Goodbye "Today's Thought"

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 individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.



Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “We, a civic people of the united states, practice self-discipline for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, so as to encourage human liberty to the continuum of living citizens and to develop statutory justice in the USA.” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.



Selected theme from this week

The end of “Today’s Thought”?


I have long thought The Advocate editors performed a disservice by publishing G.E. Dean’s Bible commentary without balancing it with the-objective-truth. The-objective-truth is the ineluctable evidence that measures truth, actual truth, ultimate truth, whatever-God-is’s truth, etc. Humans cannot contrive or construct and can only discover the-objective-truth.


Hopefully, “Today’s Thought” on Page 5B, June 24, 2019 marks a milestone reform by the editors.

The June 24 quotation seems disjointed: “There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.” Proverbs 12:18. That’s KJV. I prefer CJB: “Idle talk can pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise can heal.”


Either way, I think Dean is arbitrary in his representation, “Make your words a blessing. Everyone needs a word of encouragement.” However, I agree that “blessing” means encouragement.


If discontinuing Dean’s opinions is a permanent change, I may hope The Advocate is entering a new age of encouraging responsible human liberty more than a dominant religious institution.

On the other hand, Mallard Fillmore cartoons seems a weak surrogate for religious conservatives and I expect complaints. Perhaps an opinions page with no daily fodder will be the ultimate outcome.


Did The Advocate decline to publish letters-to-the-editor that complained about the loss of “Today’s Thought?”

Letters

The Electoral College favors the people more than the state they are in (Paul J. Hogan) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_398c3bc0-9388-11e9-9427-b7538d543609.html)

Hogan’s idea if effected would diminish the power of the people to favor the states, and therefore I oppose it. The present arrangement represents the people by 81.4% and the states the people are in by 18.6%.

The Electoral College is configured to favor representation of people in the state more than the state, much as Congress itself is configured. There are 438 electors in proportion to population and 100 as 2 electors per state for a total of 538.

This country is established under the U.S. preamble’s proposition, a people’s proposition. The subject of the U.S. preamble is We the People of the United States who accept the proposition stated herein. In other words, citizens can be dissenters to the proposition. The proposition is:  Willing citizens collaborate to provide Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens.

The break from a confederation of states to voluntary civic discipline by individual citizens was controversial in 1787, established in 1788, and lessened by Congress in 1789. It is every living citizen’s opportunity to establish the civic, civil, and legal powers of the U.S. preamble’s proposition. Let’s collaborate for an achievable better future for our children, grandchildren and beyond.

Tariffs are neutral to the buyer when competing products are available (Bob Kumse) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_dd0a2f16-92c3-11e9-972c-a724f507c603.html)

Kumse makes a good point regarding shirts.



Technology theft seems the predominant point. For example, perhaps by stealing U.S. silicon wafer technology, the Chinese put American companies out of business. It may take some time to re-establish American or other foreign sources.

News

Writers for the press ought to be journaling the path by We the People of the United States toward civic integrity (Lea Skene) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_69e82aca-95f6-11e9-95d1-e37e08facb34.html)

In this local news story, Lea Skene expresses opposition to President Trump’s immigration policy. Thereby, she alienates herself and her employer, The Advocate, to the U.S. preamble’s proposition. In the USA, the U.S. preamble under the-objective-truth establish the standards for equity under the rule of law.

This story reports that both Mayor Sharon Weston Broome and Bishop Michael Duca are aliens to the civic, civil, and legal agreement that is offered fellow citizens in the U.S. preamble’s proposition. Broome advocates and enters the church-state partnership to impose on inhabitants of the city the objectives of that partnership.

Nothing in the U.S. preamble’s proposition authorizes the church-state partnership. American Bishops continue to favor themselves by advocating canon law to overthrow the U.S. preamble’s proposition. American Bishops thereby alienate themselves as fellow citizens with allegiance to the Vatican rather than We the People of the United States.

Fellow citizens who observed the U.S. preamble’s proposition but erred may reform. However, fellow citizens who have during their adult awareness opposed justice under the U.S. preamble’s proposition have no standing to reform. Such fellow citizens may confront their status as aliens to the U.S. preamble’s proposition and undergo a transformation of intentions for the remainder of their individual lifetime.

The U.S. preamble’s proposition does not advocate the proprietary political idea: separation of church and state. The U.S. preamble proposes 5 public provisions---Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---in order to encourage and approve of responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens. To the living individual, the proposition offers privacy in the responsible pursuit of personal motivation and inspiration, whether the individual chooses religious pursuits or not.

Tons of paper and ink have been spent on interpreting the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Contemplation of the 52 words and the proposition therein lessens the value of commentary. Each existing and aspiring citizen of the USA does well when he or she considers the U.S. preamble’s proposition and writes their own interpretation.

My current interpretation of the proposition is:  We, a civic people of the united states, practice self-discipline for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, so as to encourage human liberty to the continuum of living citizens and to develop statutory justice in the USA. My interpretation is for my living, and I want to collaborate to establish the 1788 U.S. preamble after 231 years of abuse by political regimes such as the U.S. unconstitutional Broome-Duca partnership in Baton Rouge.

To Camille David:

Punishing the library is a view I do not support. Without the library, our group, A Civic People of the United States would have no public place to meet.


I welcome Kenya dancers at the public library, because it provides the civic, civil, and legal forum to ask: If slavery is America's original sin does America's responsibility override Africa's commodity trade in human beings, the Arabic marketing of those slaves, and the western European purchases of human beings so as to colonize lands for God and His Son Jesus Christ?

Do the American citizens who plea for retribution look to the African sellers, Arabic dealers, and European purchasers?

Do most African-Americans seek to establish the U.S. preamble's proposition: responsible human liberty? I think they do, but cannot prove it.

Columns

Here’s a writer who seems to be reporting events; Does reporting or something else define “journalist?” (Byron York) https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-what-now-for-those-who-denied-a-crisis-at-the-border

The U.S. preamble calls for public collaboration to provide Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare in order to approve and encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens.

Provision of the five public institutions to posterity seems like conservatism. Encouragement of responsible liberty seems human. Is York a civic conservative and responsible liberal? Is he journaling the U.S. people’s seemingly regressed path toward responsible human liberty?

Whining without thought to cause and remedy (Cal Thomas) (https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/opinion/sulzberger-right-and-wrong.htm)

Unbridled power leads to corruption, and the U.S. First Amendment unconstitutionally assigns to the press absolute freedom. We know this by reading the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. preamble for short).

The U.S. preamble’s literal proposition is: “We the People of the United States” who agree to provide 5 public institutions---Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---accept the responsibility for human liberty to ourselves and future citizens. We hope by our example that dissident fellow citizens will reform.

Show me the writer for the media who claims to collaborate under the U.S. preamble’s proposition, and I will agree he or she is a journalist. I’m thinking of one candidate, but would need to hear it from him and his interpretation of the U.S. preamble rather than mine.

I propose to amend the First Amendment so as to hold writers for the media to the U.S. preamble’s civic, civil, and legal proposition.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-learn-civic-education-online?

First, decide what you mean by “civic.” By “civic” I mean committing to mutual, comprehensive safety and security to willing citizens from the moment of human awareness until loss of cognizance whether by death or by senility. Unhappily, some individuals never awaken to humanity.

What I pursue is discovery of 1) standards by which two people may collaborate to discover the best practices by which both parties may responsibly pursue the happiness each individual prefers rather than the dictates of the other, and 2) a statement of purpose both parties can agree to so as to order the civic, civil, and legal issues they will encounter as their lives unfold and end.

In my effort to understand, I study documents more than scholarly comment about the documents. People who read my essays from the latest to the earliest may notice a decline in reference to obsolete opinion. For example, I recently do not quote George Washington or Abraham Lincoln unless it is a public address.

I have no regard for the 1776 Declaration of Independence as a basis for civic studies, because I understand it as a vehicle for American colonial independence from England. Conservative scholars use it to preserve colonial-English psychology and leftist scholars use it to claim arbitrary “rights,” not necessarily human rights. Principal to the human is the right to develop integrity. Abraham Lincoln used the 1776 document to trump the Constitution for the USA.

I lead library meetings to present a public concern with well-grounded civic remedy then LISTEN to the audience so as to collaborate with them to 1) reach mutual understanding of the actual concern I tried to address and 2) collaborate for reform that accommodates collaborators’ responsible intentions. The audience has taught me that my goal is civic collaboration and discovery rather than civic education.

There is so much knowledge. Read avidly; write opinion about what you read; be flexible in your choices but rely on documents such as the preamble to the Constitution for the USA; always be true to your responsible individual-preferences; and accept that your body and mind will not discover your completed person until just before they stop functioning.



https://www.quora.com/Do-we-have-any-purpose-as-human-beings

To Jocelyne Steeves:

“Today both physicists and chemists agree with this. And religion has nothing to do with it.”

In my latest presentation someone walked out when I made an “absolute” statement, and I am trying to stop it! Stop Phil Beaver from writing absolutes! In this first example, “some” could be used rather than “both” to keep my listener from walking.

Also, “religion” may be used in broad application so as to avoid an absolute. For example, long ago, I committed-to and trusted-in the-objective-truth; that is, the ineluctable evidence on which truth is measured. I have no problem if someone calls my practice a religion, because I admit: I could be wrong to trust-in and commit-to the-objective-truth. I don’t think I am wrong and doubt my ability to discern that the-objective-truth controls all events: I don’t know.

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.

Inaugural Responsible Liberty Day

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 individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.



Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “We, a civic people of the united states, practice self-discipline for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, so as to encourage human liberty to the continuum of living citizens and to develop statutory justice in the USA.” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.

Note: in 2020, I came to realize that when liberty is interpreted as license to damage property or draw fellow-citizens' blood, I prefer my independence to either effectively object or leave. I perceive potential contradiction in the phrase "Responsible Liberty." Furthermore, I perceive that the U.S. Preamble is a proposition for human integrity rather than consigning responsibility to whatever-God-is. Therefore, the 2020 commemoration of June 21, 1788, when the people's representatives of 9 of 13 states ratified the U.S. Constitution to be amended to include a British-mimicking Bill of Rights, establishing the U.S. as a global nation. The U.S. Preamble's proposition for human integrity has never been sponsored by political regimes, leaving it to our generation to do so. PRB, 4/24/2020.

Selected theme from this week

Responsible Liberty Day

On June 21, 1788 people of the ninth required state ratified the 1787 U.S. Constitution, establishing the USA as a global nation and leaving 4 of the 13 eastern seaboard states yet free and independent according to their January 14, 1784 ratification of the 1783 Treaty of Paris.

The political decisions on the way to that June 21 registered 2/3 votes for a nation under a civic, civil, and legal agreement in the 52-word U.S. preamble’s proposition: willing citizens may collaborate for 5 public institutions so as to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens.

The 1/3 of the people who favored the “no” vote were dissidents for reasons they may or may not have understood. When the First Congress was seated in 1789 under eleven states, like adolescent parents, knew no better than to do what Mommy and Daddy did. They re-established many colonial-English traditions. (At the time, Louisiana was a former French colony under Spanish flag, and therefore was not part of the restoration of English traditions. France sold its territory in 1803, and Louisiana joined statehood in 1812.)

The U.S. preamble’s proposition is the people’s proposition. It invites the individual citizen to develop civic self-discipline so as to accept responsible liberty for his or her adult lifetime. Through collective self-discipline adults would hold their government accountable to themselves and their children, grandchildren, and beyond.

As we anticipate July 4, 2019, we understand more than ever before that “1776 national independence” is a balloon when 1788’s USA has in 231 years led to most citizens in dependency and USA children facing $22.4 trillion debt.

A Civic People of the United States collaborates for reform and just completed, with seven engaged participants, the world’s first Responsible Liberty Day (in the USA). We hope responsible human liberty will soon be so important to at least 2/3 of fellow citizens that a national holiday supplanting July 4 will emerge.

The display pages revised after the Responsible Liberty Day discussion are published on our Facebook Page, A Civic People of the United States as a PowerPoint video with the pause feature.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-contribute-to-society-and-make-it-a-better-place-starting-now



Study Maslow's hierarchy of needs (see Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia).

However, replace “needs” with “responsibilities.” Practice the self-discipline you observe from the exercise.

If your personal results are positive, develop the research to discover whether the change to “responsibility” enhances the utility of the concept.



Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.

Responsible Liberty Day event

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 individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.



Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “We, a civic people of the united states, practice self-discipline for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, so as to encourage human liberty to living citizens and to develop statutory justice in the USA.” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.



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D-Day and Flag Day are wonderful reminders of who we are and why we are. We are: We the People of the United States. As such, we have the option to collaborate under the agreement that is offered to justify the Constitution for the USA---the U.S. preamble’s proposition.


It seems there are three parts to the proposition. First, fellow citizens may consider whether they want to accept the U.S. preamble or not. Second, We the People of the United States has the civic, civil, and legal power to amend statutory law in the USA. Third, We the People of the United States collaborate to provide five public institutions---Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and welfare, in order to approve of an encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens.

We work to discover terms for living citizens and therefore express the 5 provisions for liberty as integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity.


Borrowing from Walter Williams (see below) people who ignore or hide the U.S. preamble’s proposition “have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty.”


These ideas may emerge more meaningful to local residents who attend our 6^th annual commemoration of USA establishment day, June 21, 1788, now called “Responsible Liberty Day.” The celebration and first meeting under this view of the U.S. preamble is scheduled for June 20, 7:00 PM, Bluebonnet Library, Baton Rouge. See “Event” on our Facebook Page, “A Civic People of the United States” for more information.


We hope in the future each June 21 will be national “Responsible Liberty Day.”


Columns


Slavery America’s original sin is claimed by arrogant people (Walter Williams) (https://blackcommunitynews.com/walter-williams-slavery-is-neither-strange-nor-peculiar/)


“The favorite leftist tool for the attack on our nation’s founding is that slavery was sanctioned. [V]ery ignorant people, both in and out of academia, want us to believe that slavery is unusual . . .”


Williams goes on to explain that slavery is a major practice in humankind’s psychological evolution. I think Williams is mistaken to attribute racial conflict to ignorance. Marxist movements founded on Alinsky-style “victimization” (AMO) know well the falsehoods in their organizers’ work. Leftists are canny and cunning rather than ignorant. By labelling them “ignorant,” Williams aids their cause.


Williams is neither journalist nor reporter but economist. He introduces the American issue: “It was only during the 17th century that the Atlantic slave trade began with Europeans assisted by Arabs and Africans.”


However, Williams skips the details of Africa’s process for producing its commodity: African slaves. Developing a commodity trade in human beings is strong evidence against the African and Arab branches of human evolution. Their urges for reform do not excuse European irresponsibility in the Atlantic slave trade. In this market there were producer, trader, and purchaser, each with commensurate guilt.


To examine this evidence that human evolution takes different geo-ethnic paths perhaps involves religion. Religion seems a struggle to develop mystery or reason or both in bemusing competition. For example, early evidence that exposure to the sun could be deadly seemed mysterious. Today, people spend hours in the sun for amusement with proper protection.


Many ancient cultures thought that the sun is God. Some advocated human sacrifice to bargain with God for favor. Both false mystery and erroneous reason ultimately surrender to the-objective-truth, the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured. All the cultures with erroneous principles may reform and tend to do so in time---as their evolution path unfolds. Slowly, mystery yields to discovery.

A religious particular from Europe is that Christianity, originating in Jewish theism in opposition to Arab geopolitical dominance, was imported to Rome. Emperor Constantine established Christianity to assimilate the pagan culture he ruled. No man or group of men can withstand the challenge of canonizing the word of God, but the Catholic Church took and maintains the hubris to claim that dreadful task. One of many of the Church’s woeful errors was adopting as New Testament “scripture” the idea that slavery was God’s plan for atonement of the sins of slave ancestors. In other words, if you are enslaved, it is hereditary, and you must accept your lot in life.

It would not surprise me if both some Arabs and some Africans consider the slave-master relationship valid when the slaves are Europeans. In other words, God is colored and ultimately intends slavery for white people. For all I know, that’s what compels African-American Christianity. My preferential theism is “God is red” because of indigenous appreciation for mystery grounded in actual reality.

In some aspects, the Old Testament, or Jewish Bible, is less mysterious than the New Testament. For example, even 4,000 years ago Jews thought naming God was woeful arrogance and still hold to that practice. Perhaps the Jews evolved to advocate mutual, comprehensive safety and security, hereafter “safe-keeping.” We label “civic” the ethnic groups who want statutory justice (statutory law that ineluctably results in just enforcement). Ethnic groups that simply want to dominate civic groups are dissidents to human responsibility.

Returning now to Christianity’s role in “conquering” North America, the British Empire became dominant in this land, and colonial-English traditions still bemuse the U.S. Constitution’s proposition: the U.S. preamble. Ignoring the modifiers the U.S. preamble’s proposition is:  Willing citizens collaborate for 5 public provisions---Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living individuals.

The mistakes made by our ancestors are important to living citizens only as evidence on which we may avoid woe. Fellow citizens who choose to collaborate under the U.S. preamble’s proposition using the-objective-truth (actual reality) practice individual happiness with civic integrity.

Williams concludes with a “hypothesis”: “[People who claim slavery as original American sin] have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty.” Not bad and expectable from an economist. I just wish it was based on the signers and ratifiers rather than whatever-the-founders-may-be.

(Posted on the above URL. It was taken down.)

Keep silent and be thought arrogant or speak and remove all doubt. (David Porter) https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_9bbaa7c6-8e03-11e9-9fc4-a34348c3c4ec.html

Walter Williams concluded, “[People who claim slavery is America’s original sin] have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty.”

Porter seems anxious to claim his contempt.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-US-need-an-equal-rights-amendment

No: the preamble to the U.S. Constitution is a proposition to each citizen for equal justice under human responsibility. Most citizens neither comprehend nor understand the proposition. Using the words in the preamble, willing citizens collaborate for Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and welfare so as to approve-of and encourage responsible human liberty.

For my personal ambition, I advocate for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity to encourage responsible liberty, but return to the original words for collaboration.

We hope to change the apathy. We plan perhaps the world’s first Responsible Liberty Day on June 20, 2019 at 7:00 PM at Bluebonnet Library, Baton Rouge, LA. We will discuss the U.S. preamble’s civic, civil and legal powers and propose that at least 2/3 of citizens use the U.S. preamble and the-objective-truth to hold governments accountable. There is an achievable better future.

The wonder of the USA is that under the U.S. preamble, citizens are free to be dissidents to the agreement for human justice. However, if they cause actually-real harm, they may face statutory law enforcement. The U.S. preamble’s proposition is to improve statutory law toward statutory justice.

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.

The politician as civic citizen

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 individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.



Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “We, a civic people of the united states, practice self-discipline for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, so as to encourage human liberty to living citizens and to develop statutory justice in the USA.” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.



Selected theme from this week

After perhaps the world’s first Responsible Liberty Day, a new era of qualifying for political office may begin. Candidates for elected or appointed office may perceive the need to offer evidence that they are civic citizens under the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. preamble).

The celebration is announced for June 20, 2019 at 7:00 PM at Bluebonnet Library; see https://www.facebook.com/events/332978470722765/. 


In the U.S., a civic citizen collaborates, under the U.S. preamble, for Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and welfare so as to accept individual responsible liberty. Fellow citizens who do not collaborate for civic integrity under the U.S. preamble suffer some privation and may not be elected in the immediately achievable better future.


I doubt even one U.S. Congressperson considers himself or herself a civic citizen under the U.S. preamble. A civic people can and may change the Congressional hubris. We will perceive the June 20 meeting was successful if just one candidate for Louisiana legislature or governor in the fall of 2019 gets the message and runs on the platform established by his or her civic citizenship as defined by the U.S. preamble.


Quora

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-proper-ways-to-be-governor

The question via email is “What are the top 10 tips to become governor?”

I cannot think beyond three tips as follows:

1.    State this or a similar interpretation of the U.S. preamble:  “a civic people collaborate for integrity, justice, peace, strength and prosperity so as to encourage individuals to accept human liberty.”

2.    Present the actually-real evidence that your past has conformed to the above proposition.

3.    Be prepared to cheerfully respond to lies against your statements.

If there are no viable candidates, aspiring fellow citizens may begin this moment to reform. A civic people know responsible human liberty when it appears and are forgiving.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-life-s-saddest-truth

Each human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity. With good coaching and encouragement, it takes a human about three decades to accept responsible human liberty.

However, extant cultures teach their children to seek a higher power. Consequently, most humans pass their lives never discovering integrity.

I do not know the-objective-truth, by which truth is judged, so can only claim this is my opinion.



https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-right-to-life-and-personal-liberty

Since the days of the Roosevelts there has been an increasing, erroneous political claim to rights when the really actual human opportunity is responsibility. The political correctness of “rights” is intermingled with the human error, innocent or not, of representing personal opinion as the word of whatever-God-is.

In 2019, we are informed that the human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity. Tragically, ignorance and destiny prevent many individuals from discovering integrity, and they honestly progress to a chronological end without the chance for psychological maturity. Sometimes, individual infidelity even banality begs woe and early death.

“Honestly” is appropriate, because most people follow the practices of their culture and seek a higher power. Few really trust government, but many erroneously expect whatever-God-is to deliver justice.

We were informed by the Greeks 2400 years ago that humans may develop justice under the rule of law. The infamous Declaration of Independence from England confused the human responsibility in the Greek thought with the opinion, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

This sentence is part of a boast by the British colonies (self-styled states) that the British Empire would not continue to oppress colonial Americans. It, together with “Nature’s God” boils down to a military challenge: our God will defeat your God. The American “Creator” and “Nature’s God” would defeat England God of the Anglican Church. However, French military and strategy was predominate in their battle at Yorktown, VA in 1781; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-French_Wars. Consequently, the eastern-seaboard states’ treaty with England is called “the 1783 Treaty of Paris.”

The eastern seaboard states could not survive as a confederacy, and 12 of them met in May, 1787, to specify a global nation. On September 8, 1787, the 55 delegates authorized a five man Committee of Style to gather the results of the convention into a document for signature. The five men issued a preamble which I interpret for my life as follows:  We, a civic people of the united states, practice self-discipline for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, so as to encourage human liberty to living citizens and develop statutory justice in the USA. My words are for collaboration with fellow citizens, but after mutual considerations, my wish is to always return to the original U.S. preamble.

The U.S. preamble’s proposition seems: civic citizens accept their HIPEA to collaborate for public institutions that provide freedom-from oppression so as to encourage the liberty-to responsibly develop individual happiness rather than submit to the dreams of another entity.

I suspect that James Madison and Rufus King wanted to invoke whatever-God-is, but the other three preferred their personal Gods and would neither compromise nor yield. The consequence is a statement that encourages self-discipline as necessary for human liberty.

I know of no better expression that life is an individual opportunity and liberty is a mutual responsibility. I invite readers to write their own interpretations of the U.S. preamble’s proposition for individual citizens.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-example-of-too-much-government

U.S. history provides a good example of government imposition on a people who intended freedom-from oppression so as to take the human liberty-to pursue happiness rather than submit to the plans of governments or gods. The oppressor in this saga is the British empire together with the Catholic Church squabbles. So it’s a Chapter XI Machiavellian example: a church-state partnership to pick the people’s pockets with neither rebellion nor emigration.

Briefly, in 1215 the king agreed that the Catholic Church and the Lords would reign over the people. In 1454 and 1493, the pope authorized Portugal and Spain, respectively to “discover” the Americas and import slaves on the global market to assist in conquering the lands. England became Protestant in 1689 Bill of Rights. England dominated the Atlantic slave trade with Africa from 1640 to 1807. Colonial British Americans perceived they were being enslaved and rebelled after the 1765 Stamp Act.

In 1774, farmer-militia liberated Worcester, MA and the British never returned. The 13 British colonies (on the eastern seaboard) organized as the Continental Congress. Nova Scotia was controversially considered and French Catholicism there was an issue. In 1781, substantially aided by France’s ongoing war with England, America won independence at Yorktown, VA. The 13 named states were globally free and independent according to the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Shays’ rebellion in 1786 made the Confederation seem too weak.

The 1787 constitutional congress delivered its 4 months’ work to the Committee of Style, and those five men wrote the U.S. preamble’s propositions: 1) self-discipline of by and for the people so as to keep their respective states and a national government accountable and 2) willing citizens collaborating for Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare so as to encourage each other and dissidents to the agreement to accept human liberty. Only 2/3 of the states’ delegates signed the 1787 Constitution, some of the dissidents wanting to preserve the Confederation of States rather than agree to a Union of the people in their states.

James Madison, a member of the Committee of Style, became a politician in the First Congress and imposed on the people national freedom of religion, which re-established the church-state partnership that was traditional in the states and is constitutional in England. The First Amendment must be amended to protect the human duty of civic integrity rather than the business institution called church.

The Bill of Rights itself was a case of government overreaching the sentence on which a country was founded. When U.S. law does not conform to the propositions in the U.S. preamble, the law will eventually be amended. The religion clauses in the First Amendment provides an outstanding illustration of government oppressing its own citizens.

America’s psychological independence from colonial-British influences is yet to be addressed, unless one counts this essay and others as part of the reform.

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.

From mystery's abyss to the-objective-truth

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 individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.



Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “We a civic people of the united states, in order to encourage individual responsibility for integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity so as to secure human liberty for now and for the future, pursue statutory justice in the USA..” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.



Selected theme from this week

Has the Catholic Church used mysterious spiritualism to prey on believers for 1700 years? I do not know, but have an opinion: it’s only an extension of what went on before 1700 years ago. For example, during the era of the sun gods, human sacrifice was common. Sometimes the priests opined they needed protein even if in moderation. However the question can be extended to: how long will political power persist on the mystery of whatever-God-is? The mystery is a human construct based on the actual reality that whatever, if anything, controls the unfolding of events is not known---if such a control exists above chaos. The mystery arises from the temporal lack of discovery, which is lessening.

People in 2019 are asking (see News, below), “What would fill the void if the institutional church was removed from the public square?” I assume they are not asking, how would priests may develop their human appetites without people who will subjugate themselves and children whose curiosity is hazardous and younger children who have no clue as to what is happening to them. Chinese sex dolls and other toys are in the news, but don’t offer social contact. Artificial intelligence could partially fill the gap.

Just as human emotions can be invoked by hope and comfort in a mysterious God, people can be motivated by benefits from discovery of the-objective-truth. For example, the person who discovers that life is better when he or she does not initiate harm to another may next learn that likewise, life is better when they do not tolerate harm from other people. And unless physical harm will accrue, their intolerance can be verbal or written objection to the other party’s intentions. The demise of institutional religion offers focus on the-objective-truth, which ultimately prevails.

Perhaps the world is witnessing the church abyss and on the other side is the ascension on the-objective-truth.

News

The church-state partnership was exposed as Chapter XI Machiavellianism in “The Prince,” 1513 (Vanessa Gera, AP) (https://www.apnews.com/8fbab7877b7844b39e2e257f114c8a4a)

“. . . ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski had described discussion about clerical abuse as a “brutal attack” on the church.”

“Some wonder if Poland, which is already being reshaped by economic growth and secularization, could eventually follow Ireland, where the abuse crisis broke the Catholic Church’s hold on society.”

Rafal Suszek said, “. . . nobody has a clear-cut idea about how to deal with the void that would inevitably come about when you remove the institutional church from the public sphere.”

I suggest collaboration to discover the-objective-truth respecting responsible human liberty. Under ineluctable evidence, any individual’s responsible pursuits of hope and comfort in the face of inevitable death is harmless to fellow citizens.

There could be a world-wide termination of Chapter XI Machiavellianism.

Columns

Institutional propaganda (Jay Lapeyre and Gregory Rusovich (https://www.theadvocate.com/article_f56200b6-7cac-11e9-aaba-1780ec1900b9.html)

“America was founded on the ideal of individual liberty — the moral and inspiring idea that we are each an end in ourselves with the moral right and responsibility to make the best of our lives. After two centuries of progress, America explicitly claims and aspires to equal individual rights for all individuals.”

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution has two neglected propositions: 1) good people in their states authorized and now hold a Union of states accountable and 2) willing people accept the responsibility to perpetually provide the integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity required for human liberty.

The present generation has created debt to the next generation that threatens if not prevents freedom-from oppression. The Lapeyre and Rosovich view of “individual liberty . . . an end in ourselves” omits the U.S. premble’s proposition: responsible human liberty to children, grandchildren, and beyond.

I hope New Orleans businessmen and others read this and where needed reform to responsible fellow citizens.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/How-will-the-world-be-a-better-place-ten-years-from-now?

More people will be publicly collaborating for integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity so as to mutually encourage responsible human liberty under the-objective-truth.



I write this assertion because I promote the proposal and think individuals listen and act on it.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-realistically-make-the-world-a-better-place-for-future-generations?

If humankind has been developing awareness and grammar for 2.8 million years, perhaps 14,000 generations have left to us the privilege of initiating an achievable better future. In other words, our generation may create a step change in civic integrity that alters humankind’s path. I think we will do the impossible. We express that view with Responsible Liberty Day, 2019.

The key is human education and there are two essential elements under which there are myriads of issues subject to human collaboration (not cooperation, subjugation, submission, or worship). The first is a civic citizen’s individual agreement to collaborate for statutory justice or responsible human liberty. The second is for civic citizens to collectively discover the-objective-truth; that is, discover the ineluctable evidence on which truth is measured. Not everyone will volunteer, so there will remain the need for statutory law and its enforcement. Between nations, there may be skirmishes if not wars.

In the USA, each citizen has the opportunity to collaborate for statutory justice using the U.S. preamble’s propositions: 1) willing citizens in their states develop the self-discipline needed to hold their local, state, and federal governments accountable, and 2) each citizen collaborates to provide five institutions against oppression so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens in perpetuity. In other words, collaborate for freedom-from oppression so as to practice the liberty-to pursue individual happiness rather than suffer institutional impositions. The five public provisions are, verbatim to be always preserved, Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare and, in my interpretation to be collaborated for me, integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity.

This June 20 at 7:00 PM at Bluebonnet Regional Branch Library, Baton Rouge, LA, we are celebrating the June 21, 1788 ratification of the U.S. preamble’s propositions (along with the rest of the 1787 U.S. Constitution) as perhaps the world’s first Responsible Liberty Day. We will also mention the-objective-truth. The public is invited. Thus, we think realistic action is underway.

 https://www.quora.com/Is-working-for-a-collective-cause-better-than-individual-freedom

Each human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either appetites or integrity. Only the human species has the awareness and grammar with which to develop responsible liberty. In responsible liberty, a person neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person. With HIPEA, he or she employs grammar to resist harm unless self-defense is demanded.

Most individuals view mutual, comprehensive safety and security as freedom-from oppression so as to provide the liberty-to pursue preferred happiness rather than submit to someone else’s vision.

Other

https://fee.org/articles/why-the-pledge-of-allegiance-is-un-american/?fbclid=IwAR3bgDe0LXu21cJ6aIMiAO_npHf9LlpHw5ro9ILTuFRtePLUPVN1BOqdAdY

Join A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana education association for our sixth annual celebration of June 21, 1788, the day the people of the ninth (required) state ratified the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Prevalent, even in its fading neglect is the 52-word proposition, the U.S. preamble. I doubt there is a place for a pledge of allegiance in a civic culture under the U.S. preamble.
 
Perhaps the world's first Responsible Liberty Day celebration is scheduled for 7:00 PM until 8:45 PM on June 20, 2019 at Bluebonnet Regional Library, 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70810. See our Facebook page, A Civic People of the United States, for more information.
 
Learn how we observed that the U.S. preamble's literal proposition is:  Willing fellow citizens collaborate for public Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare so as to encourage responsible human liberty. For living civic citizens we prefer collaboration for integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity to encourage responsible liberty yet would always preserve the original 52 words.

Fellow citizens who oppose the literal U.S. preamble do not accept responsible human liberty, one way or another. Some think crime pays, perhaps to face statutory law enforcement. Some cannot combine Tranquility and liberty in the privacy of their individual religion. Some have divided allegiance. The U.S. preamble's propositions divide citizens into civic groups and dissident groups. 
 Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.