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On The Duties and Responsibilities of Citizenship.
Q. What is a duty?
A. Something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
Q. What is a Responsibility?
A. The state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
As citizens of the United States, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
On 1/7/1918 in Selective Draft Law Cases - 245 U.S. 366 (1918), MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court, in part:
"Compelled military service is neither repugnant to a free government nor in conflict with the constitutional guaranties of individual liberty. Indeed, it may not be doubted that the very conception of a just government and its duty to the citizen includes the duty of the citizen to render military service in case of need, and the right of the government to compel it.
"The power of Congress to compel military service as in the Selective Draft Law, clearly sustained by the original Constitution, is even more manifest under the Fourteenth Amendment, which, as frequently has been pointed out, broadened the national scope of the government by causing citizenship of the United States to be paramount and dominant, instead of being subordinate and derivative, thus operating generally upon the powers conferred by the Constitution indeed gives Congress the power to draft men into the military if the need arises.
"The grant to Congress of power to raise and support armies, considered in conjunction with the grants of the powers to declare war, to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces, and to make laws necessary and proper for executing granted powers (Constitution, Art. I, § 8), includes the power to compel military service, exercised by the Selective Draft Law of May 18, 1917, c. 15, 40 Stat. 76. This conclusion, obvious upon the face of the Constitution, is confirmed by an historical examination of the subject."
Selective Draft Law Cases - 245 U.S. 366 (1918) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center
As citizens of the United States we have a duty to support and defend the Constitution, our nation and its people; to obey the laws and regulations promulgated by our Representatives and to petition the government if we feel such laws are unreasonable. Furthermore and within our ability, we have a responsibility to live our lives within the vision stated in the Preamble to our Constitution, to act responsibly - morally and legally - in support of the vision for our country expressed in the Preamble.
Those who accept the Rights of Citizenship have tacitly sworn to uphold the duties and responsibilities of a citizen and to hold no allegiance to any ideology which suppresses, or seeks to overthrow the principles upon which our nation was founded and our Society has long endured. Thus, those who hold to the ideology of Objectivism, be they ordinary citizens or a member of Congress, commit the crime of Sedition, if not in fact, surely in their hearts, in the words they write daily on this message board, and words spoken by some members of The Congress.
For those who see a new Civil War or the breakup of our Union a good thing, I suggest they read the following words spoken to the Senate three decades before the Civil War:
Daniel Webster
Q. What is a duty?
A. Something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
Q. What is a Responsibility?
A. The state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
As citizens of the United States, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
On 1/7/1918 in Selective Draft Law Cases - 245 U.S. 366 (1918), MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court, in part:
"Compelled military service is neither repugnant to a free government nor in conflict with the constitutional guaranties of individual liberty. Indeed, it may not be doubted that the very conception of a just government and its duty to the citizen includes the duty of the citizen to render military service in case of need, and the right of the government to compel it.
"The power of Congress to compel military service as in the Selective Draft Law, clearly sustained by the original Constitution, is even more manifest under the Fourteenth Amendment, which, as frequently has been pointed out, broadened the national scope of the government by causing citizenship of the United States to be paramount and dominant, instead of being subordinate and derivative, thus operating generally upon the powers conferred by the Constitution indeed gives Congress the power to draft men into the military if the need arises.
"The grant to Congress of power to raise and support armies, considered in conjunction with the grants of the powers to declare war, to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces, and to make laws necessary and proper for executing granted powers (Constitution, Art. I, § 8), includes the power to compel military service, exercised by the Selective Draft Law of May 18, 1917, c. 15, 40 Stat. 76. This conclusion, obvious upon the face of the Constitution, is confirmed by an historical examination of the subject."
Selective Draft Law Cases - 245 U.S. 366 (1918) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center
As citizens of the United States we have a duty to support and defend the Constitution, our nation and its people; to obey the laws and regulations promulgated by our Representatives and to petition the government if we feel such laws are unreasonable. Furthermore and within our ability, we have a responsibility to live our lives within the vision stated in the Preamble to our Constitution, to act responsibly - morally and legally - in support of the vision for our country expressed in the Preamble.
Those who accept the Rights of Citizenship have tacitly sworn to uphold the duties and responsibilities of a citizen and to hold no allegiance to any ideology which suppresses, or seeks to overthrow the principles upon which our nation was founded and our Society has long endured. Thus, those who hold to the ideology of Objectivism, be they ordinary citizens or a member of Congress, commit the crime of Sedition, if not in fact, surely in their hearts, in the words they write daily on this message board, and words spoken by some members of The Congress.
For those who see a new Civil War or the breakup of our Union a good thing, I suggest they read the following words spoken to the Senate three decades before the Civil War:
Daniel Webster
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