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Alignment

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An alliance or agreement.

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Aboriginal Healing Fund

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An Aboriginal- managed, Ottawa based, not-for-profit private corporation with the mission to help Aborginal people build healing processes that address the legacy of abuses such as the residential school system.

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Adherence to collective norms

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Faithful observance of the norms or standards imposed on the members of a group as a condition of member-ship on the group

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American Bill of Rights

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The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution.

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Anit-Terrorism Act

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A set of laws passed in December 2001, inm response to the september 11, 2001 attacks.

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Anti-war movements

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Organized campaigns against war.

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Apartheid

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A strict, legislated system of racial segregation and discrimination against Black and other “coloured” South Africans set in place by the National Party of South Africa from 1948 to 1994

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Autarky

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Self-sufficiency or independence from other countries.

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Authoritaranism

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A form of government with authorityvested in an elite group that may or may not rule in the interests of the people.

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Autonomy

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A state of individual freedom form outside authority.

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Bank Run

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A situation in which too many depositors try to withdraw their savings from a financail instituion, endangering it with bankruptcy.

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Beliefs and Values

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Important aspects of identity that influence behaviour and choices, and that guide people in their interactions with others and how they view the world.

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Boycott

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A refusak to do business with or to associate with a person, organization, or counrty as an expression of protest.

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Brinkmanship

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International behaviour or forgeign policy that takes a country to the brink of war; pushing one’s demands to the point of threatening military action.

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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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A document entrenched in the Constitution Act, 1982 that lists and describes the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed to Canadians.

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Capital

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The money or other assets with which an entrepreneur starts in business; any tool or mechanism used in the creation of wealth.

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Capitalism ( Laissez-faire Capitalism)

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An economic system based on free markets, fair competition, wise consumers, and profit-motivated producers; a minimum of government involvement is favored.

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Censorship

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The act of restricting freedom of expression or freedom of access to ideas or works, usually by governments, and usually to protect the perceived commomn good.

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Chartism

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A working-class movement in Britain that focused on political and social reform from 1838 to 1848

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Citizen advocacy

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A movement to strengthen citzen action and motivation to participate in community and civi affairs.

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Citizenship

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Membership by birth or naturalization in a society, community, or counrty that entails definable rights of participation and protection, and certain responsibilties and duties to the society, community, or counrty.

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Civil disobedience

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The refusal to obey a law because it is considered to be unjust.

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Civil rights movements

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Popular movements, notably in the Uniterd States in the 1950s abnd 1960s, that work to extend rights to marginalized mebers of society.

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Civility

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Thoughtfulness about howe our actions may affect others.

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Class system

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The division of a society into different classes of people, usually based on income or wealth.

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Classical Conservatism

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An ideology that says government should represtent the legacy of the past as well as the well-being of the present.

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Climate change

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The changfe in global weather patterns.

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Co-operation

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Working together to the same end.

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Cold War

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The political, economic and social struggles between Soviet Union and the United states.

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Collective Identity

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The identity that you share with other people as a member of a larger social group.

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Collective Interest

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The set of interests that members of a group have in common.

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Collective Responsibility

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Holding a whole group or collective responsible for the actions or individuals within the group or collective.

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Collectivism

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An economic policy where all land is taken away from private owners and combine in large, collectively worked farms.

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Collectivism

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A current of thinking that values the goals of the group and the common good over the goals of any one individual.

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Command economy

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An economic system based on public ownership of property in which goevernment planners decide which goods to produce, how to produce them and how they should be distribute.

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Common good

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The good of a community.

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Communism

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A system of society with property vested in the community and each member working for the common benefit accordingto his or her capacity and recieving according to his or her needs.

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Competition

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The act or an instance of competing ot contenmding with others.

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Conscientious objection

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The refusal to perform military service on moral or religious grounds.

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Consensus decision making

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A process whereby a group of individuals share ideas, solutions and concerns to find a resolution to a problem that all members of the group can accept.

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Containment

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To stop the spread of communism.

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Deficit

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A deficiency.

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Democracy

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A form of governemnt in which power is ultimately vested in the people.

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Detente

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A period of the Cold War during which the major powers tried to lessen the tension between then through diplomacy.

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Deterrence

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The Cold War forgeign policy of both major powers aiming to deter the strategic advances of the other through arms development and arms build up.

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Direct democracy

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A form of government in which the people participate in deciding issues directly.

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Dissent

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The political act of disagreeing.

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Draft

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Conscription or compulsory military service.

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Draft Doger

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Someone who avoids conscription or compulsory military servicem usually fleeing to another counrty.

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Economic equality

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A principle common to collectivist ideologies which can have different meanings depending on the person or the ideology.

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Economic freedom

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The freedom to buy what you want and to sell your labour, idea or product to whomever you wish.

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Egalitaianism

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A political principle that holds that all people should be treated as equals and allowed equal civil, social, polotical and economic rights under the law.

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Emancipation

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Freeing from restraint.

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Emergencies Act

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A set of laws that permits the Canadian government to invoke specail measures to deal with emergencies.

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Enemy aliens

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Non- citizens who come from an enemy counrty.

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Enfranchisement

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Granting people the righs of citizens, especially the right to vote.

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Fascism

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An extreme, right-wing, anit- democratic naztionalist movement which led to totalitarian forms of governments in Germany and italy from the 1920’s to the 1940’s.

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Free market

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A market that operates with limited government intervention.

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Great Depression

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An economic crisis that began in late 1929 with the stock market crash and continued through the 1930’s

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Hot war

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A traditional war which includes troops in direct conflict.

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** Humanitarianism**

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Trying to improve the lives of tge others and to reduce their suffering through various means, including social reform and aid.

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Ideology

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A set of priciples or ideas that explains your world and your place within it, which is based on certain assumptions about human nature and society and provides an interpretation of the past,an explanation of the present, and a vision for the future.

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Iron curtain

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A phrasse coined by Winstonm Chruchhill in 1947 that refers to the barrier in Europe between self-governing.

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Laissez-faire

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Non- interfence or non-intervention.

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Liberalism

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A collection of ideologies all committed to the principle of the dignity and freedom of the individual as the foundation for society.

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Limited government

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The principle of little government involvement in the affairs of an economy, in the belief that this results in more efficient self-regulating markets.

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Dissuasion

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French word for deterrence

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Marxism

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A radical form of socialism, often called scientific socialism or communinsm to distinguish it from other socialist ideologies.

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Mixed economy

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An economic system based on free- market principles but with some government intervention.

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New deal

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Economic policies that give the government a more significant role in the regulation of the economy and in providing a “saftey net” programs.

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No-fly list

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A list of people whom the canadian government has identified as potentially posing an immediate threat to aviation security.

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Republican

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A form of government where governing authority is vested in the hands of the representitives of the citizens.

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Labour movement

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The effort by organized labour to improve conditions for workers.

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