Why Citizens Must Participate

Identify and explain the duty of civic participation in societies with representative governments.

Part of The student understands the relationship among individual rights, responsibilities, duties, and freedoms in societies with representative governments

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A Duty in a Representative Government

In a representative government, citizens choose leaders to make laws for them instead of everyone voting on every rule. This system only works if people take part. This lesson explains civic participation and why it is a duty, not just a nice option.

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