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.

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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.

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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.