Founding Principles & Documents
Which document showcased the rule of law by stating that even the king must follow all laws.
What is the Magna Cata.
What is the total number of amendments minus the Bill of Rights.
What is 17.
Type of economy used in the United States.
What is a mixed economy.
The inability to satisfy all wants at the same time.
What is scarcity.
Checks Congress by declaring laws unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch.
What principle means the people rule.
What is democracy.
What is the number of amendments found in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10.
Type of eocnomy that is centrally owned and planned typically by government.
What is a command economy.
Government is not all-powerful and may only do those things the people have given it the power to do.
What is limited government.
Checks the president by approving the annual budget.
What is Congress/legislative branch.
The only two forms of government in the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
What is the total number of Senators.
What is 100.
Type of economy that is based on custom and historical precedent.
What is a traditional economy.
What is representative government.
Checks the courts by impeaching judges for wrongdoing.
What is congress/legislative branch.
Is the principle reflected in the very first three words in the preamble "We the People."
What is the total number of electoral votes needed to become President of the United States.
What is 270
The economy that has private ownership, profit motive, competiton, indivudal choice, and minimial government involvement.
What is a free market economy.
Casts the official vote for the president and vice president of the United States.
What is the Electoral College.
Can check the president by overriding a presiental vetoes.
Who is Congress/legislative branch.
The document reflected in the 1st Amendment with the freedom of religion.
What is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
What is the total number of Electoral College Votes including Washington, D.C.
What is 538
What are the three basic questions of economics?
What is:
What will be produced?
How will it be produced?
For whom will it be produced?
The combining of human, natural, capital, and entrepreneurship resources to make goods or provide services.
What is production.
Who is the president/executive branch.