What is the most famous Executive Order?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The Emancipation Proclamation
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Article VI, Section 2 of the Constitution, commonly called the supremacy clause, __________
a. blocked the possibility of a tyrannical federal government b. recast a loose confederation into a more centralized federal system c. positioned the judiciary as the ultimate arbiter of federal law d. protected states' rights against a powerful national government
If you thought you were getting an inferior public education because of your ethnicity, which part of the Constitution would you rely on most heavily to justify your case?
a. the First Amendment b. the Thirteenth Amendment c. the Fourteenth Amendment d. the Nineteenth Amendment
Which of the following statements is true of the winner-take-all system?
A) In this system, the candidate who receives the largest popular vote in a state is credited with all that state's electoral votes. B) In this system, the top two candidates who receive the largest number of votes have to contest in another round of elections. C) In this system, an elector must receive 538 electoral votes to win. D) In this system, the electoral votes must be distributed equally among the top three candidates. E) In this system, the party that wins all the electoral votes controls both chambers of Congress.
Americans often hear the metaphor of a “wall of separation between church and state” when referring to the First Amendment’s right to freedom of religion. When was this metaphor first used?
a. in the 1960s, by the Supreme Court when it became increasingly liberal and turned on “the church” b. in the second half of the twentieth century, when atheists began to influence Congress c. during the Civil War, when religious groups demanded protection from government abuses d. in 1802 by President Thomas Jefferson, based on his reaction to the influential role of Protestantism in public life e. several thousand years ago, as a biblically based standard