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chapter 1 vocab
definitions
Question | Answer |
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civics | study of the rights and duties of citizens |
citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
citizen | community member 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 than manufacturing a product |
value | general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions |
popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people |
institution | sets of ideas that people have about relationships,obligations,roles,and functions of society |
naturalization | legal process to obtain citizenship |
alien | noncitizen |
immigrant | person who moves permanently to a new country |
deport | send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
government | 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 | government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
direct democracy | form of democracy in which the people vote first hand |
representative democracy | government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
republic | representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmaker |
monarchy | government with a hereditary,single leader |
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 |
authoritarian | government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power |
totalitarian | system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives |