Amendments to the Constitution Part I
PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT
REVIEW—QUIZ GRADE
1. Define, and give an example of judicial review.
2. Define amendment
3. How and why are amendments added to the Constitution?
4. Who won the right to vote in each of the following amendments?
The 15th Amendment
The 19th Amendment
The 26th Amendment
5. Why was the 14th Amendment adopted?
6. Explain the importance of the privileges and immunities clause in the 14th Amendment.
7. Explain the importance of the due process clause in the 14th Amendment.
8. Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?
9. Memorize the First Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
10. Explain, and give an example to the two parts of freedom of religion in the First
Amendment.
Establishment clause
Free exercise clause
11. Supreme Court case of Engel v. Vitale (1962)
12. Does the Constitution prohibit public school teachers from teaching about religion in school?
13. Does the First Amendment protect a person's right to burn the American flag as a form of
political protest?
14. Explain this statement: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man
in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." -Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. What
would be a modern equivalent?
15. Explain the importance of the 1735 case of John Peter Zenger.
16. Identify
Censorship
Rumor
Libel
Slander
17. Identify
Assembly
Petition
Association
18. What is a legal limit on public assemblies?