FCLE EXAM FLORIDA CIVIC LITERACY [2026] | UPDATED
ACTUAL | 100% CORRECT ANSWERS | DETAILED
SOLUTIONS | COMPLETE STUDY REVIEW
• What is the economic system in the United States? -✓✓ANSWER: capitalist
economy, market economy
• 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)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) -✓✓ANSWER: Not all
corporations act the same way, so the government's need to control corruption
does not outweigh the right to free speech.
• In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -✓✓ANSWER: The Supreme Court concluded
that the U.S. Congress lacked the constitutional authority to bar slavery in the
territories. This decision narrowed the scope of national power, while it enhanced
that of the states.
ACTUAL | 100% CORRECT ANSWERS | DETAILED
SOLUTIONS | COMPLETE STUDY REVIEW
• What is the economic system in the United States? -✓✓ANSWER: capitalist
economy, market economy
• 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)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) -✓✓ANSWER: Not all
corporations act the same way, so the government's need to control corruption
does not outweigh the right to free speech.
• In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -✓✓ANSWER: The Supreme Court concluded
that the U.S. Congress lacked the constitutional authority to bar slavery in the
territories. This decision narrowed the scope of national power, while it enhanced
that of the states.
