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jtGovernment Terms
define chapter one terms
Question | Answer |
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Citizen | person belongs to a country |
citizenship | dates back more than 2,500 years to ancient Greece and Rome |
civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
service economy | in the past few decades manufacturing has lost ground |
values | the general principles, or beliefs,you use to make these juddgments |
popular sovereignty | individual rights to life,liberty,and pursuit of happiness |
Institutions | Family, new generation ,socialize the young,offers |
naturalization | by birth and, for foreign-born people who choose to become citizens,by a legal process |
aliens | noncitizens,oraliens,live in the united States |
Immigrants | half a million immigrants-people who move permanenty to a new country-gain American citizenship each year |
Deport | Every day they live with the fear that government officals will discover and deport them- send them back to their own countries |
Government | is the ruling authority for a community,or society. |
public policy | Another function of government is to formulate public policy or a course of governmeant action to achieve community gaols |
budget | or plan for collecting and spending money,is key to succes of the community |
democracy | are more thans 2,500 years old. |
direct democracy | all the citizens met to debate government matters and vote firsthand |
representstive democracy | citizens choose a smaller group to repre sent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf |
republic | representative democracy, repubic and constitional republic mean the same thing: a system of limited government in which the people are the ulitmate source of governmental power. |
monarchy | describes a government with a hereditary rulere-a king,queen,or other royal figure who inherits this position of power |
monarchy | describes a government with a hereditary rulere-a king,queen,or other royal figure who inherits this position of power |
majority rule | another principle of our democracy is majority rule |