| 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 |