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.