Dear Fellow American,

Are you a citizen or a subject?

For most of history people have lived as subjects, ruled without their consent by a tyrant or ruling elite. The power of the government in these communities is unlimited, the people are granted privileges that can be altered or revoked, and the laws serve the ruling class and its friends.

Our Founders, by contrast, risked everything to establish a government that turned subjects into citizens. They declared that a legitimate government derives its “just powers from the consent of the governed” and that the purpose of government is to secure the unalienable rights of its citizens.

This form of government—secured by our Constitution—made America the freest and most prosperous country in human history.

Yet today, the precious and hard-won blessings of citizenship are under attack by a new ruling elite who are seeking to transform America by eroding the rights of its citizens.

To understand the meaning of citizenship and the status of the American citizen today, I invite you to enroll in our free online course, “American Citizenship and Its Decline.”

Taught by Victor Davis Hanson, this eight-lecture course explains how rare citizenship is in human history and how it is being undermined by:

• illegal immigration and a loss of national sovereignty;
• the rise of tribal politics;
• an unelected and unaccountable deep state;
• the erosion of the Constitution, including proposals to abolish the Electoral College and pack the Supreme Court;
• a global elite attempting to erase national borders and enact a Great Reset.

You can learn of all of these attacks on your citizenship by enrolling in “American Citizenship and Its Decline” today by clicking the link below:

https://online.hillsdale.edu/register/american-citizenship-and-its-decline

I encourage you to join us in examining these grave challenges to our liberties and the American way of life, and how they may be recovered.


Best regards,

Kyle Murnen, ’09
Director of Online Learning
Hillsdale College