Civics English Grammar Quizzes for Verbs

The Constitution says that the government will conduct a census of the population every 10 years to count the number of people in each state. The results of the census [____________] used to recalculate the number of representatives each state should have.

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.

Congress [____________] into two parts—the Senate and the House of Representatives.

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

The First Amendment [____________] Congress from setting up an official U.S. religion, and protects citizens’ rights to hold any religious belief, or none at all.

When the Senate proposes a bill, it sends the bill to a Senate committee. The Senate committee studies the issue and the bill. When the House of Representatives proposes a bill, it sends the bill to a House of Representatives committee. The committee studies the bill and sometimes makes changes to it. Then the bill goes to the full House or Senate for consideration. When each chamber [____________] its own version of the bill, it often goes to a “conference committee.”

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

People who [____________] in a representative’s district are called “constituents.”

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

In a market economy, competition, supply, and demand [____________] the decisions of businesses and consumers.