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Chapter 1
| 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 it's 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 power lies within the people. |
| Institution | The set of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society. |
| 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 back to his/her country. |
| Government | Ruling authority for a community. |
| Public Policy | Course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem. |
| Budget | A plan for making & spending money. |
| Democracy | A government in which citizens hold power to rule. |
| Direct Democracy | Form of democracy which people vote first hand. |
| Representative Democracy | Government which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on your behalf. |
| Republic | Representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers. |
| Monarchy | Government with hereditary, single leader. |
| Majority Rule | Political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has powers to make laws binding upon all people. |
| Authoritarian | Government which one leader or group of people holds absolute power. |
| Totalitarian | Government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |