1.Choose the best answer from the alternatives. (a) A responsibility is a___to do something. (1)liability (2)immunity (3)asset (4)performance (b)Government should not carry out the____to the citizens. (1)maintenance (2)problems (3)distress (4) personality (c) The gathered knowledge from schools will help one to___responsibilities. (1)avoid
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The fourteenth amendment provides a definition of a citizen of The United States. The fourteenth amendment was adopted on July 9‚ 1868 shortly after the Union victory in the American Civil War. It was adopted as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. It has many different clauses. The fourteenth amendment was adopted as one of the longest amendments to the Constitution with a total of five different parts. The Citizenship clause‚ Due Process Clause‚ and the Equal Protection Clause are some of the
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A Discourse Theory of Citizenship This article discusses the concept of citizenship and how citizenship as a form of public engagement is crucial to democracy as a whole. The author‚ Robert Asen‚ presents a new view that citizenship is a dynamic mode of public engagement. The first section of the article discusses questions about public beliefs and perspectives. The second section of the article discusses how citizenship is a mode of public engagement. The third section discusses how public
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The Amendment Process: The Bill of Rights Grand Canyon University Master of Education in Educational Administration POS 301 Arizona/Federal Government Mark Tawney April 8‚ 2012 The Amendment Process: The Bill of Rights The Constitution is essentially a rough draft. The Amendments to the Constitution are the edited versions. The Constitution is a living document that the whole country relies upon as it grows and any changes to the Constitution should be meaningful. Article V outlines the
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Citizenship of the European Union was introduced by the Maastricht Treaty‚ which was signed in 1992‚ and has been in force since 1993. European citizenship is supplementary to national citizenship and affords rights such as the right to vote in European elections‚ the right to free movement‚ settlement and employment across the EU‚ and the right to consular protection from other EU states’ embassies when a person’s country of citizenship does not maintain an embassy or consulate in the country they
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The Fifteenth Amendment The Fifteenth Amendment to the constitution gives African American men the right to vote. The Amendment declares that the right of citizens of the United States cannot be denied the right to vote for anything including: race‚ color‚ or past condition of servitude. Not only did it grant African Americans the right to vote but also granted them as equal citizens. This amendment took many years to be ratified. Many states hated the idea of African Americans having the right
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Why are human rights so difficult for Women to realise? The “Rights of Man and of the Citizen” (1789) are‚ for women‚ arbitrary‚ innate‚ a document that speaks volumes in the silent exclusion of women. Women‚ in this document‚ are not accounted and therefore it must be assumed that women are not (at the time of printing) recognised as citizens and are without rights‚ at least the rights bestowed upon their brothers‚ fathers‚ sons and uncles. This blatant hierarchal placement of rights removes
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The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to votebased on that citizen’s "race‚ color‚ or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3‚ 1870‚ as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.In the final years of the American Civil War and theReconstruction Era that followed‚ Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions of black former slaves. By 1869‚ amendments had
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Control assessment – Stage 1: Inform Yourself 1.1) What is the citizenship issue you have chosen? What is the reason and why do you think it’s important? As a group‚ the first thing we needed to decide on is which task to choose‚ at the end we democratically concluded to choose task 1‚ which requires us to “Select a voluntary organisation or a pressure group‚ investigate their work and take action to advocate their aims” For this task we had to choose a particular organisation and advocate
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November 6‚ 2013 Antigone Essay The concept of citizenship and the duties that citizens owe to the state were topics of debate that are a very important theme in the play Antigone. Antigone and Creon represent the extreme opposite political views regarding where a citizen of a city should place his or her loyalties. Creon puts enforcing the rules of the state over everything else including his family. When Antigone disobeys Creon‚ unlike the townspeople‚ Creon does not take into account
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