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Additional Vocabulary Terms

1. **Demagogy or demagoguery** is a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public—typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist, populist or religious themes. 2. **Civics** is the study of rights and duties of citizenship. In other words, it is the study of government with attention to the role of citizens’ ― as opposed to external factors ― in the operation and oversight of government. Within a given political or ethical tradition, civics refers to educating the citizens. 3. **Liberty:** Liberty is one of Jefferson’s inalienable rights and a cornerstone of the Bill of Rights. 4. **Egalitarianism**: Equality of opportunity, especially social equality, has promoted increasing political equality. 5. **Individualism**: American individualism developed in part from the western frontier and the immigrants’ flight from government oppression. 6. **Laissez-faire economics**: The American government taxes and regulates less than most countries at its equivalent level of development. 7. **Populism**: The common, ordinary citizens are idealized in American politics, and both liberals and conservatives claim to be their protectors.