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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 |
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 producing a service rather than making a product |
Value | The general principles of beliefs people use to make judgements and decisions |
Popular Sovereignty | The notion that power lies with the people |
Institution | Sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, 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 from 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 people |
Authoritian | a government in which one leader or group of people hold absolute power |
Totalitarian | A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |