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Flashcards by kdlacy9531, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by kdlacy9531
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| Question | Answer |
| Civics | The study of the rights ansd duties of citizens |
| E Pluribus Unum | ''out of many ,one'' |
| Popular Sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people |
| Naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
| Dual Citizenship | citizenship in two countries concurrently |
| immigrants | To move into a foreign country |
| Refugees | person who has willingly left his or her home to escape war, famine,or other disaster |
| "melting pot " theory | is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture |
| " Salad Bowl " Theory | there are times when newly arrived immigrants do not lose the unique aspects of their cultures like in the melting pot model, instead they retain them |
| 14th Amendment | The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. |
| Government | the ruling authority for a community |
| Autocracy | rule by self / On EX. dictatorship, monarchy |
| Oligarchy | Rule by a few people oli= a few |
| Democracy | demos = people cracy = by life |
| direct democracy | can be defined as a form or system of democracy giving citizens an extraordinary amount of participation in the legislation process and granting them a maximum of political self-determination |
| Representative democracy "aka indirect democracy " | is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy |
| Totalitarianism | nj |
| anarchy | d |
| aliens | d |
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