1.1 Citizenship Key Terms

14th Amendment

• Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guarantees all citizens “equal protection of the laws"

• A person from a foreign country who is not a citizen of the host country

• A person who, by place of birth, nationality of one or both parents, or naturalization is granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation

• The involvement of individuals or communities in local, state, and national government

Alien

• A person from a foreign country who is not a citizen of the host country

• Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guarantees all citizens “equal protection of the laws"

• A person who, by place of birth, nationality of one or both parents, or naturalization is granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation or political community

• The involvement of individual constituents or communities in local, state, and national government

Citizen

• A person who, by place of birth, nationality of one or both parents, or naturalization is granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation.

• Person from a foreign country who is not a citizen of the host country

• The involvement of individual constituents or communities in local, state, and national government

• Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

Civic Participation

• The involvement of individual constituents or communities in local, state, and national government

• Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

• Person from a foreign country who is not a citizen of the host country

• A person who, by place of birth, nationality of one or both parents, or naturalization is granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation

Common Good

• That which is shared by and beneficial to all or most members of a given community

• A person who, by place of birth, nationality of one or both parents, or naturalization is granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation

• a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

• The principle that a person's nationality at birth is the same as that of his or her natural parents.

Immigrant

• A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

• The principle that a person's nationality at birth is the same as that of his or her natural parents.

• That which is shared by and beneficial to all or most members of a given community

• The principle that a person's nationality at birth is determined by the territory within which he or she was born

Law of Blood

• The principle that a person's nationality at birth is the same as that of his or her natural parents.

• The principle that a person's nationality at birth is determined by the territory within which he or she was born

• A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

• That which is shared by and beneficial to all or most members of a given community

Law of Soil

• The principle that a person's nationality at birth is determined by the territory within which he or she was born

• The principle that a person's nationality at birth is the same as that of his or her natural parents.

• A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

• That which is shared by and beneficial to all or most members of a given community

Naturalization

• the process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a lawful permanent resident after meeting the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act

• an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound

• make or present a formal request to (an authority) with respect to a particular cause

• a person who lives somewhere permanently or on a long-term basis.

Obligation

• an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound

• the process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a lawful permanent resident after meeting the requirements established by Congress

• make or present a formal request to (an authority) with respect to a particular cause

• a person who lives somewhere permanently or on a long-term basis.