Directions: Use a copy of the constitution of the United States of America to answer the following questions.

  1. What was our country’s first constitution called?
  2. In what year did representatives meet to write a new constitution?
  3. What city did they meet in?
  4. In what building did they hold their meetings?
  5. What branch of government did the Articles of Confederation not provide for?
  6. What was the main reason for wanting to change the Articles of Confederation?
  7. Who was the president of the meeting called to change the Articles of Confederation?
  1. Who did the final writing of the constitution?
  2. How many men signed the new constitution?
  3. How many states were represented by the signers?
  4. How many branches are in our government?
  5. Who heads the executive branch of government?
  6. What is the legislative branch of our government called?
  7. What makes up the judicial branch of our government?
  8. How many amendments were added to the Constitution as soon as it was signed?
  9. The Constitution became the law of the land in what year?
  10. Laws for the United States are made by whom?
  11. What determines how many Representatives a state gets?
  12. What is the term of office of a member of the House of Representatives?
  13. How old must a member of the House of Representatives?
  14. How long must a member of the House of Representatives have been a citizen of the United States?
  1. How often do we make a count of our population?
  2. Who chooses the speaker of the House of Representatives?
  3. Who tries all impeachments?
  4. Who elects Senators now?
  5. Each state has how many Senators?
  6. What is the length of a term of a senator?
  7. One third of the Senators are selected how often?
  8. A member of the U.S. senate must be at least how old?
  9. A member of the senate must have been a citizen of the US for how long?
  10. Who is the president of the senate?
  11. Who makes the rules for becoming a US citizen?
  12. Who may print the coin money?
  13. Who has the power to declare war against another country?
  14. What is the “bill of attainder”?
  15. The constitution forbids Congress to lay a tax on what?
  16. Can states coin money?
  17. Who presides over the impeachment of the president?
  18. An impeached person can be found guilty for what vote?
  19. Congress must meet at least how often?
  20. In order do to their work, at least how many members of the house and senate must be present?
  21. What is the vote needed to expel a member of the house of senate?
  1. A record of each senator’s or representative’s vote must be given if how many members request it?
  1. Neither House, during the session of congress, shall, without the consent of the other House, adjourn for more then how long?
  1. Which house may write tax bills?
  1. Both Houses must have how many votes to override a presidential vote?
  1. After a bill has been sent to the President, it becomes law if he does not send it back within how many days?
  1. What is a “writ of habeas corpus”?
  1. What is an “ex post facto law”?
  1. Who can grant a title of nobility in the US?
  1. What is the length of term for the President?
  1. What determines the number of presidential electors a state gets?
  1. When does the President’s term now end?
  1. How many times can a person be elected president?
  1. What is the longest possible time a person could now serve as President?
  1. How old must a US President be?
  1. How long must a US President have lived in the US?
  2. If neither the President nor the Vice-President could serve, who would fill their position?
  1. Who must the President get agreement with before he makes a treaty?
  1. Who nominates judges of the Supreme Court?
  1. The Supreme Court now has how many justices?
  1. The length of term of a US court judge is how long?
  1. Who settles questions about interpreting the Constitution?
  1. What makes up the Bill of Rights?
  1. The constitution guarantees anybody that has committed a crime what right?
  1. What does the constitution guarantee to every state?
  1. Who has the right to admit new states?
  1. How many witnesses must there be to convict a person of treason?
  1. When may congress propose an amendment to the constitution?
  2. Who must ratify an amendment to the Constitution?
  1. Beside legislatures of states who else may ratify amendments?
  1. No amendment could change equal representatives in the senate without the concept of whom?
  1. Nobody holding a United States office shall ever have to pass what kind of test?
  1. Congress can make no law to set up what?
  1. What must be obtained before any person’s house or property can be searched?
  1. What must the courts do before they can take a man’s life?
  1. A man accused of crime in court has what right?
  1. How many electoral votes must a President have before elected?
  1. If the candidates for president have no majority of the electoral votes, who elects the President?
  1. What entitles a person to be called a “citizen of the United States”?
  1. How can the US punish a state, which denies the right of citizens vote?
  2. How many articles are there in the constitution?
  1. How many amendments are there in the constitution?
  1. Which Constitutional Amendment was later repealed?
  1. What does the Nineteenth Amendment protect?
  1. In order to become a part of the constitution, amendments now usually have to be ratified by the state legislators within how many years?
  1. How many departments does the President have in his cabinet?
  1. A new nation’s government can be recognized only by whom?
  1. What does invoking the Fifth Amendment mean?
  1. Powers not given to the US by the constitution and not forbidden to the states are reserved for whom?
  1. Who usually administers the President’s oath?
  1. Which major department head, appointed by the President, deals with the foreign countries?
  1. The right of all citizens to vote, regardless of their race is provided for in which amendment?
  1. What did the seventeenth amendment do?
  1. The constitution writers at first provided that the President be elected by whom?
  1. Who is the commander in Chief of the Army and Navy?
  1. Which President has his election determined by a vote of the House of Representatives?
  1. Who was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
  1. Who was the first Vice-President?

100. All federal and state officers must swear to do what?