Citizenship Vocabulary

Citizen

• A member of a politically or administratively defined community, having both rights and duties associated with that membership.

Civics

• The study of the rights and duties of citizens

Naturalization

• The process of becoming a citizen

Duties

• A commitment or expectation to perform some action in general or if certain circumstances arise

Rights

• Are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.

Responsibilities

• a thing that one is required to do as part of a job, role, or legal obligation.

DEMOCRACY

• a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Dictatorship

• is an authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders with either no party or a weak party, little mass mobilization, and limited political pluralism.

Oligarchy

• a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may be distinguished by nobility, wealth, family ties, education or corporate, religious, political, or military control.

Theocracy

• a form of government in which rule is directed by a belief in a god

Monarchy

• Form of government in which a group, generally a group of people representing a dynasty, embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of supreme sovereignty.

Communism

• a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Socialism

• a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Autocracy

• is a system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control.

Anarchy

• a society, entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects hierarchy.

Patriotism

• Is the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland, and a sense of alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment.