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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| civics | the study of rights and duties of citizens. |
| citizenship | rights and duties of members of the state. |
| citizen | community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it. |
| service economy | people that provide their own work such as teaching practicing law or medicine. |
| values | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements. |
| popular sovereignty | government by consent of the governed through equal justice under the law |
| institutions | sets of ideas that people have created about relationships obligations roles and functions of society. |
| naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship. |
| alien | a non-citizen. |
| immigrants | a person who moves permanently to a new country. |
| deport | to send an alien back to his/her country |
| government | the ruling authority for a community or society |
| 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 | a form of democracy in which the people vote first hand. |
| representative democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf. |
| republic | a representative democracy where citizens choose their own law makers. |
| monarchy | a government with a hereditary single leader. |
| majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has. |
| authoritarian | a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power. |
| totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of peoples live. |