CIVIC LITERACY 2026 EXAMINERS SET QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Which phrase from a letter written by Sarah Grimké in 1837 is reflected in the
Fourteenth Amendment? - ✔✔"I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to
equality."
✔✔Which of the following pairs of cases impacted First Amendment rights? - ✔✔Texas
v. Johnson (1989) and Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988).
✔✔What is one responsibility of only U.S. citizens? - ✔✔Serving on a jury.
✔✔Which point of view is reflected in Common Sense? - ✔✔Representatives should be
elected.
✔✔What are two natural rights identified in the Declaration of Independence? - ✔✔Life
and liberty.
✔✔Which of the following documents provided a rationale for the Declaration of
Independence? - ✔✔Common Sense.
, ✔✔Which of the following cases impacted Fourth Amendment protections at the state
level? - ✔✔Mapp v. Ohio (1961).
✔✔Which phrase from a letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams in
1776 is reflected in the Nineteenth Amendment? - ✔✔"I desire you would Remember
the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them".
✔✔Which of the following was established by a constitutional amendment? - ✔✔The
President may serve no more than two elected terms.
✔✔What are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution called? - ✔✔The Bill of
Rights.
✔✔Which Supreme Court ruling held that the authors of the U.S. Constitution did not
intend for African Americans to be U.S. citizens? - ✔✔Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857).
✔✔Which phrase from a letter written by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 reflects a
freedom in the Bill of Rights? - ✔✔"building a wall of separation between Church &
State"
✔✔Which of the following cases impacted interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment?
- ✔✔Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
✔✔Which of the following represents the goal of the Supremacy Clause? - ✔✔States
may not pass laws that conflict with federal laws.
✔✔Which structure found in the U.S. Constitution was included as a response to a
concern expressed in the Declaration of Independence? - ✔✔Separation of powers.
✔✔Which is a core theme of the Anti-Federalist Papers? - ✔✔Government should
support enumerated individual rights.
✔✔Why does Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution require that tax bills be
introduced in the House of Representatives? - ✔✔Because the original English
colonists were taxed without their consent.
✔✔What is a purpose of civil rights movements? - ✔✔To secure equalities.
✔✔Which phrase in the U.S. Constitution addresses the power to seize property? -
✔✔Eminent domain.
✔✔What is the purpose of the Seventeenth Amendment? - ✔✔To promote democratic
participation.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Which phrase from a letter written by Sarah Grimké in 1837 is reflected in the
Fourteenth Amendment? - ✔✔"I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to
equality."
✔✔Which of the following pairs of cases impacted First Amendment rights? - ✔✔Texas
v. Johnson (1989) and Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988).
✔✔What is one responsibility of only U.S. citizens? - ✔✔Serving on a jury.
✔✔Which point of view is reflected in Common Sense? - ✔✔Representatives should be
elected.
✔✔What are two natural rights identified in the Declaration of Independence? - ✔✔Life
and liberty.
✔✔Which of the following documents provided a rationale for the Declaration of
Independence? - ✔✔Common Sense.
, ✔✔Which of the following cases impacted Fourth Amendment protections at the state
level? - ✔✔Mapp v. Ohio (1961).
✔✔Which phrase from a letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams in
1776 is reflected in the Nineteenth Amendment? - ✔✔"I desire you would Remember
the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them".
✔✔Which of the following was established by a constitutional amendment? - ✔✔The
President may serve no more than two elected terms.
✔✔What are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution called? - ✔✔The Bill of
Rights.
✔✔Which Supreme Court ruling held that the authors of the U.S. Constitution did not
intend for African Americans to be U.S. citizens? - ✔✔Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857).
✔✔Which phrase from a letter written by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 reflects a
freedom in the Bill of Rights? - ✔✔"building a wall of separation between Church &
State"
✔✔Which of the following cases impacted interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment?
- ✔✔Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
✔✔Which of the following represents the goal of the Supremacy Clause? - ✔✔States
may not pass laws that conflict with federal laws.
✔✔Which structure found in the U.S. Constitution was included as a response to a
concern expressed in the Declaration of Independence? - ✔✔Separation of powers.
✔✔Which is a core theme of the Anti-Federalist Papers? - ✔✔Government should
support enumerated individual rights.
✔✔Why does Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution require that tax bills be
introduced in the House of Representatives? - ✔✔Because the original English
colonists were taxed without their consent.
✔✔What is a purpose of civil rights movements? - ✔✔To secure equalities.
✔✔Which phrase in the U.S. Constitution addresses the power to seize property? -
✔✔Eminent domain.
✔✔What is the purpose of the Seventeenth Amendment? - ✔✔To promote democratic
participation.
