civics
the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens.
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How to use civics in a sentence
Other judges have been giving defendants civics lessons on how democracy works.
Capitol riot defendants facing jail have regrets. Judges aren’t buying it. | Rachel Weiner, Spencer Hsu | February 26, 2021 | Washington PostThe pristine, grassy circle around it transformed into an open-air civics forum, with gospel choirs, daily speeches, voter registration booths and a public vegetable garden.
Northam proposes major effort to reimagine public space around Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond | Gregory S. Schneider | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostThe high school civics teacher hopes to make “a lot of small, technical fixes” to the sweeping changes approved earlier this year to expand access to voting.
As Virginia Democrats rein themselves in with bill limits, some legislators see lost opportunities | Laura Vozzella | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostBipartisan legislation introduced in Congress last month would provide $1 billion for states to bolster their civics education.
As the election draws near, civics and government teachers walk a fine line | Joe Heim | October 29, 2020 | Washington PostThe concerns educators have about teaching the election process during this polarized political era come amid growing calls for a reemphasis on civics education as a way to increase understanding of how government operates and why it even exists.
As the election draws near, civics and government teachers walk a fine line | Joe Heim | October 29, 2020 | Washington Post
But when their students asked them how they could teach civics if they could not vote, they took to the streets.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’ | Gary May | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWe stopped teaching civics in our public schools and outsourced the mechanics of government to “School House Rock.”
But from the looks of it, you should expect all the explosions, and none of the civics.
A Political History of the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ | Asawin Suebsaeng | August 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlthough I suppose living in New Jersey is civics lesson enough.
My Commencement Speech to Rutgers’ Geniuses: Go Forth and Fail | P. J. O’Rourke | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIs the study of society undertaken with a willful ignorance of moral philosophy, theology, civics, and Econ 101.
P.J. on the Owl-Monkey Project and the Science of Chick Flicks | P. J. O’Rourke | April 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe study of history and civilization, of sociology and civics, will do much in the first direction.
Your Mind and How to Use It | William Walker AtkinsonTo indicate this more clearly they have applied to the study the name of "Community civics."
Cambridge Essays on Education | VariousThe works and biographies of great men furnish many opportunities for incidental instruction in civics.
Cambridge Essays on Education | VariousWe already see advances both in the purpose and the plan of civics teaching and in the literature prepared for the schools.
The Psychology of Nations | G.E. PartridgeAs society is constituted the ideal has no place, not even standing room, in the arena of civics.
Marse Henry (Vol. 1) | Henry Watterson
British Dictionary definitions for civics
/ (ˈsɪvɪks) /
the study of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship
US and Canadian the study of government and its workings
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