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well as civic and political duties. Bills of rights in the United States Constitution and in state constitutions guarantee civic rights to all Americans. A child possesses civic rights, such as the right to worship as he pleases, from the moment he is born. "In turn, each citizen owes allegiance to his country. It is his civic duty to support his government, obey its laws, and defend his country. "Democratic govern m e n t fails unless citizens show the same eagerness to serve their country that they expect the country to show in serving them," World Book adds. Citizenship Day—first proclaimed by President Truman in 1952—falls on a Saturday this year ...a day for golf, for football, for closing the summer cottage, for raking up the first leaves of fall. But it might be well to sto a moment and think of the people who won for you your citizenship in this "nation of Immigrants"—whether they won it with musket and bayo
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