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Article: What is a citizen? To be a citizen of the U.S. is to be blessed with many rights--and many responsibilities.(We The People)
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- Junior Scholastic
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- March 22, 2004
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What does it mean to be a good citizen? Obeying the law? Voting in elections? Or does citizenship mean more than that?
"Being a good citizen means truly belonging to the place where you live," says Wilby Kurian, an eighth-grader at Hawthorne Christian Academy in Hawthorne, New Jersey.
Wilby fears that some people see citizenship simply as a list of things to which they are entitled (owed) by society. "There's more to it than that," says Wilby, "like loyalty to your country--and even picking up litter."
"You become a citizen when you decide to join those around you in making the world a better place," says Heather Lenhardt, Wilby's classmate. To ...