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This part of the US Constitution describes the office, qualifications, and duties of the President and Vice-President of the United States.
What is Article II?
100
The U.S. Constitution has been amended this many times.
What is 27?
100
In addition to the U.S. Supreme Court, Article III of the Constitution establishes this many federal courts.
What is zero?
"The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." (Article III, Section 1)
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The kind of paper on which the original Consitution was written.
What is animal skin parchment?
100
The two cross streets where the National Constitution Center is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
What are 5th and Arch Streets?
200
The number of Articles in the U.S. Constitution.
What is seven?
200
The 19th Amendment, which extended the right to vote to women, was ratified in what year?
What is 1920?
200
It is in this part of the U.S. Constitution that the number of Supreme Court Justices is set forth as nine.
What is nowhere.
200
The number of pages of the original Constitution.
What is four?
200
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and __________________, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
What is "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity"?
300
This part of the U.S. Constitution limited the right to vote to white, male landowners.
What is "no part"? The U.S. Constitution in its original form left it to the states to determine who was qualified to vote.
300
This punctuation mark has caused widely differing and legally significant interpretations of the Second Amendment.
What is a comma?
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
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This website is the most helpful place to learn about U.S. Supreme Court opinions.
What is SCOTUSblog?
300
The number of words in the original Constitution.
What is 4,400?
300
The word derived from ancient Greek that describes the branch of science or philosophy concerned with laws.
What is nomology?
400
This Article sets forth procedures for amending the Constitution.
What is Article 5?
400
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
What is the Fifth Amendment?
400
Name all nine Supreme Court justices.
John Roberts
Brett Kavanaugh
Neil Gorsuch
Elena Kagan
Sonia Sotomayor
Samuel Alito
Stephen Breyer
Amy Coney Barrett
Clarence Thomas
400
The kind of pen used to write the Constitution.
What is a quill pen?
400
The famous image on the back of George Washington's chair at the Constitutional Convention that had two possible meanings.
The half-sun: was it rising or setting?
500
This is defined in Article III as levying war against the States, adhering to their Enemies, or giving aid or comfort.
What is "treason"?
(Article III, Section 3)
500
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
What is Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment?
500
This part of the U.S. Constitution gives power to the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down laws that are unconstitutional.
What is "no part"? The case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803 first established the power of the courts to strike down laws that violate the Constitution.
500
The year the U.S. Constitution was written and how many years ago from 2021 that is.
What is 1787 and 234?
500
The oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
He was 81 and needed help signing his name.