Rights and Responsibilities
The city of Pine Grove is holding an election for mayor. On Election Day, Ms. Carter takes time to go to the polling place and cast her ballot for the candidate she believes will do the best job.
What citizen responsibility is Ms. Carter showing?
What is voting?
A place where banks hold a person's money. A person can put money into this to keep it safe, but they must withdraw (remove) the money from the bank directly and cannot use cards or checks to pay for things using this account.
What is a Savings account?
An official change or addition to the Constitution is called this.
What is an amendment
This sector collects taxes and provides certain public goods and services.
What is the government sector.
This means the government must treat people fairly and follow established rules when dealing with them.
What is due process?
Students in a class are choosing a class representative. Each student votes for one candidate. The candidate with the most votes will speak for the class at the school leadership meeting.
Why is voting important in this situation?
What is allows citizens to choose leaders?
is when two or more people, businesses, or banks are offering the same good or service. Each wants to get more people to buy or use their good or service than the other.
What is competition?
What protects people from being forced to house soldiers in their homes?
What is the 3rd amendment
This sector provides resources and consumes goods and services.
What are households?
A student is accused of breaking a school rule. Before receiving a serious punishment, the student is allowed to explain what happened. This is similar to the idea of what constitutional protection?
What is due process?
What is an example of a citizen's responsibility?
What is Obeying laws, voting?
how people make decisions on what to buy, when to buy it, how to buy it, and what they are willing to pay for it
What is consumer behavior
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What protects the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases?
What is the 7th amendment
Name how the 4 sectors are connected.
Households purchase goods and services from private businesses. They both pay taxes to the government and they can both save or spend money from the bank.
Why is due process important?
It protects people from unfair treatment by the government. ?
A citizen peacefully protests a new law. Is this an example of a right or responsibility, and why?
What is A right, because the 1st Amendment protects freedom of speech and assembly/petition.
a set of rules, beliefs, and ideas about how our nation's government should be organized and what powers each part (federal, state, citizens, etc.) have
What is the Constitution?
What protects due process and other rights of people accused of crimes?
What is the 5th amendment
This sector provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and loans.
What is the bank
Many years after the Constitution was written, Americans decided that an important change was needed. The Constitution includes a careful process for adding changes when the country’s needs change over time.
Why can the Constitution be amended?
What is to allow it to adapt to important changes?
Paying taxes, obeying laws, and serving on a jury when called are examples of this.
What are responsibilities?
a person who is a member of a nation or political community and has all of the rights and responsibilities that go with that
What are citizens
This amendment says that powers not given to the federal government are generally reserved for the states or the people.
What is the 10th amendment
A family deposits money into a savings account, a business sells them groceries, and the government uses tax money to build a road. Name the three economic sectors involved.
Bank, private business, and government.
Members of Congress believe the Constitution should be changed. Before the change can be sent to the states for approval, a large number of members in both parts of Congress must agree to officially suggest the amendment.
What must happen first to propose an amendment?
What is Two-thirds of Congress must vote to propose it.
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