2008 Civics Questions

Question: 1. What is the supreme law of the land?

Answer: the Constitution

Question: 2. What does the Constitution do?

Answer: sets up the government ▪ defines the government ▪ protects basic rights of Americans

Question: 3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?

Answer: We the People

Question: 4. What is an amendment?

Answer: a change [to the Constitution] ▪ an addition [to the Constitution]

Question: 5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

Answer: the Bill of Rights

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