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Working to Keep Your Freedom What Can I Do? Following Your Responsibilities as a Citizen Staying Involved Encouraging Others to Learn & Participate The Key to Representative Democracy

  

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Working to Keep Your Freedom

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Understanding how our government was formed and how it functions isn't the only thing we need to learn.  We need to explore some things that you can do to make our government better and to help it serve all Americans.

Some Americans think because they were born free, they will remain free.  Many people take their freedom for granted, but freedom requires good citizenship.  Citizens of a free nation who refuse to accept their responsibilities as citizens risk losing their freedom to a small self–interested group who make take control. 

This section will explore some things that you can do to carry out your responsibilities as a citizen in this country.

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*Citizenship section select ideas derived from Citizenship, Learning to Live as Responsible Citizens, published by Good Apple, Inc.

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