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Time for a Renaissance of American Public Service

America has no shortage of critics. What it increasingly lacks are American citizens willing to step forward and serve. 

A republic cannot survive indefinitely as a spectator sport, with millions of people shouting from the sidelines while expecting someone else to defend the country, administer justice, strengthen the community, and preserve the institutions on which freedom depends. 

Self-government requires more than opinions. It requires participation. 

Yet the habits of active citizenship remain disturbingly weak. In the 2024 presidential election, just 65.3% of the citizen voting-age population cast a ballot. Only 28.3% of Americans formally volunteered through an organization in 2023. And according to the Defense Department, just 11% of young people ages 16 to 21 say they are likely to serve in the military in the next few years. 

Jury duty, meanwhile, is often treated not as a privilege of citizenship but as an inconvenience to be avoided. 

This is not because Americans are selfish or unpatriotic. But we have created a culture in which citizenship is treated as something one possesses rather than practices. 

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We speak endlessly about rights and benefits, but far less about duties and sacrifice. That imbalance erodes the habits a free society depends on. 

The Founders understood that no Constitution, however brilliantly designed, could sustain liberty without civic virtue. Institutions matter, but........

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