What is NOT a rule of the flag code?

How many amendments have been added to the Constitution?

How many years is the president's term of office?

What is the age requirement to become president?

After a bill has gone through both houses of Congress successfully, it is sent to:

Which amendment gave women who are citizens the right to vote in all elections?

How many U.S. senators come from each state?

Each state receives at least _____ representative(s) in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Who may veto a bill proposed by Congress?

The president of the Senate is:

Which of these rights is NOT an unalienable right from the Declaration of Independence?

The Declaration of Independence was written largely by:

The national budget is presented annually to Congress by the:

There are how many branches of government?

The president takes the oath of office on:

In our First Amendment, which is NOT a "freedom"?

The vote of what group really decides who will be president?

What is described in Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution giving Congress broad powers to write laws about new situations?

Which body has the power to borrow money?

Has two houses

Is the court system of our country

Makes the laws

Enforces the laws

Described in Article 1 of the Constitution

Described in Article 3 of the Constitution

Has a six year term

Meet in the Capitol building

Elected every two years

Has the vice president as the presiding leader

Has 435 members

Approves or rejects treaties

Passes bills they hope will become laws

Has 100 members

Chief legal officer

Manages Social Security

Carries out a war plan

Settles a strike

Foreign affairs

Secret Service

The Virginia plan proposed two houses of Congress based on population.

The simple definition of democracy is government by the people, directly or through representation.

Senators are elected by the vote of the people in their state.

One-third of the Senate is elected every two years.

The largest U.S. state is Texas (in terms of population) receiving the most electoral votes.

The Constitution allows for laws to be made on subjects that did not even exist in 1787.

The original 13 colonies included Kentucky.

Your state legislature has the same lawmaking scope as the U.S. Congress.

Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death."

Habeas corpus gives a prisoner the right to a fair trial.

Ben Franklin was the president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

The building in which the Constitutional Convention met is called Independence Hall.

The Declaration of Independence was the nation's first Constitution.

Our original Constitution outlawed slavery.

The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The British held the Boston Tea Party to make friends with the colonists.

A U.S. Senator may be re-elected only once, serving a maximum of two terms.

The House of Representatives has nothing to do with the impeachment of a president.

Under certain conditions, the House of Representatives selects the president.

A three-fourths vote is required for Congress to pass a bill over the president's veto.

After 10 days, a bill passed by Congress automatically becomes a law if the president doesn't act and Congress is still in session.

Supervising the coining and printing of money is the job of the Treasury Department.

An ex post facto law is a law that makes something illegal after the act has been committed.

Only federal officers may have titles of nobility.

Congress may not tax goods being exported from a state, even if the goods are going to a foreign country.

States must treat the citizens of other states the same way it treats its own citizens.

States can make treaties with foreign countries.

Both federal and state governments can establish courts.

The president can call both houses of Congress into special session.

The Articles of Confederation was really our first constitution.

Federalism is the sharing of power by the federal government and state governments.

There are 12 cabinet positions.

The U.S. Supreme Court justices are appointed by Congress.

The judicial branch has no checks on the other branches.

The U.S. flag should be in the rear of a parade or procession.

The 26th Amendment allows 18-year-olds to vote in federal and state elections.

There are 15 justices on the Supreme Court.

The Declaration of Independence came before the signing of the Constitution.

United States senators receive a higher salary than United States representatives.

Cabinet members are elected rather than appointed.