CIVIC GLOSSARY

123 results

A

  • Absentee Ballot
  • Activism
  • Advocacy
  • Affirmative Action
  • Amendment
  • Asylum
  • Authoritarianism
  • Autocracy

B

  • Bill of Rights
  • Bipartisan
  • Bureaucracy
  • Bureaucrat

C

  • Campaign
  • Canvassing
  • Capitalism
  • Caucus
  • Census
  • Citizenship
  • City Council
  • City Manager
  • Civic Duty
  • Civic Education
  • Civic Engagement
  • Civic Literacy
  • Civic Responsibility
  • Civic Virtue
  • Civil Discourse
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Civil Liberties
  • Civil Rights
  • Coalition
  • Communism
  • Community Development
  • Community Service
  • Congress
  • Congressional Caucus
  • Constitution

D

  • Democracy
  • Diplomacy
  • Disenfranchisement
  • District Attorney
  • Due Process

E

  • Electoral College
  • Endorsement
  • Enumerated Powers
  • Equal Protection
  • Equality
  • Executive Order

F

  • Federalism
  • Franchise
  • Freedom of Expression

G

  • Gerrymandering
  • Governance
  • Grassroots

H

  • Homeland Security
  • Human Rights

I

  • Impeachment
  • Inauguration
  • Inclusion
  • Interest Group
  • Intersectionality

J

  • Judicial Independence
  • Jurisdiction
  • Justice

L

  • Legislation
  • Liberty
  • Lobbying

M

  • Majority Rule
  • Mobilization
  • Municipality

N

  • National Interest
  • National Security
  • Nonprofit

O

  • Ombudsman
  • Organizing
  • Outreach

P

  • Participatory Budgeting
  • Partisan
  • Petition
  • Philanthropy
  • Pluralism
  • Political Ideology
  • Political Participation
  • Polling
  • Protest
  • Public Advocate
  • Public Forum
  • Public Notice
  • Public Policy
  • Public Sector
  • Public Service

R

  • Ratification
  • Redistricting
  • Referendum
  • Representation
  • Representative Government
  • Republican Government
  • Resolution
  • Restorative Justice
  • Rule of Law

S

  • Separation of Powers
  • Social Capital
  • Socialism
  • Sovereignty
  • Suffrage

T

  • Third Party
  • Town Hall
  • Transparency
  • Treaty
  • Tyranny

U

  • Unalienable Rights
  • Unionization
  • Unitary Government
  • United Nations
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

V

  • Veto
  • Volunteerism
  • Voter Engagement
  • Voting Rights Act

W

  • Whips
  • Whistleblower
  • World Court

X

  • Xenohobia