Government Exam
According to the constitution, a senator must be at least...
30 years old and a citizen for nine years
the vice president must be...
35 years old and a natural born citizen
According to the constitution, the president must be at least...
35 years old and natural born citizen
The president is elected for a term of...
4 years
Which of the following is not true...
Every state has at least two representatives
If the governor of one state asks another state to return a person accused for committing a crime, the process is called...
Extradition
Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the...
First amendment
the president of the constitutional convention was...
George Washington
the 20th amendment says the presidents term of office begins on...
January 20th
the first written constitution in America was the...
Mayflower Compact
Americans have unnamed rights guaranteed by the...
Ninth Amendment
The first representative assembly in America was the....
The house of burgesses
All bills to raise money must be proposed by ....
The house of representatives
The responsibility for impeaching someone lies with...
The house of representatives
The person who did most of the work on the declaration of independence was...
Thomas Jefferson
The united states government is divided into...
Three brances
To accuse an official of the executive or judicial branches of some wrongdoing or misuse of power is...
To impeach
The only crime defined in the constitution is...
Treason
To convict an official who has been impeached, the vote must be...
Two thirds
The sixteenth amendment provides for...
a federal income tax
Several states refused to ratify the constitution unless...
a list of rights protecting liberties was added
a persons property usually cannot be searched without...
a search warrant
Congress can override the Presidents veto by...
a two thirds vote in both houses of congress
The elastic clause...
allows congress to make laws that are necessary in carrying out its expressed powers
when no one is holding office of vice president, the president...
appoints someone to the job
In the original system for counting the population, each slave was counted...
as three-fifths of a person
if the president dies, the vice president...
becomes president
Double jeopardy is...
being tried twice for the same crime
the fifteenth amendment gave the right to vote to...
black men
which two ways can a proposed amendment be ratified....
by a three fourths vote of the states legislatures and by special conventions in three fourths of states
The eleventh amendment says that citizens of one state...
cannot sue another state in federal court
Unless otherwise specified in the Constitution, the offices in the Senate and House are...
elected by the members of each house
The constitution requires that a census be taken...
every 10 years
The system of government in which power is divided between the central and state governments is called...
federalism
A person has the right to criticize the federal government according to the...
first amendment
The people are guaranteed the right to petition the government to make changes in policy according to the...
first amendment
Prohibition is the term for...
forbidding sale of alcohol
citizenship is defined in the...
fourteenth amendment
the requirements that the states follow due process is part of the...
fourteenth amendment
19th amendment...
gave women the right to vote
With the consent of the congress, the states can do all of the following except...
grant letters of marque
residents of Washington D.C....
have three votes in congress
Congress is the...
legislative branch
The chief justice is appointed for a term of...
life
Article 6...
makes the constitution the supreme law of the land
The president and vice president must...
meet the same constitutional qualifications
To become the plan for government for the United States, the Constitution had to be ratified by...
nine states
According to the constitution, the chief justice must be at least...
none
The convention was called to...
revise the articles of confederation
The sixth amendment guarantees all of the following except...
right to a grand jury hearing
Trial by jury is assured by the...
seventh amendment
A united states senator is elected for a term of...
six years
a search warrant must state...
what is being looked for and where the search will talk place
in the united states, the age at which one can vote is...
18
No law or amendment ending slave trade could be passed before....
1808
The only amendment to be repealed is the...
18th amendment
Requiring anyone to pay a tax in order to vote is forbidden by the...
24th amendment
slavery in the united states was abolished by the...
Thirteenth amendment
The president shows disapproval of a bill by...
vetoing it
According to the constitution, a representative must be at least...
25 years old and a citizen for seven years
When was the Constitution written?
1787
the right of the supreme court to hear cases being appealed form a lower court is called...
Appellate jurisdiction
When the power of one branch of government is blocked by the power of another branch of government, this is the concept of...
Checks and Balances
The law making body of England is....
Parliment
The constitution was written at a convention in...
Philedelphia
The job the president fills that is not described in the constitution is...
Political party leader
The idea that the powers of government is blocked by the power of another branch of government, this is the concept of...
Separation of powers
The government of the United States in 1786 was organized around the...
States
The states are assured some rights by the...
Tenth amendment
Amendment 5 guarantees all of the following except...
That excessive bail will not be required
the decision to have two houses of congress, with one house of representation based on population and the others based on equal representation of each state was called...
The Great Compromise
The president of the senate is...
The Vice president
The plan of the government that favored the large states was...
The Virginia plan
The plan of government used before the Constitution went into effect was...
The articles of confederation
The president is elected by...
The electoral college
The supreme court is part of...
The judicial branch
Justices of the supreme court are appointed by...
The president
The power to make treaties is held by...
The president
The district of Columbia is governed by...
The senate
The responsibility for trying an impeached official lies with...
The senate
The presiding officer in the house of representative is...
The speaker
Originally, senators were chosen by...
The state legislatures
Cases involving ambassadors are tried in...
The supreme court
The plan of government that favored the small states was...
the New jersey plan
if the president is disabled, who must approve the vice president becoming acting president?....
the cabinet and the congress
The power to decide how territories are governed belongs to...
the congress
The president is the head of...
the executive branch
the bill of rights includes...
the first 10 amenments
The group that decides whether there is enough evidence for a case to be tried is...
the grand jury
The group that decides whether a person is guilty or not is...
the petit jury
The head of the countrys armed forces is...
the president
When the presiding officer of the senate is away, the person who presides is...
the president pro tempore
The electoral college selects...
the vice president
people have the right not to be forced to quarter soldiers in their homes according to the...
third amendment
The president is limited to...
two full terms in office
A united states representative is elected for a term of...
two years
