What does it mean to be a united States American?
When referring to the nation, we are a union of States. The “united” is lower-case and shall be presented as such throughout.
The nation’s government name, a proper noun, is, “The United States of America” as proven in our first constitution, The Articles Of Confederation. An American is simply anyone who lives on the American continent. North America includes Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Central America includes Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. South America includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Yes! All of them are Americans!
Unfortunately, that is not what we are taught.
But not all of them are united States Americans.
A united States American is much more than a person who merely resides on the American continent. The best way to define a united States American is with the nation’s pledge.
How would you start the united States of America’s pledge?
Perhaps with: “I pledge allegiance to the flag…”?
That pledge in its entirety is:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
But to whom or to what is someone pledging their allegiance when they recite this?
Common responses include: the flag, the United States, the republic, country, or God.
Unfortunately, these responses too, are what we get taught.
We forgive. We forget. The political injustices keep repeating and getting worse with each generation. If the above pledge is not our nation’s true pledge, what is it?
The nation, which is the relationship among the citizens when controlling government, is, by definition, a democracy. Defined in 1790, democracy is: “One of the three forms of government; that in which the sovereign power is lodged in the body of the people.”
The government of the United States of America started with the Declaration of Independence, in which the governed people are the sovereign authority over the government. This functions as a contractually limited democracy. That democracy then elects officers into the republic form of government who are supposed to act and work in accord with the Constitution’s authority over them.
The sovereign authority is ultimately responsible for controlling and stopping unjust government activity.
Our nation’s actual pledge was ratified with the Declaration. It appears in the very last lines: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
Many people claim this pledge is only binding among those who signed it. This too, is unfortunately what we are taught.
We know this pledge is among the people, as the paragraph starts with: “We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled… do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People…”
The signers, as indicated, are acting on their respective constituent’s behalf; therefore binding their constituents then, as well as all future united States Americans to the terms of this contract.
Even the citizens of every new state admitted to the union are bound by the terms of the Declaration. A good knowledge of the Declaration and its purpose is necessary to make sense of this pledge. The Declaration deals with how to equally secure everyone’s rights. We get this from the start of the Declaration’s second paragraph, which 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…”
As a united States American, if I see that your rights are unjustly attacked, it is not just my right — but my duty — to help you defend your right, whether I like you or not; and especially if I do not like you. This does not mean I must supply the right; simply help protect the right from unjust attacks.
This not only applies to the relationship between the homeless and housed communities. It also includes all other social classes that may exist.
If all united States Americans live this pledge, as best they can, everyone’s rights are equally protected. Our government remains very small in size but just powerful enough and just big enough to successfully do its constitutionally granted duties.
Respect for each other and our differences protects each other and those differences against unjust attacks. This is what it means to be a united States American.
As citizens, we do not owe the government any allegiance. It is the government officers who owe their allegiance to the people, by way of their oath to uphold, support, and defend the Constitution.
Yes! Congress knew the treason they committed by forcing free people, and especially impressionable young children, to recite that pledge of allegiance to the republican form of government. At the adoption of this pledge, our entire educational system became indoctrination camps, if you will; creating generations of citizens who no longer know how to properly control government.
We all possess the same rights, homeless or housed, rich or poor. Each individual selects different rights and values each right differently. This selection process by one does not nullify or void the rights selected by others. Everyone has a right to the best housing, the best food, the best medical care, the best education, the best anything we desire.
Our physical, mental, educational, or even financial limitations may hinder us in fulfilling a given right to the level we desire.
None of us possess an honest right or power to force others to contribute to the fulfillment of a given right to the level we wish to attain; not by taxation or theft.
We the governed people are intended to work together, protecting each other’s rights from unjust interference, while also properly controlling the government’s power.
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