Understanding Laws, Rights, and Responsibilities

What are rights?

• A duty or something that people must do

• Special things that citizens are allowed to do

• A set of rules that protect people

• Things that people want to buy

What do laws do?

• Allow people to do whatever they want

• Protect people and the things they own

• Give people the right to buy anything

• Make it legal to take whatever they want

Who creates laws?

• Citizens

• Government leaders

• Children

• Everyone

What is a citizen's responsibility?

• To have freedom of speech

• To buy whatever they want

• To follow the law

• To create laws

What is NOT allowed even with rights?

• To do whatever they want

• To protect people

• To follow the government

• To obey the laws

What right do citizens in the United States of America have?

• Right to create laws

• Right to ignore laws

• Right to take things they want

• Freedom of speech

What must citizens do when they want to buy things?

• Buy them legally

• Take them without permission

• Create a new law

• Ask the government

Why does the government create laws?

• To ensure people don't do whatever they want

• To restrict freedom of speech

• To allow citizens to take what they want

• To make citizens responsible for everything