Defining the Duties of a Citizen

Is there a universally accepted List of Duties and Responsibilities of a citizen?

Continue Reading Citizen Duties Defined Part 1: What Does the Dictionary Say?

Are the duties of citizenship even defined? What do the experts say?

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The dictionary and Wikipedia have little useful to say about what one must definitively do to be considered a ‘good’ citizen. Teachers?

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Looking up what is a good citizen brings up several sources that support/cater to folks in the psychology field. What do psychologist think a ‘good citizen’ needs to do?

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The ‘what is a good citizen?’ search brings up more than the opinions of psychologists. Some states have commented on this topic.

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Not surprisingly, a search for what is a good citizen brings up the goodcitizen.org site. Let’s see how much of their list I agree with.

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Until this point, I’ve only looked at American sources of information, presuming Webster’s, Dictionary.com and Wikipedia.en as ‘American’. That said, I believe the concept of citizenship to be a global idea, not unique to any individual nation. Do the duties of citizens in other countries differ from ours? What are they saying about it?

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So far, all of the information I have found pertaining to the duties of a citizen have been found in resources not specifically geared towards the citizen by our federal government. Unfortunately our government doesn’t seem to have very much to say about what duties a citizen must perform either.

Continue Reading Citizen Duties Defined Part 8: What Does The Government Say?

I am not surprised that a former US President outlined specific duties of a US Citizen. I am surprised I only found this from Teddy. The list is almost 150 years old. Here’s what he put together.

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There are several polls done over the last few years pertaining to this specific topic. Pew looked at what actions people thought were important to good citizenship. The results from their poll is compelling.

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The question of what makes a good citizen and what must one do has obviously been asked before. finally, I’ve found a substantial list of actions for one to take. This checklist was designed to provide practical actions citizens can take to be more ‘involved’ citizens.

Continue Reading Citizen Duties Defined Part 11: What Are Think Tanks Saying?

This exploration has yielded some insight on what is ‘typically’ viewed as the duties of a citizen. Some items are almost always in any list. What are they, and should they always be included?

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There are several items that are rarely mentioned that I consider to be essential. These are the duties I think should be in all the lists and on all citizens minds.

Continue Reading Citizen Duties Defined Part 13: Duties That Should be Mentioned More

Even after more than a dozen sources, there are still a few duties I would add that I didn’t find on any list. There are even more items that were on one or more lists that I personally would not include in my final list. In addition, there are a number of items that I would adjust slightly. Here are my additions, subtractions and changes. (more…)

Continue Reading Citizen Duties Defined Part 14: Duties to Add, Take Away and Adjust