Civics Chapter One Vocabulary

a set of ideas about life and society

• government

• ideology

• refugee

• immigrant

political principle that says a majority of the people has the power to make laws binding upon all the people

• constitutional monarchy

• ethnic group

• majority rule

• naturalization

a key practice, relationship, or organization in a society

• institution

• ethnic group

• immigrant

• naturalization

government in which people choose leaders to govern for them

• authoritarian regime

• popular sovereignty

• constitutional monarchy

• representative democracy

to call for military service

• civics

• immigrant

• government

• draft

a foreign-born resident of the United States who has not been naturalized

• immigrant

• alien

• refugee

• citizen

the rights and duties of citizens

• citizenship

• government

• ideology

• citizen

the decisions and actions a government takes to solve problems

• institution

• ethnic group

• public policy

• citizenship

a person who flees his or her home to escape danger such as war

• refugee

• immigrant

• citizen

• alien

the study of the rights and duties of citizens

• civics

• immigrant

• citizen

• citizenship