The Free Exercise Clause

question 59

Multiple Choice

The free exercise clause

• A) limits the national government from prohibiting people from practicing their religions.
• B) is part of the First Amendment.
• C) allows the national government to exercise control over free speech.
• D) helps state governments to provide charter schools.
• E) Options A and B are true.

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Definitions:

Checks and Balances

A fundamental principle of the U.S. Constitution designed to ensure that no single branch of government becomes too powerful, enabling each branch to limit the powers of the others.

Legislative Supremacy

The concept that the legislature is the supreme branch of government and its laws, within constitutional limits, are unchallengeable.

Bicameral Legislature

A legislative body composed of two separate chambers or houses, typically a lower house and an upper house.

Proportional Representation

An electoral system in which the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received.