Civics English Grammar Quizzes for Verbs

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

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 Constitution [____________] the government’s power into three branches to prevent one person or group from having too much power.

Many Americans believed that the Constitution should [____________] the rights of the people, and they wanted a list of all the things a government could not do..

Article II of the Constitution establishes the executive branch. The executive branch [____________] the laws that Congress passes. The executive branch makes sure all the people follow the laws of the United States.

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.

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

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.

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

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