Government Economics
In this economic system, private individuals and businesses generally own property and make economic decisions for profit.
What is capitalism?
Providing police, courts, and laws fulfills this basic purpose of government.
What is maintaining order?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had this many branches.
What is one?
A citizen argues that the federal government cannot take away a constitutional right simply because that right isn't specifically listed in the Constitution. This Bill of Rights amendment best supports that argument.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
This unusual word means crooked, diagonal, or out of alignment.
What is Cattywampus?
This economic system combines elements of private enterprise with government involvement in the economy.
What is a mixed-market economy?
Roads, schools, emergency services, and other programs are examples of government fulfilling this purpose.
What is providing public services?
Regardless of population, each state received this many votes in Congress.
What is one vote?
What is one?
Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition are protected by this amendment.
What is the First Amendment?
This funny-sounding word can describe a silly, flighty, or overly talkative person.
What is a flibbertigibbet?
In theory, this system calls for common ownership and ultimately seeks a classless society.
What is communism?
This theory says governments developed gradually as families grew into clans, tribes, and eventually states.
What is evolutionary theory?
Under the Articles, this many of the 13 states had to agree to amend the document.
What is all 13 states?
ongress passes a law, the president vetoes it, Congress overrides the veto, and later the Supreme Court finds the law unconstitutional. Together, these actions demonstrate this constitutional principle designed to prevent one branch from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
Contrary to a very popular myth, this animal cannot actually see the color red as red, so it's the movement of the cape that gets its attention.
What is a bull?
This system generally calls for major industries or resources to be owned or controlled collectively or by the government, while some private ownership may still exist.
What is socialism?
According to this theory of government, people willingly give up some individual freedom in exchange for protection and order from government.
What is social contract theory?
One major weakness of the Articles was that Congress could request money from the states but could not directly do this.
What is collect taxes?
If a South Dakota court issues a valid judgment and someone moves to Nebraska, Article IV generally requires Nebraska to recognize that judgment because of this constitutional clause.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
A news organization consistently presents stories in a way that favors one political viewpoint over another. This term describes that tendency.
What is media bias?
A country allows people to own businesses and compete for customers, but the government also regulates businesses and provides programs such as public education and Social Security. Of the four systems studied, this best fits this type.
What is a mixed-market economy?
These are three basic features of a state besides government.
What are population, territory, and sovereignty?
Congress could declare war and make treaties, but it lacked this independent position responsible for carrying out or enforcing its decisions.
What is a president/chief executive?
Articles IV through VII deal with states, amendments, federal supremacy, and ratification. The article explaining how the Constitution can formally be changed is this one.
What is Article V?
If you could magically unwrap and stretch out all of the blood vessels in an adult human body, they would extend roughly this far:
About 60,000 miles?