Economics
national/federal bank of the US
What is the Federal Reserve?
What is the VA General Assembly?
controls local schools
Who are the school board?
serious crime
What is a felony?
the use of technology lowers this
What are production costs.
parts of the bicameral state legislature
What are the VA Senate and the House of Delegates?
State laws
What are statutes?
the ultimate "checking power" of the Judicial Branch which allows the court to decide the constitutionality of laws or executive orders
What is judicial review?
smaller or lesser crime
What is a misdemeanor?
works with the government, fights inflation, and regulates banks
What are the jobs of the Federal Reserve?
What are ordinances?
3 examples of the legislative branch of local gov'ts
What are city councils, town councils, or county board of supervisors?
authority of a court to hear a certain case or for the police to intervene in citizens breaking the law
What is jurisdiction?
What is 9?
Globalized trade allows for specialization which improves ____ & _____.
What is quality & efficiency.
cities, counties, & towns
What are examples of localities (gov'ts)?
2 types of executives in local government
What are mayors or managers?
(managers are appointed by councils or boards)
a court's authority of a court to review the decision of a lower court
only state court that has a possibility of having a jury (hears felony cases)
What is the circuit court of VA?
3 basic questions of economics
What will be produced? How it will be produced? For whom will it be produced?
origins (2) of the powers of local government in VA
What are the Constitution of VA & the laws of the VA General Assembly?
sheriff
clerk of circuit court
commissioner of revenue
treasurer
What are elected local positions according to the VA Constitution?
only federal court to have power to hear original cases and cases for appeal
What is the US Supreme Court?
state courts in ascending order
What are general district court (juvenile & domestic relations), circuit court, VA Court of Appeals, VA Supreme Court?