Free US Constitution Trivia Questions
What does Article Four outline?
A: The relations among the states and between each state and the federal government.
Article four requires states to give "full faith and credit" to what?
A: The public acts, records, and court proceedings of the other states.
What does the "privileges and immunities" clause prohibit?
A: State governments from discriminating against citizens of other states in favor of resident citizens.
The fourth section of Article Four requires the United States to guarantee to each state what form of government?
A: A republican form of government, and to protect them from invasion and violence.
What does Article Five of the Constitution outline?
A: The process for amending the Constitution.
Article Five ends by shielding certain clauses in the new frame of government from being what?
A: Amended.
What does Article Six of the Constitution establish?
A: The Constitution, and all federal laws and treaties of the United States made according to it, to be the supreme law of the land, and that "the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the laws or constitutions of any state notwithstanding."
Which Article states "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States?
A: Article Six.
What does Article Seven of the Constitution describe?
A: The process for establishing the proposed new frame of government.
When did the signing of the United States Constitution occur?
A: On September 17, 1787.
The language of the concluding endorsement, conceived by Governor Morris and presented to the convention by Benjamin Franklin, was made intentionally ambiguous in hopes of what?
A: Winning over the votes of dissenting delegates.
Structurally, the Constitution's original text and all prior amendments remain what?
A: Untouched.
Among these, Amendments 1–10 are collectively known as the Bill of Rights, and Amendments 13–15 are known as what?
A: The Reconstruction Amendments.
How long was the Twenty-seventh Amendment pending before the states?
A: For 202 years.
After the twenty-Seventh Amendment, what was the next longest?
A: Twenty-second Amendment, which took 3 years, 343 days.
What amendment took the shortest time?
A: The Twenty-sixth Amendment.
How long did it take to ratify Amendment Twenty-Six?
A: It was ratified in 100 days.
What was the average ratification time for the first twenty-six amendments?
A: It was 1 year, 252 days, for all twenty-seven.
A proposed amendment becomes an operative part of the Constitution as soon as it is what?
A: Ratified by three-fourths of the States.
The First Amendment (1791) prohibits Congress from what?
A: Obstructing the exercise of certain individual freedoms: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and right to petition.
The First Amendment in its Free Exercise Clause guarantees a person's right to what?
A: Hold whatever religious beliefs he or she wants, and to freely exercise that belief.
Its Establishment Clause prevents the federal government from what?
A: Creating an official national church or favoring one set of religious beliefs over another.
What right does the Second Amendment (1791) protect?
A: The right of individuals to keep and bear arms.
The Third Amendment (1791) prohibits the federal government from doing what?
A: Forcing individuals to provide lodging to soldiers in their homes during peacetime without their consent.