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Rights and Responsibilities

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Weighing the Evidence

Every community has rules. There are things people have to do, called responsibilities. There are also special things that people get to do, which are called rights. Some have changed over time, while others have been the same since America’s founding. We can learn about rights and responsibilities from historical documents.

Explore these documents and decide whether they are about people’s rights or people’s responsibilities. Click on the New Window icon inside each image to look at the document more closely. Then, drag each document to the correct side of the scale.

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