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Example sentences for "citizenship"

Lexicographically close words:
citing; citius; citizen; citizenry; citizens; cito; citoyenne; citoyennes; citoyens; citra
  1. Yet I can imagine nothing more necessary from the standpoint of good citizenship than the ability to steel one's heart in this matter of granting pardons.

  2. But no possible outcome either of the trial or the suits can affect my judgment as to the undesirability of the type of citizenship of those whom I mentioned.

  3. He and his family represent a type of American citizenship of which we have a right to be proud.

  4. When the election took place in November, 1860, I had not been a resident of Illinois long enough to gain citizenship and could not, therefore, vote.

  5. Of the graduates from West Point, all had citizenship elsewhere at the breaking out of the rebellion, except possibly General A.

  6. There is a kind of bad citizenship which is taught in the schools, but no real good citizenship taught.

  7. Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it.

  8. Good citizenship would teach accuracy of thinking and accuracy of statement.

  9. A little of citizenship ought to be taught at the mother's knee and in the nursery.

  10. You can begin that chair of citizenship in the College of the City of New York.

  11. I agreed when the Mayor said that there was not a man within hearing who did not agree that citizenship should be placed above everything else, even learning.

  12. And the next stage is the spirit of world citizenship .

  13. They were doubtless permitted, as an independent social and religious group, to share in the citizenship of the proud Roman city.

  14. This Roman citizenship not only delivered Paul at many crises in his stormy career, but also brought him into intelligent and sympathetic touch with the great empire to which he bore the message of the cross.

  15. Also, as the event proved, Rome's protection was of great value to the apostle, who could claim citizenship in the imperial city.

  16. Again his Roman citizenship enabled him to escape his persistent persecutors and to reach Rome, although as a prisoner.

  17. How comes it, then, that you are numbered with the violent, the lawless, with those who renounce their citizenship and dishonour the State?

  18. They are not called to perform duties of citizenship until a certain age, but the rights and privileges of citizenship are theirs from the moment of their birth.

  19. America, filled with German and French people, with people humane and universal in their instincts of citizenship and brotherhood, freighted ships with supplies and contributions in money prodigal and vast.

  20. All those who have through toil and pain entered into citizenship in the Celestial City will tell you that.

  21. They want all the privileges of citizenship without the responsibilities.

  22. All the lights by which he steers sum up good citizenship rather than sectarianship.

  23. Government will never ask us which should enter into citizenship first, the woman or the colored man, or whether we prefer one to the other.

  24. Our Government has existed for eighty years, yet this question of citizenship has never been settled.

  25. No broader or better enumeration of the privileges which pertain to American citizenship could be given.

  26. The possession of the jus suffragii, at least, if not also of the jus honorum, is the principle which governs at this day in defining citizenship in the countries deriving their jurisprudence from the civil law.

  27. Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, "Women have been advanced to full citizenship and clothed with the capacity to become voters," and Whereas, The same court further decided that the said first section of the XIV.

  28. This question of citizen suffrage is not a woman question alone, but it is a question of the rights of citizenship affecting every man in this wide land.

  29. But it too speaks only of freedmen to be clothed with the rights of citizenship in the millennial, latter-day glory so soon to be.

  30. Therefore, as birth and marriage secure the right of citizenship to large numbers, the remaining classes of foreign unmarried women should secure naturalization papers, that we may all test our right to vote in the courts.

  31. Resolved, That as the duties of citizens are the outgrowth of their rights, a class denied the common rights of citizenship should be exempt from all duties to the State.

  32. Because they have the ballot; because they have political force, because they have the power of citizenship behind them in its fullest sense.

  33. It really is a training for life, a training for citizenship in time of peace.

  34. Good citizenship is impossible unless the people understand the government under which they live.

  35. Citizenship is therefore valuable for its protection abroad, as well as for its rights and privileges at home.

  36. It punishes every combination of tradesworkers for the furtherance of their "alleged" common interests, as an attempt upon the freedom and rights of man, by a fine of five hundred livres and the loss of citizenship for a year.

  37. In both cases we see citizenship in strife with feudal forces.

  38. Many," he says, "are indignant when they see unworthy men manumitted, and condemn a usage which gives such men the citizenship of a sovereign state whose destiny is to govern the world.

  39. Those whom they find worthy of citizenship should have their names inscribed on tables, distributed among the tribes, with leave to reside in the city.

  40. They can be improved, and American citizenship should arouse up from its disheartenment and see that it is done.

  41. Dear sir, communities where anything like citizenship exists are accustomed to hide their shames, but here we have one proposing to get up a great "exposition" of its dishonor and advertise it all it can.

  42. The call for the National Republican Convention of 1872 said: "Equal suffrage has been engrafted on the National Constitution; the privileges and immunities of American citizenship have become a part of the organic law.

  43. Only at the ballot-box is the lawful citizenship of women challenged!

  44. Senator Frelinghuysen said: "The heresy of State rights has been completely buried in these amendments, and as amended, the Constitution confers not only National but State citizenship upon all persons born or naturalized within our limits.

  45. Such is the patriotism we plead for; and such patriotism and ideal citizenship are, in our minds, just one and the same thing.

  46. Edwards Noble ideas of citizenship and its duties strengthen the will of all patriots.

  47. In addition to those who are trained for American citizenship in American homes, we have among us a large body of men who are "citizens by adoption.

  48. It is in this idea of associated life that citizenship finds its real beginning.

  49. But between the formulation of the idea, and such citizenship as we now enjoy, there have been long centuries of slow growth and steady development.

  50. Thus the schools not only teach the theory of good citizenship and social conditions, they give the children actual facts and conditions, so that they can see what is wrong and how it can be bettered.

  51. The children can see the things with their own eyes; they are learning citizenship by being good citizens.

  52. We see that slavery was unjust, uneconomic, and the worst training for citizenship in such a government as ours.


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