Analysis Of The Pillars Of Citizenship

The definition of citizenship is the sense of having certain responsibilities and actions to gaining the name for yourself. It is being a role model to many people and showing values that is good for the community. During the first five weeks of the class lectures, we discussed the “Pillars of Citizenship” through the three documents; The Declaration of Independence, The Bills of Rights and the US Constitution. In contrast to the three pillars, the fourth pillar was also discussed in connection to Thomas Paine’s democracy. All of the documents were an example of the concept of freedom in the nation’s growth. The main argument of the Declaration of Independence is that “All men are created equal” and have “inalienable rights” of “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”. It centralizes on the idea that all have men have certain rights and the king had taken these rights from the colonists and they did not want this to happen again. The Declaration of Independence also demonstrate that the 13 colonies were independent states and were no longer under the British rule. The Declaration of Independence is the founding document of the American experiment in free government. But what is much forgotten is that the Founding Fathers’s Declaration disagreed against the abundant and intrusive hand of the government. The …show more content…
All documents believed in concerning about people’s rights. But not giving it to them; rather with conviction that people already have those right, which must not be violated. Also, the documents talk about the limiting the power of the government and the protection of the people from the government excesses. The Bill of Rights is part of the U.S. Constitution which are the first ten amendments. The biggest similarity that all documents have in common is that they were essentially by the same parson, Thomas