Chapter 4 CIVICS

a government in which citizens hold the power to rule

• economy

• natural right

• democracy

• republic

representative democracy where people choose their lawmakers

• liberty

• economy

• democracy

• republic

to cancel a law

• Natural Right

• social contract

• boycott

• repeal

quality or state of being free

• legislature

• liberty

• Natural Right

• Social Contract

an official formal announcement

• Limited Government

• proclamation

• social contract

• Natural Rights

group of elected people that make laws

• legislature

• Republic

• Social Contract

• Direct Democracy

principle that a government or a ruler is not all powerful ;

government can only do what people allow it to do

• economy

• limited government

• direct democracy

• republic

in this form of democratic government the people vote firsthand

• legislature

• social contract

• republic

• direct democracy

an agreement among people in society with a government

• republic

• liberty

• social contract

• natural rights

system for making choices about ways we use scarce resources to make and distribute goods and services to fulfill their needs

• Natural Right

• liberty

• democracy

• economy