This document discusses civic commitments that individuals can practice to support a healthy democracy, including civility, individual responsibility, open-mindedness, compromise, and compassion. It poses questions about defining and demonstrating these commitments through daily actions and experiences, and how practicing them can benefit both individuals and communities.

2. CIVIC
COMMITMENTS
are behaviors, attitudes,
and practices that individuals
dedicate themselves to, in order
for a healthy democracy to thrive.

3. What is
CIVILITY?
Why is it
important?

4. What sort of daily
actions demonstrate
INDIVIDUAL
RESPONSIBILITY?

5. Why is OPENMINDEDNESS
important in a
democracy?

6. Give an example
of a time when you
reached an
acceptable
solution with
others through
COMPROMISE.

7. How might it benefit
you individually, and
the community at
large, to show
COMPASSION and
concern for the
welfare of strangers?

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