FLORIDA CIVIC LITERACY PACKAGE DEAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS UPDATED 2025

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 wo...

What historic document (17th century) created a "civil body politic"? - ANSWER Mayflower Compact What was the Magna Carta? - ANSWER document that started to limit the power of the king, establish habeas corpus and limit taxation What document did American colonists, protesting the Stamp ...

Marbury v. Madison (1803) - ANSWER Established judicial review. Supreme Court now had the authority to overturn a law based on Constitutionality. Mculloch v. Maryland (1819) - ANSWER (1819) U.S. Supreme Court case that declared the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional and that Mary...

1. What is the supreme law of the land? - ANSWER Constitution 2. 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 words? - A...

Marbury v. Madison - ANSWER This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review Dred Scott v. Sanford - ANSWER The case that ruled that slaves were property and could not sue Lochner v. New York - ANSWER Supreme Court case that decided against setting up an 8 hour work day fo...

What form does the US government have? - ANSWER What was one of the main reasons the English colonists came to the New World? - ANSWER New Opportunity: Freedom What rights are stated in the Declaration of Independence? - ANSWER What were the reasons the colonists separated from England? -...