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WSHS C/E Chap 1
WSHS - 2nd - C/E - Chapter 1 Terms - Boyd/Tedder
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | membership of a community or state in which the people have certain rights and duties |
| Service economy | type of economy in which many people make a living by providing service for others rather than manufacturing a product |
| Popular sovereighty | governmnet by consent of the people |
| Citizen | a person who lives in a state or country, obeys the government’s rules and laws, and is entitled to protection from the government |
| Institution | a set of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society |
| Civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
| Value | the general principle used to make a judgment or decisions |
| Immigrant | a person who moves permanently to a new country |
| Naturalization | the legal process by which foreign persons become citizens |
| Alien | a non-citizen |
| Deport | to send an illegal alien back to his or her own country |
| Direct democracy | a system in which all citizens meet to debate government matters and vote firsthand |
| Representative democracy | a system in which citizens choose a smaller group to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf |
| Public policy | a course of government action to achieve community goals, issues, or problems |
| Democracy | a type of government that originated in ancient Greece and allows its citizens to vote and to take part in government |
| Budget | a plan for collecting and spending money |
| Republic | a system of limited government in which the people are the ultimate source of governmental power |
| Authorization | a government in which the concentration of power is help by a leader not accountable to the people; a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power |
| Monarchy | a government with a hereditary ruler |
| Totalitarien | a type of state in which the government’s control extends to nearly every aspect of the peoples lives |
| Majority rule | a principle of democracy in which citizens agree that when differences of opinion arise, they will abide by what most people want |
| Government | the ruling authority for a community |
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