Constitution Vocabulary Question Preview (ID: 46294)


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This clause states that the federal Constitution and federal law are superior to the state constitutions and state laws.
a) Supremacy Clause
b) Necessary and Proper Clause
c) Due Process Clause
d) Elastic Clause

The _____ tells us that not all powers possessed by Congress are explicitly stated.
a) Supremacy Clause
b) Due Process Clause
c) Necessary and Proper Clause
d) Emoluments Clause

Article VI forbids this type of test to determine fitness for office.
a) Age
b) Religious
c) Citizenship
d) Residency

A legal situation where actual interests are at stake
a) Jurisdiction
b) writ of habeas corpus
c) indictment
d) Case or controversy

A court order requiring the government to give legal reasons for holding a person in custody
a) habeas corpus
b) ex post facto law
c) bill of attainder
d) indictment

A law making an act illegal after it was done
a) Indictment
b) Ex post facto law
c) habeas corpus
d) Bill of Attainder

“Punishment by legislature”; this punishment is forbidden by the Constitution
a) indictment
b) ex post facto law
c) Bill of Attainder
d) Habeas Corpus

Formal, written accusation of a crime
a) Indictment
b) Impeachment
c) Bill of Attainder
d) warrant

The act of accusing a public official with misconduct
a) Bill of attainder
b) indictment
c) writ
d) Impeachment

Request to have a lower court decision reviewed by a higher court
a) jurisdiction
b) warrant
c) appeal
d) indictment

The authority of a court to hear and decide issues of law
a) original jurisdiction
b) warrant
c) appellate jurisdiction
d) jurisdiction

the authority to hear a case the first time it is argued
a) appellate jurisdiction
b) original jurisdiction
c) appeal
d) jurisdiction

the authority to hear a case on appeal
a) appeal
b) original jurisdiction
c) appellate jurisdiction
d) indictment

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