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Abraham Lincoln’s statement that “The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all in their separate capacities.” Nor does it fit well with Jefferson’s assertion in the Declaration of Independence that all men have the right to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” and “That to secure these, rights governments are instituted among men.” Jefferson, obviously, believed that it was all right to ask the government to do some things for the people, and even to establish a governor that could be asked.
The second part of the Kennedy statement (one not very different' from that made by Warren Harding at the Republican convention in 1916 when he said “we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it, and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.’) does not measure up well against the Declaration of Independence which does not wait for citizens to ask what they can do for the country but suggests they pledge their, “lives their fortunes, and their sacred honor.”
These early calls to commitment do not stand up well in a political age, when the draft, as a basis for military service, has been
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