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Grade 12 Executive Branch
What role of the President involves him having final say in wartime decisions?
  1. Commander in Chief
  2. Chief Agenda Setter
  3. Chief Executive
  4. Representative of the Nation
Grade 12 US Laws and Amendments
A person pleading the fifth is protecting himself from
  1. the government taking away property without compensation.
  2. restrictions to what he can say.
  3. saying something that might incriminate him.
  4. being put on trail without a jury.
Grade 12 US Laws and Amendments
How many states have their own Constitution?
  1. 50
  2. 13
  3. none
  4. 48
Grade 12 US Laws and Amendments
Which amendment made the legal voting age 18?
  1. 15th
  2. 19th
  3. 26th
Grade 12 US Government
The right to vote in political elections.
  1. Franchise
  2. Suffrage
  3. subsidy
  4. coattail effect
Grade 12 US Government
Powers that belong to a national government are called what?
  1. Federal powers
  2. Inherent powers
  3. Exclusive powers
Grade 12 US Government
The U.S. is an example of a/an
  1. representative democracy
  2. dictatorship
  3. monarchy
  4. direct democracy
Grade 12 US Laws and Amendments
Which of the following is a deliberate and premeditated killing of a person?
  1. 1st Degree Murder
  2. 2nd Degree Murder
  3. Felony Murder
  4. Voluntary Manslaughter
  5. Involuntary Manslaughter
Grade 12 US Government
Within the Fifth Amendment, which statement protects people from being tried a second time after being acquitted of a crime?
  1. Double Dutch
  2. Double Trialing
  3. Double Crossing
  4. Double Jeopardy
Grade 12 US Government
Manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class.
  1. Injunction
  2. Closed primary
  3. Open primary
  4. Gerrymandering
Grade 12 US Government
What is the process by which citizenship is granted to a foreign citizen or national?
  1. Birthright
  2. Nationalization
  3. Dual Citizenship
  4. Honorary Citizenship
Grade 12 US Laws and Amendments
A centralized system in which all powers of government belong to a single central agency.
  1. Presidential Democracy
  2. Unitary
  3. Confederate
  4. Representative Democracy
Grade 12 US Government
This is written by those justices who do not agree with the Court's majority opinion.
  1. Dissenting opinion
  2. Concurring opinion
  3. Majority opinion
  4. No opinion
Grade 12 Executive Branch
What is the president’s cabinet?
  1. A board to advise the president
  2. Secretary and Staff
  3. The vice president
  4. The first lady
Grade 12 US Government
This man believed that government's only responsibility to the people was to provide order.
  1. Karl Marx
  2. Thomas Hobbes
  3. Adam Smith
  4. John Locke
Grade 12 US Government
Which of the following is an example of an expressed power?
  1. the power to collect taxes
  2. the power to coin money
  3. the power to declare war
  4. all of the above
Grade 12 US Government
The idea of separation of powers among the three branches came from
  1. Montesquieu
  2. Locke
  3. Rousseau
  4. Jefferson
Grade 12 US Government
What is unicameral?
  1. written grant of authority from the king to establish a colony
  2. government that is not all-powerful
  3. consisting of two houses
  4. government that serves the will of the people
  5. one house
Grade 12 Executive Branch
Which one of these is not a role of the President?
  1. Chief of State
  2. Chief Executive
  3. Chief administrator
  4. Chief of Justice
  5. Chief Diplomat
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