Rights and Duties
This foundational Document lists a citizen's rights, like freedom of speech and religion
What is the bill of rights?
A government bound by a written or unwritten set of fundamental laws limiting its rulers' power is called this.
What is a constitutional government?
Founded in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation, this organization includes UNICEF among its agencies.
What is the United Nations?
This term names a country's economic and political interests that shape its dealings with other nations.
What is national interest?
This top diplomat officially represents their home country's government in a foreign nation.
What is an ambassador?
This is the legal process a foreign-born person goes through to become a U.S. citizen.
What is naturalization?
A government not bound by such a limiting legal framework is called this.
What is a nonconstitutional government?
Also called "The World Court," this body settles legal disputes between nations.
What is the International Court of Justice?
This is the rate at which one country's currency can be exchanged for another's.
What is an exchange rate?
This official helps citizens abroad and promotes trade, usually working out of a foreign city rather than the capital.
What is a consul?
Along with rights, U.S. citizenship comes with these two other categories of responsibility covered in requirement 2.
What are duties and obligations?
This form of government is headed by a king or queen who inherits the throne.
What is a monarchy?
This organization helps police forces around the world cooperate to fight cross-border crime.
What is Interpol?
This tax on imported goods is often used to protect a country's own industries.
What is a Tariff?
This U.S. government department oversees foreign relations.
What is the Department of State?
This status lets a non-citizen live and work in the U.S. permanently, often called a green card.
What is permanent residency?
This form of government is run by religious leaders according to religious law.
What is a theocracy?
This UN agency focuses on international public health.
What is the World Health Organization?
This trade policy removes barriers like tariffs so goods move more freely between countries, the opposite of protectionism.
What is Free Trade?
This U.S. Commercial Service helps American businesses do this activity abroad.
What is exporting (goods)?
This second travel document, separate from a passport, is permission granted by the country you're visiting.
What is a visa?
This form of government concentrates power in one leader or party with little real political competition.
What is an authoritarian government (dictatorship)?
This political and economic union lets citizens of its European member states travel and trade freely across borders.
What is the European Union?
This record tracks all of a country's financial transactions with the rest of the world, including trade and reserves.
What is the balance of payments?
An embassy is one of three types of office covered in "What Are Embassies, ********, and ********?" Name either of the other two.
What is a consulate or a mission?