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Chapter One
Chapter One; Sections 1-3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
| Citizenship | Rights and duties of members 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 manufacturing a product. |
| Value | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions. |
| Popular Sovereignty | The notion that power lies with the people. |
| Institution | Sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society. |
| Naturalization | A legal process to obtain citizenship. |
| Alien | A non-citizen. |
| Immigrant | 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 rule. |
| Direct Democracy | A form of democracy in which the people vote first hand. |
| 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 | A government with a hereditary, single leader. |
| Majority Rule | A number that is more than 50 percent of the total. |
| 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. |