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Civics Chap1 terms ~
Chapter 1
| 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. |