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CIVICS WORDS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Immigrant | A person who is permanently to a new country |
| Ethnic Group | A group of people who share a common national, cultural, or racial background |
| Values | The general principals or beliefs people use to make judgement/decisions |
| Institutions | A key practice, relationship, or organization in society |
| Popular Sovereignty | The idea that power lies with people |
| Arbitrary | not agreed upon |
| Citizens | community member who owes loyalty to the government and its entitled to protection |
| civics | the study of rights & duties of citizens |
| citizenship | rights & duties of members of a state |
| government | the ruling authority of a community |
| naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
| alien | a foreign born resident of the USA who hasn't been naturalized |
| refugee | a person who unwillingly left his/her family to escape war/famine etc. |
| responsibility | an obligation that we fulfill voluntarily |
| duty | a thing we're required to do |
| tolerance | respecting/ accepting other, regardless of their beliefs, practices, or differences |
| welfare | the health, prosperity and happiness of the members of a community |
| volunteerism | the practice of offering your time/services to others without payment |
| public policy | the course of action the government takes in response to an issue/problem |
| representative democracy | a government in which citizens w=choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
| constitutional monarchy | who rules is passed down through blood; the power of the hereditary ruler is limited by the country's constitution/laws |
| majority rule | political principle that a 50% or more of a community members have the power to make laws binding on all people |
| authoritarian regime | a government in which a single leader or a group holds absolute power |
| totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives |
| ideology | a body of ideas about life and society |
| socialism | a system in which society , either directly/indirectly through the government , controls all aspects of the economy |