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Chap. 1
Term | Definition |
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Civics | The study of the rights and duties of the citizens |
Citizenship | Rights and duties of the members of a state |
Citizen | Community member who owes loyalty to the government and its entitled to protection from it |
Service Economy | Where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing |
Value | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and decisions |
Popular Sovereignty | The notion that power lies with the people |
Institution | A set 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 |
Monarcy | A government with a hereditary, single leader |
Majority Rule | A 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 |