US Constitution

1. 1What do the amendments say? 1st: Freedom of [blank_start]speech[blank_end], religion, assembly and press, 2nd: Right to [blank_start]keep and bear arms[blank_end], 4th + 5th: Rights of [blank_start]accused persons,[blank_end] 8th: Cruel and unusual [blank_start]punishment[blank_end] and 10th: Rights reserved to the states and the [blank_start]people.[blank_end]

   1. Aspeech
   2. Bkeep and bear arms
   3. Caccused persons,
   4. Dpunishment
   5. Epeople.
2. 2How can constitutional amendments be passed?

   1. AProposed by: 2/3rd majority in Congress, or a National Constitutional convention called by at least two thirds of the states.
   2. BRatified by: 3/4s of state legislatures or 3/4s of the states holding a constitutional convention.
   3. CProposed by only a 2/3rd majority in the Senate.
   4. DRatified by: Constitutional convention
3. 3The constitution is difficult to amend because: the founding fathers made it deliberately [blank_start]difficult[blank_end], [blank_start]vagueness[blank_end] of document allows it to evolve without [blank_start]formal[blank_end] amendment, [blank_start]judicial[blank_end] review and politicians do not want to amend for [blank_start]moral[blank_end] development.

   1. Adifficult
   2. Bvagueness
   3. Cformal
   4. Djudicial
   5. Emoral
4. 4What are the concurrent powers of states and the federal Government?

   1. ARun elections
   2. BTax
   3. CBorrow money
   4. DEnforce laws
   5. EAdminister a judiciary
   6. FNegotiate treaties
   7. GCoin money
5. 5Fundamental law is law determining the fundamental [blank_start]political principles[blank_end] of Government - the US [blank_start]constitution[blank_end] provides the [blank_start]framework[blank_end] for Government and everything must comply with its principles and rules.

   1. Apolitical principles
   2. Bconstitution
   3. Cframework
6. 6The [blank_start]10th[blank_end] amendment protects the 'reserved' powers of the states. It explains variations in state law, with state governments making decisions to suit [blank_start]local conditions[blank_end], occasionally leading to [blank_start]controversies[blank_end] between federal and state government (e.g. over the issue of civil rights in the South in the 1950s and 1960s).

   1. A10th
   2. Blocal conditions
   3. Ccontroversies
7. 7Federalism is a principle relating to the division of power between the federal and state Governments - the framers sought a balance between a strong central government and the power of the previously independent states.

   1. ATrue
   2. BFalse

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A-Level Politics (U.S Government:) Quiz on US Constitution , created by Phoebe Starbuck on 17/04/2016.

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