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| What are the requirements to gaining citizenship? |
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| If u were born in the USA or one of its territories as long ass one of your parents are citizens it does not matter where i were born. you've been naturalize. you were less then eighteen years old when your parents were Naturalized. |
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| What Are the values of "Americans" |
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| The roles, duties and responsibilities of citizens |
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Rights;
The rights to Vote and hold elected offices , The right to practice your own religion , The right to a fair trial.
Duties;
obeying the laws, paying taxes , attending school
Responsibilities;
Persuade government to take action regarding a cause you believe in , Do whatever you can do to make your community a better place to live in . |
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| America as a Melting Pot or a Mosaic |
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Melting Pot;
People all over the world come and melted in American society
Mosaic;
The tiles represented different typed of cultured combined as one |
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| Why do People come to America ? |
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Freedom;
While we have the ideas of equality, Freedom, and justice , it is true that not all Americans get those. ideals are part of what id known as the "American Dream". Is not reality some say it is an ideal (just hope) |
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| What are the Qualification of voting? |
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| : You have to fill out voter registration and If your younger then 18 u cannot vote! |
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| What are the major political parties ? |
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radial; Extreme Change
Liberal; Government must change policy's that are unfair
Moderate; falls in between conservative and liberal
conservative; they wanna keep everything the same
Reactionary; wanna make everything (Government) more conservative |
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| are democrats considered left or right on the political spectrum ? what about the Republican ? |
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I think ...
Democrat ; left
Republican ; Right |
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| How does the President win an Election ? |
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| what are the roots of the American Democracy? |
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1 Ancient Athenians
2 Ancient Rome
3 Magna Carta
4 English Bill Of Rights |
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| The constitution is the document that the founders created that explained and described what this government would "look Like" |
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| Three ways that the government is kept from being to powerful |
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1. Checks And balances
2. federalism
3. separation of power |
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| Why was the constitution written ? |
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| What are checks and balances and what are some examples ? |
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| one of the three ways the constitution limits power is by creating a system of "checks and balances". each Branch has the power to check another, for Example : It is the legislative branches responsibility to create bills, However, If that bills is not good bill, the president can VOTO and refuse to make it a law. He checked the legislative branch. |
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| What are the Three branches of the government and what are the primary roles of each Branch. |
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1 Legislative
2 executive
3 judicial |
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| What document is the supreme law of the land? |
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| How does a Bill become a law? |
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| the legislative Branch Makes them and the President may sign it or VOTO it if he doesn't like it |
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