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