Welcome to your Grade 9 Citizenship Education chapter 3
After carefully reading the following 30 questions, choose the correct answer.
1.
What is defined as the supreme law of the land?
2.
Which term refers to a government system that acts according to the supreme law?
3.
What kind of constitution is simple to amend, often by ordinary legislative process?
4.
Which country is cited as having an unwritten constitution?
5.
What traditional Ethiopian document was used to legitimize and maintain the monarchs?
6.
In what year did Ethiopia get its first written constitution?
7.
What was the primary goal of the 1931 and 1955 Ethiopian written constitutions?
8.
Which regime introduced the ideology of socialism into the Ethiopian constitution in 1987?
9.
The 1987 PDRE constitution introduced which concept for the first time in Ethiopia?
10.
Which document served as the law of the land in Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995?
11.
When was the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) constitution adopted?
12.
How many chapters and articles does the 1995 FDRE constitution have?
13.
Which constitutional principle is found in Article 8 of the 1995 FDRE constitution?
14.
Separation of state and religion (Secularism) is found in which article of the 1995 constitution?
15.
What type of constitution requires special or difficult procedures for amendment?
16.
A constitution that is undocumented or uncodified is known as:
17.
Constitutionalism checks whether the acts of a government are:
18.
Which branch of government is concerned with the limitation of power under constitutionalism?
19.
The 1991 Transitional Charter contained how many articles?
20.
Who issued the 1931 constitution as a "gift" to the Ethiopian people?
21.
What refers to the modification, addition, or removal of constitutional provisions?
22.
In a flexible constitution, constitutional laws are treated the same as:
23.
Constitutionalism is described as being against what kind of government system?
24.
The 1995 FDRE constitution introduced what kind of state structure?
25.
Which Ethiopian document is also known as "Glory of Kings"?
26.
Which two houses of parliament were established by the 1995 constitution?
27.
Article 12 of the FDRE constitution deals with:
28.
Written constitutions are considered advantageous because they are:
29.
What prevents tyranny and guarantees the liberty of individuals?
30.
Supremacy of the Constitution is stated in which article?
