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Chapter 1 Vocab.
Definitions
Question | Answer |
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the study of the rights and duties of citizens | Civics |
rights and duties of members of a state | Citizenship |
community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it | Citizen |
where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product. | Service Economy |
the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and decisions. | Value |
the notion that power lies with the people | Popular Sovereignty |
set of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society | Institution |
a legal process to obtain citizenship | Naturalization |
a noncitizen | Alien |
a person who moves permanently to a new country | Immigrant |
to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country | Deport |
the ruling authority for a community or society | Government |
the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem | Public Policy |
a plan for making and spending money. | Budget |
a government in which citizens hold the power to rule. | Democracy |
a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand | Direct Democracy |
a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf | Representative Democracy |
a representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers. | Republic |
a government with a hereditary, single leader | Monarchy |
political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people | Majority Rule |
a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power | Authoritarian |
a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives | Totalitarian |