A | B |
civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
citizen | a community member who owes loyalty to the government and is entitled to protection from it |
government | the ruling authority for a community |
dictatorship | a government controlled by one person or a small group of people |
democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
representative democracy | representative democracy |
alien | a noncitizen |
immigrant | person who move permanently to a new country |
deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own country |
naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
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 fles his or her country because of war, famine, or political oppression |
migration | a mass movement of people from one area to another |