Citizenship in the Nation

Virtual Merit Badge Class Workbook

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Scout’s Name:__________________________________________ Unit: __________________________________________

Noah Moore Troop 374
Counselor’s Name: ____________________ Phone No.: _______________________ Email: _________________________
jhon Mccandles I don't know JhonMccandles@scouting.org

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1. Explain what citizenship in the nation means and what it takes to be a good citizen of this country.
What citizenship in the nation means:
To be a good citizen or be a citizen in a nation.

What it takes to be a good citizen:

To have respect for all and others and to follow your rights as a free citizen of America and
how to control yourself as a American citizen.

Discuss the rights, duties, and obligations of a responsible and active American citizen.
Rights:
Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression
Right to a Fair Trial
Right to Free and Unperturbed Media
Right to Vote Freely in Public and Open Elections
Right to Worship Religion in a Free Setting

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Citizenship in the Nation Scout's Name: ________________________

Duties,
Support and defend the Constitution.
Stay informed of the issues affecting your community.
Participate in the democratic process.
Respect and obey federal, state, and local laws.
Respect the rights, beliefs, and opinions of others.

Obligations:.
Stay informed of the issues affecting your community
Respect and obey federal, state, and local laws
Respect the rights, beliefs, and opinions of others
Participate in your local community
Serve on a jury when called upon

2. Do TWO of the following:

 a. Visit a place that is listed as a National Historic Landmark or that is on the National Register of Historic Places. Tell
your counselor what you learned about the landmark or site and what you found interesting about it.

✔ b. Tour your state capitol building or the U.S. Capitol. Tell your counselor what you learned about the capitol, its
function, and the history.
I toured it virtually and I saw that they are very historic paintings and things like very cool architechture
and lots and lots of rooms. The function I saw were things like computers typewriters and books of
libray’s and floppy discs.

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✔ c. Tour a federal facility. Explain to your counselor what you saw there and what you learned about its function in the
local community and how it serves this nation.
It serves the nation because it is where are the rules and where the laws and rights of calfornian
citizens have and where the governer gets voted on.

 d. Choose a national monument that interests you. ____________________________________________________

Using books, brochures, the Internet (with your parent’s permission), and other resources, find out more about the
monument. Tell your counselor what you learned, and explain why the monument is important to this country’s
citizens.

3. Watch the national evening news five days in a row OR read the front page of a major daily newspaper five days in a row.
Discuss the national issues you learned about with your counselor.
Going back to school is one now that we are in the red tier in riverside county our achool is letting us back soon.

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Choose one of the issues and explain how it affects you and your family.
It will have an efect because it will be a big change since we have been at home learning and not in person
learning.

4. Discuss each of the following documents with your counselor. Tell your counselor how you feel life in the United States might
be different without each one.
a. Declaration of Independence
The decleration of independence is a document that was wrote when the people of our nation were
forming America.

b. Preamble to the Constitution

The preamble of the constitution state sthe rights and rules of the people of America and reenforces all
of the important documents to America.

c. The Constitution
The constitution is where all of our original leaders grouped together and made a set of rules and
guidelines to follow as an American citizen.

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d. Bill of Rights
On September 25, 1789, Congress transmitted to the state Legislatures twelve proposed
1 amendments to the Constitution. James Madison proposed the U.S. Bill of Rights. Numbers three
through twelve were adopted by the states to become the United States (U.S.) Bill of Rights,
effective December 15, 1791.

The second amendment covers the right to form a militia and to keep and bear arms. The first
2 amendment covers an individual’s freedom of speech, religion, and the press; the right to
assemble and the right to petition the government.

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e. Amendments to the Constitution

Amedments are the signing of the comstitution created by our founding fathers that shaped
11. America.

These would collapse by people not obeying the founding fathers and dont go by anything they say
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The citizenship of the nation is a citizen who follows all of the important documents by the fate of
25. themselves.

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5. List the six functions of government as noted in the preamble to the Constitution.
Function Discuss with your counselor how these functions affect your family and local community.
We the people, in This one effects us as a democracy and that it represents how the poeople of America
order to form a have a right to vote and to express what they like and don’t like.
more perfect
union: As a nation,
we’re open to
continual
improvement.
We’ll continue to
make
We the people, in the laws is this one and that they will treat every person that has done a wrong doing the
amendments
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make Domestic
Ensure This represents that the U.S. is a safe and secure country with a civilized coucil of
amendments
Tranquility: We’ll to goverment choices and a reasonable hosue of represenitives.
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lives of its people.
be protected, and
have no need to
fear for their
Provide for thelives.
This will provide the defense that the U.S. needs in any attack of war or battles or other
Common Defense: strengths of resistance agaist America and any other foreign country that will or may attack
Our nation will the U.S. will have defence.
uphold a strong
military to defend
against foreign
attacks. There will
be no need to fear
the possibility of
an invading nation.

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Promote the this states that the U.S. will provide all of its citizens will all of the resources that they need
General Welfare: for their own well-being, and to have a good life.
The United States
will use its
resources to
improve the
standard of living
for all of its citizens.
Secure the This states that all of the rights will stay the same and not be changed but some of state
Blessings of rules can but any offical documents that are key to America will be the same and will never
Liberty to be changed in no right of passage or any right to change the way the founding fathers
Ourselves and our started America and signed those documents that should be held loyal to every citizen of
Posterity, do America.
ordain and
establish this
Constitution for the
United States of
6. With your counselor’s
America: These approval, choose a speech of national historical importance.
rights and
“We arewill
freedoms notbe
makers of history. We are made by history.”
secured, not only
Find outpresent,
in the about thebut
author, and tell your counselor about the person who gave the speech.
Martin
also forLuther
your King Jr. hand this seppech in his I had a dream speech but I wanted to include this because this
is a quote
children form
and his speech but it means a lot to many people so I wnated to inclue it into this requirment.
future
generations as
well.

Explain the importance of the speech at the time it was given, and tell how it applies to American citizens today.
Importance at the time:
It was an importance at the time because Martin Luther King jr. was making and representing the black lives
movement were black lives were treated unfairly from white live swhich is compeltely terrible. he would chnage
this forever and now black lives are able to do every thing that white people could do back then now everyone
can do it, just because the color of their skin is different doesnt mean our hearts and love for any person isnt the
same.

How it applies today:

It applies today because history is Martin Luther King Jr. is history he created this movement and then so many
people fought for their rights that every citizen should have no matter what the color of their skin is.

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Choose a sentence or two from the speech that has significant meaning to you, and tell your counselor why.
“I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join
hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.", “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls
down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”. This does not have a big significant meaning to me
I just respect this man so much that if he would’t have done what he did, I wouldnt be able to hang out with
black people and then white people would just be treated so much better than them, and I love to do the right
thing in bad situations thats’s why I look up to Martin Luther King jr. so so so much.

7. Name the three branches of our federal government and explain to your counselor their functions. Explain how citizens are
involved in each branch. For each branch of government, explain the importance of the system of checks and balances.
Branch: Legislative
They set out laws for America or states and they all have different court requirments
Function: and they are all decided on votes.

The Citizen involvement is key because without voting then this would not exist and
Citizen Involvement: probably most of it is all based on citizen’s votes for what they wnat to change or
create or remove.

The checks and balances are key to survival with this branch if it werent for the checks
Importance of Checks then there could be mistakes in the voting numbers or the law itself with checking
& Balances: through secure ways then they can ensure the saftey and the non malleable change to
the votes, or the law itself.

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Branch: Executive
In this branch they carry out the laws which means they formerlly make it and publish
Function: it as it is going to be moved on to judical branch where it is made a law.

The citizen envolvement is low but not too low most people like judges or lawers and
Citizen Involvement: some citizens in jury and the president and other things that are gonna change form
that law.

The importance is that they are goping to finalize these votes and finalize the right of
Importance of Checks the law and ensure that the law is final and now will be voted on and published as a
& Balances: matter that is going to take place in the supreme court of law and justice.

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 Citizenship in the Nation Scout's Name: ________________________
Noah Moore

Judicial
Branch:
Function: Judicial is when the law is primarlly made a law or not made a law, with
each side of law then the people of the supreme court will now decide
on this vote and how the vote is going to carry out.

Citizen Involvement: the citizen involvement is high but is presnt with the jury and the
selected votes for the law and non for the law are finalized and then
taken into place by the jury they vote as they have not voted yet and
can sometimes steer the whole vote in different directions

Importance of Checks The importance of checks is key to the saftey of the vote that wil and
& Balances: can be helf for ne or I as I is the "yes" and "no" is the ne. So when
these are voted on then the laws are finalized and then they are both
made into a seperate vote catagory and then counted on and then
which ever one wins the vote then that happens.

8. Name your two senators and the member of Congress from your congressional district.
Senator: Steven Bradford
Senator: Ben Allen
Member of Congress: Jared Huffman
✔ Write a letter about a national issue and send it to one of these elected officials, sharing your view with him or her.
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✔ Show your letter and any response you receive to your counselor.
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