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Chapter 1 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
| Citizenship | Rights ers of a state adn duties of members of a state. |
| Citizen | Community member who owes loyalty to the goverment and is entitled to protection from it. |
| Servive Economy | Where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manucfacturing a product. |
| Values | Broad ideas about what is good or desirable, and shared by people in society. |
| Popular Soverighty | The notation that power lies with the people. |
| Institutions | Set of ideas that people have about relationships, obligation, roles, and funtions of society. |
| Naturalization | By birth and, for foreing born people who choose to become citizens, by a legal process. |
| Aliens | A noncitizen |
| Immigrant | A person who moves permanently to a new country. |
| Deport | To send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country. |
| Government | is the ruling authority for community, or society. |
| Public Policy | Course of government action to achieve community goals. |
| Budget | A plan for collecting and apeding money, is key to the sucess of the community. |
| Democracy | A government in which citizens hold the power in rule. |
| Direct Democracy | A form of democracy in which the people vote forshand. |
| Representative Democracy | Citizens choose a smaller group to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf. |
| Monarchy | A king, queen, or other royal figure who inherits this position of power. |
| 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 | Government's control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives. |