Unit 2 government test prep

The Bill of Rights are made up of amendments?

10 amendments

In what year did 39 delegates sign the Constitution?

1787

Check the one thing that is true about a state's public safety service.

A hospital would be included in the public safety service.

Which amendment includes the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right of the people to peaceably assemble?

Amendment 1

Which amendment prevents excessive bail or fines, or cruel and unusual punishments to the individual?

Amendment 8

This amendment tells us that the presence of the list of freedoms doesn't mean "if it's not written here, you don't have the right." Americans have other freedoms than those in the Bill of Rights.

Amendment 9

Check the one thing that is NOT true about the Electoral College.

The state of Pennsylvania oversees the inner workings of the Electoral College.

Who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson,Benjamin Franklin,Charles Thomson,John Hancock

When you delegate someone to do something, you authorize them to do it.

True

means the power of making laws and enforcing them.

Jurisdiction

What do we call the Constitutional amendments that protect the rights of the individual?

Bill of Rights

What Virginia delegate was one of the most powerful influences on the writing of the Constitution?

George Mason

the work of the Constitution?

It deals with establishing copyrights for inventors. It lays out the general method for electing a President.

Which state responsibility protects Arizona's Indian Reservation treaties?

Jurisdiction

Select all the boxes that do NOT apply to the Fourth Amendment.

Soldiers may not be improperly quartered in a citizen's home.School shall not be mandatory for children under the age of fifteen.

In 1962 the Supreme Court took a stand of neutrality towards:

a prayer requirement in public schools.

The number of the Constitutional Amendment giving the states freedoms and control is Amendment number

amendment 10

State licensing involves:

awyers auto registration real estate brokers dental practices marriages

The First Amendment also gives the citizen the right to "petition the government for a redress of grievances." Redress means

correcting a wrong that was done

The Second Amendment gives the citizen the right to:

keep and bear arms

Amendment Nine talks about the enumeration of rights. Enumeration means a

list

The government is not allowed to harass or annoy a church in their worship. To harass or annoy is to

persecute