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chapter 1 civic
vocab
Question | Answer |
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civics | civics is the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
citizenship | dates back more than 2,500 years to greece and rome anceint |
citizen | only a man with property possessed the right to vote and to take part in goverment decisions |
service ecomony | many americans now earn a living by providing service |
value | the general principles or beliefss people use to make judgements and decisions |
popular souereignty | the nation that power lies with the people |
institution | set of ideas that people have bout relationships,obligations,roles and fun |
naturalzation | a legal process to abtain citizensship |
alien | a non citizen |
immagrant | a person who moves permently to a new country |
deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
government | the ruling authority for a community |
public policy | the course of action the government takes in response to issue or problem |
budget | a plan for making and spending money |
democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
direct democracy | a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
representive democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smallar group to govern on their behalf |
republic | a representive democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers |
monarchy | a government with a hereditary,single leader |
majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the memebers of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people |
authoritarian | a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power |
totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives. |