eLECTIONS State Standards - New York
NEW YORK SEA HOMEPAGE
NEW YORK CONTENT STANDARDS ALL
Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity
for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the
United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the
roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
Intermediate
- The study of civics, citizenship, and government involves learning about political systems; the purposes of government and civic life; and the differing assumptions held by people across time and place regarding power, authority, governance, and law. (Adapted from The National Standards for Civics and Government, 1994)
Students:
- analyze how the values of a nation affect the guarantee
of human rights and make provisions for human needs
- consider the nature and evolution of constitutional
democracies
- explore the rights of citizens in other parts of the
hemisphere and determine how they are similar to and
different from the rights of American citizens
- analyze the sources of a nation's values as embodied in
its constitution, statutes, and important court cases.
- Central to civics and citizenship is an understanding of the roles of the citizen within American constitutional democracy and the scope of a citizen's rights and responsibilities.
Students:
- explain what citizenship means in a democratic society,
how citizenship is defined in the Constitution and other
laws of the land, and how the definition of citizenship
has changed in the United States and New York State
over time
- understand that the American legal and political systems
guarantee and protect the rights of citizens and assume
that citizens will hold and exercise certain civic values
and fulfill certain civic responsibilities
- discuss the role of an informed citizen in today's
changing world
- explain how Americans are citizens of their states and of
the United States.
Commencement
- The study of civics, citizenship, and government involves learning about political systems; the purposes of government and civic life; and the differing assumptions held by people across time and place regarding power, authority, governance, and law. (Adapted from The National Standards for Civics and Government, 1994)
Students:
- analyze how the values of a nation and international
organizations affect the guarantee of human rights and
make provisions for human needs
- consider the nature and evolution of constitutional
democracies throughout the world
- compare various political systems with that of the United
States in terms of ideology, structure, function,
institutions, decision-making processes, citizenship roles,
and political culture
- identify and analyze advantages and disadvantages of
various governmental systems.
- The state and federal governments established by the Constitutions of the United States and the State of New York embody basic civic values (such as justice, honesty, self-discipline, due process, equality, majority rule with respect for minority rights, and respect for self, others, and property), principles, and practices and establish a system of shared and limited government. (Adapted from The National Standards for Civics and Government, 1994)
Students:
- trace the evolution of American values, beliefs, and
institutions
- analyze the disparities between civic values expressed in
the United States Constitution and the United Nation
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the realities
as evidenced in the political, social, and economic life in
the United States and throughout the world
- identify, respect, and model those core civic values
inherent in our founding documents that have been
forces for unity in American society
- compare and contrast the Constitutions of the United
States and New York State
- understand the dynamic relationship between federalism
and state's rights.
- Central to civics and citizenship is an understanding of the roles of the citizen within American constitutional democracy and the scope of a citizen's rights and responsibilities.
Students:
- understand how citizenship includes the exercise of
certain personal responsibilities, including voting,
considering the rights and interests of others, behaving
in a civil manner, and accepting responsibility for the
consequences of one's actions (Adapted from The
National Standards for Civics and Government, 1994)
- analyze issues at the local, state, and national levels and
prescribe responses that promote the public interest or
general welfare, such as planning and carrying out a
voter registration campaign
- describe how citizenship is defined by the Constitution
and important laws
- explore how citizens influence public policy in a
representative democracy.
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