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