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ch 1 civics
definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| is the study of the rights and duties of citizens | civics |
| rights and duties of members of a state | citizenship |
| community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it | citizen |
| where the malority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product | service economy |
| the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and decision | value |
| the notion that power lies with the people | popular sovereignty |
| sets of ideas that people have about relationships,obligations,roles,and functions of society | institution |
| a legal process to obtain citizenship | naturalization |
| a noncitizen | alien |
| a person who moves permanently to a new country | immigrant |
| to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country | deport |
| is the ruling authority for a community or society any organization that has the power to make and enforce or carry out laws and decision for its members | government |
| a course of government action to achieve community goals when government leaders decide they want to protect consumers | public policy |
| a plan for collecting and spending money | budget |
| a government in which citizenshold the power to rule | democracy |
| a form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand | direct democracy |
| a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf | representative democracy |
| a representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers | republic |
| a government with a hereditary,single leader | monarchy |
| political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people | majority rule |
| a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power | authoritarian |
| a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives | totalitarian |