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Chapter 1: Civics
chapter1 content vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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civics | 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 | earning a living by providing services |
values | the general principles you use to make judgments |
popular sovreignty | government by consent of the governed |
institutions | sets of ideas that people have about rerlationships |
naturalization | the process foreign-born people have to go through to become a citizen |
alien | a non-citizen |
immigrants | people who move permanently to a new country |
deport | to send back to ones home country |
government | ruling authority for a community or society |
public policy | course of government action to achieve community goals |
budget | plan for collecting and spending money |
democracy | government in which citizens hold the power to rule. |
direct democracy | citizens gather to debate government matters and vote first hand |
representative democracy | citizens choose a small group to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf |
republic | a system of limited government in which the people are the ultimate source of governmental power |
monarchy | a government with a hereditary ruler |
majority rule | when differences arise, the citizens will abide by what most people want |
authoritarian | power is held by an individual or group not accountable to the people |
totalarian | the government controls almost all aspects of people's lives. |