Read this outline for an argumentative essay about the free enterprise system. 1. The free enterprise system is helpful because it allows for freedom.
A. The free enterprise system is the best economic system because it
allows individuals to make their own economic decisions.

2. The choices of producers and consumers rule the free enterprise system.
A. Individuals have the freedom to become entrepreneurs.
B. Supply and demand determine their success or failure.
C. Some people say without government support only wealthy people
can succeed.
D. More government interference would restrict freedom and limit the
chance for success.

3. The free enterprise system is helpful, not harmful, because it allows people to determine their own economic fate.

The underlined sentence in the outline is the

claim.
conclusion.
counterclaim.
evidence.