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FLORIDA CIVIC LITERACY EXAM (FCLE)
STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2026
Which United States Supreme Court holding impacted the way that religious
practice was approached in public schools? - correct-answer -Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Who is Commander in Chief of the military? - correct-answer -the President
What is one power of the U.S. Senate? - correct-answer -ratify international
treaties
What is popular sovereignty? - correct-answer -rule by the people
What did the Declaration of Independence do? - correct-answer -declared
independence from Great Britain
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What is the "rule of law"? - correct-answer -No one is above the law.
Which of the following pairs of cases impacted First Amendment rights? - correct-
answer -Texas v. Johnson (1989) and Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
How did the U.S. Constitution resolve the dispute between slave and free states
over representation? - correct-answer -Three-Fifths Compromise
What is the length of a U.S. Representative's elected term? - correct-answer -two
years
Which right did the colonists consider "inalienable" in the Declaration of
Independence? - correct-answer -pursuit of happiness
Which United States Supreme Court case focused on executive privilege? -
correct-answer -U.S. v. Nixon (1974)
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Which of the following pairs of cases limited the rights of African Americans? -
correct-answer -Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Why did many colonists fight the British during the American Revolution? -
correct-answer -because they opposed taxation without representation
What is an example of judicial review? - correct-answer -the power of the
Supreme Court to find laws unconstitutional
Which point of view is reflected in Common Sense? - correct-answer -
Representatives should be elected.
Which of the following cases impacted interpretation of the Fourteenth
Amendment? - correct-answer -Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Which phrase from a letter written by Sarah Grimké in 1837 is reflected in the
Fourteenth Amendment? - correct-answer -"I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender
not our claim to equality."
FLORIDA CIVIC LITERACY EXAM (FCLE)
STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2026
Which United States Supreme Court holding impacted the way that religious
practice was approached in public schools? - correct-answer -Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Who is Commander in Chief of the military? - correct-answer -the President
What is one power of the U.S. Senate? - correct-answer -ratify international
treaties
What is popular sovereignty? - correct-answer -rule by the people
What did the Declaration of Independence do? - correct-answer -declared
independence from Great Britain
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What is the "rule of law"? - correct-answer -No one is above the law.
Which of the following pairs of cases impacted First Amendment rights? - correct-
answer -Texas v. Johnson (1989) and Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
How did the U.S. Constitution resolve the dispute between slave and free states
over representation? - correct-answer -Three-Fifths Compromise
What is the length of a U.S. Representative's elected term? - correct-answer -two
years
Which right did the colonists consider "inalienable" in the Declaration of
Independence? - correct-answer -pursuit of happiness
Which United States Supreme Court case focused on executive privilege? -
correct-answer -U.S. v. Nixon (1974)
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Which of the following pairs of cases limited the rights of African Americans? -
correct-answer -Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Why did many colonists fight the British during the American Revolution? -
correct-answer -because they opposed taxation without representation
What is an example of judicial review? - correct-answer -the power of the
Supreme Court to find laws unconstitutional
Which point of view is reflected in Common Sense? - correct-answer -
Representatives should be elected.
Which of the following cases impacted interpretation of the Fourteenth
Amendment? - correct-answer -Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Which phrase from a letter written by Sarah Grimké in 1837 is reflected in the
Fourteenth Amendment? - correct-answer -"I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender
not our claim to equality."
