Civic Literacy questions and 100% verified answers
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Civic Literacy
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Civic Literacy
Civic Literacy questions and 100% verified answers
What is Civics Literacy? - ANSWER The knowledge and skills to participate effectively in civic life through knowing how to stay informed, understanding governmental processes, and knowing how to exercise the rights and obligations of citizenshi...
Civic Literacy questions and
100% verified answers
What is Civics Literacy? - ANSWER The knowledge and skills
to participate effectively in civic life through knowing how to
stay informed, understanding governmental processes, and
knowing how to exercise the rights and obligations of
citizenship at local, state, national, and global levels. Individuals
also have an understanding of the local and global implications
of civic decisions
Private Life - ANSWER Relates to a citizen's right to privacy
and the pursuit of private and personal interests.
Civic Life - ANSWER The public life of the citizen concerned
with the affairs of the community and nation.
Limited Government - ANSWER The government has only the
powers granted to it in the Constitution, and it can only conduct
actions permitted by the Consitution
, Rule of Law - ANSWER society is governed according to
widely known and accepted rules followed not only by the
governed but also by those in authority
Checks and Balances - ANSWER The Constitutionally granted
power for one branch of government to block action y an equal
branch of government.
Separation of Powers - ANSWER The Constitution keeps the
three branches of government separate
Three Branches of Government - ANSWER Executive,
Legislative, Judicial
The Constitution gives the President the sole power to make and
approve treaties. (True or False) - ANSWER False
Who was the respondent in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Company case? - ANSWER Commerce Secretary Charles
Sawyer
The first words of Article 1 of the Constitution are - ANSWER
All legislative power
,The Founders reinforced institutional separateness by -
ANSWER Having different term lengths for House, Senate and
President
Which of the following philosophers did not discuss the
division of state power? - ANSWER Thomas Hobbes
Aristotle broke the functions of government down into
"deliberative," "magisterial" and what else? - ANSWER
Judicial
Truman lost the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company case, as
the court ruled - ANSWER Congress, not the President, has the
power to seize private property
What did the Supreme Court decide in Roper v Simmons? -
ANSWER Executing someone under the age of 18 is cruel and
unusual
"Judicial Review" is mentioned in - ANSWER Judicial Review
is not found in the Constitution
Which was the first state to use the electric chair as a form of
execution? - ANSWER New York
, The 8th Amendment - ANSWER Protects against "cruel and
unusual punishment."
Which of the following has not been used as a method of
execution in the United States? - ANSWER Drowning
The Supreme Court has used the Fourteenth Amendment to -
ANSWER Extend to Bill of Rights to be applicable in the States.
Luther Martin and George Mason argued - ANSWER The
proposed constitution was a threat to the sovereignty of the
states.
Federal laws take precedence when in conflict with state laws. -
ANSWER This is an example of the Supremacy Clause
In Miller v California the Supreme Court ruled that -
ANSWER Obscenity is not protected free speech.
The Nielsen and Wardlow cases illustrate - ANSWER Similar
crimes may receive very different punishments depending on
which state the crime is committed in.
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