IT'S ABOUT CITIZENSHIP...Not Membership: Why Natives, Strangers, Immigrants and Foreigners Hate Citizens With Citizenship Rights, Privileges & Duty of Loyalty With Honor!

THE COST & PRICE OF CITIZENSHIP: THE ROMAN EMPIRE MODEL

 (By War & Fatherhood Lineage)

The cost and price of greatness are the price and cost of that greatness. Our current US President Donald J. Trump is a recipient of receiving citizenship via the naturalization process where his Grandfather immigrated from Germany to America without a direct; or indirect cost. But due to someone within the Bureau of Immigration having mercy on his father's family. Women were not able to give children their citizenship up until the late Child Citizensh\ip Act of 2001 passed by the U.S. Congress. We should all know by now that Germany started two World Wars; and lost two World Wars due to their evil, immoral, and wicked ideology of racial supremacy and their hatred of their Germania tribes being destroyed from generation-to-generation by the LORD of Hosts. First by the Roman empire due to their citizenship concepts being based upon faithfulness and loyalty principles-not ideology or selfless philosophies. The second extinction came by the hand of the Russian empire. 

The Germania tribes converted to Judiami (a sect of law); and began claiming themselves Jews, but they were never Jews. History has its purpose and intent in our everyday lives if we learn the lessons with wisdom, insight, foresight, and hindsight. the citizen does not pay a direct; or indirect cost for citizenship. 

HOW DID DONALD J. TRUMP GRANDFATHER ACQUIRE CITIZENSHIP?

Just a reminder to my audience Frederick Trump migrated to America around 1910-18; and not 1865 as the news media and news outlets now claim. The information has changed; which is very sad at its roots. Whenever anyone starts hiding or concealing the truth-there is something more at the foundation.  Mr. Clayborn did a research paper on Donald J.Trump’s family and specifically around 2017; specifically because of his German heritage; always study the history and the foundation of our evil, wicked and immoral adversaries who use ethnicities as a conduit to cause division among brothers and countrymen. History can repeat itself if lessons are not learned.  

CITIZEN SOLDIERS

Foreign-born members of the armed forces in WWI did not gain citizenship through military service alone. However, to encourage immigrant enlistments and to naturalize servicemen before they shipped out, Congress passed laws to expedite military naturalizations.

Under the Act of May 9, 1918, service members only needed proof of enlistment and testimony from two witnesses to naturalize. The law exempted them from having five years of U.S. residency, filing a declaration (or “first papers”), speaking English, and taking history and civics exams. Since soldiers were often stationed far from home, they could become citizens in any naturalization court. To speed up soldier naturalizations, the Bureau of Naturalization dispatched examiners to military bases and enlisted volunteer attorneys and hastily-trained servicemen as temporary examiners. Often, judges traveled to bases to hold large, open-air naturalization ceremonies. Under this system, a foreign-born soldier could become a citizen in just

one day.

After the war, Congress passed a series of laws extending most of the benefits of military naturalization to veterans. Eventually, more than 300,000 soldiers

and veterans of WWI became U.S. citizens under these laws. Again, the purpose and intent of writing this passage are to show that freedom, liberty has a cost and the bearer of citizenship should honor the cost and price for that citizenship-especially when no cost or price has been paid.

THE HISTORY CHANNEL'S SPECIAL “The Trump’s Family Immigrant Story.

• Trump’s international origins make him relatively unusual among American presidents. Of the last 10 presidents, only two—Trump and Barack Obama—have had a parent born outside of the United States. Trump’s own immediate family has been similarly international: Two of his three wives were naturalized American citizens, originally from the Czech Republic and Slovenia. Only one of his five children, Tiffany, is the child of two American-born citizens, while his daughter, Ivanka, is the first Jewish member of the First Family in American history. But so far as his biographers have been able to tell, none of his international roots extends to Sweden.

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS & AFRICAN-AMERICAN FATHERS WERE NOT FOOLS. OUR ANCESTORS WERE NOT HOMOSEXUALS AND HONORED THE GOD INSIDE THE BIBLE AND OUTSIDE THE BIBLE WITH ACTIONS. 

Peter Salem – African American Patriot and African-American Founding Father who fought for freedom during the American Revolutionary War

Peter Salem, a slave who was freed to fight in his master’s militia, is credited for stepping forward at a critical point in the Battle of Bunker Hill outside Boston in 1775; he fired the shot that killed British Royal Marine Major John Pitcairn. At the time of the battle, Salem was already a veteran who had stood in defiance with the Framingham militia at Concord Bridge two months earlier. 

Mr. Salem continued to serve in Colonel Nixon’s regiment, seeing action in the New York City Campaign and several major battles throughout the war, including pivotal battles at Saratoga, NY – the 19th of September and the 7th of October, 1777.  He was also present at the Battle of Stony Point, July 15-16, 1779, a midnight assault on a British garrison about ten miles south of West Point on the Hudson River.

Peter Salem was born a slave; but died a freeman along with his children in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1750; his birthday is still celebrated in Framingham on October 1st. Some earlier scholars report that Salem fought as a slave in Belknap’s regiment. 

• My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;  because you have rejected knowledge,  I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God,  I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6 

• You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. Leviticus 18:22

ROMAN EMPIRE & THE KINGDOM OF GOD’S CONCEPT OF CITIZENSHIP

“Dominion, Power & Honor”

Citizenship in ancient Rome (Latin: civitas) was a privileged political and legal status afforded to individuals and their families with respect to laws, property, and governance. A male Roman citizen enjoyed a wide range of privileges and protections defined in detail by the Roman state.

Citizenship simplified and improved Romans’ everyday lives in different ways. It also offered protection. When Gaius Verres, the governor of Sicily was on trial for extortion in 70 B.C., the orator and lawyer Cicero, acting as prosecutor, appealed to the rights inherent in citizenship to strengthen his case against the governor. Cicero described the severe punishments Verres had inflicted on a prisoner, despite the victim repeatedly insisting that he was a Roman citizen, a status that should have protected him from torture. So persuasive were Cicero’s arguments against Verres that he was exiled.

Rights and responsibilities

Picture of the letters SPQR, which stand for Senatus populusque Romanus

The letters SPQR stand for Senatus populusque Romanus (”The Senate and the People of Rome”), the basis of the Roman Republic.

Citizenship has its roots in Rome’s deep past. In the sixth century B.C., Rome passed from a monarchy to a republic with power residing in the Senate and the People of Rome. The acronym SPQR stands for Senatus populusque Romanus and can be seen emblazoned on many Roman structures built during the Republic as a sign of pride in the duties of civic life.

Roman men had the right to vote and also bore serious responsibilities: They should be prepared to die, if necessary, in the service of Rome. This connection between rights and responsibilities created the concept of Roman citizenship, known in Latin as a civitas, which would expand and change over the rise and fall of Rome.

In practice, the plebeians (the general citizenry) had fewer voting rights than the aristocratic patricians. But the principle that a man of modest means could regard himself as much a Roman citizen as an aristocratic landowner was a powerful one. It helped to forge a sense of unity and Roman identity.

• In ancient Rome, citizenship was the path to power. From the Republic to the Empire, civitas—full Roman citizenship—was prized by those who had it and coveted by those who did not.

Roman citizenship was a complex concept that varied according to one’s gender, parentage, and social status. Full citizenship could only be claimed by males. A child born of a legitimate union between citizen father and mother would acquire citizenship at birth. In theory, freeborn Roman women were regarded as Roman citizens; in practice, however, they could not hold office or vote, activities considered key aspects of citizenship.

OUR CITIZENSHIP BY BIBLICAL MANDATE: THE BIBLE &

 THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

Citizenship - The use of this term in Scripture has exclusive reference to the usages of the Roman empire. The privilege of Roman citizenship was originally acquired in various ways, as by purchase, (Acts 22:28) by military services, by favor or by manumission. The right once obtained descended to a man's children. (Acts 22:28) Among the privileges attached to citizenship, we may note that a man could not be bound or imprisoned without a formal trial, (Acts 22:29) still less be scourged. (Acts 16:37) Cic. In Verr. V. 63,66. Another privilege attaching to citizenship was the appeal from a provincial tribunal to the emperor in Rome. (Acts 25:11).

• The tribune answered, “I bought this citizenship for a large sum.” Paul said, “But I was born a citizen.”  So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him instantly; and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him. Acts 22:28-29

•  So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

~Ephesians 2:19

BEING SUBJECT TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES &

 THE US SENATE: BOTH HOUSES OF GOVERNMENT CREATE BALANCE OF POWER

• Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For the same reason, you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. Romans 13: 1-7

POWER HONORS AUTHORITY & AUTHORITY HONORS POWER = BALANCE

•  that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.  Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. John 5:23-24

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