WorksheetsChapter 2 Constitutional Rights part 2
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which of these documents is not considered a basis of the U.S. Bill of Rights?
Magna Carta
Petition of Rights of 1628
English Bill of Rights
All of the above are considered bases for the U.S. Bill of Rights
Personal, natural rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution are known as
peripheral rights.
civil rights.
due process rights.
legal rights.
The three branches of the U.S. government are
President, House of Representatives, and Senate.
executive, legislative, and judicial.
President, Vice President, and Supreme Court.
President, Congress, and Supreme Court.
The Nineteenth Amendment clarified the voting rights of what group of U.S. citizens?
blacks
women
18 year olds
all of these
While listening to a national newscast, Masami learned that the Vice President of the United States was being impeached for bribing some of the members of the House of Representatives. The legislative body that would have the sole power to conduct the impeachment trial to follow is the
(a)
Bonnie and her friends are concerned that their community's outlying areas may be used as a nuclear waste dumping ground. They decide to organize a public protest on the steps of one of the county buildings. On the day of the protest, the police arrive but make no arrests because Bonnie and her friends are allowed to "peaceably assemble" under the (a) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The groundwork for the Internet was laid in the late 1960s during the Cold War by the U.S. Department of (a)
The major Internet-related Constitutional issues involves the First Amendment right of (a)
A right vital to the protection of all the others, the right of (a) was, nonetheless, only legitimized by a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Ira and Ingrid own some property located where the local extension of an interstate highway is to be built. The couple receives notification that the government will seize the property for public purposes and compensate them at 95 percent of the market value of the property. Fair compensation for private property taken by the government for public purposes is part of the (a) Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The division and appropriation of U.S. governmental powers between its various branches is known as
(a)
All U.S. citizens need to understand that, although representatives make day-to-day governmental decisions, the sovereign power ultimately resides with the (a) .
Four of the original 13 states were reluctant to ratify the U.S. Constitution because they felt the Constitution failed to protect certain human rights. This deficiency was corrected by the (a) .
After devastating flooding in the Midwest, the Missouri River changed its course and formed a new channel several miles west of its old bed. Because the Missouri River forms part of the boundary line between Kansas and Missouri, the state of Missouri is claiming all of the land between the old and the new beds of the river. Who has jurisdiction over this controversy?
(a)
