Which of these is an example of how the u. s. constitution protects the free enterprise system? a) congress is given the power to borrow money. b) congress is given the authority to collect taxes. c) congress is given the authority to raise and support armies. d) congress is given the authority to grant patents and copyrights

Congress is given the authority to grant patents and copyrights.

Article I Section 8. Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution in order to protect the free enterprise system -

Free enterprise Clause says that the Congress shall have the Power to support the development of science and useful arts, by securing for inadequate points to scholars and originators for the preferential rights to their respective articles and discoveries.”

This is the right conferred by the Constitution is the 5th Amendment, which can protect the individual resources from being taken away without due process.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.  

the third answer is correct (c).

the laws that regulate the financing of political campaigns seek to guarantee the smoothness of funding so that there is no abuse of electoral economic power and to avoid the capture of future politicians by the donors.

this is because donor agents have their private interests that are not necessarily the same interests of the society that elected politicians must defend.

thus, interest groups should seek their interests within the legality of lobbying practices that are regulated.