Civics Practice Test 1

A system of government in which power is shared by the national government, the state governments, and the people is called a(n)

• unitary system

• totalitarian system

• federal system

• confederation system

The Constitution grants the president the power to

• make laws the Congress refuses to make.

• veto laws passed by Congress.

• declare war.

• put people in jail without bail.

Powers that are specifically granted to Congress by the Constitution are called

• enumerated powers.

• executive powers.

• bureaucratic powers.

• judicial powers.

The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to guarantee the equal protection of the laws to

• African Americans.

• women.

• Native Americans

• whites who did not own property.

The establishment clause limits the government's ability to

• support an official state religion.

• set up public universities and colleges.

• compel students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

• raise and support standing armies.

The Nineteenth Amendment

• freed the slaves.

• formally ended the Revolutionary War.

• gave women the right to vote.

• ended prohibition.

The right to due process of law means that

• laws will be publicly debated.

• important public questions must be settled by direct vote of the people.

• proposed laws must be passed by both houses of Congress.

• laws and procedures of government must be fair and reasonable.

The issue of allowing prayer in public schools has faced controversy because of differing interpretations of the

• free speech and due process clauses of the Constitution.

• representation and apportionment clauses of the Constitution.

• establishment and free exercise clauses of the Constitution.

• supremacy and declarative clauses of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court can serve as a check on the power of the legislative branch by

• impeaching members of Congress.

• declaring laws or acts unconstitutional.

• approving amendments passed by popular vote.

• approving presidential vetoes of congressional laws.

The Founders believed that natural rights meant the right to

• education, privacy, and security.

• life, liberty, and property.

• clothing, food, and shelter.

• freedom, work, and protection.