Answers to the Constitution Day Quiz

1.  Article III deals with the Judicial Branch.

2.  The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.

3.  Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 -- 22 years after the Constitution was signed.

4.  They are all branches of the federal government.

5.  The Three-Fifths Clause, which specified that slaves be counted as only 3/5 of a person, was repealed by the 14th Amendment in 1868.

6.  Today, September 17th, is Constitution Day in recognition of the day the US Constitution was signed.

7.  10 years.  See the 22nd Amendment.

8. 27.

9. 38 in a 50 state union.  (The Constitution says 3/4 of the States).

10. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is from the Declaration of Independence.  The Constitution says life, liberty, or property.