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Civics
Term | Definition |
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budget | A plan for making and spending money |
Democracy | A government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
Representative democracy | A government in which citizens use a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
Monarchy | A government with a hereditary single leader |
Totalitarian | A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |
Direct democracy | A form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
Republic | A representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers |
Majority rules | Politician principle providing that a majority of the members of the 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 |
Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens |
Citizenship | Rights and duties of members of the 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 manufacturing a product |
Value | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions |
Popular sovereignty | the notation that power lies with the people |
Institution | Sets of ideas that people have about relationships obligation roles and functions of society |
Naturalization | A legal process to obtain citizenship |
Alien | A non-citizen |
Immigrant | A person who move 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 |