Citizenship

Historic Trails Award

A unit award for a historic activity: research a historic trail or site, hike or camp two days and one night along it, and work with a historic society to restore and mark it, or to stage a public event about it. The unit leader then files the application with the council.

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Law Merit Badge

Eleven requirements, mostly explanations and discussions. Three need other people: five people asked about law enforcement, not more than one from your immediate family (4); a court session or a mock trial with a group (6); and a visit you arrange with a lawyer who works for a business, bank, title company or government agency (7). Requirements 2 and 11 are each two topics chosen from a list.

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Crime Prevention Merit Badge

Eleven requirements, seven of them topics to discuss or research with your counselor. The rest take arranging: research into three crimes in the news (3), with permission first; a supervised security survey (4(b)) that becomes a lesson you teach your family or Scouts (4(c)), with the teaching plan reviewed by your counselor first; and an interview with a law enforcement officer or civil servant (10), with permission first.

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Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge

Eight requirements, twenty-five parts, one choice of two from four, and one requirement that quietly needs five consecutive days before you can discuss it.

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Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge

Eight requirements, twenty-two parts, and two chains that have to run in order: the one ending in eight hours of volunteering, and the one ending in an interview you cannot arrange until you know who to interview.

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Citizenship in the World Merit Badge

Seven requirements and thirty-two parts, but three of them are "do two of the following", one of those is nested inside another, and a Scout who answers the three questions is looking at closer to twenty.

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American Cultures Merit Badge

Five requirements, and the sentence that governs the first three is not one of them: an unnumbered note above requirement 1 tells you to choose three groups, one of them your own, and use them for requirements 1, 2 and 3. That choice also decides whether requirement 1 is possible, because four of its five options need access to a community and only one does not. Requirement 4 then asks about a different three, on a different list of categories.

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American Heritage Merit Badge

Six requirements. Requirement 1 is the Declaration of Independence, one section rewritten in your own words. Requirement 3 is a topic in the news, the national symbols and your family's history. Three are choices: two of four in 2 (people, an organization or interviews), two of five in 4 (local history), one of three in 5 (films, a biography or songs). Several routes need your counselor's approval first.

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American Labor Merit Badge

Nine requirements, and the first one is not the warm-up it looks like: requirement 2(b) names it by number and asks you to take that list of eight worker concerns to a union and ask which matter most. Requirement 7 then draws on the same work without naming it. Requirement 2 also carries its own fallback, contacting an organization online, so no union office needs to be within reach, and requirement 3 is twelve definitions printed as a single conversation.

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