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Question | Answer |
Civics | The study of the rights and duties of citizenship. |
E Pluribus Unum | Latin for "Out of Many" |
Melting Pot Theory | A heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous. |
Salad Bowl Theory | Newly arrived immigrants do not lose the unique aspects of their cultures. |
Popular Sovereignty | The authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people. |
Naturalization | Is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen can become a citizen. |
Alien | Belonging to a foreign country or nation. |
Refugees | A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. |
Immigrants | A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. |
Fourteenth Amendment | All persons born or naturalized in 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, organization, or institution. |
Democracy | A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. |
Direct Democracy | Giving citizens an extraordinary amount of participation in the legislation process and granting them a maximum of political self-determination. |
Representative Democracy Indirect Democracy | Citizens elect representatives to make laws on their behalf. |
Theocracy | A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
Anarchy | A state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority. |
Totalitarianism | A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. |
Majority Rule | A decision rule that selects alternatives which have a majority, that is, more than half the votes. |
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