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Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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