1852's Frederick Douglass informed me I am his fellow citizen under the U.S. Preamble and its articles

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom more than for the city.

A personal paraphrase of the June 21, 1788 preamble:  We the civic citizens of nine of the thirteen United States commit-to and trust-in the purpose and goals stated herein --- integrity, justice, collaboration, defense, prosperity, liberty, and perpetuity --- and to cultivate limited services to us by the USA. I want to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet would always preserve the original, 1787, text.   

Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_60e181e6-261d-11e8-a1fc-7bf804d2cd76.html)

The Advocate routinely sues fellow citizens for information, yet in a critical circumstance does not report the actual facts from history. Mitch Landrieu cannot recover from his silly ambitions, but The Advocate personnel can create a better future for themselves and fellow citizens.

African kings with their bitter global commodity, people, sold the commodity to five European kingdoms, competitively “authorized” by either the Church or factional Protestant churches to “colonize” the Americas. When settlers in America’s eastern seaboard realized they were being enslaved by England, they declared independence. Thomas Paine had, in 1775, castigated Christianity for its enslavement of Africans. Twelve years later, the people’s representatives of nine free and independent states established the USA. On June 21, 1788, the faction of We the People of the United States who accepted the preamble’s agreement did “ordain and establish” the world’s first constitution predicated on governance of, by, and for the people.

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass addressed the President of the United States and other participants with a statement that the preamble and constitution were meant for everyone, with the intentions that not only the slave trade but slavery would end. Moral independence would be personal rather than merely national. Douglass said, “There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”

But factional Christian ministers, especially in the south continued to tout African slavery as an institution of their God. In 1856, Robert E. Lee, against abolitionists and about God’s will, wrote to his wife about the slaves, “Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild & melting influence of Christianity, than the storms & tempests of fiery Controversy. This influence though slow is sure. The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to Convert but a small part of the human race, & even Christian nations, what gross errors still exist! While we see the Course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who Sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences ; & with whom two thousand years are but a single day.”

Lee seems to profess, in the negative, a “more erroneous religious belief” that its cited in the Declaration of Secession. The tribunal of We the People of the United States prevailed then and again in the civil rights acts of 1964-5.

The Advocate personnel deny their own opportunity and duty to inform citizens of the facts and are therefore complicit if not responsible for Landrieu’s folly.

The monuments should have been left intact with new brass plates embossed with the actual facts. They may be so restored; justice regarding We the People of the United States would be grateful.

2^nd Comment:  In 1788, some of We the People of the United States, in nine of thirteen states, agreed on the purpose and aims of the preamble, in order to ordain and establish the constitution for the USA. In 1791, the First Congress, the USA increasing to fourteen states, created and ratified the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom . . . of the press.”

The First Congress provided no caution against fake press. The Advocate personnel, among others, suffer 227 years of press irresponsibility.

Relief is suggested by two-thousand year old literature I paraphrase: you will discover the-objective-truth, and reporting the-objective-truth will set you free.

This responsibility holds for every human being: discover and understand the-objective-truth to set your individual free.

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Proverbs 11:2-4 CJB), The Advocate, March 13, 2018, 5B.

“First comes pride, then disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom. The integrity of the upright guides them, but the duplicity of the treacherous destroys them. On the day of wrath, wealth doesn’t help; but righteousness rescues from death.”

Dean, omitting V.3-4, says, “Don’t let pride ruin your day or your life.”

  

Dean reminds me of my youth. The community around Calvary Baptist Church professed to know what nobody has discovered. Mom and Dad were such good people I tried to mimic that way of living. But it bothered me to profess what I did not know.

Eventually, I honestly listened with integrity to my spouse, MWW. She is comforted-by and hopes-for dreams Mom and Dad disparaged. To appreciate MWW, I decided to accept what I do not know and even proclaim: I do not know what I do not know! The consequences are good. Without MWW, I do not think I would have discovered my person.

I oppose The Advocate personnel publishing Dean’s hubris. But I happily admit: I do not know the-objective-truth.

  

Letters

The civic agreement offered by the preamble (Gardes) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_51d1d63a-2611-11e8-9a7f-6b32ae1bcaa8.html)

I accepted Gardes’ recommendation and had trouble learning more than this is a factional-Christian effort (I did not sign-in or register). I clicked on “who’s behind it,” and saw Bobby Jindal’s smile. I voted against him every time I could and do not need to know more about Gardes’s project.

Also, I attended a presentation by Bryce Barras and Dale Clary. They had that old Christian hubris I’m so accustomed to. No way can the-objective-truth or the civic agreement that is offered in the preamble to the constitution for the USA prevent the woe of “knowledge.”

The Civil War helped some people discover hubris, some not. Beware!

   

 Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.