Ray, Obviously a resident of the United States of America is some one who resides in the country, be it on the park bench or in a MC-Mansion and requires no address according to the State by State Voter Laws and Registration rules listed on: ... [url].
re-s·i·dent
Pronunciation:
\ˈre-zə-dənt, ˈrez-dənt, ˈre-zə-ˌdent\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin resident-, residens, present participle ofresidēre
Date:
14th century
1 a: living in a place for some length of time : residing b: serving in a regular or full-time capacity <theresident engineer for a highway department> ; also : being in residence2: present , inherent3: not migratory <resident species>
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Thank you, Mr. Webster... or is it Funk and Wagnell these days.
May I recommend some mid Autumn reading? "Starship Troopers"--Robert A. Heinlein---Nov. 1959
entire wiki artical...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers
Brief political synopsis...
Politics
Starship Troopers is a political essay as well as a novel. Large portions of the book take place in classrooms, with Rico and other characters engaged in debates with their History and Moral Philosophy teachers, who are often thought to be speaking in Heinlein's voice. The overall theme of the book is that social responsibility requires being prepared to make individual sacrifice. Heinlein's Terran Federation is a limited democracy with aspects of a meritocracy based on willingness to sacrifice in the common interest. Suffrage belongs only to those willing to serve their society by two years of volunteer Federal Service — "the franchise is today limited to discharged veterans", (ch. XII), instead of anyone "...who is 18 years old and has a body temperature near 37°C"[15] The Federation is required to find a place for anyone who desires to serve, regardless of his skill or aptitude.
There is an explicitly-made contrast to the democracies of the 20th century, which according to the novel, collapsed because "people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted... and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears."[16] Indeed, Colonel Dubois criticizes as unrealistic the famous U.S. Declaration of Independence guarantees concerning "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". No one can stop anyone from pursuing happiness, but life and liberty are said to only exist if they are deliberately sought and paid for.
Starship Troopers is also widely-regarded as a vehicle for Heinlein's anti-communist views, best summed up by Rico's (and his Federation's) belief that "correct morals arise from knowing what man is—not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be."[17] Characters attack Karl Marx (a "pompous fraud"), the Labor theory of value ("All the work one cares to add will not turn a mud pie into an apple tart...")[18], and Plato's The Republic ("ant-like communism" and "weird in the extreme").[19]
