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Ch.1 Vocab Terms
Chapter 1 Vocabulary Terms
Question | Answer |
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Citizen | A person who belongs to and/or lives in a country. |
Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens |
Citizenship | The study of right and duties of citizens |
Service Economy | The lost of manufacturing ground |
Value | The general principles you use to make judgements. |
Popular Sovereignty | Government by consent of government |
Institutions | Set of ideas that people have about relationships obligations,roles and functions of society |
Naturalization | A legal process to obtain citizenship |
Aliens | Non citizens |
Immigrants | People who move permanently to a new country |
Deport | Sending someone back to their own country |
Government | The ruling authority a community, or society. |
Public Policy | A course of government action to achieve community goals. |
Budget | A plan for collecting and spending money |
Democracy | A government in which citizens hold the power rule. |
Direct Democracy | All the citizens met debate government matter and vote first-hand. |
Representative Democracy | The citizens chose a smaller group to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf. |
Republic | A representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmaker. |
Monarchy | A government with a higher ruler(king, queen, or royal figure) |
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 | The government's control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |