop public programs that don't prohibit
the exercise of religion. (first amendment)
