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    The 14th Amendment

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    8/26/11 The 14th Amendment Before the time of the fourteenth amendment the only people that were protected under the Bill of Rights was the white men. Once the Emancipation Proclamation passed the government thought that it would be beneficial to have in writing that the blacks had equal rights to the white male. This was not the only important addition to the constitution with the passing of the fourteenth amendment‚ but it was the major one. Another change in the 14th amendment described the

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    Questions on Citizenship

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    1.Choose the best answer from the alternatives. (a) A responsibility is a___to do something. (1)liability (2)immunity (3)asset (4)performance (b)Government should not carry out the____to the citizens. (1)maintenance (2)problems (3)distress (4) personality (c) The gathered knowledge from schools will help one to___responsibilities. (1)avoid

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    A Discourse Theory of Citizenship This article discusses the concept of citizenship and how citizenship as a form of public engagement is crucial to democracy as a whole. The author‚ Robert Asen‚ presents a new view that citizenship is a dynamic mode of public engagement. The first section of the article discusses questions about public beliefs and perspectives. The second section of the article discusses how citizenship is a mode of public engagement. The third section discusses how public

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    THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT – EQUALITY FOR ALL? In school‚ as well as throughout our daily lives‚ we learn in America to live by the idea of freedom and equality for all. We do not allow race‚ class‚ or creed to determine a person’s stature in the community. It may seem as if this is the standard of society‚ but these ideas of equality have been fought over since the beginning of written history‚ and even in America today‚ prejudice still exists. To address these and similar problems‚ the founding

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    Citizenship of the European Union was introduced by the Maastricht Treaty‚ which was signed in 1992‚ and has been in force since 1993. European citizenship is supplementary to national citizenship and affords rights such as the right to vote in European elections‚ the right to free movement‚ settlement and employment across the EU‚ and the right to consular protection from other EU states’ embassies when a person’s country of citizenship does not maintain an embassy or consulate in the country they

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    Citizenship and Human Rights

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    Why are human rights so difficult for Women to realise? The “Rights of Man and of the Citizen” (1789) are‚ for women‚ arbitrary‚ innate‚ a document that speaks volumes in the silent exclusion of women. Women‚ in this document‚ are not accounted and therefore it must be assumed that women are not (at the time of printing) recognised as citizens and are without rights‚ at least the rights bestowed upon their brothers‚ fathers‚ sons and uncles. This blatant hierarchal placement of rights removes

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    The Amendment Process

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    The Amendment Process: The Bill of Rights Grand Canyon University Master of Education in Educational Administration POS 301 Arizona/Federal Government Mark Tawney April 8‚ 2012 The Amendment Process: The Bill of Rights The Constitution is essentially a rough draft. The Amendments to the Constitution are the edited versions. The Constitution is a living document that the whole country relies upon as it grows and any changes to the Constitution should be meaningful. Article V outlines the

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    Infringements on Americas 2nd Amendment Rights and the Causes for Them REFERENCE PAGE LINK: http://www.info.publicintelligence.net ARTICLE: EDITION C: United States Army Military Police School Fort McClellan‚ Alabama‚ Edition Date: April 2006 (Sub-course Overview) LINK: http://www.huffingtonpost.com ARTICLE: Columbine High School Had Armed Guard during Massacre in 1999 LINK: http://cnn.com ARTICLE: Sandy Hook Shooting: What Happened? LINK: http://www.infowars.com/army-manual-outlines-plan-to-kill-rioters-in-america

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    Fourteen Amendment

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    The fourteenth amendment provides a definition of a citizen of The United States. The fourteenth amendment was adopted on July 9‚ 1868 shortly after the Union victory in the American Civil War. It was adopted as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. It has many different clauses. The fourteenth amendment was adopted as one of the longest amendments to the Constitution with a total of five different parts. The Citizenship clause‚ Due Process Clause‚ and the Equal Protection Clause are some of the

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    Constitutional Amendments

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    Constitutional Amendments HIS/301 August 27‚ 2012 Constitutional Amendments The Framers of the Constitution knew their creation was not perfect and future generations would want to make changes‚ so they added an amendment process. They made the process easier than having a revolution‚ but hard enough to really have to think about what is being done. The authority to amend the United States Constitution is written in Article V of the Constitution. The Constitution allows an amendment to be proposed

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