Step 2 of Executive Branch Computer Research
Your Name ______________________________
Scavenger Hunt: Comparing North Carolina's Constitution with the United States Constitution
1. The copy of the North Carolina Constitution you are viewing is located on the General Assembly’s website. Using your knowledge from yesterday, which branch of the state government is the General Assembly? _______________________________________.
2. What is one similarity you see between the NC Constitution and the United States Constitutions’ preamble? ________________________________________________
3. How many Articles does the North Carolina Constitution have? _________
4. How many does the United States Constitution have? ___________
Individual Rights:
5. What part of the North Carolina Constitution deals with individual rights? _________
6. How many sections are there? ____________
7. What part of the US Constitution deals with individual rights? ___________________
8. How many Amendments are there? ___________________
9. What is different about the amendments in the US Constitution and the amendments in the NC Constitution? (hint: think of that vocabulary word “to incorporate”) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10. Write at least 3 similarities between Article I of the US Constitution and Article II of the North Carolina Constitution.
11. List 3 differences between Article I of the US Constitution and Article II of the North Carolina Constitution.
12. List 2 similarities between Article II of the US Constitution and Article III of the North Carolina Constitution.
13. List 2 differences between Article II of the US Constitution and Article III of the North Carolina Constitution.
14. List 1 similarity between Article III of the US Constitution and Article IV of the North Carolina Constitution.
15. List 1 difference between Article III of the US Constitution and Article IV of the North Carolina Constitution.
16. List 5 Articles that are in the NC Constitution but not in the US Constitution:
17. Article IV Section 8 of the NC Constitution disqualifies from office “any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God.” Rewrite what this means in your own words: _____________________________________________________________________
18. Now read Article VI of the US Constitution. Quote the passage that makes the quote from the NC Constitution above invalid? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
19. Using past knowledge, what is this clause known as (when the US Constitution overrides something written in a state Constitution)? _____________________________________
Turn this in when you are finished, then move on to the next step on the Questgarden Website.
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