Civics English Grammar Quizzes for Verbs

The judicial branch [____________] the highest judicial power in the Supreme Court.

All states [____________] equal power in the Senate because each state has the same number of senators.

The Declaration of Independence [____________] that all people are created equal and have “certain unalienable rights.”

The rule of law helps to make sure that government protects all people equally and does not [____________] the rights of certain people.

If both houses [____________] the bill, it is considered “enrolled.” An enrolled bill goes to the president to be signed into law. If the president signs the bill, it becomes a federal law.

In 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln [____________] the Emancipation Proclamation.

After an amendment has passed in Congress or by a special convention, the amendment must then [____________] by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.

The Constitution [____________] no limit on the number of terms a senator may serve.

The president’s powers include the ability to sign treaties with other countries and to select ambassadors to represent the United States around the world. The president also sets national policies and proposes laws to Congress. The president [____________] the top leaders of the federal departments. When there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the president [____________] a new member.

The Framers of the Constitution made sure that the Senate would be small. This would [____________] it more orderly than the larger House of Representatives.