ch.1 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. |
| 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 Sovereignity | The notion that power lies with the people. |
| Institution | Sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society. |
| natrualization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
| alien | a noncitizen |
| immigrant | a person who moves permanently to a new country. |
| deport | to send a alien or immigrant back to his/her own country. |
| government | the governing body of a nation, state, or community. |
| public policy | the principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based. |
| budget | an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time. |
| democracy | a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. |
| direct democracy | is a form of democracy in which people decide policy initiatives directly. |
| representative democracy | is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. |
| republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
| monarchy | a form of government with a monarch at the head. |
| majority rule | the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power. |
| authoritarian | favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. |
| totalitarian | relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. |
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