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Chapter 1
Civics Honors- Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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. |