Term | Definition |
civics | the study of the rights and duties a citizens |
citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
service economy | where majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing |
values | the general principle or beliefs people use to make judgemen |
citizen | community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it. |
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 | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
alien | a noncitizen |
immigrant | a person who moves permanently to a new country |
deport | to send a alien or immagrant back to his or her own country |
goverment | the ruling authority for a community |
public policy | the coarse 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 firsthand |
representative democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
republic | a representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers |
monarchy | a 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 |
authoritaian | 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 people alive. |