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