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Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civics | the study of rights |
| Citizenship | rights and duties of citizens |
| Citizens | community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protections 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 judgements and ecisions |
| Popular Soveighnty | the notion that power lies with the people |
| Insititutions | sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society |
| Naturalizations | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
| Aliens | a noncitizen |
| Immigrants | a person moves permantely to a new country |
| Deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
| Government | the ruling authority for the community |
| Public Policy | the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem |
| Budget | to plan for making and spending money |
| Deomcracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rle |
| Direct democracy | a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
| Representaive democrative | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
| Republic | a represenative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers |
| Monarchy | a government with hereditary, single leader |
| Majority Rule | in both the house of representatives and the senate, the political party to which more than half the members belong |
| Authoritarian | a government in which one leader or group of people or groups; person or persons having the power of governement |
| Totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |