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government civics
chapter 1 terms
Question | Answer |
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Civics | is the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
Citizenship | concept of dates back more than 2,500 years to ancient Greece and Rome |
Citizens | Only men with property possessed the right to vote and to take part of the government |
Service Economy | earn a living by providing services |
Values | are ideas about what is good & desiirable and are shared by the society |
Popular Sovereignty | American ideal of individual rights to "life, Liberty" |
Institutions | these are not buildings or places but set of ideas that people have about relationships |
Naturalization | becomes a citizen by birth and foreign-born people who choose becomes citizens by legal process |
Aliens | noncitizens |
Immigrants | people who move permanently to a new country |
Deport | send them back to their own counties |
Government | is a ruling authority for a community |
public Policy | or a course or government action to achieve community goals |
budget | a plan for collecting and spending money |
democracy | are more then 2500 years old |
direct democracy | all the citizens met to debate governement matters and vote first hand |
representative decomocracy | a smaller group of representatvies |
Republic | a systems of limited government in which the people are the ultimate source of governmental power |
Monarchy | describes a government with heredititary ruler |
Majortity rule | citizen agrees that when differences of opinion arise |
Authoritarian | power is held by an individuals or a group not accountable to the people |
Totalitarian | government controls extends to almost all aspects of people lives |