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definitions

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civics   study of the rights and duties of citizens  
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citizenship   rights and duties of members of a state  
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citizen   community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection 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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value   general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions  
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popular sovereignty   the notion that power lies with the people  
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institution   sets of ideas that people have about relationships,obligations,roles,and functions of society  
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naturalization   legal process to obtain citizenship  
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alien   noncitizen  
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immigrant   person who moves permanently to a new country  
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deport   send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country  
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government   ruling authority for a 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   a plan for making and spending money  
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democracy   government in which citizens hold the power to rule  
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direct democracy   form of democracy in which the people vote first hand  
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representative democracy   government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf  
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republic   representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmaker  
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monarchy   government with a hereditary,single leader  
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majority rule   political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people  
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authoritarian   government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power  
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totalitarian   system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives  
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