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Chapter 1 nathan
Term | Definition |
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Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
Citizenship | Rights and duties of members of a state. |
Citizen | Community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it. |
Service economy | Where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product. |
Value | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions. |
Popular sovereignty | The nation that powers lies with people. |
Institution | Sets of ideas that people create, such as song, movies, books, poetry, art, and software. |
Diverse | Differing from one another. |
Ethnic | Relating to races or groups of people who share common traits and customs. |
Priciple | A rule of conduct or belief. |
Naturalization | A legal process to obtain citizenship. |
Alien | A non-citizen. |
Immigrant | A person who moves permanently to a new country. |
Deport | To send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country. |
Deny | Refusal to grant, agree, or believe. |
Obtain | To gain or acquire. |
Priority | First condition. |
Government | The ruling authority for a community. |
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 witch citizen 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 | A government with 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. |
Authoritarian | A government in which one leader or group of people hold absolute power of government. |
Totalitarian | A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |