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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Quora
https://www.quora.com/What-is-something-not-commonly-known-but-upon-its-revelation-about-to-change-society-for-the-better
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 6th 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.
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