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Lesson 29: What Are the Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship?

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Lesson Purpose

In this lesson, you will examine the meaning of citizenship and how one becomes a citizen of the United States. You will examine the rights of citizens, as well as the responsibilities that accompany our citizenship in this nation. Finally, you will develop positions on what a citizen might do when he or she thinks that a law is unjust.

Lesson Objectives

When you finish this lesson, you should be able to explain the meaning of citizenship and how one becomes a citizen of the United States, and explain some of the rights of citizens and the responsibilities that accompany those rights.

Lesson Terms

citizen
A person who is a legal member of a nation, country, or other self- governing community.
economic rights
legal permanent resident
naturalized citizen
political rights
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