Constitutions Unit Review

Which is NOT one of the goals listed in the preamble of the US Constitution?

• To protect our freedoms

• Provide fair laws and punishment

• Keep peace within the country

• Create a totalitarian government

"We the people" are the first words of our Constitution and indicate that the government's power resides with the citizens. Which of the seven principles does this represent?

• popular sovereignty

• republicanism

• federalism

• individual rights

Which is NOT one of the branches of government?

• legislative

• judicial

• parliament

• executive

What are the first ten amendments of the Constitution called?

• Reconstruction Amendments

• Bill of Rights

• Prohibition Amendments

• Suffrage Amendments

What is an amendment?

• A change to the Constitution

• A clause in the Constitution that limits the government's power

• Changes made in a bill

• Introduction of the Constitution

What does "two houses" mean?

• amendment

• supremacy clause

• bicameral

• judicial review

SS.7.C.3.3

Above are two opposing views expressed at the Constitutional Convention.

How was the disagreement between small states and large states resolved at the Constitutional Convention?

• By creating both federal and state legislatures

• By counting each slave as three-fifths of a person

• By passing a Bill of Rights to protect individual rights

• By creating a bicameral legislature with one house on each basis

Which identifies one of the goals of government listed in the Preamble?

• To guarantee employment to all citizens

• To expand the nation's frontiers westward

• To establish independence from Great Britain

• To protect the rights and freedoms of all citizens

SS.7.C.1.6

The passage below is from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

In 1957, President Eisenhower sent the National Guard into Little Rock, Arkansas, in order to prevent racial violence. Which goal of government, listed in the Preamble, did this action illustrate?

• to insure domestic tranquility

• to form a more perfect Union

• to secure the blessings of liberty

• to provide for the common defense

How many Articles does the Constitution have?

• 3

• 5

• 7

• 10