Free citizens must be able to choose how they want to live, and equal citizens must have the same power to shape the law as everyone else. Both types of freedom have inherent value, in addition to their instrumental value in protecting one another.

Fundamentally, Citizens are humans who want to shape the world around us for the better, and who claim and where necessary demand the right and the means to do so. To be a Citizen is to care, to take responsibility, to acknowledge one’s inherent power. To be a Citizen is to cultivate meaningful connection to a web of relationships and institutions.