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Chapter 1: Civics
chapter1 content vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| civics | 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 | earning a living by providing services |
| values | the general principles you use to make judgments |
| popular sovreignty | government by consent of the governed |
| institutions | sets of ideas that people have about rerlationships |
| naturalization | the process foreign-born people have to go through to become a citizen |
| alien | a non-citizen |
| immigrants | people who move permanently to a new country |
| deport | to send back to ones home country |
| government | ruling authority for a community or society |
| public policy | course of government action to achieve community goals |
| budget | plan for collecting and spending money |
| democracy | government in which citizens hold the power to rule. |
| direct democracy | citizens gather to debate government matters and vote first hand |
| representative democracy | citizens choose a small group to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf |
| republic | a system of limited government in which the people are the ultimate source of governmental power |
| monarchy | a government with a hereditary ruler |
| majority rule | when differences arise, the citizens will abide by what most people want |
| authoritarian | power is held by an individual or group not accountable to the people |
| totalarian | the government controls almost all aspects of people's lives. |