What is the supreme law of the land? correct answers Constitution
What does the constitution do? correct answers Set up and define the government and protect the basic rights of Americans
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? correc...
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What is the supreme law of the land? correct answers Constitution
What does the constitution do? correct answers Set up and define the government and protect the
basic rights of Americans
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
correct answers We the People
What is an amendment? correct answers A change or addition to the Constitution
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? correct answers The Bill of Rights
What are rights or freedoms from the first amendment? correct answers Speech, Religion,
Assembly, Press, Petition the Government
How many amendments does the Constitution have? correct answers 27
What did the Declaration of Independence do? correct answers Declared our independence from
Great Britain
What are the rights declared in the Declaration of Independence correct answers Life, Liberty,
Pursuit of Happiness
What is freedom of religion? correct answers A person can practice any religion, or no religion
What is the economic system in the United States? correct answers capitalist or market economy
What is the "rule of law" correct answers The idea that everyone, including leaders, must obey
the law
What are the branches of government? correct answers Legislative, Executive, Judicial
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? correct answers Checks and
balances
Who is in charge of the executive branch? correct answers the president
Who makes federal laws? correct answers Congress
What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress? correct answers Senate and House of
Representatives
How many U.S. Senators are there? correct answers 100
, We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years? correct answers 6
Who is one of your state's U.S. Senators now? correct answers Tom Cotton and John Boozman
The House of Representatives has how many voting members? correct answers 435
We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years? correct answers two
Select one U.S. Representative from Arkansas. correct answers Steve Womack
French Hill
Rick Crawford
Bruce Westerman
Who does a U.S. Senator represent? correct answers all people of the state
Why do some states have more Representatives than other states? correct answers Because some
states have more people than other states
We elect a President for how many years? correct answers 4 years
In what month do we vote for the president? correct answers November
What is the name of the President of the United States now? correct answers Donald Trump
What is the name of the Vice President of the United States now? correct answers Mike Pence
If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President? correct answers Vice President
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President? correct
answers The speaker of the house
Who is the Commander in Chief of the military? correct answers president
Who signs bills to become laws? correct answers president
Who vetoes bills correct answers president
What does the President's Cabinet do? correct answers advises the President
What are two Cabinet-level positions? correct answers Secretary of Education
Attorney General
What does the judicial branch do? correct answers Reviews laws, resolve disputes, decide if a
law goes against a constitution
What is the highest court in the United States? correct answers Supreme Court
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