Civics Voc.

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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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