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Civics & Citizenship
Term | Definition |
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civics | the study of rights and duties of citizens |
citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
citizen | community member who owes loyalty to the government |
value | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions |
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 |
duty | a thing we are required to do |
responsibility | an obligation that we fulfill voluntarily |