Unit 10 Vocabulary

Active participation in the public life of a community in an informed, committed, and constructive manner, with a focus on the common good.

• Civic participation

• Activism

• Civic Duty

• Civic Responsibility

Things citizens must do by law for the good of their country and everyone who lives there.

• Civic Duty

• Civic Responsibility

• Activism

• Initiative

The practice of taking direct action to achieve political or social goals.

• Civic Responsibility

• Activism

• Civic Duty

• Petition

A procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office.

• initiative

• referendum

• recall

• activism

A direct vote by the people on a particular proposal or issue.  This is contrast to an issue being voted on by a representative.

• civic duty

• initiative

• recall

• referendum

Refers to a state of disorder due to a lack of government or authority.

• communist

• anarchy

• democracy

• socialism

picketing and protesting is protected by the 1st amendment

• Civic responsibility

• Civic Duty

• Civil disobedience

• initiative