Human integrity

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: “Willing citizens collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.” 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

Human integrity. Many events and the articles I commented on this week motivated the phrase “human integrity” in an interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition. It enabled the phrase “to provide freedom-from oppression so that the individual may accept the liberty-to develop . . .” See the comments on Walter Williams’ work, below.

I think “human integrity” expresses humankind’s understanding as actual reality unfolds. Actual reality or the-objective-truth exists and can only be discovered, comprehended, and utilized by humankind. Human action can change a train of events, but the consequences unfold according to the-objective-truth.

We observe the consequences of Congressional lies and are inspired by human integrity that is precious to the USA and beyond. The power of the actor in the U.S. preamble, We the People of the United States, is awesome. Imagine what it would be if more citizens interpreted it so as to collaborate, communicate, and connect for responsible human liberty.  

News

Religious cosmopolitanism inferior to civic integrity  (Adelle M. Banks) (https://religionnews.com/2019/07/23/most-americans-can-define-atheists-easter-dont-know-us-share-of-muslims-jews/)

In civic integrity, the language of religion is known to be divisive, and therefore civic citizens choose to develop jargon that defuses the emotions that cause conflict, exclusion, enmity, and violence.

Consider the mystery of “whatever-God-is.” No human knows and no human has ever known the answer to the riddle: Does anything other than chaos control the universe and its discovery? Yet individuals routinely use the term “God” to justify self-righteousness so as to separate-from and perhaps conflict-with other people.

This survey used narrow criteria to define “atheist.” I regard it as “areligious.” Further, it’s someone who prefers not to possess a God so as to admit to himself or herself not knowing. That is, someone who accepts human humility rather than claims “divine” knowledge.

The survey-designer’s preferred answer was, “Does NOT believe in God.” Thereby, the designer denied the non-believer the human humility to accept that whatever-God-is knows the riddle, and the non-believer need-not, should-not take a stand against whatever-God-is.  With the possibility “Does NOT believe in whatever-God-is” the definition of “atheist” could be more accurately considered. Whatever-God-is could judge any human who claims to know God as atheist; it depends on whether or not the believer’s God conforms to whatever-God-is, even if God is Maxwell’s Hamiltonian chaos.

With a culture of civic integrity, fellow citizens could freely explore the mystery of whatever-God-is without psychological or physical violence. On the other hand, the mystery cannot be restrained by reason, so private pursuit of hope and comfort respecting death seems preferable. I feel that developing civic integrity while I am living is preferable to seeking relief from death. After all, neither my ovum nor my spermatozoon sought relief from life.

Readers who cannot grasp this writing might consider responsible human liberty under the U.S. preamble’s proposition. It proposes an achievable better future.

Note: posted at the above URL. However, they blocked it.

A great USA-redemption story (Scott Rabalais) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_806630d0-acd0-11e9-946c-878f74fe001d.html)

The Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf story recalls the people’s continuing opportunity for civic integrity. It all depends on the outcome of the mystery presented in Rabalais’ report:  Will the name associated with LSU’s retirement of “35” be accepted by most of the people? “Whatever name he picks, it will be a memorable night [in the USA] when his banner goes up.”

As a young man, Abdul-Rauf accepted human-individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop personal integrity rather than submit to dominant opinion. The majority, shocked by Abdul-Rauf’s religious preference, eventually rejected basketball-fun such as the videos in https://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/25/5544920/mahmoud-abdul-rauf-nuggets-national-anthem.  

We can hear some of Abdul-Rauf’s HIPEA in his voice and image at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAotAfvcgSo. He (typically) seems to dedicate his HIPEA to the mystery of whatever-God-is. The failed intention of the USA is to keep religion preference private.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution expresses 5 public provisions to support responsible human liberty. The 1787 nouns are Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare in order to encourage Liberty to living citizens. Each living citizen may interpret these nouns so as to accommodate the HIPEA he or she is developing. My respective interpretations for my life-development are integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity. With the 6^th noun, liberty, the mystery of whatever-God-is is included in the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

My personal God is private, because I do not know the-objective-truth about the mystery of whatever-God-is, and I am loathed to influence someone else’s development of religious integrity. However, I agree with the authors of the U.S. preamble:  Pursuit of the mystery of whatever-God-is is neither a civic, a civil, nor a legal matter. It is an erroneous sports matter, and that can be reformed.

Moreover, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution may be reformed so as to defend civic integrity rather than the institution of religion. The U.S. preamble’s silence on “religion” is sufficient, and Abdul-Rauf’s story encourages that reform.





Opinion

Social-democracy assimilation (The Advocate editors) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_47ce84f8-aa4a-11e9-a8e1-431c27b95631.html)

It takes Obama-like or Hillary-like or squad-of-four-like or John-Bel-Edwards-like audacity to try to turn human vulnerability about expected or actual flooding into Democratic nobility. The editors arbitrarily pretend that “deplorable” conservatives and Republicans deride government officials who work natural and human disasters. Shame on The Advocate!

Human vulnerability does not equate to “common humanity.” Every individual has the opportunity to accept responsible human liberty---civic integrity. Some choose integrity: some prefer infidelity. On that choice, humans divide themselves. Democrats seem to favor infidelity to the-objective-truth.

The Advocate editors, arbitrary victims of liberal democracy, seem vulnerable to freedom of the press. Will they discover responsible human liberty? It is proposed in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

Lowry glossary (Rich Lowry) (https://lacrossetribune.com/opinion/columnists/rich-lowry-ilhan-omar-is-completely-assimilated/article_57071101-3ec0-5a38-a216-6247eb63b6d6.html)

Lowry’s writing could have an attached glossary (like mine for promotethepreamble.blogspot.com).

A difference is that Lowry’s phrases, like “woke” are explained online. See Merriam-Webster’s “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).”

I use a glossary to explain my use of words that have many nuances in political discussion. For example, “civic,” defined in my glossary found by googling “A Civic People” + glossary, means “iterative collaboration, communication, and connection during every decade of life in order to provide mutual, comprehensive safety and security as essential, both to the public and to private hopes.”

I work to discover expressions that foster civic integrity (both wholeness and understanding). Social groups use identity jargon that helps them collaborate while keeping fellow citizens out of communication so that public connection is not possible. It’s much like 2 people in a group of 3 speaking Greek or French when the other party speaks only English.

I seek words and phrases which eliminate doubt as to what I am expressing, so that the person who cares to understand can know what I intended to convey. For example, if I speak “the-objective-truth,” I add the phrase “has two hyphens so that the reader cannot separate the three words so as to misconstrue my reference.” The-objective-truth is the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured.

I take it a step further, and modify the glossary when, through collaboration, I discover a better expression. Public collaboration may lead to a stable glossary that reflects the experiences and observations of most people.

Human integrity (Walter Williams) (http://jewishworldreview. com/cols/williams072419.php3)

I appreciate and admire Williams’ writing and perspective, yet have perceived something un-helpful about it. Perhaps this particular essay and my own work to develop civic integrity sheds some light. Perhaps it explores identity politics.

My newspaper captioned Williams’ column “Black community must tackle crime problems.” That’s consistent with Williams’ theme that only the black community can solve problems like internal vigilantism and inter-family emotions. With that much, I agree. But there’s more, as everybody knows.

This winter, the sixth with our public meetings to promote national application of the U.S. preamble’s civic, civil, and legal proposition, the collective collaboration created this interpretation:  Willing citizens collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 institutions: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity. The purpose is to provide freedom-from oppression so that the individual may accept the liberty-to develop human integrity---accept responsible humanity. (That is the first time I expressed the U.S. preamble’s modern proposition that way. I normally focus on responsible human liberty with civic integrity.)

What if Williams started encouraging communities to accept responsible human liberty?

Note: an earlier version of this comment is posted at the above URL.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-equality-equity-and-justice?

Assuming you are referring to comparative status of a human individual, starting with Merriam-Webster online (MW), and trying to stay with first definitions, we have:

Equality:  “the quality or state of being equal.” Further, “equal” first means “of the same measure, quantity, amount, or number as another.”

Equity: “justice according to natural law or right.” Natural law means “a body of law or a specific principle held to be derived from nature and binding upon human society in the absence of or in addition to positive law.” Positive law means “law established or recognized by governmental authority.” Right means “qualities (such as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval.” In this paragraph, “held to be” implies “equity” is a matter of opinion or a political standard.

Justice: “the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments.” Impartial means “not partial or biased: treating or affecting all equally.”

If you feel I have constructed a dilemma, I look forward to your aid to establish civic collaboration, communication, and connection. Leaving MW, I will express my opinion.

I think the dilemma is discovering the human standards for determining equality, equity, or justice.

If so, we may consider what standards humans should pursue, using not MW but words and phrases that may be developed for communication so as to connect people rather than to divide using dominant opinion. Hereafter, I express my opinion, because I neither know the-objective-truth nor can claim the benefit of comprehensive civic collaboration.

I assert that the applicable standard is: what humankind has discovered and applied about the-objective-truth. “The-objective-truth” is the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured. For example, the MW definition of “justice” is circular to the word “impartial.” An impartial settlement of “conflicting claims” conforms to the-objective-truth. “Evidence-based” can be statistically designed to conflict with ineluctable evidence and may be rejected when it conflicts with the-objective-truth.

Further to “equality” is the question of when human life begins. If fellow citizens consider personhood from the emergence of a viable ovum, each ovum is unique---unequal. Similarly, no two spermatozoon are equal. Therefore, it is not feasible for living adults to offer much less provide individuals equality. Each person has origins and develops from feral infant to young adult with individual understanding and intent to either live a full life of nearly a century or not. The young adult who, either by encouragement or by fortune, accepts individual human power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity toward the-objective-truth may psychologically mature faster than the adolescent or adult who nourishes infidelity. Consequences will differ---will not be equal but may be equitable and just according to the-objective-truth.

Further to “equity” is the consideration of “positive law.” Just government offers citizens a civic agreement on which the individual may collaborate, communicate, and connect with fellow citizens to pursue freedom-from oppression so as to accept the human liberty-to pursue personal happiness rather than submit to someone else’s plan for the individual’s life. In the USA, the civic agreement is proposed in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. On that sentence, fellow citizens divide into two groups: civic citizens and dissidents. Aliens are not of We the People of the United States and may have an equal or better civic agreement, but I doubt that, neglected as the U.S. preamble’s proposition may be.

Further to justice, humankind is on an ineluctable path toward fidelity to the-objective-truth. The sooner governments legislate so as to amend unjust laws according to the impartiality of the-objective-truth, the better. The alternative is chaos, which is being nourished by the U.S. Congress as I write.



https://www.quora.com/What-cultural-norms-were-acceptable-in-past-societies-but-are-inappropriate-or-shunned-in-modern-societies

Attempting to impose a religious belief on the public.

An exception is made in Congress. Perhaps that is one reason congress members have the highest sum of “low” plus “very low” public esteem among 20 professions. Their total is 58% vs 44% for car sales persons and 15% for clergy! See https://news.gallup.com/poll/1654/honesty-ethics-professions.aspx .

https://www.quora.com/What-in-your-opinion-is-the-most-innapropriate-backwards-disgusting-or-immoral-tradition-held-by-any-society-you-can-think-of

Christianity’s belief that if you don’t agree with their doctrine you hate whatever-God-is, even though Christians, unbelievably unawares, only agree that the whatever-God-is is a mystery. See John 15:18-23 CJB or NIV.

There’s an alternative view that seems plausible: Whatever-God-is hates hate and punishes haters.

Second is Christian snake-handling that orphans children.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-a-good-civics-book-to-read-for-a-teenager

I don’t recommend a book, but you might consider books by Eric Foner; https://www.amazon.com/Books-Eric-Foner/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AEric+Foner .

Scholars write to influence the people. For example, Abraham Lincoln, perceiving the U.S. Constitution did not empower him to, encourage emancipation of the slaves invoked the Declaration of Independence (DoI). Many Americans still think the DoI influenced the U.S. Constitution. Even the U.S. Supreme Court does not accept the legal standing of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. On the preamble, the people’s representatives of 9 of 13 states legally terminated the 1774 Confederation of States.

For a survey of civic education, consider https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civic-education/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/republicanism/ . Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civics has a list of further sources.

A federal view of “civics” is expressed in U.S. naturalization advice. See https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learners/study-test and https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Office%20of%20Citizenship/Citizenship%20Resource%20Center%20Site/Publications/PDFs/test_components.pdf. For federal, biased studies, see http://loc.gov/teachers/civics-interactives/.

I recommend the student find a pertinent guideline to documents and focus on comprehending the documents rather than books with opinions about the documents. For example, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp and https://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=false&page=milestone.

Also, creatively use timelines to discover pertinent documents of interest. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Timelines_of_United_States_history_by_period. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_the_United_States, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Christianity.

Learning sources like these would help a teenager establish human individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to protect his or her freedom-from oppression so as to have the liberty-to pursue individual happiness with civic integrity for his or her lifetime. Freedom-from oppression so as to have the liberty-to pursue personal preferences is as essential to one’s life as working for the preferred quality of food.


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.

An achievable better future

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: “Willing citizens collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.” 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

Fellow citizens can achieve a better future by collaborating, communicating, and connecting to use the U.S. preamble’s proposition with the-objective-truth. We request people who get this message share it exponentially.


Discovery of the interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition as responsible human liberty inspired us to reach out to everyone we can to convey the message. Willing citizens collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.


We reached out in different ways to the public, to Metro-Council members especially my Councilwoman, Barbara Freiberg, to Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, to the Louisiana Black Legislative Caucus, and to our U.S. Senators for Louisiana, Bill Cassidy, M.D. and John Kennedy. We’ll reach out to others when the opportunities appear.


News

Writers for the clergy deserve lower appreciation than journalists (Yonat Shimron) https://religionnews.com/2019/07/16/new-poll-shows-growing-view-that-clergy-are-irrelevant/

This writing is more prejudiced than most I have read: “doctors, teachers, members of the military — even scientists — are viewed more positively than clergy.” Pseudoscientists are suspect, but STEM employees like engineers, while fallible, collaborate for civic integrity.

Moreover, the professions listed in the Gallup poll did not include STEM, so I don’t know what data Shimron used to comment “even scientists.” See https://news.gallup.com/poll/1654/Honesty-Ethics-Professions.aspx.

In the Gallup poll, by the sum of “low” and “very low” public opinion, among the 20 occupations, rankings were clergy 8, journalists 16, and members of congress 20. Inclusion of STEM occupations would not aid journalists and members of congress to move from lowest appreciation.



Quora

https://www.quora.com/What-states-have-the-most-catching-up-to-do-in-terms-of-LGBTQ-rights-and-equality

The US Supreme Court erroneously has not accepted that the preamble to the US Constitution, on July 21, 1788, legally changed the form of government from a confederation of states with colonial-British traditions to a people’s proposition for responsible human liberty in the USA. The U.S. preamble is a civic, civil, and legal proposition by We the People of the United States who accept it.

Interpret the U.S. preamble as your opportunity to enter into a civic agreement for individual equity under the continual pursuit of statutory justice. That is, under statutory law that continually discovers injustice under dominant opinion and amends the law so as to establish fidelity to the-objective-truth. Here is my latest interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition: Willing citizens collaborate to provide 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.

Rather than accept the religious conviction “life begins at conception,” consider the ovum waiting to be born. Each ovum has the dignity and equity under which the he-or-she to be conceived will be cared-for by the man and woman who supplied the gametes until feral infant develops to either accept or reject young adulthood. Adult contracts that breach this human responsibility deny the zygote dignity and equity.

I speculate that either New York or Oregon or California is the state with the least appreciation for the dignity and equity due the human ovum.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-we-should-spend-time-and-efforts-on-reparations

I think people should collaborate, communicate, and connect with priorities for their lifetimes of perhaps 45 prime years more than causes for societies, institutions, nations, and other timeless encroach-ers.

First in priority for the individual is responsible human liberty. The practice of encouraging responsible liberty seems a sign of a well-developed human being.

Second is discovery of a standard of responsibility that is verified by most human experiences and observations. Collaboration to discover and apply the-objective-truth seems a sign of a well-developed human being.

Third is willingness to collaborate, communicate, and connect with fellow citizens. Fidelity to the-objective-truth seems a sign of a human being who practices civic integrity.

With these considerations I am inclined to ask if the individual who proposes reparation thinks paying money to fellow citizens would encourage responsible human liberty, fidelity to the-objective-truth, and civic integrity. If the response was “Yes” I’d ask for reasons.

I hope my response expressed, “Yes, I do.”

Law professors

https://www.lawliberty.org/2017/04/07/god-talk-and-americans-belief-in-inalienable-rights/#comment-1763198

IndianaJoe,


I appreciate this Thursday throwback to my year-ago opinions. Moreover, I appreciate your concern, evidence, and conclusion, ” the servants of the people rule over their masters as gods.”
In my jargon, intended to lessen the gods’ ability to bemuse the people, “[Freedom-from tyranny and liberty-to develop civic integrity] in America is a myth.”

Also, three opinions have emerged in the last year.

First, France won America’s physical but not psychological independence from England in 1781 at Yorktown, VA. The 13 eastern-seaboard states ratified their statuses as free and independent states in 1784 by ratifying the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The 39 signers of 55 delegates codified the preamble to the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Nine of 13 free and independent states made the U.S. preamble’s proposition civic, civil, and legal, ending the confederation of 13 states and establishing the USA as a federalism under the civic citizens in their states. The U.S. preamble defines civic citizens as those who accept the U.S. preamble’s proposition. The 1/3 of dissidents among the delegates and among the states had their reasons, and a substantial one was preservation of colonial-British traditions. The dissidents prevailed in the First Congress, beginning with eleven states, by re-instituting many colonial-British institutions in defiance of the U.S. preamble’s proposition. In summary, 2019 Americans have the opportunity to reform colonial-British tradition to the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

Second, “consent of the governed” seems a 1453 German idea (Nicolas Cusanus) which John Locke advanced in 1690. Locke smoothed submission or subjugation by partnering human tyranny with the mystery of whatever-God-is using the softer word, “consent,” as though the enslaved had made a choice. Nicolo Machiavelli in 1513 had explained the irony of priest-politician-pocket-picking under a people’s bemusement in a God. See The Prince, Chapter XI. Americans can choose the U.S. preamble’s proposition and retire colonial-British tradition as tyranny.

Third, we encourage every citizen to interpret the U.S. preamble’s proposition so as to develop confidence in their personal journey toward individual happiness with civic integrity. My latest interpretation is: Willing citizens collaborate to provide 5 public institutions—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people. Religion, a private option is absorbed into the actual U.S. preamble’s Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare to secure responsible human liberty. Americans can encourage each individual to pursue civic integrity rather than preserve religion’s institutional freedom.

Subjugation to institutional religious freedom (1791) rather than approval-of and encouragement-to responsible human liberty (1788) seems America’s most egregious colonial-British tradition.

To John Schmeeckle: 

Thank you for your comment. I am especially grateful for your attention to Wilson.

We are addressing past agreements-in-opinion that I oppose: Nicholas of Cusa’s 1453 opinion that “all the experts agreed” to [tyranny by consent of the enslaved], John Locke’s 1690 English impositions founded in the mystery of whatever-God-is, and James Wilson 1791 support of “consent.” I also oppose James Madison’s 1785 arrogance about whatever-God-is.

Wilson appropriately claimed integrity without infallibility. Perhaps Chisholm v Georgia (1793) changed his thinking so as to favor the 1787 propositions of “We the People of the United States” more than English law.

I need not refer to Wilson to make my case that our generation’s opportunity is to accelerate the U.S. psychological reform from colonial-British traditions, such as “consent of the governed” and freedom of religion instead of encouragement to develop civic integrity as fidelity to the-objective-truth.

The fact remains that the preamble to the U.S. Constitution is a proposal to the living people to join We the People of the United States in order to publicly provide Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare so as to encourage responsible individual Liberty to living citizens. The first Congress, 1789-1793 obfuscated the U.S. preamble’s proposition by reconstituting as much of colonial-British tradition as they could, and We the People of the United States suffered the consequence.

Nevertheless, civic citizens of the past, the “We the People of the United States,” who, aware or not, collaborated, communicated, and connected under the U.S. preamble’s proposition, did so to encourage Liberty “to ourselves and our Posterity.”

I think I have known people who were aware but could not articulate the essence of the U.S. preamble’s proposition. Further, I think some of them were awed by the ultimate future under the U.S. preamble’s proposition for civic integrity. I count my dad—who considered many societies, supported some, and always tried to act with civic integrity—among those people. I miss my sister, Dona Bean, who might corroborate my claim.

In 2019, the “ourselves” is us and “Posterity” is our children, grandchildren, and beyond as well as legal immigrants. Our generation is the 12th or 13th since 2/3 of the delegates to the constitutional convention signed the preamble and its amendable articles. We the People of the United States may have begun at 2/3 of property owners and declined in percentage ever since, wounded by the first Congress.

It is past time to render obsolete the colonial-British traditions that hinder We the People of the United States in its ineluctable path toward statutory justice under the U.S. preamble’s proposition and the ineluctable evidences I refer to as the-objective-truth.

You and many other writers in this forum have the knowledge to accelerate the reform from 230 years of false “consent of the governed” to civic integrity under the U.S. preamble’s proposition and the-objective-truth. With your commitment, the needed reform could happen in a matter of years rather than decades.

https://www.lawliberty.org/liberty-forum/abandoning-originalism-wouldnt-be-very-conservative/



To consider the U.S. Constitution for personal citizenship, first understand the U.S. preamble's proposition to living people.



We encourage every aspiring citizen to continually interpret the U.S. preamble’s proposition so as to accommodate responsible, personal-life preferences and state their interpretation to the people for consideration.



Here is my latest interpretation:  Willing citizens collaborate to provide 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people. Nowhere does the citizens’ proposition seek to preserve colonial-English traditions such as Protestantism or unanimous jury verdicts.



In 1774 the eastern-seaboard, British colonies called themselves states, in a confederacy, and declared war against England. In 1784, they ratified the 1783 Treaty of Paris, accepting their global statuses as 13 free and independent states. On June 21, 1788, the people’s representatives of the 9 required states ratified the preamble to the U.S. Constitution with its articles and provisions for amendment. They legally changed the former confederacy of states to a union of willing people---civic citizens---in their states. We look forward to the day the U.S. Supreme Court accepts that the U.S. preamble is a civic, civil, and legal people’s proposition:  Civic citizens collaborate for equity under statutory justice.



Meanwhile, civic citizens can hold elected and appointed officials accountable to the U.S. preamble’s proposition. We may elect or appoint officials who are of the preamble’s We the People of the United States. Then we will observe that most Americans are psychologically independent of colonial-English tradition. Conservatism can then aid in the discovery of the-objective-truth rather than develop new scholarly preservation of Aristotle and Burke.



The writers in this forum are the best candidates for reform from English colonialism to the U.S. preamble’s proposition under the-objective-truth.



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https://www.facebook.com/AyaanHirsiAli/ on WSJ’s, Can Ilhan Omar Overcome . . .

I am sensitive to "Perhaps it was my loss of religious faith" and am interested in why you chose the noun "loss." More vital to the topic is clarification of what it means to be a civic citizen in the USA.





Your statement prompted me to review my perception that I discovered my trust-in and commitment-to the-objective-truth. That is, the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured. I appreciate my wife for helping me discover myself.





I was reared East Tennessee Southern Baptist and tried for 5 decades to force my person to adopt Mom's and Dad's religious faiths. Each was Southern Baptist according to competitive views, mostly developed from "wives submit yourselves . . ."





During the latter two decades, I experienced worship in Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches and learned to appreciate my wife's faith for her without abandoning my faith for me.





I fell in love with a Louisiana French-Catholic woman and, anticipating our 6th decade of marriage, articulate that her serene confidence attracted and sustains me. She practices responsible human liberty.





Through her (and fidelity to myself) I discovered the person I was from my earliest decade of awareness. From my earliest years, I developed faith in the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. It cannot be constructed by human intelligence.





Because I do not know the-objective-truth about the mystery of whatever-God-is, I do not question my wife's faith. Likewise, individual religious faith does not enter my guess as to whether a fellow citizen collaborates for responsible human liberty under the preamble to the U.S. Constitution or not.





However, my interpretation of the U.S. preamble's proposition is important to me, and I want to collaborate with fellow citizens to improve my view. My interpretation just now is: Wiling citizens collaborate for 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.





It is a people's proposition, and on it, U.S. residents divide themselves: civic citizens, dissidents, and aliens. When elected or appointed officials do not portray themselves as members of We the People of the Unites States under the U.S. preamble's proposition, it is up to the civic people to un-elect or fire the official.
  

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.

Pretentious Today’s Thought returns

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 Advocate restored G.E. Dean’s daily dribble in defiance of the whatever-God-is mystery after a one-week trial.

Did the editors respond to a flood of subscription cancellations or to a few letters-to-the-editor?

Eternity can wait forever for reform so as to appreciate whatever-God-is without pretense or defiance. But living people’s lives are too short for anyone to impose mysteries on them.

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Submission to anything but the-objective-truth seems irresponsible (Christopher Simon) (https://www.bethanyclipper.com/wp-content/grand-media/application/111418EntireEdition.pdf, Page 4)

Accepting individual, responsible human liberty is a personal challenge. Human performance requires integrity---the practice of discovering the-objective-truth; discovering the benefits of fidelity to the-objective-truth; behaving accordingly; when asked, sharing the reasons for your behavior; listening to the other person to perhaps learn a way to improve your behavior; and being alert for new discovery that demands change.

Simon writes, “. . . giving our lives over to a higher power and trusting that God will take care of us.” This mysterious bargain seems inconsistent with human experience and observations. The human, uniquely among the living species, has higher power.

The vagueness of the bargain---giving to a higher power and trusting God---seems unreliable. Yet that is the bargain religion offers:  By giving to a church you can trust a mysterious God. It’s another church of whatever-God-is.

Each human has the individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth. Personal HIPEA cannot be consigned to another. That does not mean a human cannot hope for whatever he or she imagines. However, relying on a church’s mystery may be denying whatever-God-is. And resulting behavior may conflict with human responsibility to appreciate peace.

So far, history informs human beings that whatever-God-is does not relieve humankind of the responsibility to establish peace on earth. Accepting responsible human liberty requires the individual to neither initiate nor tolerate infidelity to or from any person or association of people.

Submission to a mystery seems no substitute for acceptance of HIPEA so as to individually collaborate for responsible human liberty---publically providing peace in this world.



Exposing official dribble about whatever-God-is (Hobby Lobby) (The Advocate, July 4, 2019, Page 7A, full page ad)

Some Americans have always been enthralled with the Bible as the word. But Bible-thumpers protect themselves from the hate passages.

The most obscure hate-passage I’ve found is John 15:18-23. It accuses me of hate, since I am not one that whatever-God-is (is that Jesus?) gave to Jesus. Online lists of hate in the Bible omit John 15:18-23.

Hobby Lobby quotes Thomas Jefferson but may not admit:  Jefferson omitted John 15:18-23 from the cut-and-paste Jefferson Bible. It’s a common practice.

News

Illegal allegiance to a foreign nation (Lea Skene) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_a8956a0a-a0f8-11e9-a3f4-d3d79f961dbe.htm)



U.S. citizens have the opportunity to collaborate for actual equity under statutory justice. The people develop statutory justice by reforming statutory law each time they discover injustice.

Dissidents and aliens oppose the march toward statutory justice. However, when they cause harm, even in moderation, they may suffer statutory law. It seems the USA Catholic Bishops are reluctantly transitioning toward statutory justice regarding sex-abuse in moderation. The bishops and the people who defend canon law rather than U.S. law are aliens for the Vatican City State against We the People of the United States.

In the USA, the civic, civil, and legal proposition under which fellow citizens collaborate for statutory justice is the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. The proposition states, in my interpretation: willing fellow citizens collaborate for five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the living people. We, a Louisiana civic-collaboration corporation called “A Civic People of the United States,” advocate a more civic, civil, and legal interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

Moreover, we collaborate for at least 2/3 of fellow citizens to establish individual civic power derived from five ineluctable evidences: 1) fellow citizens may encourage the feral infant, during his or her three-decades’ transition to adolescent person, to develop integrity; 2) integrity requires understanding then fidelity to the-objective-truth; 3) the young adult who accepted his or her human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) tends to choose integrity rather than infidelity; 4) U.S. citizens may collaborate for justice under the U.S. preamble’s proposition; and 5) humankind might benefit from the USA’s reform to its founding sentence, the U.S. preamble.

The political reform can accelerate. Dissidents and aliens separate themselves on the U.S. preamble’s proposition. It takes millennia if the clergy reforms, so there’s no religious hope for today’s affected infants and adolescents. But there’s hope for most elected officials to be fellow citizens.

Perhaps this message will go viral so as to affect this fall’s elections. Perhaps candidates will state their interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition and present evidence of their past collaborations for responsible human liberty.





Columns

In a culture, who assimilates: legal immigrants or existing citizens? (Michael Gerson) (https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheright/michaelgerson/s-2227299)

Gerson seems to erroneously think the USA is established by the President rather than a civic people under a people’s proposition.

The U.S. preamble’s proposition allows people including government officials to divide into three groups: civic citizens, dissident citizens, and aliens. The civic citizens, We the People of the United States, collaborate to provide 5 public institutions---Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to the living people. Dissidents who cause harm may face the fellow citizens’ opportunity to reform; murderers and traitors could face execution. Aliens who cause harm may be deported.

A person who aspires to citizenship has the responsibility to consider the U.S. preamble’s proposition. If he or she applies for citizenship, the commitment to assimilate accrues to them. Civic citizens encourage immigrants to assimilate under the U.S. preamble’s proposition. However, civic citizens, We the People of the United States, are under no obligations beyond Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, Welfare, and responsible liberty. No president can change the people’s proposition.

Comment published at the above URL.

What “principles of liberty,” Dr. Williams? (Walter Williams) (http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams071019.php3)

Dr. Williams focuses on vital civic issues. Humans may choose to collaborate for equity under statutory justice. That is, statutory law that is ultimately just. In other words perfect legislation. Since perfection is unattainable, the worthy practice is to observe statutory law while collaborating for improvement. Certain speech is outlawed, such as false expressions that create panic in public places.

In any nation, the people are divided into three parts: those who agree, those who disagree, and aliens. In a nation that has a constitution, the political agreement is usually offered in the preamble. The USA is perhaps unique in the world, because the U.S. preamble is a people’s proposition. It legally replaced a confederation of states with a union of people in their states. In the USA, the civic, the civil, and the legal rules must ultimately conform to the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

Aliens who do not aspire to be U.S. citizens need-not but might benefit-from considering the proposition. Citizens are obliged to consider and comprehend the people’s proposition. Only 52 words, it is perhaps the world’s greatest political sentence. Being 232 years old, it is advantageous to study and interpret it for personal guidance during an individual’s one chance at life. My interpretation follows, below.

The U.S. people’s proposition:  We civic fellow U.S. citizens collaborate to provide 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living people. (I interpreted the 5 actual public institutions: Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare.) Citizens who do not practice the proposition may consider personal reform while they speak to improve the proposition.

My interpretation continually changes and I think improves. This latest version allows both dissidents to the agreement and aliens to comprehend “principles of liberty” that are humanly motivating. The proposition is neglected by all but a civic people according to their interpretations. We work to increase We the People of the United States to at least 2/3 majority of fellow citizens and to pursue statutory justice under the-objective-truth rather than subjected to arbitrary political opinion.

No one knows the ultimate consequence of the 1787 U.S. Constitution. A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana civic-collaboration corporation works to establish We the People of the United States according to the U.S. preamble’s proposition and the-objective-truth.

This comment and another posted under the URL above.



Fool hearty “justice as fairness” (The Advocate editors) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_e5cb7a8e-9f4c-11e9-9e37-370ce68f0c07.html)

This editorial’s phrase, “fairness to rule” comes from a deeply entrenched failure in civic integrity. A viable political regime is grounded in "justice to rule." Let's see how deep this argument can be.

1.    It takes three decades of encouragement for a human individual to acquire the understanding and intent to choose to develop integrity rather than nourish infidelity toward a standard.

2.    A key to adulthood is accepting human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to choose to develop integrity in order to pursue responsible human liberty.

3.    The standard by which human integrity is judged is fidelity to the-objective-truth, the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured.

4.    A group of humans will divide between those who trust-in and commit-to collaboration, communication, and connection in order to provide freedom-from arbitrary oppression so that individuals have the liberty-to choose fidelity to the-objective-truth. It’s a division between willing, civic citizens and dissidents including aliens. The consequence is a civic culture, more or less powerful, depending on whether the dissidents are in the majority or not.

5.    In order to encourage individuals during the period from infancy through adolescence to develop in less than three decades or beyond the understanding and intent to choose fidelity to the-objective-truth, the culture maintains a journal of discovery and re-discovery of the-objective-truth. For example, discovery that the earth is like a gravity-controlled globe unleashed world-exploration that had been suppressed for fear of falling off a flat earth’s edge. Imagination is included in the journal so as to enhance the adolescent’s understanding. For example, the mystery of whatever-God-is establishes the appropriate awe and uncertainty for the integrity to admit to self:  I do not know what I do not know; for example, I cannot inform whatever-God-is about God. This does not imply that a human has not the HIPEA to hope for a God.

6.    Empowered by its journal of the path toward the-objective-truth, the civic culture provides the adolescent citizen opportunity to accept responsible human liberty. For example, there may be a statement of purpose, such as:  In order to develop responsible human liberty we civic citizens behave for individual equity under the rule of law.

7.    The human being is so physically and psychologically powerful (through HIPEA) that some groups choose infidelity toward the-objective-truth. For example, some individuals think crime pays. For this reason, there will always be enforcement of statutory law, and the civic culture gradually reforms unjust law so as to approach statutory justice. Justice is absolute fidelity to the-objective-truth: perfection, a worthy goal yet an evolving object from the human perspective.

8.    In the USA, each existing or aspiring citizen may adopt the proposition that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. On the U.S. preamble’s proposition inhabitants divide as in Item 4, above: civic citizens, dissident fellow citizens, and aliens. Each of these three groups has a particular perspective regarding statutory law enforcement. Within the groups there are many particular opinions and practices. Some dissidents arbitrarily label justice “unfairness” in a political fallacy that can’t survive. Some aliens want to overthrow the rule of law. Elites manipulate the proposition so as to perceive control of fellow citizens’ losses and misery. The U.S. preamble’s proposition requires appreciation for the-objective-truth and does not work on elite reasoning.

9.    When fellow citizens refer to scholarly ideas whose authors acknowledge that the ideas have flaws, they may act out of ignorance, yet are not innocent. They merely expose their failure to accept HIPEA. Therefore, they have not done the work to discover the fallacies. John Rawls’ attempt to portray justice as fairness is a well-researched yet popular political correctness among self-styled “progressives.” Apparently, The Advocate editors tolerate Rawls’ admittedly failed sophistry. Google “contractarianism+Rawls” to learn the Rawls apologetics that are available to The Advocate editors.

I hope The Advocate will reform, and first the editors must admit to themselves that they are not doing the work HIPEA demands.



“Today’s Thought” (G. E. Dean through The Advocate editors)

Relief from “Today’s Thought” was short lived. I first noticed the Dean-dribble return on July 8.

Then, Dean observed that before whatever-God-is I am more than a raven. Perhaps a flock of loud doubters made the short-term decision for The Advocate’s business. It’s been working for a long time.

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Humankind may accept that each individual has human power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to choose to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth. Nations may encourage new citizens from infancy through adolescence to develop integrity.

I have studied the opportunity which is offered in the USA. The preamble to the U.S. Constitution is a people’s proposition that each aspiring citizen may interpret, accept, and collaborate for, or not. My interpretation follows:

We civic fellow U.S. citizens collaborate to provide 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living people. (I interpreted the 5 actual public institutions: Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare.) Citizens who do not practice the proposition may consider personal reform while they speak to improve the proposition. Aliens may aspire to join We the People of the United States.

By collaborating for the 5 public institutions with the-objective-truth as standard for equity, there may emerge attention to a common desire: mutual, comprehensive safety and security. With freedom-from arbitrary oppression, each individual may discover the liberty-to responsibly pursue individual happiness rather than the dictates of another.

We work to persuade at least 2/3 of U.S. fellow citizens to adopt the U.S. preamble’s proposition with the-objective-truth as standard for equity. (There will always be a few people who use HIPEA for infidelity.) Acceleration of interest could reform the USA to a civic culture rather than the preservation of colonial-British traditions quickly. With the people of the USA collaborating for responsible human liberty, the concept might catch on in 2/3 of the rest of the world.

https://www.quora.com/Which-roles-should-the-government-and-the-civil-society-play-to-make-a-development-project-successful

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution offers this proposition:  We the People of the United States collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions---Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living individuals.

Under the U.S. preamble’s proposition, inhabitants separate into three groups: civic citizens, dissident fellow citizens, and aliens. Since some inhabitants choose dissidence or are aliens, the civic citizens collaborate to provide the 5 institutions under statutory law. Moreover, as the civic citizens discover injustice, they amend statutory law so as to pursue statutory justice.

With 2/3 of U.S. inhabitants collaborating for equity under the U.S. preamble’s proposition, the USA can achieve a better future---pursuit of individual happiness with civic integrity rather than competition for dominance. With the USA’s example, the rest of the world may also choose to develop statutory justice.

A civic culture begins with individuals choosing freedom-from oppression under the 5 public institutions (or better) so as to encourage the human individual liberty-to choose integrity to the-objective-truth rather than develop, nourish, and satisfy appetites.

These ideas are developed on our blog, promotethepreamble.blogspot. com. Fellow citizens are encouraged to spend ½ hour per month getting acquainted with the ideas. Also, we manage a Facebook Page, A Civic People of the United States.

https://www.quora.com/What-advice-do-you-have-for-every-individual-to-make-the-world-a-better-place

Each person may accept the human individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity to the-objective-truth rather than infidelity.

To Clayton Burns

I like this advice with one caveat: recognize your limitations. If a scholar’s ideas don’t make sense to you, set them aside for another time. Perhaps your view will change so as to rekindle your interest. However, it’s more likely that the scholar wrote nonsense.

Let me illustrate with an example. Plato’s “Symposium” records opinions about love according to over 10 philosophers. Only one speech rings true to me, and that is the speech by Agathon. After 20 years’ contemplation, his speech informs me to neither initiate nor to tolerate harm to or from any person or god.

I doubt another human being would interpret Agathon’s speech as I do. However, my interpretation seems a key principle for living under responsible human liberty. I share my interpretation for a selfish reason: I want other people to consider it and offer improvements for me to consider and adopt.



Law professors

https://www.quora.com/May-God-with-integrity-practice-infidelity-and-abuse/answer/Simon-Binks-2/comment/73410777?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=3250589111  from last week

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Blog 7/9/19

President Trump seems prepared (intending and well advised) to defy the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the census question: Are you a U.S. citizen?





I would be the last person on the block to claim that President Trump does not understand the U.S. preamble's proposition. I would like to learn from his interpretation as a fellow citizen. Moreover, I'd like to know yours.





Judicial review is picking the people's pockets and only a civic people can restrain the courts when judges deviate from the people's proposition that is stated in the U.S. preamble.



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https://promotethepreamble.blogspot.com/2017/07/traitorsor-victims-walter-williams.html

Phil Beaver July 8, 2019 at 10:46 PM

Mr. Korkus, I apologize for missing your post for so long. My writing has improved, I think, because I stopped referencing scholarly opinion so as to write only what I propose for civic collaboration.

In my sixth year inviting civic meetings at libraries, a recent consequence is an interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution: willing citizens collaborate for five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and welfare---to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.

The preamble says nothing about religion so as to assign it to responsible human liberty.

I encourage every citizen or aspiring citizen to write the interpretation of the U.S. preamble he or she would like to live under in order to develop and practice statutory justice. This is only a part of my work, and I hope it restores your interest in it.
Phil Beaver

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.

Psychological freedom from colonial English influence

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

Psychological freedom from colonial English influence

Six years into collaboration to persuade fellow citizens to practice the preamble to the U.S. Constitution rather than lamely refer to “we, the people,” we view the U.S. preamble as a proposition. Each citizen may consider it and develop his or her interpretation, but until there is widespread collaboration and practice, no one can predict where the U.S. preamble’s proposition will lead.

Discussion after Responsible Liberty Day focused on “justice,” and the study led to the study of contractarianism, which led to the study of constitutionalism.

What’s striking is that, so far, none of the writers have promoted the U.S. preamble’s proposition much less expressed opinion about it. Interestingly, many of the writers are professors at Oxford. It is not surprising if British professors have little interest in the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

We are beginning to see modern evidence that American scholarship has never psychologically freed itself from colonial British influence. We made this point in our June 20 celebration, and our next meeting will emphasize it more.

News

Local news neglects ideas from civic citizens (editors, Grace Toohey) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_66218582-9da1-11e9-880a-530ef4c81391.html, https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_ddb7b7aa-9d11-11e9-866b-c78ab46f7f73.html)

I attended the community meeting to make a civic statement, not realizing that, once again, I must attend in order to know what happened. IMO, The Advocate does not represent the citizens and therefore is not worthy of freedom of the press.

I am not about to try to be a surrogate reporter for the people. I neither took shorthand, audio recording, or video, as I saw the media doing. However, the people had a lot to say, and much of it was opposed to the local political leadership.
Some critical statements addressed the cultures of violence: when violence is nourished, it flourishes . . . and does not attend church.

Mayor Broome kindly dominated (sometimes) and allowed me to read this message:
“This nation has a people’s proposition. We interpret it as follows: Willing citizens publically collaborate for Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare so as to encourage responsible, individual human-liberty to the procession of living citizens. No one can predict the proposition’s ultimate civic, civil, and legal consequences.

The U.S. Constitution unites us.”

The overflow crowd gave a hearty ovation, as they did for all speakers and questioners.

I am doing all I can to make this improvable message about the U.S. preamble’s proposition go viral in time to positively impact this fall’s elections. I hope the candidates for office take note and report what they have done to collaborate on the U.S. preamble’s proposition as they interpret it.

Also, I hope the people make Baton Rouge’s second annual Responsible Liberty Day (in the USA) next June 21 a community event.

I have no hope for today’s media: Only a civic people can reform the media.

A challenge for candidates to portray themselves foremost civic citizens (Mark Ballard) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_393c4880-9aa5-11e9-b22d-bbf2bda946a7.html)

According to the preamble to the Constitution for the USA (the U.S. preamble), there exists an entity called We the People of the United States. The U.S. preamble states a civic people’s proposition.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

A candidate for elected office ought to demonstrate that he or she understands the U.S. preamble’s proposition, performs as a civic citizen, and lists the evidence of his or her collaboration according to his or her understanding. Civic voters whose experiences and observations connect with the candidate may choose to vote for him or her. There are always dissidents to equity under civic, civil, and legal agreement.

My latest understanding of the U.S. preamble’s proposition is:  We, a civic people of the United States practice the self-discipline to establish 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. Every citizen may consider the U.S. preamble’s proposition and interpret it for his or her hopes for his or her chance at life.

I challenge candidates for this fall’s elections and the media to accept the fact that this message is being published daily, and prepare for the possibility that it will go viral by October.





Columns

Pulitzer Prize for lame thought (The Advocate editors) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_5464841c-979c-11e9-b751-2f8fa3c49533.html)

“. . . maybe the political divides now frustrating our national life are not as wide and deep as we think they are. [There's] the possibility of common ground, even when shared purpose seems hopelessly elusive.”

The Advocate haplessly neglects its task: to identify the both the common ground and the shared purpose.

In our sixth year of meetings at EBRP libraries, A Civic People of the United States (a Civic People) asserts that most citizens want mutual, comprehensive safety and security; equity under a civic, civil, and legal agreement; individual happiness with civic integrity; approval and encouragement of responsible human liberty; an achievable better future for the march of living citizens.

Through the collaboration of 68 participants, we observed that preamble to the U.S. Constitution offers a proposition: willing citizens collaborate for 5 public institutions---Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---in order to encourage responsible liberty to the continuum of living citizens. For citizens living 231 years after the U.S. preamble was written, the 5 institutions might be regarded as integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity.

What might happen if the U.S. preamble’s proposition, the people’s proposition, caught on? I hope we begin to sense an achievable better future between now and the next Responsible Liberty Day in the USA, June 21, 2020. Perhaps interest in the people’s proposition will motivate candidates for October elections to report their past collaboration for the 5 public institutions to encourage responsible human liberty.

Writing with an embarrassing agendum (George Will)(http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will070419.php3)

“Consent” means submission or subjugation. I reject consent in order to collaborate for mutual, comprehensive safety and security.

Perhaps Will’s hidden message against prominent conservative law professors can be pieced together: “many of today's most interesting arguments about America's nature and meaning are among conservatives”; “thinks the Declaration is not pertinent to construing the Constitution”; “all such reasoning occurs in an unchanging context.”

More important is the erroneous point Will attempts to support: The Declaration “secures” consent that is portrayed in the Constitution.

The Declaration expressed in 1776 formerly loyal colonial-British subjects terminating consent to British rule. The Constitution came in 1787 and its stated purpose is willing citizens’ collaboration for 5 public institutions---Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---to secure responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens. The U.S. preamble terminated consent to the Continental Congress, replacing the Confederation of States with a Union of States under their civic citizens (aware and willing collaborators).

When the people’s representatives from 9 former British colonies ratified the preamble to the U.S. Constitution and the articles that followed, consent to be governed was obsoleted by 5 public institutions to encourage responsible human liberty.

With this message, it is time for We the People of the United States to emerge after 231 years’ obfuscation by “unchanging context”---originalism or preservation of colonial-English, psychological oppression of the USA.

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About 2400 years ago the Greeks, mostly Pericles and Agathon, gave us the idea that (in my interpretation) humans may collaborate for equity under the rule of law and thereby develop statutory justice for the continuum of living people. Also, the human may individually develop civic integrity by neither initiating nor tolerating harm to or from any human or god.

When the people’s representatives in 9 of 13 eastern seaboard states ratified the U.S. constitution on June 21, 1788, they codified the citizens’ civic, civil, and legal proposition for responsible human liberty. Fellow citizens are free to adopt, ignore, oppose, or collaborate to improve the U.S. preamble’s proposition. I have been developing my interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition for six years, and the current revision 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. I encourage every citizen to interpret the U.S. preamble’s proposition so as to aid personal, civic self-discipline.

The world’s perhaps first Responsible Liberty Day celebration occurred on June 20, 2019 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In our 6^th year commemorating June 21, 1788, the day the USA was established as a global nation under civic people of 9 states, we articulated these principles. Readers may read the displays used in the only video now on the Facebook Page, “A Civic People of the United States.” Past development and the latest discoveries are journaled at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

After 2 months and about 600 views, the Page now has about 50 likes and less than 10 followers. However, we hope it will go viral and by next hear 2/3 of fellow citizens will encourage interest in the mutual, comprehensive safety and security responsible human liberty under the U.S. preamble’s proposition and each individual’s understanding.

A primary project of A Civic People of the United States is to express civic concerns and reforms in words and phrases that fellow citizens relate to by experience and observation. For example, we write about individual civic discipline rather than self-government, which can be corrupt. Once we establish a phrase, we express it and listen to the reactions hoping either a collaborator or a detractor will suggest an improvement. For example, we evolved from “ethics of physics” to “physics based ethics” to fidelity to the-objective-truth, the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured. Through our published glossary, we intend to preserve our interpretation of Agathon’s thoughts and improve it by listening to fellow citizens who consider the journal.



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.