Beliefs and preferences people are not deeply committed to and that change over time

The means by which a society organizes itself and allocates authority in order to accomplish collective goals

A form of government in which political power rests in the hands of the people, not a monarch, and is exercised by elected representatives

A good that is available to many people but is used only by those who can pay the price to do so

The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation became evident to many as a result of a rebellion of Massachusetts farmers lead by

In 1791, the first ten amendments were added to the Constitution and became known as the

Federal laws and regulations that impose obligations on state and local governments without fully compensating them for the administrative costs they incur are called

___ can be used to repeat a section of code, but they have no way of limiting the number of repeats , so they will repeat the section forever.

A ___ is a set of two instructions that directs the execution of code from one point in a program to another part in the same program.

Limitations on the power of government designed to ensure personal freedoms are known as