Term | Definition |
civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
citizenship | rights and duties of members of the state. |
citizen | community members 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. |
values | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions. |
popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people. |
institution | sets of ideas that people have about relationships,obligations,roles,and functions of society. |
naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship. |
aliens | non-citizen |
deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country. |
government | the ruling authority for the community. |
public policy | the course of action the government takes in response to an 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 first hand. |
representative democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf. |
republic | a representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers. |
monarchy | a government with a hereditary,single leader. |
majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of the community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people. |
authoritarian | a government in which one leader or a group; person or persons having the power of government. |
totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives. |