Civics Midterm (FALL)

What are the two parts of the Legislative Branch?

• Senate and House of Representatives

• Parliament and Congress

• House of Burgesses and Supreme Court

• The left part and right part

Which of the following is an example of an Inferior Court of the United States?

• The Supreme Court

• The Court of Appeals

• The Senate

• The Grand Jury

What is the “Rule of Law?”

• The president’s ability to sign executive orders that have the force of law

• The process for how a bill becomes a law

• The Constitutional process of going through a court trial

• The fact that no one is above the law

What does the word “persuasion” mean?

• Giving people the right to vote

• The government’s ability to purchase private land for “just compensation”

• Causing someone to agree with you because of good discussion and reasoning

• To take away someone’s rights to life, liberty, and property

What is the title of the head person in the Executive Branch?

• Chief Justice

• Senator

• President

• Speaker of the House

What was “The Enlightenment?”

• A religious revival in America that spread Judeo-Christian values

• An era of new ideas about government that greatly inspired America’s founding fathers

• The invention of the lightbulb

• An era when machinery was invented to create more industry in the world

What did the Federalists want for America?

• A strong, national government

• To keep the Articles of Confederation instead of making a new Constitution

• A Bill of Rights

• A tyrant to rule America, not a legislature

Which Article of the Constitution talks about the Constitution and Laws of the United States being “The supreme law of the Land?”

• Article 1

• Article 7

• Article 2

• Article 6

The _________________ is responsible for administering a country’s justice by interpreting and applying laws

• The Executive Branch

• The Legislative Branch

• The Judicial System

• The Electoral College

What is a “legal precedent?”

• A case decision that sets an example for future court cases to follow

• The head of the House of Representatives, also known as the Speaker of the House

• The head of a courtroom, also known as a judge

• Your constitutional rights that a police officer must tell you while you are being arrested