Constitution Quiz Review

1. The U.S. Constitution was created because of the failures of what document?

• The Treaty of Paris
• The Articles of Confederation
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Federalist Papers

2. __________ opposed the Constitution because they feared it would make the federal government too powerful.

• Federalists
• Antifederalists
• Governors
• Members of the Continental Congress

3. Under the principle of popular sovereignty, who has the power in a country?

• The Federal government
• The President
• The People
• The Congress

4. A system of checks and balances was built into the Constitution to prevent...

• states from passing laws that duplicate federal laws.
• individual states from deciding to leave the Union.
• any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
• the federal government from spending more money than it collects in taxes.

5. What three branches of the federal government did the U.S. Constitution create?

• judicial, political, county
• executive, state, county
• legislative, executive, judicial
• legislative, political, state

6. Which of the following are guaranteed by the First Amendment? Check all that apply.

• the right to petition
• the right to bear arms
• the right to freedom of speech
• the right to freedom of religion

7. Which BEST describes the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• Enslaved persons were entitled to only three-fifths of a vote in national elections.
• Three-fifths of the members of the House of Representatives were from states that allowed slavery.
• three-fifths of a state's enslaved population would be counted towards the state's total population
• Three-fifths of Southern states were permitted to count enslaved people as part of their population.

8. Why were the Bill of Rights created?

• To ensure that individual rights of citizens would be protected.
• To convince anti-federalists to vote for passage of the new Constitution.
• To ensure that the state laws could overrule federal laws.
• To convince the citizens to approve the Constitution

9. The first 10 amendments are known as the

• the Bill of Rights
• Magna Carta
• Declaration of Independence
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Which branch of government has the power to veto bills?

• legislative
• judicial
• executive