Public credit — Social Studies definition

Confidence that a government can meet its borrowing obligations.

Where it is taught

• The Early Republic: Finance, Parties & National Authority — Early Republic, Markets & Migration, U.S. & New York History: Indigenous Nations to Reconstruction, Grade 7
• The Early Republic: Parties, Finance, Courts & Foreign Relations — Colonial Foundations & Constitutional Government, United States History & Government: Colonial Foundations to the Early 21st Century, Grade 11

Taught alongside

• context
• primary source
• interpretation
• judicial review
• evidence

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