__________ is an economic system asserting an individual's right to own private property and to buy, sell, rent, and trade that property in a free market

"People are poor because they are too lazy to work and too irresponsible to improve their situations." This view of poverty as an individual matter is most likely to be expressed by:

A. a liberal. B. a moderate. C. a conservative. D. a pacifist.

Federal employees appointed by the president with the explicit task of carrying out the president's political and partisan agenda are known as

A) political appointees. B) merit system appointees. C) Pendleton Act employees. D) civil service employees. E) career civil servants.