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Citizenship   /sˈɪtɪzənʃˌɪp/   Listen
Citizenship

noun
1.
The status of a citizen with rights and duties.
2.
Conduct as a citizen.



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"Citizenship" Quotes from Famous Books



... possession of such things as hands and feet. What can be the meaning to one like you of the truth that we are made in the image of God? The Kingdom of Heaven—that whole whirling activity of the commonwealth of God—the citizenship towards which you might be pointing Baxter Court—you have not even imagined it. I am not being sentimental. Don't misunderstand. Don't fancy, for instance, that I am exhorting you to go slumming. Deliberately ...
— August First • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray
 
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... the detention of persons claimed as fugitive slaves, and securing for them the right of trial by jury and the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus. This healthy reaction was still further shown in wholesome judicial decisions in several Northern States affirming the citizenship of negroes, and denying the right of transit of slave-holders with their slaves ...
— Political Recollections - 1840 to 1872 • George W. Julian
 
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... America maintain that no boy can grow into the best kind of citizenship without recognizing his obligation to God. The first part of the boy scout's oath or pledge is therefore: "I promise on my honor to do my best to honor my God and my country." The recognition of God as the ruling ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America
 
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... further defined low and abject persons who might not aspire to lawful union with freemen—actresses, daughters of actresses, tavern-keepers, the daughters of tavern-keepers, procurers (leones) or gladiators, or those who had kept a public shop.... Till Roman citizenship had been imparted to the whole Roman Empire, it would not acknowledge marriage with barbarians to be more than a concubinage. Cleopatra was called only in scorn the wife of Antony. Berenice might not presume to be more than the mistress of Titus. The Christian world closed marriages ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
 
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... devoted to the important subject or citizenship, and to state and local governments. Wider reading among students is encouraged by the frequent lists of references to collateral reading, the documentary or source materials, the numerous ...
— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber
 
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