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chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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Civics | Thhe study of the rights and duties of citizens |
Citizenship | rights and duties of a member 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 menufactoring a product |
Value | the general principles or 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, obigations, roles, and functions of society |
Naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
Alien | a noncitizen |
Immirgrant | a person who moves permanently to a 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 power to rule |
direct democracy | a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
representative democracy | a government in which citizens chose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
republic | a representative democracy where citizens chose their lawmakers |
monarchy | a government with a hereditary, single leader |
majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of a communtiy has the pwer to male 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 |