Introduction Essay: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship | Bill of Rights Institute
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Introduction Essay: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship | Bill of Rights Institute
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.
Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
While James Madison understood that a healthy republic was impossible without engaged citizens, he also recognized that in a free nation people would divide into competing interests for a variety of reasons
Bill of Rights Institute • Responsibilities of American Citizenship
