Civics English Grammar Quizzes for Verbs

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..

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

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.”

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.

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.

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

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