A Proposed Voting Test

Government is an extremely complex machine. While democracy has many advantages, it also possesses many disadvantages, including allowing uninformed citizens the right to govern others.

If you vote, you govern; you make decisions that impact the lives of millions of other people. Are you qualified to govern? As we do not let teachers teach or mechanics work on cars without a bare minimum of knowledge concerning their field of work, so we should not let people govern our nation without a basic understanding of the government.

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  1. A government of the people composed of representatives is
  2. Jefferson's famous unalienable Rights, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", are ideas put forth by this English philosopher.
  3. Dividing power between a federal and state governments is known as
  4. Dividing powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branch is known as
  5. Number of voting representatives sent to Congress (both houses)
  6. Number of Supreme Court justices as set out by the Constitution
  7. Senators were originally selected by
  8. The powers granted to the government can be changed by
  9. Which of the following rights is not guaranteed by the First Amendment?
  10. The President may appoint new judges and ambassadors with the advise and consent of

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