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Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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Civics | the study of rights |
Citizenship | rights and duties of citizens |
Citizens | community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protections from it |
Service economy | where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product |
Values | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and ecisions |
Popular Soveighnty | the notion that power lies with the people |
Insititutions | sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society |
Naturalizations | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
Aliens | a noncitizen |
Immigrants | a person moves permantely to a new country |
Deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
Government | the ruling authority for the community |
Public Policy | the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem |
Budget | to plan for making and spending money |
Deomcracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rle |
Direct democracy | a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
Representaive democrative | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
Republic | a represenative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers |
Monarchy | a government with hereditary, single leader |
Majority Rule | in both the house of representatives and the senate, the political party to which more than half the members belong |
Authoritarian | a government in which one leader or group of people or groups; person or persons having the power of governement |
Totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |