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Chap 1 Civics & Econ
content vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civics | Is the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
| Citizenship | Rights and duties of members of a state |
| Citizens | 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 |
| Values | The General Principles of beliefs you use to make judgment. |
| Popular Sovereignty | Rights to "life,Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. |
| Institutions | Sets of ideas that people have about relationships,Obligations,Roles and Functions |
| Naturalization | A Legal process to obtain citizenship |
| Aliens | Non-Citizen |
| Immigrants | People who move permanently to a new country |
| Deport | To send an alien or immigrant back to his or her country |
| Budget | A plan for collecting 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 firsthand |
| 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 | Political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people |
| Authoritarian | Power is held by an individual or group not accountable to the people |
| Totalitarian | A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives |