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Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens |
Citizen | Community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection. |
Citizenship | rights and duties of a member of a state. |
Service economy | Where the majority of people earn their living by providing services rather than manufacturing. |
Value | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgment. |
Popular sovereignty | The notion that power lies withen the people. |
Institution | Sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations,roles and functions of society. |
Naturalization | The legal process to obtain citizenship. |
Alien | non-citizen |
Immigrant | A person who moves to another country permanently. |
Deport | To get sent back to your country. |
Government | The ruling authority for a community. |
Public policy | The course of action the Gov. takes in response to an issue. |
Budget | A plan for making and spending money |
Democracy | A government in which citizens hold power to rule. |
Direct Democracy | A form of democracy where the people vot first hand. |
Representative Democracy | A government in where the people choose a small group to represent them. |
Republic | A reprecentive |
Monarchy | One rule |
Majority rules | The principle that the greater number should exercise greater power. |
Authoritarian | Where one leader or a group of people hold absolute power. |
Totalitarian | a system in which gov. controls and extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives |