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Ch. 1 Terms
Civics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizenz |
| citizenshipral principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions | rights and duties of members of a state |
| citizens | community member who owens loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it |
| service economy | when the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manunfacturing a product |
| values | the gene |
| popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the 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 noncitizen |
| immigrant | a person who moves permonently to a new country |
| deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
| public policy | the courge of action the government takes in response to on issue or problem |
| budget | a plan for making and spending money |
| democracy | agovernment in which citians hold the power to rule |
| direct democracy | a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
| representative democracy | a government in which thecitizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
| monarchy | a government with a hereditary single leader |
| 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 |
| authoritarion | a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power |
| totalitarion | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects os peoples lives |