CITIZENSHIP VOCABULARY

Right supposedly guaranteed by both federal and state laws against any discrimination in employment, education, housing, or credit rights due to a person's race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age or handicap.

• Equal Opportunity Under the Law

• Equal Protection Under the Law

• Public Good

• Property Rights

Phrase in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring that states guarantee the same rights, privileges, and protection to all citizens.

• Equal Opportunity Under Law

• Equal Protection Under the Law

• Public Good

• Property Rights

Commodity or service that is provided without profit to all members of society either by the government or a private individual or organization.

• Property Rights

• Alien and Sedition Acts

• Public Good

• Due Process

Admittance of a foreigner to the citizenship of a country

• Public Good

• Equal Opportunity Under the Law

• Property Rights

• Naturalization

Situation in which the laws of a country are obeyed by everyone.

• Due Process

• Patriot Act

• Rule of Law

• Citizenship

Native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it.

• Citizenship

• Patriot Act

• Eminent Domain

• Sedition Act

Series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. Laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.

• Alien and Sedition Act

• Sedition Act

• Act of 1866

• Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

Act prohibited public opposition the government. Fines and imprisonment could be used against those who "write, print, utter, or publish...any false, scandalous and malicious writing" against the government.

• Alien and Sedition Act

• Sedition Act

• Act of 1866

• Patriot Act

First United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.

• Act of 1866

• Patriot Act

• Sedition Act

• Eminent Domain

Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans.

• Patriot Act

• Sedition Act

• Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

• Eminent Domain