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| civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizens. |
| budget | A plan for making and spending money. |
| deport | To send an alien or immigrant back to his country. |
| citizen | Community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it |
| democracy | A government in which citizens hold the power to rule. |
| naturalization | A legal process to obtain citizenship. |
| government | The ruling authority for a community. |
| citizenship | Rights and duties of members of a state. |
| republic | A representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers. |
| alien | A noncitizen. |
| service economy | Where the majority of people earn their living by providing a service rather than manufacturing a product. |
| monarchy | a government with a hereditary. |
| immigrant | A person who moves permanently to a new country. |
| popular sovereignty | The notion that power lies with the people. |
| value | The general principles or beliefs people use to make judgments and decisions. |
| authoritarian | A government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power. |
| majority rule | Political principal providing that a majority of the members of a community have the power to make laws binding upon all the people. |
| direct democracy | all the citizens meet to debate government matters and vote first-hand. |
| totalitarian | A system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people's lives. |
| public policy | the course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem |
