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Civics & Citizenship
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| civics | the study of rights and duties of citizens |
| citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
| citizen | community member who owes loyalty to the government |
| value | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions |
| 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 |
| duty | a thing we are required to do |
| responsibility | an obligation that we fulfill voluntarily |