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Chapter 1 nathan
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |