According to the Arizona Declaration of Rights, where is all political power inherent?Answer: In the people. Source: Article II, Section 2
An Arizona defendant facing a criminal charge is promised jurors from which place?Answer: The county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed. Source: Article II, Section 24
Arizona lets every person freely speak, write, and publish on all subjects. What does the same sentence add?Answer: The person is responsible for the abuse of that right. Source: Article II, Section 6
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Arizona's takings clause covers more than a taking. What other harm to private property calls for just compensation?Answer: Damage to the property. Source: Article II, Section 17
Before a felony is prosecuted by information in Arizona, what must the accused have had or waived?Answer: A preliminary examination before a magistrate. Source: Article II, Section 30
Before final judgment, what may an accused person in Arizona never be compelled to do to secure the rights of Article II, Section 24?Answer: Advance money or fees. Source: Article II, Section 24
For what purpose does Article II, Section 2 of the Arizona Constitution say governments are established?Answer: To protect and maintain individual rights. Source: Article II, Section 2
How are the provisions of the Arizona Constitution to be read under Article II, Section 32?Answer: As mandatory, unless express words declare otherwise. Source: Article II, Section 32
How does Article II, Section 33 treat rights that Arizona's Declaration of Rights leaves unnamed?Answer: The list shall not be construed to deny others retained by the people. Source: Article II, Section 33
How does the Arizona Constitution say justice shall be administered?Answer: Openly, and without unnecessary delay. Source: Article II, Section 11
How is an oath to be administered under the Arizona Declaration of Rights?Answer: In the mode most binding on the conscience of the person taking it. Source: Article II, Section 7
How many persons sit on an Arizona jury in a criminal case where a sentence of thirty years or more is authorized?Answer: 12. Source: Article II, Section 23
In Arizona cases where the law sets the size of the jury, what is the smallest number it may set?Answer: 6. Source: Article II, Section 23
In Article II, Section 5 of the Arizona Constitution, what must an assembly of the people be for?Answer: The common good. Source: Article II, Section 5
In which three fields does Arizona's Article II, Section 36 bar preferential treatment or discrimination?Answer: Public employment, public education, public contracting. Source: Article II, Section 36
Section 28 of Arizona's Declaration of Rights sets the evidence needed before anyone is found guilty of betraying the state. What is it?Answer: Two witnesses to the same overt act, or confession in open court. Source: Article II, Section 28
Someone claims a taking of private property is for a public use. Who decides whether the use is really public in Arizona?Answer: The courts, as a judicial question. Source: Article II, Section 17
What does Arizona's Article II, Section 12 say about a religious qualification for public office?Answer: None shall be required. Source: Article II, Section 12
What does Arizona's right to privacy section protect?Answer: A person's private affairs and home. Source: Article II, Section 8
What does Article II, Section 34 give the state of Arizona and each municipal corporation the right to do?Answer: Engage in industrial pursuits. Source: Article II, Section 34
What does Article II, Section 37 of the Arizona Constitution guarantee?Answer: A vote by secret ballot for employee representation. Source: Article II, Section 37
What does the Arizona Constitution say about the Constitution of the United States?Answer: It is the supreme law of the land. Source: Article II, Section 3
What does the first section of Arizona's Declaration of Rights call essential to the security of individual rights?Answer: A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Source: Article II, Section 1
What is needed for a verdict in every Arizona criminal case?Answer: The unanimous consent of the jurors. Source: Article II, Section 23
What kind of grant does Arizona's Article II, Section 9 forbid a law to make?Answer: An irrevocable grant of a privilege, franchise, or immunity. Source: Article II, Section 9
What may Arizona not keep up in time of peace?Answer: A standing army. Source: Article II, Section 27
What may Arizona public money NOT be appropriated for under Article II, Section 12?Answer: Religious worship, exercise, or instruction. Source: Article II, Section 12
What may never be granted or conferred under Arizona's Article II, Section 29?Answer: Hereditary emoluments, privileges, or powers. Source: Article II, Section 29
When does the Arizona Constitution allow imprisonment for debt?Answer: Only in cases of fraud. Source: Article II, Section 18
When may the authorities of the state suspend the writ of habeas corpus under Arizona's Article II, Section 14?Answer: Never: the section names no exception. Source: Article II, Section 14
Where does Arizona place the military in relation to civilian authority?Answer: It shall be in strict subordination to the civil power. Source: Article II, Section 20
Which of these is among the rights of the accused listed in Arizona's Article II, Section 24?Answer: The right to appeal in all cases. Source: Article II, Section 24
Which three kinds of law does Arizona's Article II, Section 25 say shall never be enacted?Answer: A bill of attainder, an ex post facto law, a law impairing a contract's obligation. Source: Article II, Section 25
Which two protections does Article II, Section 10 of the Arizona Constitution hold?Answer: No compelled self-incrimination and no double jeopardy. Source: Article II, Section 10
Which words does the Arizona Constitution use for all elections?Answer: Free and equal. Source: Article II, Section 21
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After serving the maximum number of terms, how long must an Arizona legislator be out of that office before serving in it again?Answer: No less than one full term. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 21
An Arizona act holds a subject that its title does not express. What is void?Answer: Only so much of the act as the title does not express. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 13
The Arizona house has 60 seats and 40 members are in the room. Is a vote of 25 enough to pass a bill there?Answer: No: it takes a majority of all members elected, here 31. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 15
Arizona's Article III names three branches. Which list matches it?Answer: The legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Source: Article III
At a special session called on the members' own petition, which subjects may the Arizona legislature consider?Answer: Any: the subjects are not limited. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 1
At most how many members of the independent redistricting commission may belong to the same political party?Answer: 2. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 1
For how many days before a session are Arizona legislators free from civil process?Answer: 15 days. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 6
For longer than how many days may neither Arizona house adjourn without the other's consent?Answer: 3 days. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 9
For what is an Arizona legislator not liable in any civil or criminal prosecution?Answer: Words spoken in debate. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 7
How long must a member of the Arizona legislature have been a resident of the state before election?Answer: At least 3 years. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 2
How many consecutive terms may an Arizona state senator serve in that office?Answer: 4. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 21
How many members does each legislative district send to the Arizona house of representatives?Answer: 2. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 1
How many members does the Arizona senate have?Answer: 30. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 1
How many members must ask before the ayes and nays on a question are entered in an Arizona house journal?Answer: 2. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 10
How many members sit on Arizona's independent redistricting commission?Answer: 5. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 1
How many of an Arizona chamber's members have to be there before it can do business?Answer: A majority of its members. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 9
How many subjects may an act of the Arizona legislature embrace?Answer: One, with matters properly connected to it. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 13
How many years pass between elections for a seat in the Arizona house?Answer: 2 years. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 21
How old must a member of the Arizona legislature be?Answer: At least 25. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 2
In which years is an independent redistricting commission established?Answer: Each year that ends in one. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 1
On how many different days must an Arizona bill be read by sections, unless the rule is set aside in an emergency?Answer: 3. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 12
What does Article III of the Arizona Constitution forbid each department to do?Answer: Exercise the powers properly belonging to either of the others. Source: Article III
What does it take for an Arizona chamber to remove a sitting member from its own ranks?Answer: The concurrence of two-thirds of its members. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 11
What is the enacting clause of a bill enacted by the Arizona legislature?Answer: "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona". Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 24
What may the Arizona legislature never grant a public officer after the services have been rendered?Answer: Extra compensation. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 17
What may the general appropriation bill of Arizona contain?Answer: Only appropriations for state departments and institutions, public schools and public debt interest. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 20
What share of the members of each house can require the Arizona governor to call a special session by petition?Answer: Two-thirds. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 1
When do regular sessions of the Arizona legislature begin?Answer: The second Monday of January each year. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 3
When the governor calls a special session of the Arizona legislature, which laws may be enacted?Answer: Only those on the subjects mentioned in the call. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 3
Which public employment may an Arizona legislator hold during the term?Answer: Teacher in the public school system. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 5
Which public office does NOT disqualify a person from membership in the Arizona legislature?Answer: Notary public. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 4
Who judges the election and qualification of the members of an Arizona house?Answer: That house itself. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 8
Who signs a bill passed by the Arizona legislature, in open session?Answer: The presiding officer of each house. Source: Article IV, Part 2, Section 15
An Arizona initiative is headed for the November ballot. How far ahead of that election must its petition reach the secretary of state?Answer: Not less than 4 months. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
An Arizona officer does not resign after a recall petition is filed. After how many days is a special election ordered?Answer: 5 days. Source: Article VIII, Part 1, Section 3
Besides the legislature, who holds power to propose and enact laws under the Arizona Constitution?Answer: The people, at the polls, independently of the legislature. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
For what may Arizona's governor and other state officers be impeached?Answer: High crimes, misdemeanors, or malfeasance in office. Source: Article VIII, Part 2, Section 2
The governor vetoes an emergency measure. What vote in each Arizona house makes it law anyway?Answer: Three-fourths of the members elected. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
How long after final adjournment of the session may an Arizona referendum petition be filed?Answer: Not more than 90 days. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
How long must most Arizona officers have held office before a recall petition may be circulated?Answer: 6 months. Source: Article VIII, Part 1, Section 5
How many electors must sign an Arizona recall petition?Answer: 25 percent of the votes cast for the office at the last general election. Source: Article VIII, Part 1, Section 1
How many of Arizona's senators must concur before an impeached officer is found guilty?Answer: Two-thirds of the senators elected. Source: Article VIII, Part 2, Section 2
In at most how many words must an Arizona recall petition state the grounds of the demand?Answer: 200 words. Source: Article VIII, Part 1, Section 2
May the Arizona governor veto an initiative measure that the voters approved?Answer: No: the veto power does not extend to it. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
May the Arizona legislature repeal an initiative measure approved by a majority of the votes cast?Answer: No: it has no power to repeal it. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
On what terms may the Arizona legislature amend a voter-approved initiative measure?Answer: The change furthers its purposes and three-fourths of each house vote for it. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
Several amendments to the Arizona Constitution are submitted at one election. How are they put to the voters?Answer: So that the electors may vote for or against each separately. Source: Article XXI, Section 1
To leave time for referendum petitions, how long after the session closes does an ordinary Arizona act wait before it is operative?Answer: 90 days. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
What is the basis for computing how many signatures a statewide Arizona petition needs?Answer: The votes cast for all candidates for governor at the last general election. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
What is the heaviest judgment the Arizona senate can give after convicting on impeachment?Answer: Removal from office and disqualification to hold state office. Source: Article VIII, Part 2, Section 2
What must an Arizona emergency measure state in a separate section?Answer: Why it is necessary that it become immediately operative. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
What must happen before the Arizona legislature may call a constitutional convention?Answer: The people approve laws providing for it on a referendum vote. Source: Article XXI, Section 2
What must petitioners do before a second recall petition against the same Arizona officer in one term?Answer: Pay into the public treasury all expenses of the preceding election. Source: Article VIII, Part 1, Section 5
What share of a city's qualified electors may propose a measure on a local matter by initiative in Arizona?Answer: 15 percent. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
What share of Arizona's qualified electors may order a referendum on a measure the legislature enacted?Answer: 5 percent. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
What share of Arizona's qualified electors may propose a constitutional amendment by initiative?Answer: 15 percent. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
What share of Arizona's qualified electors may propose a statewide measure by initiative?Answer: 10 percent. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
What share of the votes cast must an Arizona initiative to approve a tax receive?Answer: 60 percent. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
What vote in the Arizona house is necessary to an impeachment?Answer: A majority of all the members. Source: Article VIII, Part 2, Section 1
What vote in the Arizona legislature proposes a constitutional amendment?Answer: A majority of the members elected to each house. Source: Article XXI, Section 1
What vote must an emergency measure get in each house of the Arizona legislature?Answer: Two-thirds of the members elected. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
What words are printed on the Arizona ballot beside the title and number of a measure?Answer: "Yes" and "no". Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
Where do impeachment charges against an Arizona officer begin?Answer: The house of representatives. Source: Article VIII, Part 2, Section 1
Which Arizona laws are outside the referendum power?Answer: Laws immediately necessary for the public peace, health or safety, or to support state government. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
Which Arizona public officers are subject to recall?Answer: Every officer holding an elective office, by election or appointment. Source: Article VIII, Part 1, Section 1
While an Arizona recall election is pending, what does the officer do?Answer: Continues to perform the duties of the office until the result is declared. Source: Article VIII, Part 1, Section 3
Who is declared elected at an Arizona recall election?Answer: The candidate who receives the highest number of votes. Source: Article VIII, Part 1, Section 4
Who presides when the Arizona senate tries an impeachment?Answer: The chief justice of the supreme court. Source: Article VIII, Part 2, Section 1
Who ratifies a proposed amendment to the Arizona Constitution?Answer: The qualified electors voting on it. Source: Article XXI, Section 1
Who verifies each sheet of an Arizona initiative petition by affidavit?Answer: The person who circulated the sheet. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
With which officer are statewide initiative petitions filed in Arizona?Answer: The secretary of state. Source: Article IV, Part 1, Section 1
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An Arizona office falls vacant and neither the constitution nor a law says how to fill it. Who fills it?Answer: The governor, by appointment. Source: Article V, Section 8
An Arizona officer removed by impeachment asks the governor to pardon that judgment. What does Article V say?Answer: The pardon power does not reach cases of impeachment. Source: Article V, Section 5
The Arizona legislature adjourns before the governor can return a bill, and the governor then does nothing. What becomes of the bill?Answer: It becomes law. Source: Article V, Section 7
The Arizona legislature is still in session. Within how many days, Sunday excepted, must the governor return a bill before it becomes law unsigned?Answer: 5 days. Source: Article V, Section 7
Arizona's troops are called into federal service. Who stops being their commander-in-chief for that time?Answer: The governor. Source: Article V, Section 3
For how long before the election must a candidate for an Arizona executive office have been a citizen of Arizona?Answer: 5 years. Source: Article V, Section 2
For how long before the election must a candidate for an Arizona executive office have been a citizen of the United States?Answer: 10 years. Source: Article V, Section 2
How large a share of each Arizona chamber must vote again for a vetoed bill before it becomes law anyway?Answer: Two-thirds of the members elected to each house. Source: Article V, Section 7
How long is a term of office in Arizona's executive department?Answer: 4 years. Source: Article V, Section 1
How many members sit on Arizona's commission on salaries for elective state officers?Answer: 5. Source: Article V, Section 12
How old must a person be to hold an office of Arizona's executive department?Answer: Not less than 25. Source: Article V, Section 2
In which Arizona bills may the governor object to single items while approving the rest?Answer: Bills containing several items of appropriations of money. Source: Article V, Section 7
To which bills does the Arizona governor's veto power not extend?Answer: Bills the legislature refers to the people. Source: Article V, Section 7
What may the Arizona governor require in writing from officers in the executive department?Answer: Information on any subject relating to the duties of their offices. Source: Article V, Section 4
What must the Arizona governor communicate to the legislature at every session?Answer: The condition of the state, by message. Source: Article V, Section 4
Where must the officers of Arizona's executive department live and keep their offices during their terms?Answer: At the seat of government. Source: Article V, Section 1
Who attests the commissions that the Arizona governor signs?Answer: The secretary of state. Source: Article V, Section 11
Who issues certificates of election for Arizona state officers?Answer: The secretary of state. Source: Article V, Section 10
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A regular term on Arizona's superior bench runs how many years?Answer: 4 years. Source: Article VI, Section 12
A seat on the Arizona supreme court falls vacant. How many names, at the least, does the commission on appellate court appointments send the governor?Answer: 3. Source: Article VI, Section 37
At what age does the Arizona Constitution have judges of courts of record retire?Answer: 70. Source: Article VI, Section 20
By whose order alone are grand juries drawn and summoned in Arizona?Answer: The superior court. Source: Article VI, Section 17
For how long must a justice of the Arizona supreme court have been admitted to the practice of law in, and a resident of, Arizona?Answer: 10 years. Source: Article VI, Section 6
How does the clerk of the superior court in an Arizona county take office?Answer: By election of the county's qualified electors. Source: Article VI, Section 23
How long is the term of Arizona's chief justice in that office?Answer: 5 years. Source: Article VI, Section 3
How many judges of the superior court must each Arizona county have, at the least?Answer: 1. Source: Article VI, Section 10
How many years make up one regular term on Arizona's highest bench?Answer: 6 years. Source: Article VI, Section 4
How must the Arizona supreme court be sitting to declare a law unconstitutional?Answer: In banc. Source: Article VI, Section 2
How old must an Arizona superior court judge be?Answer: At least 30. Source: Article VI, Section 22
In Arizona counties with fewer than 250,000 people, how do superior court judges reach the bench?Answer: They are elected by the qualified electors of the county. Source: Article VI, Section 12
In what does the Arizona Constitution vest the judicial power?Answer: An integrated judicial department. Source: Article VI, Section 1
May a jury trial be waived in an Arizona civil cause?Answer: Yes, by the parties. Source: Article VI, Section 17
Over which disputes does the Arizona supreme court have original and exclusive jurisdiction?Answer: Causes between counties over disputed boundaries or claims. Source: Article VI, Section 5
To what is the criminal jurisdiction of Arizona justice courts limited?Answer: Misdemeanors. Source: Article VI, Section 32
What are Arizona judges forbidden to do when they charge a jury?Answer: Charge on matters of fact, or comment on them. Source: Article VI, Section 27
What is the ceiling on the civil jurisdiction of Arizona justice courts?Answer: $10,000. Source: Article VI, Section 32
What is the fewest justices that may sit as a division of the Arizona supreme court?Answer: 3. Source: Article VI, Section 2
What is the smallest number of justices the Arizona supreme court may have?Answer: 5. Source: Article VI, Section 2
What may a judge of an Arizona court of record NOT do while in office?Answer: Practice law. Source: Article VI, Section 28
Which Arizona courts shall not be courts of record?Answer: Justice courts. Source: Article VI, Section 30
Which court has administrative supervision over all the courts of Arizona?Answer: The supreme court. Source: Article VI, Section 3
Which court makes the rules on procedural matters for every court in Arizona?Answer: The supreme court. Source: Article VI, Section 5
Which of these is in the original jurisdiction of the Arizona superior court?Answer: Matters of probate. Source: Article VI, Section 14
Whose votes make one of Arizona's five or more justices the chief?Answer: The justices of the supreme court, from one of their number. Source: Article VI, Section 3
Within how many days must an Arizona superior court judge decide a matter submitted for decision?Answer: 60 days. Source: Article VI, Section 21
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A person moves to an Arizona town only to study at a college there. What does Article VII say about voting residence?Answer: No residence is gained or lost by being a student. Source: Article VII, Section 3
An Arizona voter is on the way to the polls. What protection does Article VII, Section 4 give on that trip?Answer: Privilege from arrest, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace. Source: Article VII, Section 4
In which primary may an Arizona voter registered as independent vote?Answer: The primary of any one of the parties qualified for the ballot. Source: Article VII, Section 10
On election day, when may an Arizona elector be obliged to perform military duty?Answer: In time of war or public danger. Source: Article VII, Section 5
On what ground does Arizona's Article VII, Section 2 say the right to vote and hold office shall not be denied?Answer: On account of sex. Source: Article VII, Section 2
To whom are questions on bond issues or special assessments submitted in Arizona?Answer: Real property tax payers who are also qualified electors. Source: Article VII, Section 13
What is the voting age in the Arizona Constitution?Answer: 18 years or over. Source: Article VII, Section 2
What may never be required to have a candidate's name placed on an Arizona ballot?Answer: A fee. Source: Article VII, Section 14
What must every person elected to an elective office in Arizona be?Answer: A qualified elector of the political division that elects them. Source: Article VII, Section 15
Whatever method of voting the law prescribes, what must be preserved in Arizona elections?Answer: Secrecy in voting. Source: Article VII, Section 1
When is Arizona's general election held?Answer: The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, every two years. Source: Article VII, Section 11
Who is declared elected in an election held by the people in Arizona?Answer: The person receiving the highest number of legal votes. Source: Article VII, Section 7
Why must the Arizona legislature enact registration laws, in the words of Article VII?Answer: To secure the purity of elections. Source: Article VII, Section 12
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Above what population may an Arizona city frame a charter for its own government?Answer: 3,500. Source: Article XIII, Section 2
Above what population may an Arizona county elect a charter committee?Answer: 500,000. Source: Article XII, Section 5
Between which ages are pupils named in the Arizona Constitution's common school clause?Answer: 6 and 21 years. Source: Article XI, Section 6
For how long each year must a free school be maintained in every Arizona school district, at the least?Answer: 6 months. Source: Article XI, Section 6
For how long, at most, may an Arizona municipal corporation grant a franchise?Answer: 25 years. Source: Article XIII, Section 4
How do members of Arizona's state board of education, other than the superintendent, get their seats?Answer: Appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate. Source: Article XI, Section 3
How does the Arizona Constitution describe the cost of instruction at the university?Answer: As nearly free as possible. Source: Article XI, Section 6
How long is the term of an Arizona county sheriff?Answer: 4 years. Source: Article XII, Section 3
How many qualified electors make up the board of freeholders that prepares an Arizona city charter?Answer: 14. Source: Article XIII, Section 2
How many supervisors must each Arizona county elect, at the least?Answer: 3. Source: Article XII, Section 3
How may municipal corporations NOT be created in Arizona?Answer: By special laws. Source: Article XIII, Section 1
What does the Arizona Constitution call each county?Answer: A body politic and corporate. Source: Article XII, Section 1
What kind of franchise may never be granted over the streets of an Arizona municipality?Answer: An exclusive franchise. Source: Article XIII, Section 6
What kind of instruction may not be imparted in any Arizona school?Answer: Sectarian instruction. Source: Article XI, Section 7
What kind of public school system must the Arizona legislature establish and maintain?Answer: A general and uniform one. Source: Article XI, Section 1
What must the universities of Arizona's school system include?Answer: An agricultural college and a school of mines. Source: Article XI, Section 1
What office does the superintendent of public instruction hold on Arizona's state board of education?Answer: Member and secretary. Source: Article XI, Section 4
What test may never be required for admission to an Arizona public school as a teacher or student?Answer: A religious or political test. Source: Article XI, Section 7
Which body shares the general conduct and supervision of Arizona's public school system with the state superintendent?Answer: The state board of education. Source: Article XI, Section 2
Which of these does Article XI list as part of Arizona's public school system?Answer: Normal schools. Source: Article XI, Section 1
Which of these has a seat on Arizona's state board of education under Article XI, Section 3?Answer: A classroom teacher. Source: Article XI, Section 3
Which of these is a source of Arizona's permanent state school fund?Answer: The sale of public school lands. Source: Article XI, Section 8
Who is an ex-officio member of the board of regents of Arizona's university?Answer: The governor. Source: Article XI, Section 5
Whose approval does an Arizona city need before it grants a franchise?Answer: A majority of its qualified electors voting on the question. Source: Article XIII, Section 4
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An Arizona initiative proposes a mandatory expenditure of state revenues. What must it also provide?Answer: An increased source of revenues to cover the whole cost. Source: Article IX, Section 23
Arizona's budget year opens on which date?Answer: The first day of July. Source: Article IX, Section 4
Article IX opens with a limit on Arizona's taxing authority. What is it?Answer: It shall never be surrendered, suspended or contracted away. Source: Article IX, Section 1
For what purposes alone may Arizona taxes be levied and collected?Answer: Public purposes. Source: Article IX, Section 1
How do Arizona's corporation commissioners get their seats?Answer: Elected at the general election. Source: Article XV, Section 1
How many consecutive terms may an Arizona corporation commissioner hold that office?Answer: 2. Source: Article XV, Section 1
How many persons make up the Arizona corporation commission?Answer: 5. Source: Article XV, Section 1
In aid of which of these may no Arizona tax be laid or public money appropriated?Answer: A private or sectarian school. Source: Article IX, Section 10
What ceiling does Article IX, Section 5 put on debts Arizona contracts to meet casual deficits?Answer: $350,000. Source: Article IX, Section 5
What does Article IX, Section 25 of the Arizona Constitution forbid?Answer: New or increased taxes on services performed in the state. Source: Article IX, Section 25
What does the Arizona Constitution declare railways to be?Answer: Public highways. Source: Article XV, Section 10
What does the Arizona corporation commission prescribe for public service corporations?Answer: Just and reasonable rates and charges. Source: Article XV, Section 3
What may neither Arizona nor any of its counties or cities give to an individual or corporation?Answer: Its credit, by gift or loan. Source: Article IX, Section 7
What must every Arizona law imposing a tax state distinctly?Answer: The object of the tax. Source: Article IX, Section 3
What vote in each house does an Arizona act for a net increase in state revenues need?Answer: Two-thirds of the members. Source: Article IX, Section 22
Which business is a "public service corporation" under Article XV of the Arizona Constitution?Answer: A corporation, other than municipal, that furnishes electricity. Source: Article XV, Section 2
Whose books may the Arizona corporation commission inspect, besides those of public service corporations?Answer: Any corporation whose stock is offered for sale to the public. Source: Article XV, Section 4
How this list was compiled: Written from the Constitution of the State of Arizona as published by the Arizona State Legislature at https://www.azleg.gov/constitution/, read section by section on 2026-10-02: Articles II to IX, XI, XII, XIII, XV and XXI. Each question names its article and section and links to that section's page on azleg.gov. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site from the constitution's text; nothing is copied from another practice test, a course or an examination. Short quotations from the constitution are marked or follow its wording.
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Article III, Section 1 says federal judges "shall hold their Offices" for how long?Answer: During good Behaviour. Source: US Constitution, Article III, Section 1
For what may the President, Vice President and civil officers of the United States be removed on impeachment and conviction?Answer: Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Source: US Constitution, Article II, Section 4
How is an amendment to the US Constitution ratified?Answer: By three fourths of the States, through their legislatures or through conventions. Source: US Constitution, Article V
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How old must a member of the US House of Representatives be, and for how long a citizen?Answer: 25 years old and seven years a citizen. Source: US Constitution, Article I, Section 2
In which house of Congress must all bills for raising revenue originate?Answer: The House of Representatives. Source: US Constitution, Article I, Section 7
The President holds a bill for more than ten days, Sundays excepted, while Congress stays in session. What happens to the bill?Answer: It becomes law as if the President had signed it. Source: US Constitution, Article I, Section 7
To whom does the Tenth Amendment reserve the powers not delegated to the United States nor prohibited to the States?Answer: To the States respectively, or to the people. Source: US Constitution, Amendment X
The Twenty-Second Amendment limits how often one person may be elected President. What is the limit?Answer: No more than twice. Source: US Constitution, Amendment XXII, Section 1
What does Article VI say about a religious test for public office under the United States?Answer: No religious test shall ever be required. Source: US Constitution, Article VI
What does the US Constitution require for a conviction of treason?Answer: The testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or a confession in open court. Source: US Constitution, Article III, Section 3
What must a person be to serve as President of the United States?Answer: A natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and fourteen years a resident within the United States. Source: US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
What vote convicts in an impeachment trial in the US Senate?Answer: Two thirds of the members present. Source: US Constitution, Article I, Section 3
What vote in Congress overrides a President's veto?Answer: Two thirds of each house. Source: US Constitution, Article I, Section 7
What vote of the Senate does a treaty need?Answer: Two thirds of the Senators present. Source: US Constitution, Article II, Section 2
Which amendment says the right of citizens eighteen years of age or older to vote shall not be denied on account of age?Answer: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment. Source: US Constitution, Amendment XXVI, Section 1
Which five freedoms does the First Amendment protect?Answer: Religion, speech, press, peaceable assembly and petition. Source: US Constitution, Amendment I
Which of these is a power of Congress listed in Article I, Section 8?Answer: To declare War. Source: US Constitution, Article I, Section 8
Which of these is one of the six purposes named in the Preamble to the US Constitution?Answer: Establish Justice. Source: US Constitution, Preamble
Who is President of the US Senate, and when does that officer vote?Answer: The Vice President, who votes only when the Senate is equally divided. Source: US Constitution, Article I, Section 3
Whom does Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment make a citizen of the United States?Answer: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Source: US Constitution, Amendment XIV, Section 1
This unofficial Arizona Constitution study guide holds 225 practice questions for the US and Arizona constitution test: 205 from the Arizona Constitution on the legislature's site and 20 from the US Constitution. Checked October 2, 2026.
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Arizona rules that differ from the federal ones
The federal rule is often one of the wrong choices. Arizona's governor has five days, not ten, to return a bill, and a bill the governor does not act on after adjournment becomes law. An amendment needs a majority of each house, then the voters. State authorities never suspend habeas corpus. Two members can put a roll call in the journal.
What the 205 Arizona questions cover
They sit in eight topics. The largest holds 38 on initiative, referendum, recall, impeachment and amending; the Declaration of Rights has 35. No question asks who succeeds the governor, because the legislature's site prints Article V, Section 1 in two versions.
Petition signatures: ten percent for a law, fifteen for an amendment, five for a referendum, twenty-five for a recall.
Two-thirds passes an emergency measure or overrides a veto; three-fourths amends a voter-approved measure.
Questions and answers
Who has to pass the Arizona constitution examination?
Under A.R.S. 15-532, a person applying for a teaching certificate either completes the required classes or passes a satisfactory examination on the provisions and principles of the Constitutions of the United States and Arizona.
Is this the official Constitutions of the United States and Arizona study guide?
No. This page is not the teacher examination, its guide or any testing company's material, and nobody here has seen that examination. The questions were written from the two constitutions' text, and no teacher has checked the answers yet.
How much of this is the US Constitution?
Twenty questions sample the federal text under their own topic. The US Constitution practice test on this site is written only from the articles and amendments.