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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: The Constitution of the United States, Part VI: Know Your Q's and A's.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state can make laws that do what to citizens of the U.S.?
(a) Impose stiffer penalties for state crimes than those for similar federal.
(b) Take away or restrict any rights, privileges, protections.
(c) Exceed any rights, privileges, protections.
(d) Impose lesser penalties for state crimes than those for similar federal.

2. Common law refers to which term?
(a) Civil law.
(b) Religious affairs.
(c) Criminal law.
(d) Military law.

3. The warrant for a search requires what written in it?
(a) Who will be conducting the search.
(b) When search is to be conducted.
(c) Justification for expecting specific items to be found.
(d) Exact method and items to be seized.

4. Which amendment addresses Congress's inability to prohibit citizens from worshiping how and when they please?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. The President has the power to appoint ambassadors with the approval of what group?
(a) Supreme Court.
(b) Senate.
(c) House of Representatives.
(d) Congress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one check on the President held by the Congress?

2. Cullop states the government in the U.S. is referred to by many different names, but by which two most frequently?

3. The Constitution stipulates senators must have been a U.S. citizen a minimum of 9 years, live in the state they represent, and what minimum age?

4. What form of government is defined as representative?

5. Amendment 20, Section 1 (1933) stipulates the terms of senators and representatives end at noon on which dates of the year such terms end respectively?

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