Three ways a citizen can become an active participants in their government first you must reach a certain requirement to become a citizen. Step one have a parent who was citizen at the time of you birth date. Then you must have your naturalization complete and turned in. now that you have gotten all of that out the way you move on in to next process. Which is becoming a participant in our government the people participate in politics in many ways thats if they want to of course. They can write a Representative or Senator, or work in for a candidate or political party. They also can an contribution to our government to get on the level to participate. Its very good how everything dealing with the government is a solid basic structure built for the people to follow. There is no going around it at all its either you go by it or just dont even bother at it at all.