Key terms chapters 1-5 Flashcards

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Civics

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The study of the rights and duties of citizens

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Citizenship

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Dated beck more than 2,500 years to ancient Greece and Rome

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Citizens

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Community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection

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Service Economy

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Majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product

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Values

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General principals of beliefs people use to make decisions.

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Popular Sovergnity

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Government by consent of Governed

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Institutions

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set of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions

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Naturalism

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A legal progress to change citizenship

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Aliens

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A non- citizen

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Immigrants

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A person who moves permanently to a new country

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Deport

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To send an alien or immigrant back to his or her country

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Government

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The ruling of authority for a community

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Public Policy

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The course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem

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Budget

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A plan for making and spending money

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Democracy

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A Government in which citizens hold the power to rule

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Direct Democracy

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Form of democracy In which people vote firsthand

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Representative Democracy

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Government in which citizens choose a small group to govern their own behalf

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Republic

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Representative democracy where citizens choose lawmakers

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Monarchy

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A government with a hereditary single leader

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Majority Rule

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Political principle that a majority of members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all people

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Responsibilities

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An obligation that we fulfill voluntarily

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Duties

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A think we are required to do

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Burequeracies

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complex systems with many departments, rules, people in a chain demand

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Welfare

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The health, prosperity, happiness of members in a community

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Tolerance

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Respecting and accepting others regardless of their beliefs or differences

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Draft

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to call up