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| civics | study of citizenship and government |
| citizen | member of a community with a gov't and laws |
| government | power of authority that rules a country |
| democracy | a gov't in which citizens hold the power to rule and to make laws |
| representative democracy | gov't that consists or representatives elected by the citizens |
| alien | person who lives in a country but is not a citizen |
| immigrant | person who comes to a country with the intention of becoming a citizen |
| deport | to expel from the country |
| naturalization | process by which an alien becomes a citizen |
| quota | a limit on the number of persons allowed in a country |
| federalism | form of gov't in which power is divided between the federal and state gov't |
| consent of the goverened | people are the source of gov't power |
| limited gov't | gov't is not all powerful and may only do what people have given it power to do |
| rule of law | gov't and those who govern are bound by the law |
| democracy | in a democratic system of gov't the people rule |
| representative democracy | people elect officeholders to make laws and conduct gov't for them |
