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Chapter One
Chapter One; Sections 1-3
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 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 non-citizen. |
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 first hand. |
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 | A number that is more than 50 percent of the total. |
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. |