Show Why I Am An American by President J. Reuben I AM AN AMERICAN because I believe in a government- of lawa and not of and in a national allegiance to high principle and lofty ideal Instead of to a personal I AM AN AMERICAN because I believe in government with three separate each mutually Independent of Uie with no power of delegation or appropriation of rights or powers by any one to or from any i I AM AN because I believe that government must derive its powers from the consent of the and that branches of government and officers shall have such only as shall be given by the because I believe the assumption by branches of government or by officers of rights or powers not specifically conferred upon them is and because impeachment or other trial lies against any officers who so usurps rights or powers not specifically I AM AN AMERICAN because I believe In the greatest possible measure of self-government and because I believe in a federal system of government which keeps local affairs in the hands of local I AM AN AMERICAN because I believe in a bill of rights which places wholly beyond the reach of lawful government certain matters affecting and the pursuit of and specifically the right of freedom of conscience and the right of free speech and a free the right peaceably to assemble and petition and the right to gain and hold property without molestation except by due process of law I AM AN AMERICAN because under our form of government the people of the United States have made a progress never before made by any other people in the world in an equal time during the whole period of recorded I AM AN AMERICAN because standards of life and of living of the entire American people are far beyond those enjoyed by any other people In any other part of the either now or at any other which is a living testimony and evidence of the kindly beneficence of our free I AM AN AMERICAN because this nation has no scheme or plan of because it has a respect for the rights of other peoples and of other because it promotes justice and honor in the relationships of because It loves the ways of peace as against as shown by the repeated peaceful adjustment of its own international because it has conquered the land greed which so afflicts the nations of the as demonstrated in Cuba and the I AM AN AMERICAN because my country abolished slavery after it had become deep-rooted and because men still are free to and arc secure in the enjoyment of the I products of their I AM AN AMERICAN because I firmly and earnestly believe that the Constitution is an inspired document designated by our Maker to set up a government which would make sure and secure the rights set forth in the Bill of and particularly Uie right of freedom of conscience and I AM AN AMERICAN because I believe that the destiny of America is to be the abiding place of liberty and free and its own practice and enjoyment of these blessings shall be to the world a beacon light which shall radiate Its influence by peaceful means to the uttermost parts of the to the uplifting of all from June 1940 and Church June |