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Civics Ch1
Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civics | The study of rights and duties of citizens |
| Citizenship | rights and duties |
| Citizen | Community member who owes loyalty to the government |
| Service Economy | where most people earn there living by providing a service rather then manufactoring a product |
| Values | General principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and decisions |
| Popular Sovereignty | American ideals of individuals right to life liberty |
| Institution | sets tht people have about relationships , obligations, roles and functions |
| Naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
| Aliens | a non-citizen |
| Immagrents | People who move permentaly move to a diff. country |
| Deport | To make some one go back to there country |
| Government | is the ruling authority for a community , or society. |
| Public Policy | the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or a promblem |
| Democracy | 1.A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives |
| Direct Democracy | All the citizens met and debate government matters and votes firsthand. |
| budget | a plan for makin' nd recieving money |
| representive democracy | a gov. in witch citizens choose a smaller group to govern on there behalf |
| republic | a representitive democracy were citizens choose their lawmakers |
| monarchy | a gov. with a heredity single |
| majority rule | political priniple providing tht a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the peeps |
| authorization | a gov. in witch one leader or group of people holds absolute power |
| totalization | a system in witch gov. controls extends to almost all aspects of ppl |
| enlightenmment | movementthat spread the idea that reeasons science could improve society |
| monarch | king or queen |
| legislature | a group of people that makes laws |
| precedent | a ruling that is used as the baisis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case |
| common law | a system of law base on precedent |
| social contract | contract thats verbally |
| Natural rights | freedoms people process relating to life liberty and property |
| Royal colony | a coloinal area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarchy |
| propriety colony | in witch an owner controls land and gov. |
| religious dissenters | those who followed a religious faith other then the official religion of England |
| puritans | |
| piligrims | |
| toleration | |
| indentured servants | |
| plantation | |
| triangular trade | |
| tidewater | |
| egalitarianism |
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