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.