Constitution Test

Question 1

Article 1

Answer 1

Legislative (Congress)

Question 2

Article 2

Answer 2

Executive (President/Vice-President)

Question 3

Article 3

Answer 3

Judicial (Federal Courts)

Question 4

Article 4

Answer 4

States’ rights

Question 5

Article 5

Answer 5

Amending the Constitution

Question 6

Article 6

Answer 6

National Supremacy

Question 7

Article 7

Answer 7

Ratify the Constitution

Question 8

1st Amendment

Answer 8

RAPPS

Freedom of religion, assembly, petition, the press, and speech

Question 9

2nd Amendment

Answer 9

Right to bear arms

Question 10

3rd Amendment

Answer 10

Easily remembered with three words; no housing troops. The 3rd amendment is the right to freedom from being required to house troops during peacetime.

Question 11

4th Amendment

Answer 11

The protection against unreasonable search and seizure, is easily remembered with by asking the question: What are you searching 4?

Question 12

5th Amendment

Answer 12

Rights of the accused. All five wore GEDDS; grand jury, eminent domain, due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination

Question 13

6th Amendment

Answer 13

Public speedy trials, a phrase that contains only 6-letter words, is the mnemonic for the 6th amendment. This is also the amendment that says someone accused in court has the right to confront his accusers, and the right to a defense counsel.

Question 14

7th Amendment

Answer 14

Right to jury trial

Question 15

8th Amendment

Answer 15

Imagine that you’ve been convicted of a crime in a village of cannibals, and as punishment, they ate you! This seems like cruel and unusual punishment, doesn’t it? The 8th amendment, fortunately, protects you from cruel and unusual punishments like this.

Question 16

9th amendment

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Users of the Major/Peg system already associate 9 with the letter P, as the letter P looks like a 9 facing the other way. That helps with remember the 9th amendment, where P stands for Power and People. The 9th amendment makes it clear that individuals do have rights that aren’t explicity mentioned in the Constitution.

Question 17

10th Amendment

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While 9 says people have rights not spelled out in the US Constitution, 10 says that the United States (as in, the federal government) has only those powers explicitly spelled out in the US Constitution. The remaining powers are delegated to the states or the people. This is sometimes known as the “state’s rights” amendment. Since the phrase “state right” has 10 letters, it’s easy to remeber that it’s the 10th amendment.

Question 18

11th Amendment

Answer 18

1 citizen may not sue 1 state that isn’t the citizen’s own with permission from the defending’s states court.

Question 19

12th Amendment

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Covers the elections of America’s jobs “1” and “2”, that of the US President and US Vice-President. This amendment requires separate ballots to be cast for each office.

Question 20

13th Amendment

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Freed the slaves (outlawed slavery). It’s not too hard to think of how there were only 13 colonies when America liberated itself from the British. Just remember that 13 amendments after the 13 colonies were liberated, the slaves were liberated as well.

Question 21

14th Amendment

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Equal protection; foreign-born citizens and natural-born citizens having the same rights. Equal rights to “Foreignteen”-born citizens, and this should be easy to remember.

Question 22

15th Amendment

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Every man may vote, regardless of whether or not he was a former slave (women excluded). The phrase “Every man may vote” has 15 letters, making this one easy to remember.

Question 23

16th Amendment

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Gives the federal government power to tax, just link April 16th, as the day when the federal government should have their money, to amendment 16, as the reason why they’re getting that money. Legal to work at 16 and pay income taxes.

Question 24

17th Amendment

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First, the phrase “elect your senators” has 17 letters. Also, 7-1 (from the number 17) equals 6, which is the number of years for which a senator serves. Senators are directly elected.

Question 25

18th Amendment

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Illegal to drink alcohol at 18. Outlawed manufacture, transportation and distribution of alcohol.

Question 26

19th Amendment

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Women’s suffrage

Question 27

20th Amendment

Answer 27

It states that the president takes office on January 20th, so you can just think of it as the January 20th amendment. Congress takes office on January 3rd. It not only covers what happens when a president goes into office, but also when a president goes out, such as a death in the office. The other parts concern how often Congress must meet and what happens when a state representative dies.

Question 28

21st Amendment

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Repeals the 18th amendment. Legal to drink at 21. You can’t drink at 18, but you can drink at 21.

Question 29

22nd Amendment

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Another one that nearly writes its own mnemonic. It limits a President “2”(to) 2 terms.

Question 30

23rd Amendment

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Can be thought of as the “23-D-C” amendment, because it allows citizens of Washington, D.C. to vote for the president.

Question 31

24th Amendment

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Unconstitutional to charge people for registering to vote. If you link this amendment with December 24th, when Santa is very busy at the North Pole (or “No Pol”), you can easily recall that this is the “no poll tax” amendment.

Question 32

25th Amendment

Answer 32

Details the order of succession when the President dies. An easy way to remember this is the short poem, “Prez not alive? See 25!”

Question 33

26th Amendment

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This amendment lowered the voting age to 18. You can remember this by recalling that 26-(2+6)=18. True, we’re throwing some arithmetic into the mix, but focusing on this fact can help you remember it all the more.

Question 34

27th Amendment

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says that Congress can vote themselves a pay raise, but it won’t take effect until after the next Congressional election. Imagine Congress voting themselves to a pay level of $270,000. It was first proposed on September 25, 1789, and wasn’t ratified until May 7, 1992 - over 202 years!

Question 35

A simple mnemonic for memorizing the 16th through 19th amendments in order as a group

Answer 35

“In come senators with wine and women.” “In come” refers to the income tax amendment (#16). “senators” refers to the 17th amendment, dealing with the election of senators, “wine” referring to the prohibition amendment (the 18th), and “women“, of course, referring to the women’s vote amendment.