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  2. Civics - Wikipedia

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    In U.S. politics, in the context of urban planning, the term civics comprehends the city politics that affect the political decisions of the citizenry of a city. Civic education is the study of the theoretical, political, and practical aspects of citizenship manifest as political rights, civil rights , and legal obligations. [ 2 ]

  3. Right to petition in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Some define lobbying as any kind of persuading of a public official and say that petitioning includes it. [16] Others say the petition clause gives no right to lobby. [17] Lobbying includes approaching a public official in secret, possibly giving them money. But petitioning, as America's founders knew it, was a public process, involving no money.

  4. Ordination - Wikipedia

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    Ordination of a Catholic deacon, 1520 AD: the bishop bestows vestments.. Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform various religious rites and ceremonies. [1]

  5. Compact theory - Wikipedia

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    Jay noted the language of the Preamble of the Constitution, which states that the Constitution was ordained and established by "We the people," and he stated: "Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country, and, in the language of sovereignty, establishing a Constitution by which it was their will that the State governments ...

  6. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

  7. Legal status of the Universal Life Church - Wikipedia

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    With respect to the validity of ordinations for the purposes of those ordained performing ceremonies with civic consequences such as marriages, individual U.S. states and other countries including the UK have made varying determinations, occasionally hinging their decisions on whether ordination was obtained in person or by some remote means ...

  8. Civic studies - Wikipedia

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    Civic studies is an interdisciplinary field that empirically investigates civic engagement, civic education, and civil society.It also aims to influence the social sciences and humanities in general to take the perspective of intentional human actors—people who reason and work together to improve their worlds—in addition to institutions and impersonal social forces.

  9. Political obligation - Wikipedia

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    Political obligation refers to a moral requirement to obey national laws. [1] Its origins are unclear, however it traces to the Ancient Greeks.The idea of political obligation is philosophical, focusing on the morality of laws, rather than justice.