Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• LetLiberty stretch forth her hand toward the
  people of the old world. Tell them to come and
  bid them welcome.
• Patrick Henry

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• Becoming a U.S. Citizen
• Anyone born in U.S. or a territory it controls is
  a citizen
• a.People born in Puerto Rico are U.S. Citizens
  because it is a territory of the U.S.

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 2. Naturalized citizen person of foreign
  birth is granted full citizenship
• a. people born in foreign
  countries can become citizens if parent is
  U.S. citizen

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• b. If parent is NOT U.S. citizen -
  person must move to U.S. and
  complete long application process

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 3.Immigrant person who permanently
• moves to new country
• a. legal immigrants have many of
• same rights/responsibilities as
  U.S. citizens

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 1. Cannot vote or hold public
• office
• 2. Immigrants who break law can be
• deported, or returned to
  country
• of origin

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• b. Two differences between
  naturalized and native-born
  citizens
• 1. Naturalized citizen can lose
• citizenship
• 2. Naturalized citizen cannot become
• president or vice president

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 4. Legal immigrants over 18 can petition for
  naturalization
• 1. Must live in US for 5 yrs
• 2. Must be able to financially
  support self
• a. If not, must find sponsor

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
• Service (INS) oversees process of becoming
  citizen and sets hearing to test the persons
  qualifications
• a. tests in reading, writing, speaking
• English

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• The peak year for immigration in the
• US was 1907 1,285,349 people arrived
• The lowest year was 1933 23,068 arrived

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• B. Duties of Citizens to other citizens,
• the government and to ourselves
• 1. Citizens have duty to know and obey
  the laws

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• The stakes are too high for the government to be
  a spectator sport!
• Know the laws and stay informed!

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 2. Citizens must respect people in
• authority and to respect rights of
  others
• a. parents, police and teachers
• b. government protects children
  whose parents who dont take
• proper care of them

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 3. Good citizenship includes paying
• taxes
• a. used for public roads, police
• and fire departs
• b. property taxes, sales taxes,
• tariffs

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• c. Income taxes pay certain
  percentage of income to federal government
• 1. progressive increases
• as you make more money

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 2. Regressive same for all
• people regardless of income
• - sales and city taxes

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 4.Duty to protect and defend the nation
• from harm
• a. help in war effort

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 1. Draft helps raise the needed
  number of soldiers
• a. men must register at 18
• - gives govern list of people
• in case war breaks out
• - women do not have to
  register

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• 5. Citizens can be called to serve on a jury
• a. help fulfill 6th Amend right to
  trial by jury

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• 6. Duty to testify in court
• ex you witness a crime

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• Citizens and Elections
• 1. Elections are the basis of
• representative democracy
• 2. Must be 18 yrs to vote

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• D. Citizens and Government
• 1. Interest groups can be formed to
  influence politicians on certain issues
• ex Million Mom March
• 2. Can write letters or attend meetings

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• E. Community Service
• 1. Civic Virtue commitment to helping others
• a. community volunteers
• ex neighborhood watch

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• ex during Revolution, women made
• cloth and other goods for
  colonists

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• Colin Powell and volunteerism
• This is the time for each and every one of us
  to lift up a fellow American and put him on the
  road to success in this wonderful country of ours

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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

• b. Government volunteers
• ex Red Cross
• Habitat for Humanity