This quiz is a foundation for understanding Constitutional Law.
Judicial activism.
The legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.
The Articles of Confederation.
Names of the states.
All of the above.
Paid for the British troops staying in the colonies.
Required colonists to feed and house British solders.
Established the United States Mint.
Created the Secret Service to combat counterfeiting.
All of the above.
Established a league of friendship between the states.
Copied the antiquated Magna Carta
None of these choices.
Lacked a balance of power between the states and the central government.
All of the above.
It has the ability to change to meet the currents.
Those who promulgated it were alive at the time.
It represented the "living tree of freedom."
Only political office holders can affect it.
All of the above.
The Second Amendment.
The Sixth Amendment.
The Third Amendment.
The Second Amendment.
All of the above.
Magna Carta.
Articles of Confederation.
Constitution.
Bill of Rights.
All of the above.
Many people, many laws.
An existential framework upon which a complex set of substantive and procedural law is built
A liberal ideal that seeks to incorporate the thoughts and ideas of many into a single government.
A society in which many distinct ethnic, religious or cultural groups coexist within one nation, each contributing to the societal whole.
All of the above.
Established the concept of due process in Roman law.
Was drafted in England after the establishment of American colonies.
Was relatively unimportant to the development of the American Constitution.
Was drafted in England prior to the establishment of American colonies.
All of the above.
The Sixth Amendment.
The Ninth Amendment.
The Second Amendment.
The Eighth Amendment.
All of the above.
Article 5.
Article 6.
Article 2.
Article 3.
All of the above.
Delegates
Federalists
Anti-federalist
Founding fathers
All of the above.
Judicial activism.
A compact.
The Quartering Act.
The Stamp Act.
All of the above.
Article 3.
Article 6.
Article 2.
Article 5.
All of the above.
Contributions from representatives of the pluralistic union formatting what was to become the United States of America.
A compact or charter.
A body of rules promulgated to support societal norms, enforced through legal consequences.
A conceptual framework.
All of the above.
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
Codified law
Common law system
Adversarial judicial system
Case law system
All of the above.
General jurisdiction
Limited jurisdiction
Concurrent jurisdiction
Exclusive jurisdiction
All of the above.
General jurisdiction
Limited jurisdiction
Concurrent jurisdiction
Exclusive jurisdiction
All of the above
General jurisdiction
Limited jurisdiction
Concurrent jurisdiction
Exclusive jurisdiction
All of the above.
General jurisdiction
Limited jurisdiction
Concurrent jurisdiction
Exclusive jurisdiction
All of the above
Codified law
Common law
Case law
Comparative law
All of the above.
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