American Citizenship

What is citizenship?

• rights and duties of members of a state

• a person taking legal action against the government

• the study of the rights and duties of citizens

What are rights?

• the money and materials available to accomplish one's goals

• an obligation that we fulfill voluntarily

• conditions and protections that cannot be taken away

What are liberties?

• basic right to be free from unequal treatment based on certain protected characteristics

• protected freedoms

• a person devoid of most moral principles

What are duties?

• things we are required to do

• written papers that provide information of proof of something

• laws we have to follow

What are broad ideas about what is good and desirable?

• public policies

• institutions

• values

• budgets

Government by consent of the governed is

• community

• majority rule

• naturalization

• popular sovereignty

People from foreign countries who plan to stay in the US for a SHORT period of time are called

• citizens

• immigrants

• visitors

• institutions

The people are the ultimate source of government power in a

• monarchy

• dictatorship

• republic

• totalitarian state

What is it called when someone has citizenship in more than one country?

• multiple citizenship

• dual citizenship

• doesn't exist

If you were not born in the United States, what is the process called that allows immigrants to become citizens?

• Immigration

• Naturalization

• Conformation

• Delegation