Chapter 1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Civics | The study of rights and duties of citizens. |
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 manufactures. |
Value | Principles and beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions. |
Popular Sovereignty | The notion that power lies with the people. |
Institution | Set ideas people have of relationships, obligations, roles, and functions in 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 their country. |
Government | THe ruling authority for a community. |
Public Policy | Course of action the government takes in response to an issue/problem. |
Budget | A plan for making and spending money |
Democracy | A government in which citizens hold power to rule. |
Direct democracy | A form of democracy in which people vote first-hand. |
Representative democracy | A government where citizens pick a smaller group to govern their behalf. |
Republic | A representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers. |
Monarchy | A government with a hereditary single ruler. |
Majority rule | Political principle that a majority of people has the power to bind laws on the people. |
Authoritarian | A government where one person/group holds absolute power. |
Totalitarian | A system in which government control extends to almost all its people. |
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