Scholars credit _______________ with writing the Declaration of Independence.

_______ occurs when a single individual rules the government.

The total amount of lost housing wealth caused by the real estate crisis in late 2008 cost American homeowners more than ___________.

According to the Constitution, the national government possesses ___________.

In a general election, the President of the United States is chosen by __________.

Controlling the money supply, including credit, is called ____________.

According to the monetary economist Milton Friedman, and the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, the ___________ caused the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Controlling the money supply, including credit, is called ____________.

People who sued the United States after FDR confiscated gold specie and cancelled the “gold clause” in all contracts used the Constitution’s prohibition against impairing “the obligation of contract” as justification for their lawsuits.  In response to these lawsuits, the Supreme Court _________________.

Economic policy entails ____________.