A defined American character—devotion to republican principles, republican virtue, the habits and manners of free citizens, self-reliance—would in that case be impermissibly exclusive, and thus impermissibly American. [More]Only acceptable diversity is allowed.
[Via Mack H]
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ReplyDeleteI don't need anyone's permission to be American.
E Pluribus Unum.
Read CAREFULLY the last 5 paragraphs. THIS is what I'm talking about regarding "citizenship" by birth. There is no automatic membership in the U. S. corporation, simply by birth in one of the States of the Union (which are recognized as foreign corporations with respect to the U.S.). There is a process by which one becomes a citizen (member) of the corporation. We are Americans first, by birth, and INHABITANTS of a state. Somewhere along the way we may become a "citizen" of the U.S., but we are first inhabitants of one or another state - read the requirements for being a representative or senator in the Constitution. Once we become a 14th Amendment citizen, we are subject to Congress and only have CIVIL rights, not natural rights, because then we are SUBJECTS, just like the early colonists under the king. Only now it's being subject to the corporation, made of 535 "kings" and "queens".
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