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Training Manual No. TM 2000-25 on Citizenship, U.S. History and the Constitution was compiled and issued by the U.S. War Department, November 30, 1928.
http://www.barefootsworld.net/tm_2000-25.html
Word Doc: http://www.barefootsworld.net/docs/TM2000-25.doc
This Training Manual No. TM 2000-25 on Citizenship, U.S. History and the Constitution was compiled and issued by the U.S. War Department, November 30, 1928, to teach our young men in the services the fundamental principles upon which our Government was founded.
The precise and scholarly definitions presented throughout the manual were carefully considered as a proper guide for U.S. soldiers and U.S. citizens by the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Such definitions take precedence over any definitions that may be found in the present commercial dictionaries which have suffered periodic modification to please the powers in office.
Shortly after the "bank holiday" in 1933, orders from the FDR White House suddenly demanded without explanation that all copies of this book be withdrawn from the Government Printing Office and the Army posts, to be suppressed and destroyed. So began the demagogic descent of the United States and the subversion of the Constitution into Americanized National Socialism, bankruptcy and the continued state of national emergency that we have experienced as a nation for the past -1823 years.
Today there is a great deal of reference by the media and sadly, even by many of our elected officials to “our democracy†or “this democracy†when referring to our government.
The Founding Fathers of our Nation wisely established a REPUBLIC (http://www.barefootsworld.net/tm_2000-25.html#republic), not a Democracy (http://www.barefootsworld.net/tm_2000-25.html#democracy), and there are many important differences. The differences can be debated and argued in many ways, but the best and simplest definitions are printed in this Training Manual, presented here in its entirety.
Look at these definitions:
Democracy - A government of the masses.
-Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.
-Results in mobocracy.
-Attitude toward property is communistic — negating property rights.
-Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
-Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Republic - Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
-Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.
-Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
-A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
-Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.
-Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
-Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.
-A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of (1) an executive and (2) a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent individual rights.
-Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.
No dual allegiance — Every alien should become a citizen in order that he may vote and hold office, and in all ways take an active part in developing, building and maintaining the Government — national and local — that protects him.
-There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile.
-We have room for one sole loyalty and that is loyalty to the American people. — Roosevelt
Dual citizenship — The Supreme Court declares that there are two kinds of citizenship, State and National.
-Citizens of the United States residing in any State enjoy the rights of both State and United States citizenship.
-In the protection thereof we look to the National Government if the source of such rights lies in the Constitution and laws of the United States; and to the State government if such rights are based upon the constitution and laws of the State.
-Dual citizenship does not imply a divided allegiance. While a State commands allegiance of its citizens the paramount allegiance is to the Union.
-Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. — Webster.
Guaranties as to person and property — The United States is composed of 48 sovereign States, each State having its individual constitution and laws. Yet no State may discriminate against the rights and privileges of the citizen of any other State as to person or property. Among these guaranties are:
-Opportunity for education and individual improvement.
-Unrestricted possession of property
-Joint rights to interstate commerce, communication, and transportation. Public utilities.
-Freedom of residence and choice of occupation.
-Care or protection on the high seas or abroad through passport privileges and international law.
A lot of other interesting things in there. Its a good read...
http://www.barefootsworld.net/tm_2000-25.html
Word Doc: http://www.barefootsworld.net/docs/TM2000-25.doc
This Training Manual No. TM 2000-25 on Citizenship, U.S. History and the Constitution was compiled and issued by the U.S. War Department, November 30, 1928, to teach our young men in the services the fundamental principles upon which our Government was founded.
The precise and scholarly definitions presented throughout the manual were carefully considered as a proper guide for U.S. soldiers and U.S. citizens by the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Such definitions take precedence over any definitions that may be found in the present commercial dictionaries which have suffered periodic modification to please the powers in office.
Shortly after the "bank holiday" in 1933, orders from the FDR White House suddenly demanded without explanation that all copies of this book be withdrawn from the Government Printing Office and the Army posts, to be suppressed and destroyed. So began the demagogic descent of the United States and the subversion of the Constitution into Americanized National Socialism, bankruptcy and the continued state of national emergency that we have experienced as a nation for the past -1823 years.
Today there is a great deal of reference by the media and sadly, even by many of our elected officials to “our democracy†or “this democracy†when referring to our government.
The Founding Fathers of our Nation wisely established a REPUBLIC (http://www.barefootsworld.net/tm_2000-25.html#republic), not a Democracy (http://www.barefootsworld.net/tm_2000-25.html#democracy), and there are many important differences. The differences can be debated and argued in many ways, but the best and simplest definitions are printed in this Training Manual, presented here in its entirety.
Look at these definitions:
Democracy - A government of the masses.
-Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.
-Results in mobocracy.
-Attitude toward property is communistic — negating property rights.
-Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
-Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Republic - Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
-Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.
-Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
-A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
-Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.
-Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
-Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.
-A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of (1) an executive and (2) a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent individual rights.
-Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.
No dual allegiance — Every alien should become a citizen in order that he may vote and hold office, and in all ways take an active part in developing, building and maintaining the Government — national and local — that protects him.
-There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile.
-We have room for one sole loyalty and that is loyalty to the American people. — Roosevelt
Dual citizenship — The Supreme Court declares that there are two kinds of citizenship, State and National.
-Citizens of the United States residing in any State enjoy the rights of both State and United States citizenship.
-In the protection thereof we look to the National Government if the source of such rights lies in the Constitution and laws of the United States; and to the State government if such rights are based upon the constitution and laws of the State.
-Dual citizenship does not imply a divided allegiance. While a State commands allegiance of its citizens the paramount allegiance is to the Union.
-Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. — Webster.
Guaranties as to person and property — The United States is composed of 48 sovereign States, each State having its individual constitution and laws. Yet no State may discriminate against the rights and privileges of the citizen of any other State as to person or property. Among these guaranties are:
-Opportunity for education and individual improvement.
-Unrestricted possession of property
-Joint rights to interstate commerce, communication, and transportation. Public utilities.
-Freedom of residence and choice of occupation.
-Care or protection on the high seas or abroad through passport privileges and international law.
A lot of other interesting things in there. Its a good read...