1. 7th Bell Work Turn to your bell work page
Copy or answer the following in a complete sentence:
How did you do on your citizenship test? Did you find it to be easy or difficult? Why?

2. Notebook
Title entry 5 Unit 1 Notes
Only copy the underlined notes

3. Unit 1: Citizens and Citizenship
Lesson 1: Natural Born Citizens

4. Citizenship
Citizen
A citizen is one who has specific rights and obligations within a political unit such as being a citizen of a country or a state.
All countries have their own definitions and expectations of citizenship, although there are several similarities and differences across countries and types of government.
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5. What does the Constitution of the United States Say about citizenship?
The Constitution is like a rule book for government: it outlines the structure and function of our government and names some of the rights of the people.
What does the Constitution of the United States Say about citizenship?

6. The Fourteenth Amendment
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that defines citizenship, grants citizenship to former slaves, and defines voters as males at least 21 years of age
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7. The Fourteenth Amendment
or naturalized
All persons born
in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof
are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside…
*Jurisdiction- You have to follow the laws! 

8. Who is a natural born citizen of the United States?
Natural Born Citizens

9. Who is a Natural Born Citizen?
Are born with all of the rights held by U.S. Citizens given by the U.S. Constitution
Are eligible to become a Senator, Representative, or President .
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10. Natural Born Citizenship is based on two “laws”:
“Law of the Soil”
Children born in the United States or Territories/Possessions
“Law of the Blood”
Children born to a parent or parents who are United States citizens. S B
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11. “Law of Soil”
Any child born in the United States is a citizen of the United States, even if the child’s parents are not citizens.
Soil of the U.S. includes Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
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12. “Law of Blood”
Principle in which citizenship is determined by parentage rather than by place of birth.
The U.S. recognizes children born abroad to American citizens as citizens .
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13. Other Examples of Natural Born Citizens….
Please note: While Oprah is super AWESOME, she can NOT actually grant anyone US citizenship!   

14. Who is a “Natural Born Citizen”?
Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States (as long as citizenship does not impact the person’s status as a citizen of the tribe) S
Where the person is born.
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15. Who is a “Natural Born Citizen”?
A person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States S
Translation:
Where the person is born.
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16. Who is a “Natural Born Citizen”?
A person born before noon on 5/24/1934 outside the limits and jurisdiction of the United States of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S. B
To whom someone is born.
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