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chapter 1 vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
Citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
Citizens | community member who owes loyalty to government and is entitled to protection from it. |
value | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions. |
Popular Sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people. |
Institution | set of ideas that people have about relationships,obligations,roles, and functions software |
Service Economy | where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product. |
naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
alien | a noncitizen |
immigrant | a person who moves permanently to a new country |
deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
government | a 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 cote firsthand. |
representative democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf. |
republic | a representatives democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers. |
monarchy | a government with a hereditary, single leader. |
majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people |
authoritarian | a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power. |
totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |