Pop quiz on the Constitution
The Chronicle of Higher Education points out that September 17th is Constitution Day, so to help celebrate I'll pass along some of their pop quiz questions. No fair cheating!
1. The Constitution was drafted in the summer of 1787 by:
a. A multicultural body that reflected the broad diversity of America of the day, including women, Native Americans, free African-Americans, and slaves
b. 55 white, privileged Protestant men
c. 53 white, privileged Protestant men and two slightly confused white Catholic males thrown in for good measure
d. Moses
2. Who believed that the American Constitution should be set aside and rewritten every generation?
a. The liberal senator from Massachusetts
b. Nikita Khrushchev
c. Satan
d. Thomas Jefferson
7. Article One, Section Eight further declares that it falls to Congress "to declare war." This means:
a. Congress may cravenly delegate its war-making powers to the president.
b. Congress may cravenly delegate its war-making powers to the president.
c. Congress may cravenly delegate its war-making powers to the president.
d. All of the above
8. Article Two stipulates that "no person except a natural-born citizen" can be president. As a consequence:
a. No one born by cesarean can be president.
b. Progeny of alien insemination cannot be president.
c. Those born in Guantánamo Bay prison must take their case before the Supreme Court.
d. Arnold Schwarzenegger is out of luck.
1. The Constitution was drafted in the summer of 1787 by:
a. A multicultural body that reflected the broad diversity of America of the day, including women, Native Americans, free African-Americans, and slaves
b. 55 white, privileged Protestant men
c. 53 white, privileged Protestant men and two slightly confused white Catholic males thrown in for good measure
d. Moses
2. Who believed that the American Constitution should be set aside and rewritten every generation?
a. The liberal senator from Massachusetts
b. Nikita Khrushchev
c. Satan
d. Thomas Jefferson
7. Article One, Section Eight further declares that it falls to Congress "to declare war." This means:
a. Congress may cravenly delegate its war-making powers to the president.
b. Congress may cravenly delegate its war-making powers to the president.
c. Congress may cravenly delegate its war-making powers to the president.
d. All of the above
8. Article Two stipulates that "no person except a natural-born citizen" can be president. As a consequence:
a. No one born by cesarean can be president.
b. Progeny of alien insemination cannot be president.
c. Those born in Guantánamo Bay prison must take their case before the Supreme Court.
d. Arnold Schwarzenegger is out of luck.

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