Term | Definition |
civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
citizens | community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it |
service ecomony | where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather then manufacturing a product |
value | the general principles or beliefs use to make judgemens and decisions |
popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with in 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 non citizen |
immigrant | a person who moves permanently to a new country |
deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
government | the ruling authority for a country |
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 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 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 the power to make laws binding upon all the people |
authoritarian | a government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power |
totaltorian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of peoples lives |