One of mine is that Americans owe something to America.
On what truth is this principal based? I thought that rights were endowed by God. And that the founding principals of America were on restricting government.
The Germans owed the Nazi party something and the Russians owed the Soviets something. They sold their principles for a supposed patriotism that had no grounding in true philosophical principals.
But, as I said earlier, Conservatives are simply a different stripe of liberal with a different function. They are the lukewarm water that acclimates the "slowly boiling frog".
"On what truth is this principal based?"
No man is an island. entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
"I thought that rights were endowed by God."
If you believe in God, then you know that rights are only half of an equation, with responsibilities on the other side.
That aside, one of the rights cited in the Declaration is the right to order our society as we see fit.
As a matter of precedent, check out the US Code:
Section 311. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are -
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.