Q3 _Feb 17th Quiz (Constitution)

What does a supreme court justice do?

• Plan parties for the president.

• They are judges that make rulings on legal cases.

• They make laws.

• They break laws and laugh at people.

Supreme Court Justices are appointed.

• True

• False

• I don't know.

• Both

What do governments do?

• Help make an enforce laws.

• Declare war on other countries.

• Make people of that country pay taxes.

• All of these.

The Judiciary Branch of the government makes laws.

• True

• False

• I don't know

• All of these are correct.

What is a constitution?

• A constitution cannot be changed.

• A constitution is a song.

• A constitution is a set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works.

• A constitution is a book about how America should work.

Who was Thurgood Marshall?

• This is the name of a candy bar created by an African American man.

• He was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.

• He was the first African American President.

• None of these.

What constitutional right or case did Thurgood Marshall win?

• The right for kids to work 18 hours per day.

• The right for Native Americans to get their land back.

• To end slavery.

• The right for African Americans to go to law school at the university.

Thurgood Marshall was apart of which branch of government? 

• executive- which means he made sure that laws happened

• legislative- which meant he helped make laws

• judicial- which means he helped see if laws were fair

• None of these

The preamble of the US constitution says it was created to form a more perfect union. Which of these are NOT examples of a more perfect union?

• The Emancipation Proclomation which ended slavery.

• Women getting the right to vote.

• Segregating schools meaning only whites can go to school with white and blacks with blacks.

• Police violence against black and brown people.

In 1967 there was only 1 African American and 1 woman on the Supreme Court. By 2021 there are 4 women and 3 people of color. How has this system of power changed for the better?

• This wont change anything. There are still too many white men in power.

• If there are more diverse people in powerful positions, laws can change that will benefit everyone.

• Now that there are African Americans and women in positions of power, those groups of people will get more of what they need.

• Power comes from the heart and these people have no heart.