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Chapter 1
Contact vocab
Question | Answer |
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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 judgements and decisions | |
Popular sovereignty- the notion that powers lies with the people | |
Naturalization- a legal process to obtain citizenship | |
Alien- a noncitizen | |
Immigrant- a person who moves permanently to a new country | |
Deport- to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country | |
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 which citizens 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 a heredity, single leader | |
Authoritarian- a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power | |
Totalitarian- a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives |