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chapt1
vocab
Question | Answer |
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civics | the study of the rights and duties of citzen |
citezenship | rights and duties of the membelar sovereigntyr of a state |
service economy | where the mojority of the people earn there living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product. |
value | the general principles or belifes people use to make judgment and decisions |
popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people |
institutions | sets of ideas that people have about relationship, obligations, roles, and funstions of society. |
naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
alien | a noncitizen |
immigant | a person who moves permantlytoto a mew county |
deport | to send an alien or an immigrant back to his or her own country |
government | the ruling authority for a community |
public policy | the course of actio the government takes in response to an issue or problem |
budget | a plan for making and sending money |
direct democracy | and form of democracy in whichnthe people vote firsthand |
democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
representative democray | a government in witch citizen 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 | the political principle providing that a majotiy of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding uponall the people |
aythoritarain | a government in which one leader or group of people holds absute power |
totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects or people's lives |