Follow the Money: Local Budgets — Unit test Answers

Review the chart from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) showing the categories of foreign aid that the United States provides to countries around the world.Which category currently gets the most support?

What is one reason the president is called the chief legislator?

Why has support increased for banning single-use plastics?

Who leads the executive branch of the US government?

Which court has original jurisdiction?

What does Article III of the US Constitution give Congress the power to do?

What causes the majority of water pollution?

Read the section from the US Constitution. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; —Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution

Read the passage by Robert Yates, who was a politician and a judge. [I]t appears that the general government, when completely organized, will absorb all those powers of the state which the framers of its constitution had declared should be only exercised by the representatives of the people of the state; . . . In a word, the new constitution will prove finally to dissolve all the power of the several state legislatures, and destroy the rights and liberties of the people; for the power of the first will be all in all, and of the latter a mere shadow and form without substance. —Robert Yates, New York Journal, Saturday, June 14, 1788

Who can propose a new law?

Who leads the executive branch of a state government?

Read the scenario.Marysville is a new town. One of the city council’s first actions is to set up a police department.