Civics Chap1 terms ~ Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens |
Citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
Citizens | Community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it. |
Service economy | the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product. |
Values | general principles of beliefs people use to make judgements & decisions |
Popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with people |
institution | set of ideas that people have about relationship, obligations, roles, and functions of society. |
naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
Alien | a non-citizen |
immigrant | a person who moves permanently to a new country. |
deport | send an alien/immigrant back to his or her country |
government | the ruling authority for a community/ society. |
public policy | course of government action to achieve community goals |
budget | plan for collecting & spending money. |
democracy | government which citizens hold power to rule |
direct democracy | a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
representative democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf. |
republic | representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmaker. |
monarchy | government with a hereditary, single leader. |
Majority rule | Political principle providing that a majority of the member of a community has power to make laws binding upon all the people. |
authoritarian | government in which on leader or group of people holds absolute power. |
totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |
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