The free enterprise of the U.S. is defined by these 4 key characteristics: individual freedom, limited role of government, competition, and profit motive.

Example of a short essay describing the U.S. free enterprise system by describing each of the four characteristics above, explain the three roles that the government has in this system and give an example of each, and respond to the prompt: which of the four characteristics do you think is most important to the success of the U.S. economy and why? And, which of these three roles of government do you think is the most powerful and why?