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Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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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 it's 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 judgements and decisions. |
Popular Sovereignty | The notion that power lies within the people. |
Institution | The set 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/her country. |
Government | Ruling authority for a community. |
Public Policy | Course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem. |
Budget | A plan for making & spending money. |
Democracy | A government in which citizens hold power to rule. |
Direct Democracy | Form of democracy which people vote first hand. |
Representative Democracy | Government which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on your behalf. |
Republic | Representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers. |
Monarchy | Government with hereditary, single leader. |
Majority Rule | Political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has powers to make laws binding upon all people. |
Authoritarian | Government which one leader or group of people holds absolute power. |
Totalitarian | Government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |