Chapter One Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
| citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
| citizens | 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. |
| values | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and decisions. |
| popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people. |
| institutions | 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 immigrant or alien back to their own country |
| government | the ruling authority fro 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 the 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 laws |
| monarchy | King or Queen // single leader |
| majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people |
| authoritarian | a government in which one leader/group of people holds absolute power |
| totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |
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