I'm taking the Federal constitution test pretty soon, and I'd like to know:\n1. Have you taken it? (I mean, recently, not more than 5 years ago)\n2. In what grade?\n3. What should I know/study?\n4. Any websites that would help?\nand \n5. What is Illinois' current delegation to the House of Representatives? The only site I could find was from 1998.
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go on google and type in Illinois' current delegation to the House of Representatives it might help
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For starters, write in plain English, without substituting numbers for letters and using proper grammar. If you ask me, you should know what to write about the Federalist papers if you're in AP US History, but maybe I'm just fooling myself. 2 pages seems like a bit much for such a short letter.\n\nIf you don't have it already, there's a text for these papers at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed10.htm\n\nWhat is this project? A summary? An analysis? If it's a summary, then you have your work cut out for you. Summarize each paragraph, as easy as that. If you're doing an analysis, think of what factors might have caused Madison to publish this paper and why he wrote what he did. Try to gauge the impact that the papers had on society and the atmosphere of the time.\n\nAnd use Wikipedia. Like mad.
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What constitution test? Scientific Constitution? Legal Constitution? State Constitution? US Consitution? County Constitution?\n\nSee?\n\nHave you considered studying?
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California (as well as a few other states) have what is called referendum votes where key issues can be presented to the people depending on how the issue arrived in Congress.  The federal government doesnt have this system.  That is why we have a representative democracy government in the first place.  If you want to speak out on one side of a particular issue - write a letter or e-mail to your rep or senator.  They actually respond back.  I have e-mailed them on a number of occasions and they really do like to hear from their constituents.  Just make sure you are writing something logical and rational or give a personal experience.  Dont say something like "you f*ck*in idiot vote against this stupid f*c*ing bill" or they wont listen.  But they do listen when people write heart felt letters and e-mails stating their opinions.  I have worked with numerous members of our elected government - despite what most people think - they really will listen
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one more website\nhttp://www.immihelp.com/citizenship/us-citizenship-sample-civics-questions.html\n\nGood luck.
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Right now? It's defined by all sorts of clauses and such, it SHOULD be defined by a constitution, but since that hasn't been ratified, I really can't tell you exactly how it works.\n\nHowever, I think what is practiced now, is identical to what is in the constitution, so you could read up on that (don't worry, it is an easy read). I can't remember, and I think it in practice is useful for voicing Europe-Wide views in different political alignment separate from "national" interests.
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After reading these answers, I recomend ALL of you read the Constitution.  None of you have shown much knowledge of the text.  BTW neither the Constitution or the Bill of Rights uses the phrase 'Separation of Church and State' or the word Church for that matter.  "Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"  How many people remember the second part of that sentence?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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james madison is really good. they are one of the cheapest ones that i have found also. i did it all online and it only took me 1 1/2 years. its really easy to get in. hope that this helps you . ohhhh the website is PCDI.com
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amendment X (the Tenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. It states:\nThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.\nThe Amendment, which makes explicit the idea that the federal government is limited only to the powers it is granted in the Constitution.\n\n\nSo Has the fed out step it self? As in schools, abortion, marriage and so on and on. It all was meant to be up to each state not the feds. \n\nI would need to say Yes to your Question, but is it better this way. In some ways yes but many others no not at all.
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It is almost impossible to find real questions in this category, because they are crowded out by the 9-11 conspiracy questions (at least 10 per day), questions from kids trying to get people to do their homework for them, and questions from trolls trying to elicit a reaction.\nVery frustrating.\n\nI will probably have some questions for you around March or possibly in June. I am conservative, and I want to see how the new senate and house members conduct themselves for awhile so that I will have something to ask about and discuss. \nMany of them are new, and they may have some good ideas. I am hoping that they are not all going to toe some specific party line, and are capable of independent thought/voting.
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"No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen. "\n\nSelf-explanatory.
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Try writting about:\n1.  the history of a house\n2. the evolution of the American Constitution from 1787 up to today (with amendaments and all...)\n3. or try a great political, cultural ruler.\n4. fascist, nazist or communist propaganda.
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nine years in the Constitution\nseven for the House\n\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html#section3
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Try perusing the Federalist Papers for an argument for it or finding his notes from the Constitutional Convention (probably at a college library). Good luck!
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I used touchscreen voting today, in Cook County in IL. We were supposed to be asked whether we wanted to use a touchscreen or an optical scan ballot, but I was not. I could have asked about it, I'm sure, but I didn't, so that's my fault. However, I should have been asked. I had no problems with the touchscreen machine as far as I could tell. The type I used was a AVC Edge touch screen made by Sequoia, with a paper record that prints out under glass that you approve before you finish voting. I felt a bit exposed, because we didn't have curtains around us, and the machines were quite close together. I kind of felt like I did in high school, wondering if anyone was cheating off of me. When I voted in the presidential election in 2004, I used a paper ballot, and I went into a curtained booth, and marked it, and then put it into an optical scan machine. I think that felt more private. I think I would rather have had a curtain around me, or else at least had the machines turned to a wall, with more space between them, instead of having your back to the middle of the room, where someone could look over your shoulder without you knowing. There would have been room in my polling place for that.\n\nWhen you review your choices on the screen, and when they print out on the paper, they don't have what party the candidate is affiliated with, and I wish they did. That would have made it easier for me to verify that my selections were correct.&#92;\n\nI didn't have to wait at all to vote, and nobody was there handing out flyers, and there were no exit pollers. I didn't really expect there to be though. I live in suburban Cook County, not in Chicago.\n\nSorry if I was long winded. I think we should all share our voting experiences with each other!
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It is important to know that the Constitution does not "give" us any rights. As Jefferson wrote "We are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights" . The Constitution, including the Bill of Rights (those ten amendments to which you refer) were created to clearly limit the power of the national government from interfering with those rights. The question then is: which of those rights which are God given and mentioned in the Bill of Rights is most likely threatened by the government? Since the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments apply to persons accused of crimes they don't apply to 14 yr olds "everyday". I'm not sure that's a great question from your teacher.