What Does It Mean to You to Be a US Citizen?

I think that the three most important duties of the United States Citizens are to vote, pay taxes, and to obey authority. These three duties are a necessity to the functioning of the country as a whole.
The United States only functions with the citizen's help. Voting supplies the government with an overall opinion of who the people want. Without the voters of America the officials would be appointed within themselves. The government would be all powerful. Democracy is supposed to lay the power with the people. …