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chapter 1
vocab
Term | Definition |
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civics | the 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 | 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 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 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 ground to govern on their behalf |
republic | a representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers |
monarchy | a government with a hereditary, single leader |
majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community who has the power to make laws binding upon all people |
authoritarian | a government in which one leader or group of people hold absolute power |
totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |