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Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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Civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizenship |
Citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
Citizen | community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it |
Service Economy | where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product |
Value | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions |
Popular Sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people |
Institution | sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society |
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 | 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 representative 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 |