Mission: Prepare Waukesha County citizens for civic engagement through education about government function at the city, county, and state levels. Our Citizen Information Forum seeks to inspire Waukesha citizens with renewed appreciation for our unique American citizenship.
ABOUT CITIZEN INFORMATION FORUM
- Promotes the importance of rights and responsibilities unique to citizens.
- Provides local civics education to students, young professionals and adults seeking to understand our government.
- Alerts citizens about what opponents of freedom are doing to undermine local autonomy.
- Encourages citizens to increase their civic engagement particularly by voting in local elections.
- We've recently held Forum events for Circuit Court Judge Branch 4, Waukesha County District Attorney, and on other issues.
What’s special about citizenship?
Citizenship refers to legally belonging to a country and having the rights and responsibilities that come with it. We have laws about property rights and more that are fundamental to citizenship and a nation’s borders. Citizenship carries a military obligation to protect those borders with an element of loyalty and community further safeguarding property.
What’s unique about American citizenship?
In America, anyone who takes the citizenship test and oath of allegiance to the United States is a citizen. America is based on ideas not ethnicity. American government exists to protect the natural, God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to all citizens.
What are the political rights of citizens?
Citizenship affords people the authority with which they can vote, hold elected office, or sit on a jury. Citizens have significant power and authority.
How do we exercise citizenship?
Citizens must be virtuous, vigilant and vote. Many Americans have abdicated the practice of good citizenship. In some local elections, only 20% of registered voters participate. Some local elected officials are being determined by less than 20% of the voting-eligible citizens!