| A | B |
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| government | The power or authority that rules a country |
| civics | The study of citizenship and government |
| citizen | A member of a community with a government and laws |
| dictatorship | A government controlled by one person or a group of people |
| democracy | A government in which citizens hold the power to rule and make 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 the nation's population |
| qouta | A specific limit on the number of persons allowed to enter the country |
| refugee | A person who flees his or her homeland because of war, famine, or political oppression |
| migration | A mass movement of people from one area to another |
