Explains what citizenship is and ways to be a good citizen.

Citizenship week is coming. Read inside to find out if Jade, Olive, and Kelly can work together to better their community.

Explores five "habits of the heart" that can help us restore democracy's foundations as we nurture them in ourselves and each other: an understanding that we are all in this together ; an appreciation of the value of "otherness" ; an ability to hold tension in life-giving ways ; a sense of personal voice and agency ; a capacity to create community.

he concept of citizenship that achieved full legal form and force in mid-nineteenth-century America had English roots in the sense that it was the product of a theoretical and legal development that extended over three hundred years. This prize-winning volume describes and explains the process by which the cirumstances of life in the New World transformed the quasi-medieval ideas of seventeenth-century English jurists about subjectship, community,...

"Learn how to support your community! Start by reading Do Something for Others. This book will also teach you how to use compassion, respect, responsibility, and honesty with those around you. Check out the other books in this series too. It's never too early to learn the importance of having good values!" -- Page [4] cover.

At a moment of crisis over our national identity, journalist Dan Rather reflects on what it means to be an American. He reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded. Looking at the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as...

What do taxes, jury duty, and being good citizens have to do with helping our government? Using engaging, age-appropriate language and colorful photos, readers understand our responsibilities as American citizens and learn how to take active roles in our government.

The digital edition of the leading independent series includes the complete testable materials from Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents, the official Home Office materials. Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This practical study guide makes preparing for the test a lot easier. The new edition includes completely revised practice...

"Who is Indian enough? To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the U.S. who claim Native identity has exploded--increasing 85 percent in just ten years--the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not. While the federal government recognizes Tribal sovereignty, being a member of a Tribe requires navigating blood quantum laws and rolls that the federal government created...

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s--its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative...