[Mollypitcher1]

You are correct! Add to that the fact that England didn’t have “Citizens” they had Subjects, as in Subject to the King. We threw the King out on July 4, 1776 and declared ourselves a Free People. There WAS a Revolution, after all.

[nomad]

Please check comment 137, it`s a well reasoned, and sincerely held belief. We are by natural law birth right, free and sovereign individuals. But this concept was derived via the ever evolving concept OF the individual. If we make that concept static, then we forgo that process of evolution that ultimately gave it to us.

For good or bad, evolution is at the very heart of life itself. A similar process, in the evolution of the concept of Man and his place in the universe, brought us to the natural law derived concept of the sovereign individual, and thus, gave us the Republic it birthed. I will never surrender this concept of the right to decide, to do so undermines the very basis of the practical implementation of our freedom.