Another favorite topics of mine during my government class was "Duties and Responsibilities of citizenship". First of all a citizen is an individual whose allegiance belongs to the nation for example I'm a citizen. Citizenship is based on a combination of rights, duties and responsibilities. Duties are the requirements that citizens have to do such as obey the law, pay taxes, jury duty, attend school etc. The civic responsibilities is being informed, speak up and vote, respect other's rights and lastly is contribute to the common good.Obeying the law prevents accidents and can help the citizen, paying taxes maintains the armed forces. Attending school is required by states to students up to the age of 16.Being informed is being aware of your rights and having you opinion, speaking up and vote is making your concerns known. Respecting others rights is also important. This topic also interest me because it got me well ...
Throughout my first semester of my senior year in high school I learned about the electoral college I did not know about before. This topic was and will forever be my favorite topic. I learned about the electors which are the people chosen by political parties/state to vote for presidential elections for major candidates 538 electors . Popular votes are the votes cast by general public counting basically the number of votes obtained nationally for each candidates.It is possible for a candidate to lose popular vote and still become president. Lastly the electoral college is the group of electors from each state that indirectly select the president and vice president. But how do the candidates win ? Winner-take- all system is when the candidate who win the majority of the popular vote in the state wins all of the electoral vote from that state. 270 votes is required to become president. The importance of understanding how the electora...
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