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| Basic Freedom that no one can take away. |
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| How does cooperation help community groups become more successful? |
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| Everyone uses their skills and ideas to help complete a project. |
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| How is state government similar to the federal government? |
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| Both the state government and the federal government have three branches of government. |
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| What might happen in people in communities stopped volunteering their time and work? |
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| Fewer projects would be completed. |
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| What might happen in people in communities stopped volunteering their time and work? |
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| Fewer projects would be completed. |
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| If people wanted to have a new law passed, who should they write or speak to in the federal government? |
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| Representatives in Congress. |
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| The Plan of Government for the United States. |
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| A system of government in which the people rule. |
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| A list of basic freedoms of every American. |
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| Freedom to follow any religion or belief. |
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| Free to speak their opinions about the government. |
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| Free to write their opinions about the government. |
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| The right to hold a peaceful public meeting. |
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| Why is voting a part of a citizen's responsibility? |
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| Voters elect the people who represent them in government. |
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| What is the job of the Supreme Court? |
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| It's the branch of government which decides if a law does not follow the constitution and has to be changed. |
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| What did the Americans decide to do after winning the American Revolution? |
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| Americans decided to send representatives from each colony to meet to create a new government. |
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| Is the right to have a job, to travel and own a home found in the Bill of Rights? Why or why not? |
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| No, because these are privileges not necessaties or something one needs to work for. |
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| What document declared that the United States was a nation separate from Great Britain? |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| Someone who was born in a country, or comes from another country and meets the requirements for citizenship. |
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| A system of government in which the states share power with a national government. |
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| Who carries out the laws? |
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| A group of people who listen to evidence in a court case and decide innocence or guilt. |
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| What groups of people work for local government? |
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| Police officers, public librarians, and firefighters. |
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