Acceptance in human life

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

After studying each identity politics then audacity, I am in the middle of an extensive study of “acceptance” in human life. Do most individuals experience the acceptance of being human?


News


How can a politician “have” integrity to constituents? (Will Sentell) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_f24e75a8-d97c-11e9-9ee4-b7364b779e1a.html?)

"People that know me know that I am an honest person, that I have a lot of integrity and am not willing to compromise my constituents," said Smith.

I’d like to know Smith’s honest definitions that entail having “a lot of integrity [and not compromising] my constituents.”

First, integrity is a practice: work for the ineluctable evidence that a concern is not a mirage; work to understand how to best benefit from the evidence; behave according to the understanding; publicly express the understanding; be open minded to viewpoints or new discovery that demands change. In this practice, honesty insufficient to the ineluctable evidence.

Second do Smith’s constituents accept that they are human beings with the customary individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than infidelity? Do they further accept that they are U.S. citizens under the people’s proposition (according to their individual interpretation) that is offered in the U.S. Preamble?

I think the U.S. Preamble proposes:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect in order to aid Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens now and in the future.

I challenge Fields and Smith as well as other candidates for office to publish their interpretations of the people’s proposition that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble) along with examples of their individual aid to its establishment or progress.



Quora

https://www.quora.com/What-ways-can-we-convince-other-countries-to-be-peaceful?

I think the only hope is for most Americans, at least 2/3 of citizens, to use their personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble and the-objective-truth to order their individual lives.

First, the-objective-truth is my phrase for the actual reality of existence. In other words, humankind’s discovery of the ineluctable evidence that asymptotically approaches the truth. When an idea has not been disproved, humankind’s position is: I don’t know the truth. For example, humankind doesn’t know the mystery of whatever-God-is.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble) seems the world’s most controversial sentence. My interpretation today is:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions (integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity) in order to encourage the-objective-truth in human liberty to the continuum of living people.

We can convince other countries to be peaceful by example.



https://www.quora.com/What-does-liberty-equality-and-fraternity-mean?

I associate the motto of France with their 1789 “bloody” revolution, so it is not an expression I support.

More importantly, I do not support organizations for either “equality” or “fraternity.”

First, each human ovum is unique. His or her uniqueness is not lessened by insemination; gestation; delivery; citizenship; or nurturing. He or she has the human individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth. The-objective-truth is the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured and the standard by which human justice is discovered. Church, state, their partnership, or a resistance attempting to equalize humans is preposterous.

Second, HIPEA is a reality that divides humankind into two branches that are themselves diverse: civic citizens who develop integrity to the-objective-truth and dissidents. Each human branch is so diverse it is difficult to discern the split within a nation let alone the world. I speculate that 2/3 of U.S. citizens develop integrity at their unique paces and with more or less articulation.

“Fraternity” means people associated for a purpose, and freedom-from association is essential to the liberty-to develop integrity. Citizenship is a legal status more than an association. Civic, civil, and legal pursuit of mutual, comprehensive safety and security associates civic citizens without defining dissidents. Dissidents identify themselves by causing harm. While I admit to fellow citizenship, I do not choose to fraternize with criminals, tyrants and other fellow citizens who refuse to conform to the nation’s purpose.

These principles are derived from our public study of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble), perhaps the world’s most controversial sentence. My interpretation today is:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions (integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity) in order to encourage the-objective-truth in human liberty to the continuum of living people.

The USA could have a six-noun motto reflecting the U.S. Preamble: Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare for Liberty. For a motto, I prefer: Human Equity Under Statutory Justice.

https://www.quora.com/People-on-both-sides-of-the-political-spectrum-think-they-are-right-People-read-evidence-supporting-their-point-of-view-and-feel-justified-in-their-beliefs-How-can-we-heal-as-a-nation-when-millions-of-people-have?

In my mid-seventies, I have been trying to answer your questions during the last half century. During the past six years, I have worked at public libraries. I state a civic concern and well-grounded solution so as to listen to the audience and learn. About seventy people have helped develop a theory of a civic culture. It can be established by We the People of the United States as defined by the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble).

As briefly as I can state it, here’s the theory of a civic culture: 1) education systems encourage individuals to accept responsible human liberty, 2) further, human individuals have each the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to ether develop integrity to the-objective-truth or nourish infidelity, which begs woe; 3) the-objective-truth exists and humankind works to discover it and how to benefit from its understanding; 4) each civic person pursues individual happiness with civic, civil, and legal integrity---that is, so as not to prevent another person’s happiness; 5) since some persons use HIPEA for infidelity We the People of the United States develop statutory justice to constrain dissident fellow citizens and encourage reform; and 6) most fellow citizens use their personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble to order their civic, civil, and legal behaviors, keeping private any pursuit of a religion or none.

My interpretation of the U.S. Preamble today is: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (originally Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare)---in order to encourage responsible human liberty under the-objective-truth to living people now and in the future. This is a people’s proposition to the individual discipline to aid freedom-from oppression in order to secure the liberty-to develop integrity.

The U.S. Preamble resolves religion’s subjectivity by not specifying the standards for any of the five public institutions or for human liberty. The-objective-truth, in other words, ineluctable evidence, may be the standard for both public institutions and religious beliefs. In other words, the existence of whatever-God-is has not been disproved.

One other point: much of the division derives from claims to “human rights” aimed at “equality.” The cell that may become a human being is the ovum, and each one is unique. The ovum’s uniqueness is not lessened by fertilization to an embryo, gestation, delivery, and acquisition of understanding with intent to live a human lifetime. Humankind cannot equalize unique entities. A civic people aid equity under statutory justice.

Our education system needs reform so as to encourage early acceptance of each: being human, HIPEA, developing integrity, and responsible pursuit of individual happiness.



https://www.quora.com/Can-many-of-the-arguments-that-are-used-to-justify-living-constitutionalism-also-be-used-to-justify-overruling-explicit-constitutional-text?

I’d need to consider the living-constitution arguments you know. However, the U.S. Preamble authorizes deliberate development of statutory justice rather than colonial-British tradition: constitutional text can be amended.

Your question strikes me as profound, and I hope you will respond to my comments so as to improve my opinions and principles.

The human individual ought to be coached and encouraged (by the community and in schools) to accept some key principles, including: 1) the human has evolved to be the only species with individual awareness and grammar by which to develop and practice integrity; 2) the human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth (the discovered, ineluctable evidence to actual reality); 3) in civic, civil, and legal integrity, the citizen aids equity under statutory justice and its law enforcement, hoping that the dissident fellow citizen will reform when the dissident perceives the need; and 4) in the U.S., the agreement to citizenship is stated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble) so that each inhabitant may interpret how to aid freedom-from oppression so as encourage individual liberty-to responsibly pursue personal happiness rather than conform to an institutional idea for him or her.

For my lifestyle, today’s interpretation of the U.S. Preamble is:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (original nouns Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare) in order to encourage under the-objective-truth responsible human liberty to living and future individuals.

While this seems an implied essence of the original 52 words, it reflects the limitlessness of the U.S. Preamble’s possible human benefits. In other words, I cannot imagine how much better the future could be under the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

The five-membered Committee of Style composed the U.S. Preamble’s after receiving a lame, erroneous draft on September 12, 1787. I speculate that 1) their proposition derives from the closed debates from May to September 1787; 2) objection to the civic, civil, and legal termination of the 1774 Confederation of States was one reason only 39 of 55 delegates from the 12 of 13 states signed the 1787 U.S. Constitution; 3) proposing individual human discipline to responsible liberty to living and future citizens threatened colonial-British traditions, especially church-state partnership;  and 4) James Madison, a member of the committee, disliked that the U.S. Preamble does not invoke the mystery of whatever-God-is. (I understand that these claims deserve further development, and in addition to the invitation to comment, the reader is referred to our website at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. If so, read from the latest post to avoid obsolete expressions in our journey to current thinking.)

There are three essential facts about the constitutional articles that follow the U.S. Preamble: 1) provisions to amend unjust laws and systems is specified without limiting the standards for justice; 3) both federal and state opportunities for legislation, administration, and judicial courts are limited by a civic people (those who accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition). In other words, the U.S. Preamble stipulates not only benefits but duties of citizenship, and the mere fact of citizenship is binding. (That gets into tort, or cause and harm, which definitely is beyond the scope of my response. Further, I doubt a single Supreme Court Justice assumes the personal fellow-citizenship proposed by the U.S. Preamble enough to engage my arguments. Most justices seem to express superiority to fellow citizenship much less civic citizenship.)

The key features of the articles of the 1787 U.S. Constitution include: 1) the structure and limits of central governance kept accountable by disciplined people in their states; 2) the specified limits on the 3 branches of federal government; 3) wording that anticipated if not intended reform, and 4) the preamble’s proposition for the people’s discipline now and in now’s future---for example, as the posterity of the past, we communicate, collaborate, and connect with each other, not with our dead relatives.

The U.S. Preamble is an impartial people’s proposition. Nowhere does it specify standards by which justice is measured:  Discovery of justice is left to the continuum of living citizens. (My standard is the-objective-truth, which I often do not know.) Nowhere does the U.S. Preamble or its articles exempt elected or appointed officials from civic citizenship, in other words it does not exempt officials from the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. Nowhere does the U.S. Preamble or its articles specify or condone slavery, race, gender, religion, or classism. Nature and Nature’s God have no favor over British Christianity, deism, the Almighty, the Trinity, Unity, or any other expression of power higher than the human person. Nowhere does the U.S. Preamble authorize living citizens to transfer to posterity debts such as $22.6 trillion, or $5.6 million per newborn U.S. baby.

Some originalists insist on the intentions of “the founders” (are there 250 founders?) or the framers (55) or the signers (39) of the 1787 U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Preamble’s authors (5), signers (55), and ratifying states (9) created an astoundingly promising people’s proposition for impartiality.

Some traditionalists insist on the errors imposed by the First Congress, 1789-1791, representing 14 eastern seaboard states, now 50 states and 6 territories.

A couple of key errors in the Bill of Rights (1791) are 1) the religion clauses lessen encouragement to civic integrity and 2) freedom of the press. No other branch of government---neither the people, the states, nor the union of states---has the irresponsible freedom the First Congress assigned to the press. We the People of the United States may correct these two tyrannies, and the sooner the better.

Contrary to the claims of originalists, traditionalists, and U.S. aliens such as the British, the U.S. Preamble is a civic, civil, and legal commitment to posterity. Fellow citizens living today are posterity to dead citizens, and the only obligation we have to ancestors is to benefit from their discoveries and know (so as to avoid) their mistakes.

More important than an amendable constitution the U.S. Preamble promises is a continuum of civic people who discipline themselves so as to hold their local, state, and federal governments accountable, even though some fellow citizens are dissident to justice. The sooner at least 2/3 of fellow citizens realize these essential acceptances---HIPEA, integrity as fidelity to the-objective-truth, equity under justice, and the U.S. Preamble’s proposition---the faster the people may establish an achievable better future.



https://www.quora.com/Are-most-people-too-consumed-with-just-surviving-every-day-to-try-to-research-and-understand-the-political-issues-facing-the-nation?

No. Most people are encouraged by their civilizations to procrastinate about their self-evident need to develop integrity, a practice.

The human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than tolerate infidelity. HIPEA to develop integrity requires acceptance of personal humanity.

Whatever-God-is makes it plain that human individuals may communicate, collaborate, and connect for equity under justice. Justice requires acceptance of personal humanity.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution makes it plain that civic citizens aid Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living and future citizens. Citizenship and liberty require acceptance of personal humanity.

Rather than encouraging acceptance of HIPEA, integrity, justice, citizenship, and liberty, political regimes inculcate a futile, independent search for higher power, usually whatever-God-may-be, government, or the church-state partnership.

Reform is underway.

https://www.quora.com/Has-American-society-become-more-inclusive-or-more-exclusive?

I like Lanci Botton’s response and want to express my views, too. The word “society” is used to impose unity-acceptance on a species, humans, which evolves toward individuality rather than unity beyond Security. A civic culture accommodates no-harm societies in order to lessen human misery and loss.

The-objective-truth imposes the actual reality that individuals usually live in shared locations and therefore need civic citizenship, where “civic” refers to communicating, collaborating, and connecting to aid mutual, comprehensive safety and security (Security).

Evolution has produced one species with the awareness and grammar by which to develop a culture of Security. The human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than infidelity to Security.

For reasons varying from chronological youth, to psychological adolescence at any age, to belief that crime and tyranny pay the criminal or tyrant, some fellow citizens are not civic. For that reason, a civic people provide conventions (civility) and laws (statutes and government structures) to constrain dissidents and encourage reform to Security.

Civic citizens intend equity under written law and its enforcement and therefore to amend unjust laws in order to develop statutory justice. The standard of justice is the discovered, ineluctable evidence, which we call “the-objective-truth.” The-objective-truth exists, and humankind’s noble work is to comprehend evidence for discovery, re-examine the comprehension until it is understood to be ineluctable, and remain open-minded to new discovery that demands change in understanding. The-objective-truth is the human measure of truth.

For example of change, Newton’s law of gravity changed with Einstein’s space-time theory, an element of his theory of relativity. Einstein’s theory has been proven and is thus a law. There is no doubt that Newton’s theory was limited: however, Einstein’s law of relativity remains subject to new discovery, such as a different universe wherein the law of general relativity does not hold.

All the above arguments are to develop this premise:  Whereas as the mystery of whatever-God-may-be is unresolved, discovery of the-objective-truth is humankind’s daunting task. However, whereas imagination about God seems unlimited, the-objective-truth unfolds as evolution and discovery progress.

A civic culture recognizes the possible dichotomy of imagination and discovery within individual citizens and accommodates the two practices. The civic individual accepts first his or her HIPEA and second his or her citizenship in a civic culture. Under government tyranny, a citizen may emigrate.

In the USA, equity under law is a proposition that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble). My interpretation is:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (actual nouns are Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare) in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens now and future.

In this list of five public institutions and one human trait, liberty, there is no specification of religion or religious beliefs. Religion is reserved for privacy yet is protected under the six nouns we addressed.

The U.S. Preamble offers a human proposition that was established on June 21, 1788, when nine of 13 global states established the USA as a global nation. Eventually, the 4 dissident states joined the USA and subsequently 37 more states and 6 territories joined.

However, the First Congress, 1789-1791, a 14th state joining, bemused the people with factional-American Protestantism to compete with Britain’s reformed-Catholic church-Parliament partnership. The U.S. Preamble was falsely labeled “secular” whereas it reserves religion to privacy. Especially erroneous is “freedom of religion” heedlessly trampling human integrity, which a civic people may amend.

The above explanation is the consequence of six years with two meetings each year at public libraries. About 70 people, most positive and a few negative, contributed to the above articulations. Thus the principles are not mine alone, even though the interpretation of the U.S. Preamble is mine.

However, there are enough U.S. fellow citizens who nourish their imaginations---what they hope-for and find comfort-in respecting what is un-discovered---without compromising the-objective-truth. The consequence is that the proposition offered in the U.S. Preamble is upheld by the American people. In America, some churches are segregated and some are diverse, according to private preferences. And perhaps 1/3 of the population has no church---110 million citizens.

People of faith-in discovery will defend with their lives fellow citizens who believe in a relief from the unknowns, especially the salvation from their own afterdeath. The U.S. Preamble supports the privacy of religion under separation of church and state.

Belonging to the society We the People of the United States requires acceptance of U.S. citizenship under the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

https://www.quora.com/Should-the-government-have-a-say-about-what-goes-on-in-your-bedroom?

Yes.

It is important to each human being to accept responsible human liberty. We the People of the United States need to reform education systems so as to inculcate human responsibility to each person during their first two decades as persons; that is from infancy.

Evolution has brought the human species to the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity to the-objective-truth or infidelity. A person is served by integrity and invites woe through infidelity.

The Greeks suggested that individuals may develop human equity by aiding statutory justice. That’s perfection, and just amendment of statutory law when injustice is discovered is a worthy process.

The U.S. Preamble proposes a people’s proposition:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions (Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare) in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens. Acceptance of this civic, civil, and legal contract is a commitment to no harm. Acceptance of this agreement is implied if a person inhabits the USA, whether a citizen or not.

Again, the Greeks gave humankind the suggestion: a civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from anyone. When harm is observed or suspected, verbal expression of concern if not resistance is in order. When attack with intention to harm is initiated, defense should be sufficient.

If bedroom activity aids harm, under its proposition the entity We the People of the United States develops legal codes to encourage human responsibility and the perpetrator should reform or expect civic, civil, or legal woe.



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.