Rights and Duties
Can you vote with a green card?
The 10 questions in this topic
- 63There are four amendments to the U.S. Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
- 64Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the United States?
- 65What are three rights of everyone living in the United States?
- 66What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
- 67Name two promises that new citizens make in the Oath of Allegiance.
- 68How can people become United States citizens?
- 69What are two examples of civic participation in the United States?
- 70What is one way Americans can serve their country?
- 71Why is it important to pay federal taxes?
- 72It is important for all men age 18 through 25 to register for the Selective Service. Name one reason why.
Transcript
Rafa: Mom, twenty-two years with a green card, you can already vote. It's the same thing.
Lupe: Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the United States?
Rafa: Everyone with a green card! Like you.
Lupe: Mmm… Green card holders?
Rafa: … It's not the same?
Grandpa: Rewind.
Grandpa: Some rights belong to everyone living here, citizen or not: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly.
Grandpa: But voting in federal elections, running for federal office and serving on a jury: that is only for citizens. With a green card, not yet.
Grandpa: And citizens can vote at eighteen.
Grandpa: When you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you show loyalty to the United States and to the flag.
Grandpa: Serving your country means voting, paying taxes, obeying the law. And taxes are required by law.
Grandpa: And men from eighteen through twenty-five register for the Selective Service. That is required by law too.
Grandpa: Okay, like at the interview. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Rafa: To the President!
Grandpa: Rafa! Not the President. Look at the wall, Lupe.
Lupe: The flag.
Grandpa: Good. Another one: What is one way Americans can serve their country?
Lupe: Pay taxes.
Rafa: Paying taxes is serving the country? Then I'm already a hero!
Grandpa: With your first paycheck, kiddo. We'll see.
Lupe: Your turn, mijo: It is important for all men age 18 through 25 to register for the Selective Service. Name one reason why.
Rafa: Mmm… Required by law?
Grandpa: Right. And you're nineteen, kiddo… did you register yet?
Rafa: … Me?
Lupe: My fifth stamp in the passport!
Grandpa: Five out of twenty, Lupe. A quarter of the way.
Grandpa: Now, your ear. Listen to the officer, answer out loud… then repeat after me.
Officer: Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the United States?
Grandpa: Citizens. SIT-ih-zenz.
Officer: There are four amendments to the U.S. Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
Grandpa: Citizens eighteen and older can vote. SIT-ih-zenz ay-TEEN and OHL-der.
Officer: What are three rights of everyone living in the United States?
Grandpa: Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly. FREE-dum uv SPEECH… ri-LIJ-un… uh-SEM-blee.
Officer: What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Grandpa: The United States. yoo-NYE-ted STATES.
Officer: What is one way Americans can serve their country?
Grandpa: Pay taxes. PAY TAK-siz.
Officer: It is important for all men age 18 through 25 to register for the Selective Service. Name one reason why.
Grandpa: Required by law. ri-KWIRED by LAW.
Lupe: Voting is for citizens… and I'm almost there!
Grandpa: Test first, Lupe. Say them out loud every day.
Rafa: Okay, okay… tomorrow I'll register for the Selective Service.