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Flashcards by vlcheshire, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by vlcheshire
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizenship |
| duties | a moral or legal obligation; a responsibility |
| responsibilities | a thing that one is required to do as a part of a job |
| naturalization | the process by which US citizenship is granted to a foreign citizen |
| alien | belonging to a foreign country or nation |
| immigrant | a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign county |
| refugee | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster |
| illegal alien | an alien that has entered the US illegally and can be deported if apprehended |
| deportation | the act of sending an illegal alien back to their home country |
| expatriation | the withdraw from residence in one's native country |
| melting pot theory | a metaphor for describing the assimilation of immigrants into American culture |
| toss salad | the theory that groups of Americans keep their cultural identities along with their American identity |
| government | the governing body of a nation, state or community |
| levels | a position on a real or imaginary scale |
| Supremacy clause | the provision in Article 6, clause 2 of the US constitution that establishes the United States |
| autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power |
| oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country |
| democracy | a system of government in which power is vested in the people |
| direct democracy | a form of government in which the people decide |
| Representative democracy | a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people |
| federalism | the federal principle or system of government |
| popular sovereignty | the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people |
| rule of law | the legal principles that laws should govern a nation |
| separation of power | a principle of the government that each branch should act independently of the others |
| checks and balances | counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated |
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