A | B |
civics | the study of citizenship and government |
citizenship | becoming a citzen, sharing a history and set of beliefs with the rest of the county’s citizens |
citizen | a member of a communtity with a government and laws |
government | the power or authority that rules a country |
rule of law | the government and those who govern are bound and subject to the law (no one is above the law) |
consent of the governed | people are the source of any and all govermental power |
representative government | in a representative system of government, people elect public officials to make laws and conduct government |
limited government( | gov’t is not all powerful and my do only those things people have given it the power to do |
democracy | a system of government in which the people rule |
immigrant | a person who comes to a country with the intention of living there permanently |
immigration | the act or process of coming into a country to live |
alien | noncitizens, not citizens of the U.S. |
naturalization | the process by which aliens become citizens |
immigrate | coming into a county to live |
census | the process for counting the population in the U.S. |