Citizenship and Nationalism (Part 1)

Citizenship must include social responsibility. Social responsibility means individual sacrifice.  The sacrifice of two years in the service of the Nation is a just and reasonable requirement for participation in the body politic. The State must find a place for those who serve, regardless of skill or aptitude.  Not all service needs be military.  Education, maintenance, clerical or administrative work can be an option for those not physically or mentally fit for military service. 

Why service? Every right is conjoined to an equivalent responsibility.  A two-year service requirement will ensure the rise of a citizenry whose vested interests in the well-being of the body politic are not merely economic. A citizen's interest in the future of the Nation must be expanded to include a sturdy political understanding and a healthy interest in social harmony.  Service to the Nation ensures the rise of citizens who take the National life seriously. In short, it will give rise to citizens who are Nationalists.

Nationalism is patriotic, in that it grows out of love of the Nation. However, a Nationalist places the well-being of the Nation above globalism.  The Nation is the primary concern of the Citizen, but this Nationalism does not and must not seek to supplant love of the Supreme Being and love of the family.  The Nation is the primary concern of the Citizen as a political and economic being.  As a person participating in elections, a citizen has shown himself to be responsible, loyal, and informed concerning the issues of the day rather than determined by party loyalties. He demonstrates this, in part, through his term of National Service.  As a being of economic interests, a Citizen has come to appreciate that the best and only real valid social program is work. He or she rejects social welfare for all except the truly invalid. All others must work.

Citizenship must be the prerogative of those who have served the Nation. All others will have basic human rights, but they shall not participate in the body politic, for they have shown themselves to have no concern for its well-being and prosperity.  Citizens serve the Nation.