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Chapter 1
Civics Honors- Chapter 1 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civics | The study of the rights and and duties of citizens. |
| Citizenship | Rights and duties of members of the state. |
| Citizens | Community members who owe 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. |
| Popular Sovereignty | The notion that power lies with the people. |
| Institutions | Set of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society. |
| Naturalization | A legal process to obtain citizenship. |
| Aliens | 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 the 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 | King or queen. |
| 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 group of people holds absolute power. |
| Totalitarian | A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |