Paying taxes (duty or responsiblity)
What is one duty of citizenship?
The document that declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Choosing people to represent you in government
What is voting?
Makes laws
What is the legislative branch?
A country's type of money
What is currency?
The system in which each branch of government has power over another
What is checks and balances?
The six goals of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
18
What is the age a person needs to be to vote?
National, State, and Local
The study of how we make decisions with limited resources
What is economics?
What is unconstitutional?
Changes or additions to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
A way to communicate to many people
What is the media?
Doesn't follow the constitution
What is unconstitutional?
When there is no shortage and no surplus
What is equilibrium?
The freedom to ask the government to change.
What is the right to petition?
The Bill of Rights
What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
Political party that wants less government control
What is the republican party?
A formal directive given by the president
What is an executive order?
An economy in which the government makes all the decisions
What is a command economy?
A local law
What is an ordinance?
In this document, state governments had all the power.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
270
What is the number of electoral college votes a presidential candidate needs to win?
The only court created by the U.S. Constitution
What is the Supreme Court?
How prices are set in a market economy
What is market forces?