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
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 6th 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.
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