What does the Constitution do?

Explanation

The Constitution creates the structure of the national government, defines how it works, and guarantees basic rights to the people.

Why it matters

Any one of these three answers is accepted. The Constitution both builds the government and limits it by protecting individual rights.

The 65/20 special consideration

Question 2 is not in the 65/20 set. An applicant who is 65 or older and has been a lawful permanent resident for 20 years or more studies only the 20 marked questions, so this one would not be asked. Everyone else studies all 100.

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Answers that get mixed up with this one

These are the wrong options the practice test puts beside this question. Each one is the correct answer to a different question, which is what makes it tempting.

• a change (to the Constitution)answers Question 4: What is an amendment?
• capitalist economyanswers Question 11: What is the economic system in the United States?
• one hundred (100)answers Question 18: How many U.S. Senators are there?

More Principles of American Democracy questions

Questions the officer draws from the same part of the test. Studying them together is what keeps their answers apart.

• Question 1: What is the supreme law of the land?the Constitution
• Question 3: The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?We the People
• Question 4: What is an amendment?a change (to the Constitution) · an addition (to the Constitution)
• Question 5: What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?the Bill of Rights
• Question 6: What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?speech · religion · assembly · press · petition the government