Question | Answer |
civics | is the study of the rights and duties of citezens |
citizenship | dates back more than 2,500 years to ancient grecce and rome |
citizens | commanity member who owes loyalty to government and is entitled to protection from it |
service economy | where majorty of people earn their living by providing a service rather than man unfacturing a product |
values | are broad ideas about what is good or desirable and are shared by people in a society |
popular sovereighty | the notion that power lies with the people |
institutions | sets of ideas that people have about relationships abligations roles and functions of society |
naturalization | a legal process to obtain citezenship |
aliens | a noncitizen |
immigants | people who move pemanetly to a new country gain american citezenship each year |
deport | send them back to their own contries |
government | is the ruling authority of a community of society |
public polocy | the course of action the government takes in responce to an issue or problem |
budget | a plan for making and spending money |
democracy | are more than 2,500 years old |
direct democracy | all the citizens met to debate government matters and vote first hand |
repreesentative democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
republic | a representative democracy where citezens choose their lawmakers |
monarchy | describes a government |
majority rule | when a differences of a opinon arise |
authritarian | power is heald by an individual or a group not accountable to the people |
totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people lives |