Ethics
Chapter 1
3 Branches
US Agencies
Random
100

Business ethics are often ignored to maximize this.

What is profit?

100

These can be described as enforceable rules of conduct in a society. 

What are laws?

100

This branch has the power to veto laws passed by Congress and appoint members of the judiciary.

What is the Executive Branch?

100

This agency enforces pure food and drug acts.

What is the Food and Drug Administration?

100

This is the term used for 2 under par on a golf hole.

What is an eagle?

200
The two most common types of authority in an ethical system.

What are law and religion?

200
This is one of the earliest examples of a written law code/system.

What is Hammurabi's Code?

200

These two groups make up the legislative branch.

What are the House and the Senate?

200

This agency governs health and safety in the workplace.

What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?

200

The only mammal capable of true sustained flight.

What is a bat?

300

In this form of ethical reasoning, acts are always either right or wrong.

What is rule-based reasoning?

300

The first stage in the growth of law. 

What is revenge?

300

The number of senators each state receives.

What is 2?

300

This agency handles the money supply and interest rates.

What is the Federal Reserve?

300

This is the only continent located in all 4 hemispheres.

What is Africa?

400

Examples of these types of laws include jaywalking, littering, and others that people often break.

What are scofflaws?

400

The sovereign or another powerful leader steps in during this stage in the growth of law.

What is the 2nd stage (authority awards)?

400

The number of judges currently sitting on the US Supreme Court.

What is 9?

400

This agency protects consumer rights and eliminates unfair trade practices.

What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?

400

This 1985 film features a Delorean turned into a time machine.

What is Back to the Future?

500

This ethical system includes doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

What is utilitarianism?

500

This term is used to describe an earlier action, event or ruling that is used as a guide to handle situations in the future.

What is precedent?

500

The Constitution can be amended in these 2 ways.

What is a 2/3 vote in the Senate & House, and a vote from 2/3 of all state legislatures.

500

This agency enforces laws related to the buying/selling of stocks and bonds.

What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?

500

This amendment lowered the US voting age to 18.

What is the 26th amendment?