How well do we know the inner workings of our government?
How well do we, U.S. citizens, know about our history and government?
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asks persons from all over the world who have applied for citizenship 100 basic civic questions.
Under the category: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, Principles of American Democracy:
Question 1: What is the supreme law of the land?
2. What does the Constitution do?
3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
4. What is an amendment?
5. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
6 What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
7. How many amendments does the Constitution have?
8. What did the Declaration of Independence do?
9. What are TWO rights in the Declaration of Independence?
10. What is freedom of religion?
11. What is the economic system in the United States?
12. What is the “rule of law?”
13. Name ONE branch or part of the government.
14. What stops ONE branch of government from becoming too powerful?
15. Who is in charge of the executive branch?
16. Who makes federal laws?
17. What are the TWO parts of the U.S. Congress?
18. How many U.S. Senators are there?
19. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
20. Who is ONE of your state’s U.S. Senators now?
21. The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
22. We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years?
23. Name your U.S. Representative.
24. Who does a U.S. Senator represent?
25. Why do some states have more Representatives than other states?
These are only 25 of 100 questions people seeking citizenship in the United States of America have to answer correctly to become citizens.
How many of the 25 questions can a citizen of the U.S. answer correctly without searching for the correct answer?
Answer all 25 correctly and you will be listed in next week’s column when questions 26-50 will be posted and receive a FREE 16 x 20-inch canvas photo.
FREEDOM
“One should not consider that the great principles of freedom end at your own frontiers, that as long as you have freedom, let the rest have pragmatism. No! Freedom is indivisible and one has to take a moral attitude towards it.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West