War Dept Training Manual

Published: Tue, 07/30/19

The following is out of the War Department Training Manual, November 30, 1928

We all declare for liberty, but in using the word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men and the product of other men's labor. Here are two not only different but incompatible things called by the same name — liberty.

The right of secession was forever settled by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, which declares, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." The National Government is not an assemblage of States, but of individuals.

To refuse allegiance to the United States is to be a traitor to the Nation. However, in the dual capacity of citizenship, we render service as citizens of both the State in which we hold legal residence and the United States. Each of our 48 States retains its own sovereignty in all matters relating exclusively to State affairs, in which it is protected by its own constitution. In all interstate, national, or international affairs both the citizen and the State owe allegiance to the Union.

The first and paramount duty of every citizen is to have a firsthand knowledge of the Constitution of the United States. He should learn the accurate, comprehensive, and masterly statement of the six principles of government as contained in the Preamble, and the plan for setting up and maintaining our representative form of government. It is in this document that individual rights and fundamental duties are set forth.

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