Constitution of the United States - Quiz
A) The Roman Republic B) The Scottish Enlightenment C) The Glorious Revolution D) The French Revolution
A) David Hume B) Thomas Hobbes C) Montesquieu D) John Locke
A) 1688 B) 1823 C) 1778 D) 1760
A) They should control the judiciary B) They should receive no salary C) They must belong to the upper class D) They should be appointed for life
A) Wealthy merchants B) Foreign diplomats C) The nobility D) The lower class
A) John Locke B) David Hume C) Polybius D) Montesquieu
A) Benjamin Franklin B) Alexander Hamilton C) James Madison D) Thomas Hobbes
A) Federalist No. 78 B) The Spirit of Law C) Two Treatises of Government D) Federalist No. 47
A) To expand the nation's territory B) To enforce religious uniformity C) To accumulate wealth for the state D) To serve the people by protecting their rights
A) Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness B) Freedom of speech, press, and religion C) Equality, fraternity, and liberty D) Life, liberty, and property
A) Federalist No. 10 B) Federalist No. 47 C) Federalist No. 78 D) Federalist No. 51
A) Federalist No. 84 B) Federalist No. 10 C) Federalist No. 78 D) Federalist No. 47
A) Thomas Jefferson, Adams, and Mason B) Benjamin Franklin, Hobbes, and Hume C) Washington, Madison, and Franklin D) Locke, Hamilton, and Jay
A) A powerful central executive B) Balanced forces pushing against each other C) Absolute rule by the lower class D) Elimination of the legislative branch
A) Plato B) Cicero C) Aristotle D) Polybius
A) Two Treatises of Government B) The Social Contract C) The Spirit of Law D) Federalist Papers
A) Federal, state, and local B) Monarchical, aristocratic, and democratic C) Military, economic, and social D) Legislative, executive, and judicial
A) The even distribution of authority among the several branches B) To concentrate power in the executive branch C) To eliminate the need for elections D) To ensure judges create laws
A) Supreme Court Justices B) State Governors C) Members of Congress D) The President
A) United States v. Wood B) Myers v. United States C) Nixon v. Administrator of General Services D) Green v. Biddle
A) June 19, 1787 B) May 25, 1787 C) May 14, 1787 D) May 31, 1787
A) May 14, 1787 B) June 19, 1787 C) June 13, 1787 D) May 25, 1787
A) Virginia B) New Jersey C) Pennsylvania D) Rhode Island
A) 55 B) 74 C) 7 D) 12
A) 55 B) 74 C) 12 D) 7
A) Federalist No. 78 B) Large State Plan C) Council of Revision D) New Jersey Plan
A) The Articles of Confederation B) The Judicial Review Act C) The Virginia Plan D) The New Jersey Plan
A) Bicameral Congress with equal state representation B) Unicameral Congress elected on a proportional basis C) Unicameral Congress where all states had one vote D) Bicameral Congress elected on a proportional basis
A) Montesquieu B) Edward Coke C) John Locke D) William Blackstone
A) John Locke B) William Blackstone C) Edmund Burke D) Edward Coke
A) States that refused to participate B) States with unicameral legislatures C) The most highly populated states D) The less-populous states
A) A bicameral Congress elected on a proportional basis B) A council of revision C) A bicameral Congress with appointed members D) A unicameral Congress where all states had one vote
A) The most highly populated states B) States proposing a bicameral legislature C) States with large delegations D) The less-populous states
A) Montesquieu B) John Locke C) Edward Coke D) English Whigs such as Edmund Burke
A) John Locke B) William Blackstone C) Oliver Ellsworth D) Alexander Hamilton
A) May 31 B) May 25 C) June 19 D) June 13
A) June 19 B) June 13 C) May 31 D) May 14
A) June 13, 1787 B) May 25, 1787 C) June 19, 1787 D) May 31, 1787
A) One B) Three C) Seven D) Twelve
A) One B) Seven C) Twelve D) Three
A) Seven B) Twelve C) One D) Three
A) Wilson B) Hamilton C) Madison D) Marshall
A) Hamilton B) Ellsworth C) Burke D) Wilson
A) Pennsylvania B) Virginia C) Connecticut D) New York
A) Four times B) Three times C) Once D) Twice
A) A legislative veto with judicial override B) A unanimous state vote C) A council of revision D) A presidential veto with congressional override
A) Edmund Burke B) James Wilson C) John Marshall D) Oliver Ellsworth
A) Alexander Hamilton B) Oliver Ellsworth C) James Wilson D) John Marshall
A) With the executive B) With the state governors C) With judges D) With the English Whigs
A) March 4, 1789 B) May 25, 1787 C) September 17, 1787 D) March 1, 1781
A) Reconstruction B) Federalism C) The Bill of Rights D) Separation of powers
A) Extensive taxing and enforcement powers B) Sole authority to regulate all state laws C) Little power D) Absolute monarchical power
A) 625-man army B) 50,000-man army C) 10,000-man army D) 100-man army
A) Britain B) Canada C) France D) Spain
A) March 1781 B) September 1786 C) February 1787 D) August 1787
A) Massachusetts B) Georgia C) Connecticut D) New York
A) Whiskey Rebellion B) Shays' Rebellion C) Bacon's Rebellion D) Stono Rebellion
A) Rufus King B) General George Washington C) General Benjamin Lincoln D) James Madison
A) The Committee of Detail B) The Three-Fifths Compromise C) The Southern Accommodation D) The Great Compromise
A) Foreign trade tariffs B) Slave labor C) Industrial manufacturing D) Paid immigrant labor
A) 80 years B) 10 years C) 20 years D) 50 years
A) Three-fifths B) One-quarter C) One-half D) Two-thirds
A) Gouverneur Morris B) Nathaniel Gorham C) Alexander Hamilton D) Rufus King
A) Thirty-nine B) Twenty-three C) Seven D) Twelve
A) John Rutledge B) Edmund Randolph C) Alexander Hamilton D) James Madison
A) Benjamin Franklin B) Gouverneur Morris C) Alexander Hamilton D) James Madison
A) Jacob Shallus B) Alexander Hamilton C) Gouverneur Morris D) Benjamin Franklin
A) Twenty-three B) Thirty-nine C) Twelve D) Eleven
A) Twelve B) Eleven C) Nine D) Thirteen
A) A two-thirds majority B) Unanimously C) By a narrow majority D) They rejected it
A) Article III B) Article VII C) Article V D) Article I
A) Unanimous B) A simple majority C) A two-thirds majority D) A three-fourths majority
A) Confederates B) Anti-Federalists C) Federalists D) Republicans
A) Anti-Federalists B) Federalists C) Nationalists D) Loyalists
A) New York B) Pennsylvania C) New Jersey D) Delaware
A) 46-23 B) 50-10 C) 13-0 D) 30-0
A) 50-25 B) 30-0 C) 10-5 D) 46-23
A) A new president B) A trade embargo C) Amendments D) More land
A) 200 square miles B) 10 square miles C) 50 square miles D) 100 square miles
A) The passage of the Bill of Rights B) A unanimous vote by Congress C) Pressure from New York D) A threatened trade embargo
A) 1789 B) 1795 C) 1891 D) 1796
A) Exclusive regional appeals jurisdiction B) Discretionary jurisdiction C) Pendent jurisdiction D) Original jurisdiction
A) Mandatory circuit jurisdiction B) Discretionary jurisdiction C) Original jurisdiction D) Exclusive regional jurisdiction
A) No B) It was strictly forbidden by them C) Only the Supreme Court justices did D) Yes
A) Res judicata B) Pendent jurisdiction C) Discretionary jurisdiction D) Judicial review
A) Original jurisdiction B) Pendent jurisdiction C) Discretionary jurisdiction D) Circuit jurisdiction
A) Fourteenth Amendment B) Seventeenth Amendment C) Fifteenth Amendment D) Sixteenth Amendment
A) Petition of Right B) Virginia Charter of 1606 C) English Bill of Rights D) Magna Carta
A) 1689 B) 1808 C) 1776 D) 1215
A) Egalitarian federations B) Direct democracies C) Constitutional republics D) Autocratic monarchies
A) Universal suffrage B) Jury trials C) A federal income tax D) A bicameral legislature
A) Philip Levy B) Bruce Johansen C) Donald Grinde D) John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt
A) Benjamin Franklin B) William Starna C) Gouverneur Morris D) Elisabeth Tooker
A) Albany B) Tuscarora Indian Reservation C) Pennsylvania D) Smithsonian Institution
A) Framers Committee Chair B) Ethnologist C) Constitutional Scholar D) Archaeologist
A) Accepted unanimously B) Rejected C) Modified into the Preamble D) Adopted as the first 10 amendments
A) Albany Plan B) Article V C) Closing Endorsement D) Preamble
A) The government's framework B) The six goals of the Preamble C) The Haudenosaunee Confederacy D) The names of the 39 framers
A) Pennsylvania B) New York C) Tuscarora D) Albany
A) 'We the People' B) 'of the United States' C) 'the Thirteen Colonies' D) 'our Posterity' |
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