on all parts on the citizenship with useful links at the back

1. Citizenship
revision
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Power politics and
the media,the
global community
Rights and
responsibilities

2. Government - a group of people who run a
country or states
Courts - a body of presided over by a judge or
judges or magistrates dealing with civil or
criminal cases
Democratic - a system of government in which
power is given to the people by voting also it's
a freedom of speech when they vote
Electoral- relating to elections or elections
Local - a particular area or one's
neighbourhood where somebody lives
National - relating to or characteristics of a
whole nation
Operation -how things work
Public debate - a debate either in public or
the public during the debate
Civil law - the law that concerned with
private relations ie. family or community
Media - means of mass communication for
example news papers ie the times or tv,
rdio or advertising
Pressure groups a group that tries to
influence public policy in the interest of a -
particular cause
Justice system -the practices and
institutions of governments directed at
upholding social control
Laws- the system that rules a particular
country that is enforced by imposing
penalties
Parliament- in the uk the highest legal
force consisting of the monach house of
lords and the house of commons
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3. 3
Ofsted
introduced this
in 2015 in
schools up and
down the
country “should
have the
fundamental
british values “
The uk should abide by
these everyday because
we are british and theses
are our values

4. Rights at work
The right to time off for
study or training for 16
year olds and older
The right to have paid
maternity leave
The right to paid paternity
leave
The right to ask for
flexible
The right to paid adoption
leave
Consumer rights
Consumer rights is the
people who uses a
business's products and
they have rights like
trading standards to make
sure it is legal and not
breaking any rights
credit and store cards
faulty goods
counterfeit goods
poor service
problems with contracts
problems with builders
Rogue traders
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5. The media
The media can be a good and
bad thing
A good thing about the
media is that it gets
published so everybody will
see it but a bad thing is
that the media can twist
things and options to make
it look bad for example the
sun newspaper says
apparently one in 5 muslims
are terrorists and i don't
know where they get there
facts and figures from but
however a broadsheet
newspaper is more -
Politically And based on
facts and statistics and less
biased
“The sun is more tories and
the daily mirror is more
labour” quoted from a
meeting with Mr bailey our
current mp
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6. Protests,pressure groups
and ethics
A pressure group tries to
influence the government
to what they believe in a
decision for example edl
and greenpeace
A protest is people who
stand up for their rights
for example teacher unions
or the nhs budgets cuts to
junior nurses
Ethics is doing something in
favor of everybody else not
just think about yourself
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Democracy
1st past the post In the 50 80%
of people
voted and now
only 65.8% of
people voted
in 2015
Political
parties
Conservatives,
labour , ukip ,
green party
etc
House of
commons
and house of
lords
Members of
parliament
prime minister

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Parliament passes on laws
and is made up of 646 mps
and 730 members of the
house of lords
The government is executive
putting laws into effect
Every government
department has a civil
servant called a
parliamentary secretary to
manage staff and carry out
orders of the secretary of
state
The pm appoints 20 senior
ministers to form the cabinet
Who review developments and
looks at proposals from su8
committees and decides
policies
They decide the important
issues in parliament and
decide the main points of a
new law and when the
decision is the made the
cabinet must support it

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Legislation
Government and private
members bills are both
public and private whereas
private bills apply to a
particular areas and
organisations
A bill can start at the
house of commons of lords
and then passes on to other
houses then it needs the
royal assent before it can
become a law

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Diversity
Different eg a diversity in
culture race or ethnicity
Prejudice
A preconceived opinion that
is not based on an actual
experience or reason
Discrimination
the unjust or prejudicial
treatment of different
categories of people, for
example race, age, or sex:
Racism
Think that one race is
superior to another race
Community cohesion
What brings together a
community for example
multicultural society is
like community cohesion
because different races
come together for a
bond or create a
community where people
help each other

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migration
Migration is going
from one country
to another for
various factors

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Refugee
A little to no choice to
move to a different country
because of political reasons
war unsafety and danger but
has got the application to
say yes and got the full
refugee status
Asylum seeker
Needs an application to move
to a different country and
trying to get the full
refugee status because of
political reasons persecution
war or in danger
These are the statistics for
2014 and 2015 for refugees
and migrants arriving by sea
in europe

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