Practice Government AIR Test

Which of the following Amendments repealed prohibition? 

• 11th
• 21st 
• 27th

Which of the following amendments limits the jurisdiction of the federal courts?

• 11th
• 21st
• 27th

Which of the following amendments overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in Chisholm v. Georgia?

• 11th
• 21st
• 27th

Which of the following amendments prevented members of Congress from giving themselves pay raises?

• 11th
• 21st
• 27th

What issue is addressed by the 6th amendment?

• Powers of taxation
• Rights of the accused 
• Protection of property
• Protection from torture 

Which of the following is a Federalist Quote?

• Any system therefore which appoints a legislature, without any reservation of the rights of individuals, surrenders all power in every branch of legislation to the government.
• It will not be controverted that the legislative is the highest delegated power in the government, and that all others are subordinate to it....
• ...all rights not expressly and unequivocally reserved to the people are impliedly and incidentally relinquished to rulers, as necessarily inseparable from the delegated powers
• “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

Which principle of government is shown here: Congress may be law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President

• Popular Sovereignty
• Separation of Powers
• Limited Government 

Which principle of government is shown here: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state...

• Popular Sovereignty
• Separation of Powers
• Limited Government 

Which principle of government is shown here: Congress shall make no law respecting on the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

• Popular Sovereignty
• Separation of Powers
• Limited Government 

If the constitutionality of a law is being challegened? Which branch of government will review it? 

• Executive Branch
• Legislative Branch
• Judicial Branch