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Chapter 1
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Term | Definition |
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Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens |
Citizenship | Rights and duties 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 |
Values | Broad ideas about what is good |
Popular Sovereighty | Government by consent of the government |
Institutions | Set of ideas that people have about relationships |
Naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
alien | a non-citizen |
immigrant | a person who moves permanently to the US |
Deport | To send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
Government | The ruling authority for 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 first hand |
Representative Democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
Republic | a representative democracy where citizens choose their law makers |
Monarchy | a government with hereditary single leader |
Majority Rule | Political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power too make laws binding upon all the people |
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 aspect of people's lives |