Constitution Test Prep

Question 1

How often are people in the House of Representatives elected?

Answer 1

2 years

Question 2

How old must you be to be elected in the House of Representatives?

Answer 2

25 Years Old

Question 3

How long must you be a citizen for if you want to join the House of Representatives?

Answer 3

7 years

Question 4

What is the number of representatives based on?

Answer 4

Population

Question 5

How often is the senate elected?

Answer 5

6 years

Question 6

How old must you be before joining the Senate?

Answer 6

30 Years Old

Question 7

How long must you be a citizen for in the before joining the senate?

Answer 7

9 Years

Question 8

All bills for raising what start in the House of Representatives?

Answer 8

Revenue

Question 9

The House of Representatives has the power to do what to the president?

Answer 9

Impeach

Question 10

Who ratifies treaties and presidential appointees?

Answer 10

The Senate

Question 11

What trials does the senate try?

Answer 11

Impeachment trials

Question 12

What makes up the House of Representatives and the Senate?

Answer 12

Congress

Question 13

What does the congress have the power to do?

Answer 13

Tax, regulate trade, and borrow and coin money.

Question 14

What does congress establish?

Answer 14

post office

Question 15

What does congress declare?

Answer 15

War

Question 16

What does congress raise and support?

Answer 16

Military

Question 17

Who makes laws for Washington DC and other federally controlled areas?

Answer 17

Congress

Question 18

What is Elastic Clause?

Answer 18

“necessary and proper” clause. Allowing Congress to make laws not specifically mentioned in the Constitution.

Question 19

Congress forbids to suspend what in times of rebellion or invasion?

Answer 19

Habeus Corpus

Question 20

Congress is forbidden to pass bills of what?

Answer 20

Attainder or ex post facto laws

Question 21

Congress is forbidden to give titles of what?

Answer 21

nobility

Question 22

Congress is forbidden to accept what?

Answer 22

forbidden gifts

Question 23

How often is the president and Vice President chosen?

Answer 23

4 years

Question 24

How old must the president and Vice President at least be?

Answer 24

35 years old

Question 25

What kind of citizen must the president and Vice President be?

Answer 25

Natural born citizen

Question 26

How long must the president and Vice President be a resident of the United States for?

Answer 26

14 years

Question 27

President and Vice President are command and chief of what?

Answer 27

army and navy of the U.S.

Question 28

What do the President and Vice President negotiate.

Answer 28

treaties

Question 29

Who do the President and Vice President appoint?

Answer 29

Ambassadors and Supreme Court judges pending senate approval.

Question 30

The President and Vice President can do what to bills passed by both houses?

Answer 30

Veto

Question 31

President and Vice President can be overridden with a what vote by congress.

Answer 31

2/3

Question 32

What is a pocket veto?

Answer 32

Congress adjourns and president refuses to sign, bill does not go back to congress for a vote.

Question 33

Amendments can be proposed by how much of congress?

Answer 33

2/3

Question 34

Amendments can be proposed by how much of state legislatures?

Answer 34

2/3

Question 35

Amendments can be ratified by how much of state legislatures, conventions, or some other methods proposed by congress?

Answer 35

3/4