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chapter 1 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
| citizenship | rights and duties of citizens |
| citizens | community members who owes loyalty to government and entitled to protection from it |
| service economy | where the majority of people earn living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product |
| value | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions |
| popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people |
| institution | sets of ideas that people have about relationships,obligations,roles and functions of society |
| naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
| alien | a noncitizen |
| immigrant | a person who moves permanently to a new county |
| deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
| government | the ruling authority for the 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 smaller group to govern on their behalf |
| republic | a representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers |
| monarchy | a government with hereditary, single leadeer |
| majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of members of a community has the power to 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 aspects of people's lives |