Citizenship
means to belong. In this, citizenship encompasses the people of the
United States. We all belong to one sovereign nation, a Republic united
in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit o happiness.
We share a way of life as a country, within each State, community, home and family. We are one for all, and all for one.
Citizenship joins us together, as one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.
Our young country was born in 1776 with our U.S. Constitution. The brave men, women and children were no longer British citizens, pilgrims, settlers or colonists.
We became “We The People,” our “First American Citizens.”
You see, that was the time when all who lived in this New Land, including the slaves, became American Citizens.
They earned Citizenship through tremendous sacrifice. The American Revolution was a battle for freedom.
History records that the colonists were few against many professional soldiers. They sacrificed warm beds for cold nights, hunger, thirst, unimaginable fear and broken bones. Many died. They did all this to insure a better way of life “to ourselves and our posterity.”
The brave men and women formed a “union” of courage so important that the founders of our country wrote it at the very beginning of our treasured United States Constitution.
“WE THE PEOPLE of the United States in order to form a more perfect UNION, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Republic for the United States of America.”
Americans preserve what it means to be a U.S. Citizen: American Citizenship was paid for with our ancestor’s blood. For this reason, we do not give it away to just anyone.
There are only two ways to become a U.S. Citizen: (1) By being a descendant of an American Citizen; or (2) by being at least 18 years old, applying for citizenship, going through a process, assimilate, take an oath and become a “naturalized citizen.”
We are duty-bound to respect and honor our citizenship that had been earned through bravery, bloodshed and sacrifice.”
Citizenship is one of America’s precious core values.///