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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 the state. |
| Citizens | 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 | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions |
| Popular Sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people. |
| Institutions | sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society. |
| Naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
| Alien | a noncitizen |
| Immigrants | a person who moves permanently to a new country. |
| Deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country. |
| Government | the ruling authority for a 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 a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
| Republic | a representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers |
| Monarchy | a government with a hereditary , single leader |
| Majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people |
| Authoritarian | a government in which one leader or groups of people holds absolute power. |
| Totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |