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NHChapter 1 terms
Chapter 1 terms civics
Question | Answer |
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civics | the study of rights and duties of a citizen. |
citizenship | rights and duties of a member of a state. |
citizen | comminity members owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protections from it. |
service economy | where the majority of people earn their living. |
value | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions. |
popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies the the people. |
instituion | set of ideas that people have about relationships. |
naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship. |
alien | a noncitizen |
immigrant | a person that moves permanently to a new contry. |
deport | to send an alien or immagrant back to their contry |
government | the ruling authority for a community |
public policy | the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem |
budget | a plan for making and spending money. |
democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule. |
direct democracy | a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
representative democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
republic | a representive democracy where citizen choose their lawmakers |
monarcy | a government with a hereditary, single leader |
majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the membersof a community |
authoritarain | a government in which one leader or group of peopleholds absolute power |
totalitarain | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |