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chapter1civicss
definition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens rights |
| citizenship | rights and duties members of a state |
| citizens | community members 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 then manufacturing a product |
| value | the general principles or beliefs people use to use judgements and decisions |
| popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people |
| insitution | sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society |
| naturalization | legal process to obtain citizenship |
| alien | a noncitizen |
| immigrant | a person who moves permanently to a new country |
| deport | to send an an alien or immigrant back to his or her 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 | form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand |
| representive demeocracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on the behalf |
| republic | a respresentative deomocracy where choose their lawmakers |
| monarchy | a government with a herditary, single leader |
| majority rule | political principle providing that majority of the members of community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people |
| authoritarian | government in which one leader of group of people holds absolute power |
| totalitarian | system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people lives |