Chapter 1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Civics | The study of the rights and duties of a citizen |
Citizenship | Rights and duties of members of a state |
Service Economy | Where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product |
Value | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions |
Popular Sovereignty | The notion that power lies with the people |
Institiution | Set of ideas that people have about relationship, obligations, roles, and functions of society |
Citizen | Community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it. |
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/her own country |
Government | The 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 or 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 democracy 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 principal providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon the people. |
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 people's lives. |
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