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FLORIDA CIVIC LITERACY EXAM (FCLE)
STUDY GUIDE | 100 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS | VE RIFIED | LATEST
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Question : What is the supreme law of the land?
Correct answer: the Constitution
Question : What does the Constitution do?
Correct answer: -sets up the government
-defines the government -protects basic rights of Americans
Question : The idea of self-government is in the first three words
of the Constitution. What are these words?
Correct answer: We the People
Question : What is an amendment?
Correct answer: -a change (to the Constitution)
-an addition (to the Constitution)
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Question : What do we call the first ten amendments to the
Constitution?
Correct answer: the Bill of Rights
Question : What is one right or freedom from the First
Amendment?
Correct answer: -speech
-religion -assembly -press -petition the government
Question : How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Correct answer: twenty-seven
Question : What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Correct answer: -announced our independence (from Great
Britain) -declared our independence (from Great Britain) -said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)
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Question : What are two rights in the
Declaration of Independence?
Correct answer: -life
-liberty -pursuit of happiness
Question : What is freedom of religion?
Correct answer: You can practice
any religion, or not practice a religion.
Question : What is the economic system
in the United States?
Correct answer: -capitalist economy
-market economy
Question : What is the "rule of law"?
Correct answer: -Everyone must follow the law.
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-Leaders must obey the law.-Government must obey the law.-No one is above the law.
Question : Name one branch or part of
the government.
Correct answer: -Congress
-legislative -President -executive -the courts -judicial
Question : What stops one branch of
government from becoming too powerful?
Correct answer: -checks and
balances -separation of powers
