Civic Literacy Exam - Competency 4:
Supreme Court Cases and Executive
Actions Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
What is the highest court in the US? -
correct answer ✅Supreme Court
What does the judicial branch do? -
correct answer ✅Interprets the laws
which supreme court case held that the president cannot use
executive privilege to withhold evidence that is relevant in a
criminal trial -
correct answer ✅United States v. Nixon
What Supreme Court case established judicial review? -
correct answer ✅Marbury v. Madison (1803)
What did McCulloch v. Maryland establish? -
correct answer ✅implied powers of the national government,
which strengthened the federal government
in which of the following does the constitution grant sweeping
power to congress to make laws beyond those that are explicitly
, Civic Literacy Exam - Competency 4:
Supreme Court Cases and Executive
Actions Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
enumerated in article 1 -
correct answer ✅Article I, Section 8, Clause 18
What is the significance of the necessary and proper clause -
correct answer ✅enables Congress to pass special laws to require
other departments of the government to prosecute or adjudicate
particular claims
What did the Court uphold in Gibbons v Ogden -
correct answer ✅Congress has the power to "regulate commerce"
and that federal law takes precedence over state laws
What was the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case -
correct answer ✅upheld slavery in United States territories,
denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the
Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Which court decision established separate but equal which
provided separate public facilities for both whites and blacks as
long as they were "equal" -
correct answer ✅Plessy vs. Ferguson
Supreme Court Cases and Executive
Actions Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
What is the highest court in the US? -
correct answer ✅Supreme Court
What does the judicial branch do? -
correct answer ✅Interprets the laws
which supreme court case held that the president cannot use
executive privilege to withhold evidence that is relevant in a
criminal trial -
correct answer ✅United States v. Nixon
What Supreme Court case established judicial review? -
correct answer ✅Marbury v. Madison (1803)
What did McCulloch v. Maryland establish? -
correct answer ✅implied powers of the national government,
which strengthened the federal government
in which of the following does the constitution grant sweeping
power to congress to make laws beyond those that are explicitly
, Civic Literacy Exam - Competency 4:
Supreme Court Cases and Executive
Actions Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
enumerated in article 1 -
correct answer ✅Article I, Section 8, Clause 18
What is the significance of the necessary and proper clause -
correct answer ✅enables Congress to pass special laws to require
other departments of the government to prosecute or adjudicate
particular claims
What did the Court uphold in Gibbons v Ogden -
correct answer ✅Congress has the power to "regulate commerce"
and that federal law takes precedence over state laws
What was the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case -
correct answer ✅upheld slavery in United States territories,
denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the
Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Which court decision established separate but equal which
provided separate public facilities for both whites and blacks as
long as they were "equal" -
correct answer ✅Plessy vs. Ferguson
