Civic Duties and Responsibilities

Which of the following is the best example of a civic responsibility?

• Attending school
• Jury duty
• Going to work
• Donating blood

All of the following are civic responsibilities except:

• Holding elected office
• Registering to vote
• Paying Taxes
• Respecting other people's opinions

In 2014 24.9% of the population aged 16 or older volunteered through an organization compared to 28.8% in 2004. This statistic shows a decline in:

• American citizens watching the news.
• American citizens willing to perform their civic responsibilities.
• American citizens performing their required duties.
• American citizens staying in school to receive an education.

Schools teach civic responsibility to students with the goal

• To produce responsible citizens and active participants in community and government.
• To ensure everyone will run for an elected office.
• To ensure everyone pays their taxes on time.
• To produce citizens who will serve in the military.

Why is it required for all American citizens to obey the law?

• To ensure citizens' life, liberty and property are protected.
• To ensure all Americans are treated fairly.
• To ensure an executive order is approved by Congress.
• To ensure enough funds are collected in speeding tickets to fund the police.

Why is jury duty a civic duty?

• It provides the best opportunity for a fair trial of your peers.
• It guarantees a correct verdict every time.
• It ensures we have a pool of citizens to pick from.
• It ensures that 12 people serve on every jury.

The "Rock the Vote" campaign, which is sponsored by MTV, urges people to perform their civic responsibility. Which Constitutional amendment relates most closely with this concept?

• 18th
• 19th
• 21st
• 26th

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who would alter it." -Abraham Lincoln. 
In the quote, Lincoln was...

• Denying females suffrage and the ability to participate in government.
• Urging Americans to overthrow the government.
• Urging all citizens to run for an elected office.
• Urging citizens to perform their civic responsibility. 

Draft-card burning was a symbol of protest performed by thousands of young American men as  part of the opposition to the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. These young men were refusing to:

• Perform their civic responsibilities.
• Attend school until the war ended.
• Perform their civic duties.
• Enlist in the military until women were granted suffrage.

Each state has a compulsory attendance of 16,17 or 18. Mandatory education was instituted with what goal?

• That every citizen would become wealthy.
• That citizens who go to school will stay out of prison.
• That the United States has an educated electorate capable of performing their civic responsibilities.
• That citizens will graduate from college.