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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What length of term do members of the Senate serve?

3. Some say the American government is one in which elected officials act on behalf of the people, or what Cullop says is the definition of what?

4. The President is charged with ensuring what?

5. The federal government is based on the concept that it should benefit the majority, which means what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the framers provide for in Article II?

2. How is the main body of the Constitution of the U.S. divided?

3. What is the subject Article VI arranges for?

4. What is necessary to convict a person of treason?

5. Over what types of cases do federal courts have jurisdiction?

6. What does Article IV spell out?

7. In what manner may the President request to be replaced by an acting President?

8. What do the founding fathers lay out in Article V?

9. What does Amendment 13 address?

10. Amendment 3 affords civilians what protection?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the Great Compromise? What issues did it stem from?

Essay Topic 2

What are the six reasons identified in the Preamble for writing the Constitution? What is meant by each of these?

Essay Topic 3

What are reasons that the Constitution of the U.S. is the oldest living written constitution in the world?

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