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Chapter 1 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do civics mean? | The study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
| What does citizenship mean? | Rights and duties of members of a state. |
| What does a citizen mean? | Community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it. |
| What is service economy? | Where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product. |
| What is a value? | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions. |
| What does popular sovereignty mean? | The notion that power lies with the people. |
| What is an institution? | Set of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions of society. |
| What does naturalization mean? | A legal process to obtain citizenship. |
| What is an alien? | A noncitizen. |
| What is an immigrant? | A person who moves permanently to a new country. |
| What does deport mean? | To send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country. |
| What is a government? | The ruling authority for a community. |
| What is public policy? | The course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem. |
| What is a budget? | A plan for making and spending money. |
| What is democracy? | A government in which citizens hold the power to rule. |
| What is direct democracy? | A form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand. |
| What is representative democracy? | A government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf. |
| What is a republic? | A representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers. |
| What does monarchy mean? | A government with a hereditary, single leader. |
| What is a 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. |
| What is an authoritarian? | A government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power. |
| What is a totalitarian? | A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |