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define chapter one terms
Question | Answer |
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Citizen | person belongs to a country |
Civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
Citinzenship | dates back more than 2,500 years to ancient greece and rome |
Service Economy | earn living by providing services |
Values | are broad ideas about what is good or desirable and are shared by people in society. |
Popular Sovereignty | government by constent of the governed |
Institutions | they are sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions. |
Naturalization | process to become a citizen by birth or for foreign-born people who choose to become citizens. |
Aliens | noncitizens |
Immigrants | people who move permanently to a new country |
Deport | send them back to their own countries |
Government | is the ruling authority for a community or society. |
Public Policy | a course of government action to achieve community goals. |
Budget | a plan for collecting and spending money, is key to the success of the community. |
Democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule. |
Direct Democracy | all the citizens met to debate government matters and vote first hand. |
Representative Democracy | the citizens choose a smaller group to represent them,make laws, and govern on their behalf. |
Republic | a system of limited government in which the people are the ultimate source of governmental power. |
Monarchy | a government with a hereditary ruler. |
Majority Rule | another principle of our democracy. |
Authoritarian | power is held by an individual or a group not accountable to the people. |
Totalitarian | state,the government's control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |