Birthright citizenship has been one of the most controversial issues in America and always in the heated center of immigration reform battles. In addition‚ bills to deny birthright citizenship have been introduced in Congress many times so far. According to the report from Devin Burghart‚ in the 113th Congress‚ Rep. Steve King‚ an outspoken hardliner on immigration‚ introduced a bill on January 3 to "require that only the children of citizens‚ legal immigrants permanently living in the country or
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and organisational citizenship behaviours in Indian business process outsourcing organisations Ajay K. Jain a‚*‚ Cary L. Cooper b a Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences‚ School of Business and Social Sciences‚ Aarhus University‚ 8000 Aarhus C‚ Denmark b Lancaster University Management School‚ Dean’s Suite‚ Lancaster University‚ Lancaster‚ LA1 4YW‚ United Kingdom Available online 23 August 2012 KEYWORDS Organisational stress; Organisational citizenship behaviours; BPO industry
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who pays no mind to the public realm. He and I both agree that the majority of citizens today are idiots in that sense of the word. Bellamy addresses the fact that citizens in our society are completely disenchanted with politics‚ “Political citizenship is rejected as both too demanding and of dubious worth” (97). From my own experiences as a citizen of this society‚ I whole-heartedly agree with that statement. For the first election that I was eligible to vote in‚ my own father’s name was on the
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Division of the COMELEC granted the petition of Mamaril and ordered the cancellation of the certificate of candidacy of private respondent on the ground that he is a dual citizen and‚ under §40(d) of the Local Government Code‚ persons with dual citizenship are disqualified from running for any elective position. The COMELEC’s Second Division said: What is presented before the Commission is a petition for disqualification of Eduardo Barrios Manzano as candidate for the office of Vice-Mayor of Makati
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mothers‚ who elect Philippine citizenship upon reaching the age of majority. Even if the child is born to an alien father and a Filipino mother‚ the Filipino citizenship of the mother will bestow natural-born Philippine citizenship upon the child PROVIDED his birth occurred on or after January 17‚ 1973 (date of ratification of the 1973 Constitution)‚ otherwise he followed the citizenship of the alien father and acquired at best only an inchoate Philippine citizenship which he could perfect by
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Citizenship Re-Acquisition of German Citizenship by former German Citizens Summary and Comment by Frederick S. Wyle and Daniel Eichmann This comment is based upon a more detailed paper on this subject (in German) by Daniel Eichmann‚ a German lawyer visiting in the United States. It does not deal with the re-acquisition or re-recognition of German citizenship that was lost by reason of NAZI laws between 1933 and 1945‚ laws
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EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENSHIP: FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND FAMILY REUNIFICATION. RECONCILING COMPETENCES AND RESTRICTING ABUSE?* Introduction All Member States of the European Union experience international migration be it legal or illegal 1 : this is symptomatic of the phenomenon of ‘globalisation in the contemporary world’. This paper will treat the right of a citizen of the Union who has exercised his/her right freely to move within the current twenty seven European Union Member States‚ to be
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Meaning of Global Citizenship essay The world over the years as a whole has grown immensely. Together we have experienced‚ fixed and struggled through many worldwide issues. During all of these ups and downs we have been pulled closer together as less of individual nations and more of a global group‚ some examples of this can be seen in the way we have improved with racism and prejudice. These issues were major problems that the world faced; they were responsible for damaging thousands of lives
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Citizenship and Friendship is a piece from ”Habits of the Heart’‚ which is written by Robert N. Bellah and associates. This passage talks about how the definition of friendship changes over time in American communities. Bellah says that classical ideas of friendship in early America contains three important elements that ”Friends must enjoy one another’s company‚ friends must be useful to one another‚ and friends must share a common commitment to the good”. According to Bellah‚ the first two elements
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Does good citizenship necessitate following the laws despite some kind of injustice within them? Are good citizens obliged to blindly follow the government policies? It follows then‚ what is good citizenship? Henry David Thoreau provides an adequate definition of good citizenship within his essay‚ Civil Disobedience; Thoreau discusses certain characteristics of a good citizen. Examples of Thoreau’s definition exist in both the ancient and contemporary culture. Sophocles describes Antigone as a good
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