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Chapter 1

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Term
Definition
Civics   the study of rights  
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Citizenship   rights and duties of citizens  
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Citizens   community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protections from it  
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Service economy   where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product  
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Values   the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and ecisions  
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Popular Soveighnty   the notion that power lies with the people  
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Insititutions   sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society  
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Naturalizations   a legal process to obtain citizenship  
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Aliens   a noncitizen  
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Immigrants   a person moves permantely to a new country  
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Deport   to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country  
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Government   the ruling authority for the community  
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Public Policy   the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem  
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Budget   to plan for making and spending money  
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Deomcracy   a government in which citizens hold the power to rle  
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Direct democracy   a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand  
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Representaive democrative   a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf  
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Republic   a represenative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers  
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Monarchy   a government with hereditary, single leader  
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Majority Rule   in both the house of representatives and the senate, the political party to which more than half the members belong  
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Authoritarian   a government in which one leader or group of people or groups; person or persons having the power of governement  
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Totalitarian   a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives  
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