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| civics | study of citizenship and government |
| citizen | a member of a community with a government and laws |
| government | the power or authority that rules a country |
| dictatorship | a government controlled by one person or a small group of people |
| democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule and make the laws |
| representative democracy | a government that consists of representatives elected by the citizens |
| alien | a person who lives in a country but is not a citizen of that country |
| immigrant | a person who comes to a country with the intention of living there permanently |
| deport | to expel from a country |
| naturalization | the process by which resident aliens become citizens |
| census | a process for counting a nation's population |
| quota | a specific limit on the number of persons allowed to enter a country |
| refugee | a person who flees his/her homeland because of war, famine, or political oppression |
| migration | a mass movement of people from one area to another |
| parliment | the British legislature |
| legislature | a group of people who make laws for a state or country |
| precedent | a ruling that is used as the bias for a judicial decision in a later similar case |
| common law | a system of law based on precedent |
| colony | a group of people in one place who are ruled by the government of another place |
| colonist | members of a colony; those who settle in a new place |
| compact | an agreement or contract made among a group of people |
| town meeting | a gathering of local citizens to discuss and vote on important issues |
| mercantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys |
| boycott | a refusal to buy goods or services as a means of protest |
| repeal | to cancel a law |
| delegate | a representative to a meeting |
| congress | a formal meeting at which representatives discuss matters of common concern |
| independence | self-reliance and freedom from outside control |
| interpret | to decide the meaning of |
| confederation | a group of individuals or states that band together for a common purpose |
| ratify | to vote approval of |
| amend | to change |
| federal system | a political system in which the power is shared between a national government and the state |
| compromise | an agreement in which each side agrees to give up something in order to get something more important |
| export | to sell goods to other countries |
| electoral college | a group of people who elect the president and vice president |
| anti-federalist | a person who opposed the Constitution before 1789 |
| federalist | a person who supported the Constitution and a strong national government before 1789 |
| preamble | the introduction to the U.S. Constitution |
| legislative | have the power to make laws |
