Citizen Rights and
Responsibilities
You Know Your Rights.....Now Know Your
Responsibilities
Objective
• The students will explain the
difference between a right and a
responsibility with 90%
accuracy.
• The students will evaluate why a
citizen must have certain
responsibilities with 90%
accuracy
Agenda
• We will brainstorm our rights and
responsibilities.
• We will discuss rights and responsibilities
we have as citizens.
• You will determine why a right or
responsibility is important to our society.
• You will choose which responsibility is the
most important to you and why.
• You will create a poster with a responsibility.
Citizen Rights and
Responsibilities
•
With your group, list different ways
that you help out in the classroom,
in school, and at home.
Lightning Round
Review
• What is the first amendment?
• What is the second amendment?
What are Rights?
• We have certain rights defined by the
constitution the government can not take
away.
• What are some of them ?
Rights
Personal Rights
•
Rights to be free from undue
interference in our daily lives.
•
These include right to free speech,
worship, and general assembly. Under
which amendment do these fall?
•
The right to bear arms is one of the
most debated rights? Who can tell me
which amendment is this?
Civil Rights
•
The rights one obtains by being a
citizen.
•
The United States has two of these. The
citizen by birth and naturalized citizen.
•
Due process is a primary example of a
civil right
•
Who can tell me what rights can be
considered due process?
Economic Rights
•
To enjoy the benefits of having a job
(minimum wage)
•
Right to work laws (joining a union or
not)
•
Protection of one’s property
Political Rights
• The right to vote!
• 5 amendments represent suffrage (the right to vote)
• 15: No one can be denied to vote based on race, color, or
previously been enslaved
• 19: No one can be denied to vote based on sex
• 23: Residents of Washington, D.C. can have the right to vote
• 24: No poll tax shall be charged
• 26: The right to vote will be granted to any citizen over the
age of 18.
What is a
Responsibility?
• A Responsibility is something
that you either have or should
do.
Responsibilities
What is a Citizen
Responsibility?
•A Citizen Responsibility is
something that you either have
to do or should do as a person
who lives in the United States.
Responsibilities!
•
Mandatory - Things you have to do or
else you will be punished.
•
Mandatory Responsibilities
•
Paying Taxes
•
Obeying Laws
•
Serving as Witness
• Jury Duty
•
Registering for the Draft
Responsibilities
•
Voluntary - Things that you choose to
do
• Voluntary Responsibilities
•
Voting
•
Volunteering
Paying Taxes
•
Mandatory Citizen Responsibility! (you
have to do it!)
•
You must pay taxes to the government
so that the government can run
schools, give people healthcare, food,
fix roads, and create and keep parks
clean and much more.
Obeying Laws
•
Mandatory Citizen Responsibility (you
have to do it!)
• What do you think may happen if we did
not have laws?
• Laws are like rules and procedures in
the classroom. If students do not follow
them, they create problems in your
learning environment.
Serving as a Witness
•
If you see a crime happen, a court can ask you to
come and tell the court what happened. You have
to come. Do you know what it is called?
•
This is necessary because if you do not serve as a
witness then our Justice system might fall apart. It
depends on people to share evidence so the jury
can decide if the person on trial is innocent or
guilty.
•
If you do not want to talk, you have that
right.
•
Do you know which amendment gives
us that protection?
Jury Duty
•
Mandatory Responsibility
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As a U.S. citizen must serve on a jury.
•
This is important because the court system
needs a jury. A jury is made up of U.S. citizens.
A jury decides if someone is innocent or guilty.
•
If there is no jury, there is no court!
Registering for the
Draft
•
Every male citizen over the age of 18
must register for the draft.
•
The draft is a way for the country to get
people to go to war in a time of
emergency, or national crisis.
• Who can think of reasons why this is
necessary?
Voting
• Voluntary Responsibilities (Things you can
choose to do)
• All U.S. citizens over 18 have the right to
vote. You can choose to vote, you are not
forced to vote.
• However, imagine if no one voted we
wouldn’t have a government! That means we
would not have any government services
such as police officers, schools, hospitals,
community centers, etc!
Volunteering
• Voluntary Responsibility (Things you choose
to do!)
• Volunteering means that you help out
somewhere in your community without being
paid.
• It is important to volunteer because there are
many jobs that do not pay, but are really
necessary. What are some places people
volunteer?
• Volunteering in your community makes it a
better place to live!
Conclusion/Key
Points
•
Doing your Citizen Responsibilities
are necessary for the survival of the
United States.
•
Citizen Responsibilities include,
paying taxes, obeying laws, serving
as a witness, jury duty, registering
for the draft, voting, and
volunteering.
Group Work
• Look at your group’s citizen responsibility or
right and answer the question.
• Is your citizen responsibility mandatory or
voluntary?
• Why is it important to do or participate in your
citizen responsibility?
• What would America look like if people did not
participate in this citizen responsibility?
• Why is your right important? How would
America be different if you did not have this
right?
Ticket out the Door
•
Which one citizen responsibility you think is
the most important? Write your answer on
your ticket. When you are finished hold it up
and I will pick it up.
Public Service!
•
Create a public service announcement
about the one citizen responsibility you
think is the most important. On one
side draw a picture that goes along with
that responsibility, and on the other
side explain why you think that
responsibility is the most important!