What is the difference between residential zoning and commercial zoning?

1. What is the difference between residential zoning and commercial zoning? • Residential is businesses and commercial is neighborhoods • Residential is urban and commercial is rural • Residential is neighborhoods and commercial is businesses • Residential is rural and commercial is urban

2. Which type of zoning would be more beneficial to a community economically? • Residential • commercial

3. What level of government would be responsible for zoning ordinances? • Federal • State • Local • international

4. What fraction of Congress would it take to propose an amendment and what fraction of states would it take to ratify an amendment? • ¾; 3/5 • 2/3; 3/5 • ¾; 2/3 • 2/3; 3/4

5. What effect do protective tariffs have on domestic products? • They lower the price of foreign products so we buy more imports • They lower the price of foreign products so we buy more domestic products • They raise the price of foreign products so we buy more domestic products • The raise the price of domestic products so we buy more foreign products

6. What level of government would hear criminal cases such as kidnapping and espionage? • Federal • State • Local • international

7. If the federal government gets to hear a case, what kind of jurisdiction does it give them? • Exclusive jurisdiction • Original jurisdiction • Appellate jurisdiction • Concurrent jurisdiction

8. What “Clause” says the Constitution is the “Supreme law of the land?” • Establishment Clause • Necessary and Proper Clause • Elastic Clause • Supremacy Clause

9. How can the Supremacy Clause be used to describe the difference in power between the state and federal government? • States have more power than federal • Federal has more power than states • Both have the same amount of power • Both are considered weak

10. What is the difference between NC Superior courts and NC district courts? • District hears felony cases while superior hears misdemeanors and minor crimes • District hears felonies while superior hears cases on appeal • Superior hears felony cases while district hears misdemeanors and minor crimes • District hears appeals cases while Superior hears final appeals

11. What type of law (involving disputes between people) originated from old English common law? • Criminal • Civil • Constitutional • Administrative

12. Which one of the following would “E Pluribus Unum” support? • Equality • Anti-segregation • “in order to form a more perfect union” • All of the above • A and C only

13. Which of the following is a privilege ALL members of Congress have? • Gerrymandering • Filibuster • Franking • cloture

14. Which of the following groups would be responsible for making local policies • City council • Board of Education • County Commissioners • All of the above • A and C only

15. How does division of labor benefit the producer? • It makes products more expensive • Production is increased • Production is decreased • Supply is decreased

16. In what part of the Constitution would you find cruel and unusual punishment • Preamble • Article I • Article VII • Bill of Rights

17. Who is responsible for enforcing state laws? • President • Governor • Sheriff • Principal

18. Who is responsible for enforcing local laws? • President • Governor • Sheriff • principal

19. Who is responsible for enforcing federal laws? • President • Governor • Sheriff • principal

20. Which would be the best way (#1) for citizens to voice their opinion? • Riot • Vote • Be apathetic • Write in diary

21. What laws are designed to prevent monopolies in order to promote competition? • Administrative laws • International laws • Anti-trust laws • Constitutional laws

22. Which method of campaigning would help candidates best get in touch with needs of citizens? • Canvassing • TV debates • TV commercials • testimonials

23. How does volunteering benefit a local community? • Volunteering provides good paying jobs to citizens • Volunteering means the government doesn’t have to take any responsibility for local services • Volunteering helps to save tax payer money by providing services at little expense • Volunteering is a good tax write off

24. Which of the following are benefits of a democracy? • Citizens have control of the government • Citizens have no responsibilities • Citizens are free to express themselves • All of the above • A and C only

25. How do initiatives and referendums benefit citizens? • They are grassroots movements that allow the government to make laws • They are grassroots movements that allow citizens to make laws • They are grassroots movements that have nothing to do with citizens • They are grassroots movements that take responsibilities away from citizens and pass them to the government

26. Passed in the 1700’s, this was an attempt by colonists to prevent expansion to the west. • Northwest Ordinance • Halifax Resolves • Navigation Acts • Proclamation of 1763

27. Which would the FED do if we were in a period of inflation? • Raise reserve requirements to increase the money supply • Raise reserve requirements to decrease the money supply • Lower reserve requirements to increase the money supply • Lower reserve requirements to decreased the money supply