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Chap. 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civics | The study of the rights and duties of the citizens |
| Citizenship | Rights and duties of the members of a state |
| Citizen | Community member who owes loyalty to the government and its entitled to protection from it |
| Service Economy | Where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing |
| Value | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and decisions |
| Popular Sovereignty | The notion that power lies with the people |
| Institution | A set 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 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 |
| Monarcy | A government with a hereditary, single leader |
| Majority Rule | A 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 group of people holds absolute power |
| Totalitarian | A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |
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