UF Civic Literacy
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Denning [Date] [Course title]
, What is the supreme law of the land? - Answer: The Constitution
What does the Constitution do? - Answer: - Sets up the government
- Defines the government
- Protects basic rights of Americans
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these three words?
- Answer: "We the People"
What is an amendment? - Answer: - A change (to the Constitution)
- An addition (to the Constitution)
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? - Answer: The Bill of Rights
What are the rights or freedoms from the First Amendment? - Answer: - speech
- religion
- assembly
- press
- petition the government
How many amendments does the Constitution have? - Answer: 27
What did the Declaration of Independence do? - Answer: - announced our independence from Great
Britain
- declared our independence from Great Britain
- said that the United States is free from Great Britain
What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? - Answer: - life
- liberty
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