What is an American?

The most consistent method of identifying Americans as a people is to examine their history. Americans trace their values and ideals to those detailed in their founding documents.

This nation sprang forth from Britain, gaining independence in the late 1700s. The Founding Fathers created a country in the hope that its people would never be subject to the oppression they faced when under British rule. To ensure this, they established a flexible government structure.

The Bill of Rights enables and ageless quality of the Constitution, ensuring that today's Americans have their guns, their free speech, worship, and right to revolt. The average American holds firmly to the rights to vote, to influence governmental affairs. S/he is proud of our fundamental government structure; our rights to privacy and a fair and speedy trial. If nothing else, Americans are rights-oriented to the core. They feel entitled to free education, freedom to travel, and to live. Americans become agitated as governmental transparency blurs and federal officials ignore the public will which initially placed them in office. That is the face of the average modern American.