PLURALISM‚ CITIZENSHIP AND ETHNIC CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE BENUE VALLEY NIGERIA:TOWARDS A CIVILIZATION OF PEACE AND TOLERANCE. By Department of Rel. and Philosophy Benue State University‚ Makurdi. Nigeria. alloyihuah@yahoo.com ABSTRACT One of the most complex features of the Nigerian nation is its ethnic composition. Like very other African nation Nigeria labour under triple cultural heritage; euro-Christian tradition‚ arabico-islamic culture and the indigenous Nigeria thought system. These
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explains why relatively few amendments have been adopted‚ it does not discourage advocates of constitutional change from proposing them. Four amendment proposals that have gained considerable attention are the Balanced Budget Amendment‚ the Birthright Citizenship Amendment‚ the Equal Rights Amendment‚ and the Overturn Citizens United Amendment. Select one of these proposals as the topic of your initial post and use the assigned resources to inform yourself about its purpose and the arguments of its
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voters and people will pick the wrong leader. America needs loyal citizens but if they are hard to come by it will go downhill. Work Citation Apecsecadmin. "Apecsec.org." Apecsecorg. N.p.‚ 14 Dec. 2014. Web. 09 Apr. 2017. "Pros and Cons of Bithright Citizenship. " Newsmax. 2 N.p.‚ 29 july 2015. Web. 09 Apr. 2017. Staff‚ LII. "14th Amendment." LII / Legal
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helped grant citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States (Primary Documents in American History).” One of the reasons the amendment was made to help former slaves become citizens after the civil war. They were being denied the right to become citizens after slavery had been abolished. One of the main points in the Amendment was that states can not denounce land‚ freedom or life from any person or citizen in the United States without a trial. Birthright Citizenship was another
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1) Explain how each of the following limits the powers of the national executive. • Federalism • Checks and balances Federalism is a system where the governmental authority is divided between national and state government. As a result‚ federalism is always limiting the power of the national executive. Check and balances is another system where the governmental authority is divided between the three branches; the executive‚ the legislative‚ and the judicial. Every branch has the power to limit
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migrate. People from other countries realize the difficulties attaining visas and becoming American citizens‚ it often leads immigrants to birthright citizenship; granting their child’s citizenship at birth instead of going through struggles to gain it when they are older(anchor baby). Due to the narrow path to become an American Citizen;birthright citizenship or the naturalization process‚ immigrants often find themselves coming undocumented. The realization of not being a legal immigrant in the
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The American people have been known from the start for a strong Constitution created to protect the rights of their citizens. As culture evolved‚ our interpretation of the document has shifted with it‚ but the document itself and its fundamental concepts have not. The Constitution has protected the basic rights of all citizens‚ and has granted us certain privileges that allow us to uphold the democracy and the government that serves the people. Some of these include the right to vote and the ability
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logic that every citizen should have the right to vote whether local or federal. Like a citizenship a person’s right to vote is a birthright and not a privilege. Your right to vote should not just end because you’re incarcerated the reason being whoever is elected in office determines your well being whether in the prison or out. Justice Earl Warren wrote it best in the 1958 case Trop v. Dalles‚ “Citizenship is not a right that expires upon misbehavior” (Brettschneider 2016). Not only are convicts
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Since the 1800s‚ the United States has allowed its people to exercise jus soli‚ the right to American citizenship‚ given that they are born on U.S. soil. The idea of “birthright citizenship” was reflected in the fourteenth amendment which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States‚ and subject to the jurisdiction thereof‚ are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside”‚ (Will). However‚ when the fourteenth amendment was passed‚ the immigration process
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States is known for its freedom and liberty and the fourteenth amendment allows everyone to strive for the “Pursuit of Happiness” and the “American Dream.” According to Finkelman (2014)‚”The majority of Republicans unhesitatingly agreed on birthright citizenship for people born in the United States‚” which implies the idea of equality was finally implied in the constitution post civil war. This amendment is known as one of the reconstruction
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