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te Government Terms
define ch.1 terms
Question | Answer |
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citizen | person that belongs to a country. |
civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state. |
service economy | where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product |
values | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and decisions |
popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people. |
institutions | set of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society. |
naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship. |
aliens | a non-citizen. |
immigrants | people who move permanently to a new country |
deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
government | the ruling authority for a community or society . |
public policy | the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem |
budget | a plan for making and spending money |
democracy | a government in which citizens hold the 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 | a representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers |
monarchy | describes a 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 | a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power. |
totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |