State Government
This elected position is the lawyer who represents the state
What is the Attorney General?
Factors of production that are used in the production of goods and services
What are resources?
This document guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to Virginia's first colonists
What are the Charters of the Virginia Company of London?
This is the third step of the bill to law process
What is floor debate?
This is the person suing in a civil case
What is a plaintiff?
The lowest court with both types of jurisdiction in our state
What is Circuit Court?
The using of goods and services
What is consumption?
This document established the idea that all people are equal under the law
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This branch holds the power to create lower courts beneath the US Supreme Court
What is the Legislative Branch?
These are the two sectors of economics
What are private and public?
This goal of the Virginia General Assembly is to promote an informed and engaged citizenry
What is education?
This model demonstrates the continuous flow of resources, goods and services, and money among households, businesses, and markets in the US economy
What is the Circular Flow (Economic Flow) Model?
This purpose of the Constitution outlined in the Preamble means to ensure a peaceful homefront
What is to ensure domestic tranquility?
What is the State of the Union Address?
This amendment includes the Equal Protection Clause
What is the 14th Amendment?
This clause in the US Constitution establishes that federal law takes precedence over state law
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This federal agency helps enforce antitrust laws
What is the FTC (Federal Trade Commission)?
Thomas Jefferson is most known for his work as author of the Declaration of Independence, but he also wrote this document pressing for individual freedoms
What is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This is used to collect population data that is used in the redistricting process
What is the census?
The 10th Amendment grants states this type of power
What is reserved?
These institutions are not-for-profit and provide financial services such as loans and savings accounts
What are credit unions?
This philosopher and Enlightenment thinker inspired many of our Founding Fathers with his idea of natural rights
Who is John Locke?
A step of criminal case procedure, this is where probable cause is reviewed and a defendant enters their plea
What is an arraignment?
Granted by the Virginia General Assembly, this allows cities to independently exist and govern in our state
What is a charter?