The Privileges and Responsibilities of Our Country
Author | : Peter O. Studdiford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Church buildings |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter O. Studdiford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Church buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Allan Beek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Westel Woodbury Willoughby |
Publisher | : General Books |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781458998040 |
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III SUFFRAGE Suffrage a Privilege, not a Right. ? There is a disposition on the part of many, especially in this country, to demand that the suffrage, or power of voting, be given to every citizen as a natural right, irrespective of his qualification to use it properly. No claim could be less warranted. The suffrage is a privilege, not a natural or inherent right. It is a reward for merit or capacity, not a power to be unconditionally demanded. The citizen is endowed with the privilege of voting, and thereby of participating in the determination of the policies of government and the selection of the officials who shall transact it, in order that by its exercise the good of the state may be maintained. It is, therefore, for the state itself to determine by its laws, when, and by whom, and under what conditions, this power shall be used. As one writer has forcibly said: The pretension that every man has the necessary qualifications of a citizen simply because he was born twenty-one years ago, is as much as to say that labor, merit, virtue, character, and experience are to count for nothing. As a matter of fact, we do, in this country for the most part, give the suffrage to all adult male citizens, but this is because, upon the whole, they aredeemed qualified to possess it, and because, thereby, all have been given a direct interest in public affairs. But it is believed by many that we have been too precipitate in thus extending the suffrage. Certainly this is true in those states in which aliens who have not yet become citizens have been given the right to vote. As regards the granting of the privilege to the negro population irrespective of capacity, this would seem also to be a mistake. Woman Suffrage. ? In a few states the right to vote has been given to wo...
Author | : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights |
Publisher | : United Nations Publications |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
International human rights law is founded on the premise that all persons, by virtue of their essential humanity, should enjoy all human rights. Exceptional distinctions, for example between citizens and non-citizens, can be made only if they serve a legitimate State objective and are proportional to the achievement of the objective. Non-citizens can include: migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, victims of trafficking, foreign students, temporary visitors and stateless people. This publication looks at the diverse sources of international law and emerging international standards protecting the rights of non-citizens, including international conventions and reports by UN and treaty bodies
Author | : Richard Bellamy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0192802534 |
Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.
Author | : Edward C. Mann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781330547847 |
Excerpt from The Rights and Duties of Citizens, of the United States: A Manual of Citizenship The scholars in our public schools and colleges should be instructed as to the elements that go to make up a good and useful citizen of our country, and the obligations, civil, social, and political, due to others from them. They should be instructed to yield respect and obedience to the laws, and to hold on with unflinching firmness to the Constitution and the Union of States. They should be taught the love of liberty and order, to walk in the path of patriotism, of fidelity to our country, and of duty to God. This is necessary in order that when they become of adult age they may be prepared to exhibit wisdom in the cabinet; the purest patriotism; the highest integrity, public and private; morals without a stain; and religious feelings without intolerance and without extravagance. In this little manual of the rights and duties of citizenship I sing the love of country and the pride of country to the youth of both sexes of my country. I teach the need of beating back ones country's enemies, whether they reside in or out of the United States - a most true song, to which I hope the hearts of the youth of our country will burst responsive into fiery melody, followed by fiery strokes before long. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Universal Politics |
Publisher | : Speedy Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2020-12-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1541977890 |
As an American, you have laws and responsibilities. Do you know what they are? This book will talk about the origin of the laws that dictate your rights and responsibilities as a citizen of your country. It will also include information on how you can be a good citizen. Do you think you can follow the tips mentioned in this book?
Author | : Bernd Reiter |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1628951621 |
What does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants and needs of those who elected them and are keener on representing themselves and their financial backers. What will it take to bring democracy back to its original promise of rule by the people? Bernd Reiter’s timely analysis reaches back to ancient Greece and the Roman Republic in search of answers. It examines the European medieval city republics, revolutionary France, and contemporary Brazil, Portugal, and Colombia. Through an innovative exploration of country cases, this study demonstrates that those who stand to lose something from true democracy tend to oppose it, making the genealogy of citizenship concurrent with that of exclusion. More often than not, exclusion leads to racialization, stigmatizing the excluded to justify their non-membership. Each case allows for different insights into the process of how citizenship is upheld and challenged. Together, the cases reveal how exclusive rights are constituted by contrasting members to non-members who in that very process become racialized others. The book provides an opportunity to understand the dynamics that weaken democracy so that they can be successfully addressed and overcome in the future.
Author | : Richard Sobel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2016-10-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1316849090 |
Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explores the nature and meaning of American citizenship and the rights flowing from citizenship in the context of current debates around politics, including immigration. The book explains the sources of citizenship rights in the Constitution and focuses on three key citizenship rights - the right to vote, the right to employment, and the right to travel in the US. It explains why those rights are fundamental and how national identification systems and ID requirements to vote, work and travel undermine the fundamental citizen rights. Richard Sobel analyzes how protecting citizens' rights preserves them for future generations of citizens and aspiring citizens here. No other book offers such a clarification of fundamental citizen rights and explains how ID schemes contradict and undermine the constitutional rights of American citizenship.
Author | : Peter O. Studdiford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Fourth of July orations |
ISBN | : |