Question 1
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What is the supreme law of the land?
Answer:
The Constitution
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Question 2
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What does the Constitution do?
Answer:
Sets up the government.
Defines the government.
Protects basic rights of Americans.
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Question 3
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The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
Answer:
We the People
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Question 4
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What is an amendment?
Answer:
A change (to the Constitution).
An addition (to the Constitution).
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Question 5
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What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Answer:
the Bill of Rights
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Question 6
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What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Answer:
Speech. Religion. Assembly. Press. Petition the government.
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Question 7
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How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Answer:
twenty-seven (27)
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Question 8
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What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Answer:
announced our independence (from Great Britain).
declared our independence (from Great Britain).
said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)
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Question 9
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What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
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Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness.
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Question 10
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What is freedom of religion?
Answer:
You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
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Question 11
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What is the economic system in the United States?
Answer:
Capitalist economy. Market economy.
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Question 12
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What is the "rule of law"?
Answer:
Everyone must follow the law.
Leaders must obey the law.
Government must obey the law.
No one is above the law.