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chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civics | Thhe study of the rights and duties of citizens |
| Citizenship | rights and duties of a member of a state |
| Citizen | community member who owes 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 menufactoring a product |
| Value | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and decisions |
| Popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people |
| Institution | sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obigations, roles, and functions of society |
| Naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
| Alien | a noncitizen |
| Immirgrant | a person who moves permanently to a 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 power to rule |
| direct democracy | a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
| representative democracy | a government in which citizens chose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
| republic | a representative democracy where citizens chose their lawmakers |
| monarchy | a government with a hereditary, single leader |
| majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of a communtiy has the pwer to male 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 |