What is the U.S. Constitution?
Constitutional Conversations and Civil Dialogue

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Ryan Schramel
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
The supreme law of the land in America
A document declaring independence from Great Britain
A source of much debate and discussion among Americans
Both A and C
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
The Constitution is not a particularly long document (the Preamble, seven articles, and 27 amendments). The Founding generation wrote it that way so
Only wealthy elites could own a copy
Everyone, lawyer and nonlawyer alike, could read it and understand it
The new laws would be confusing and difficult to understand
To save money on the ink needed to print it
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
The Constitution expresses one of its core principles, popular sovereignty, in its Preamble, beginning with these words:
We the People
Four score and seven years ago
We hold these truths to be self-evident
Of the people, by the people, for the people
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
The framers set out the basic structure of government-in other words, its three different branches in Articles I through III. In order, match the three different branches (1. Legislative, 2. Executive, 3. Judicial) with its constitutional responsibility.
1. Enforcing the laws, 2. Interpreting the laws, 3. Making the laws
1. Interpreting the laws, 2. Making the laws, 3. Enforcing the laws
1. Making the laws, 2. Enforcing the laws, 3. Interpreting the laws
The framers really didn't want a separation of powers
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Article V outlines a formal process that has allowed later generations to revise the Constitution without the need to resort to violence or revolution. This process is called
The Impeachment Process
The Amendment Process
The Midterm Elections
Judicial Review
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Some of our most cherished liberties, such as free speech, free press, freedom of religion, and the right to a jury trial, were not listed in the original Constitution. Rather, they were added in 1791 with the adoption of the
Northwest Ordinance
Articles of Confederation
Continental Association
Bill of Rights
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
After the Civil War, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments abolished slavery, wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution, and banned racial discrimination in voting. This period, which some historians call America's "Second Founding" is also known as
Reconstruction
Antebellum
The Progressive Era
The New Deal
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