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cb government terms
define chapter 1 terms
Question | Answer |
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citizen | person belongs to a country |
civics | study of the rights and duties of citizens |
service economy | doing something for somebody for money |
values | broad ideas about what is good or desirable,and are shared by people in a society |
popular sovereignty | government by consent of the governed |
institutions | sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions |
naturalization | foreign-born people who choose to become citizens legally |
aliens | noncitizens |
immigrants | people who move permanently to a new country |
deport | send them back to their own countries |
government | ruling authority for a community, or society |
public policy | course of government action to achieve community goals |
budget | plan for collecting and spending money |
democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
direct democracy | citizens met to debate government matters and vote first hand |
representative democracy | citizens choose a smaller group to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf |
republic | a system of limited government in which the people are the ultimate source of governmental power |
monarchy | government with a hereditary ruler |
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 |
authoritarian | power is held by an individual or a group not accountable to the people |
totalitarian | governments control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives |