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Foreign Service Officer Test - US GovernmentWith complete solutions 2024
10th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Powers of states and people. Anything not in
the constitution is left to the states.
11th amendment "immunity"? Answer: Generally, a state is immune from suit by an individual.
However, a state can consent to be sued, or Congress can abrogate a state's immunity, as long as it is
within Congress' authority to do so (i.e. constitutional authority).
11th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1795): Clarifies judicial power over foreign
nationals, and limits ability of citizens to sue states in federal courts and under federal law.
12th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1804): Changes the method of presidential
elections so that members of the electoral college cast separate ballots for president and vice president.
13th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1865): Abolishes slavery and grants Congress
power to enforce abolition.
14th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1868): Defines United States citizenship;
prohibits states from abridging citizens' privileges or immunities and right to due process and the equal
protection of the law; repeals the three-fifths compromise.
15th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1870): Prohibits the federal government and
the states from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for voting.
16th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1913): Authorizes unapportioned federal taxes
on income.
,17th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1913): Establishes direct election of senators.
18th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1919): Prohibited the manufacturing,
importing, and exporting of beverage alcohol. Repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment.
1973 Rehabilitation Act? Answer: An American piece of legislation that guaranteed certain rights to
people with disabilities.
19th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1920): Prohibits the federal government and
the states from using a citizen's sex as a qualification for voting.
1st Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable
assembly, and to petition the government.
20th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1933): Changes details of Congressional and
presidential terms and of presidential succession. (lame duck ammendment)
21st Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1933): Repeals Eighteenth Amendment but
permits states to retain prohibition and ban the importation of alcohol.
22nd Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1951): Limits president to two terms.
23rd Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1961): Grants presidential electors to the
District of Columbia.
24th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1964): Prohibits the federal government and
the states from requiring the payment of a tax as a qualification for voting for federal officials. (poll
taxes)
,25th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1967): Changes details of presidential
succession, provides for temporary removal of president, and provides for replacement of the vice
president.
26th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1971): Prohibits the federal government and
the states from using an age greater than 18 as a qualification to vote.
27th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: (1992): Limits congressional pay raises. Was
one of original 12 bill of rights.
2nd Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Right to keep and bear arms.
3rd Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Protection from quartering of troops.
4th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Protection from unreasonable search and
seizure.
527 groups Answer: a political group organized under section 527 of the IRS Code that may accept
and spend unlimited amounts of money on election activites so long as they are not spent on broadcast
ads run in the last 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a general election where a clearly
identified candidate is referred to and a relevant electorate is targeted; these groups were important to
the 2000 and 2004 elections
5th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Due process, double jeopardy, self-
incrimination, private property.
6th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Trial by jury, speedy trial, and other rights of the
accused.
7th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Civil trial by jury.
, 8th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Prohibition of excessive bail, as well as cruel or
unusual punishment.
9th Ammendment of the US Constitution? Answer: Protection of rights not specifically enumerated
in the Bill of Rights.
A man’s home is his castle Answer: "A proverbial expression that illustrates the principle of
individual privacy, which is fundamental to the American system of government. In this regard, the
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitutionâ€"part of the Bill of Rightsâ€"prohibits
“unreasonable searches and seizures.â€
A1, Section 1 Constitution Answer: Section 1 establishes the name of the Legislature to be The
Congress, a bicameral, or two-part, body.
A1, Section 10 Constitution Answer: Section 10, finally, prohibits the states from several things.
They cannot make their own money, or declare war, or do most of the other things prohibited Congress
in Section 9. They cannot tax goods from other states, nor can they have navies.
A1, Section 2 Constitution Answer: Section 2 defines the House of Representatives, known as the
lower house of Congress. It establishes a few minimum requirements, like a 25-year-old age limit, and
establishes that the people themselves will elect the members for two years each. The members of the
House are divided among the states proportionally, or according to size, giving more populous states
more representatives in the House. The leader of the House is the Speaker of the House, chosen by the
members.
A1, Section 3 Constitution Answer: Section 3 defines the upper house of Congress, the Senate.
Again, it establishes some minimum requirements, such as a 30-year-old age limit. Senators were
originally appointed by the legislatures of the individual states, though this later changed. They serve for
six years each. Each state has equal suffrage in the Senate, meaning that each state has the exact same
number of Senators, two each, regardless of the population. This Section introduces the Vice-President,
who is the leader of the Senate (called the President of the Senate); the Vice-President does not vote
unless there is a tie.
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