Thread by @DavidPepper

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I gave my law class a pop quiz today.

10 questions.

Go ahead and take it.

1. Which of the following is a right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights?                              
_____Public Education   _____  Employment   ____   Trial by Jury  _____Voting
 
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2. When the Constitution was approved by the original colonies, how many states had to ratify it in order for it to be in effect?  

3. If a person flees from justice into another state, who has authority to ask for his return?
 
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4. Money is coined by order of:  __U.S. Congress   ___The President’s Cabinet ___State Legislatures                            

5. A U.S. senator elected at the general election in November takes office the following year on what date?  
 
6. Name the man who runs the FBI

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7. Name two of the purposes of the U.S. Constitution.  
 
8. Name the Attorney General of the United States  
 
9. Name two things which the states are forbidden to do by the U.S. Constitution:  
 
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10. If it were proposed to join Alabama and Mississippi to form one state, what groups would have to vote approval in order for this to be done?  _____

10 questions.

How’d you do?

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Now imagine 55 more questions like this.

If you got 7 wrong total (out of 65), you would not have been allowed to vote in Alabama in 1965.

This was the “literacy test.”

(And no class I’ve ever taught, 2Ls and 3Ls, has ever passed).

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