Reverse the Louisiana Supreme Court's failure on Louisiana’s Amendment VI impartiality

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

The Louisiana Supreme Court failed to uphold Louisiana’s Amendment VI impartiality and thereby made itself subject to U.S. Supreme Court accountability respecting Amendment XIV.1. See the “News” item below.

News

Writers for the press ought to be journaling the journey by We the People of the United States toward civic integrity: instead, some write for identity power under immunity from justice (Andrea Gallo, John Simerman) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_7756f498-d0d4-11e9-917c-b732c5ab4dda.html)

In my view, The Advocate arrogates its obligation to public transparency in this otherwise welcome work to hold the Louisiana Supreme Court accountable to the people.

The Advocate should have called out the Supreme Court for its negligence respecting its U.S. Amendment XIV.1 liability. The Louisiana State Bar Association and The Advocate partnered with alien political identities to undo the Louisiana Supreme Court’s 1970 excellency in https://www.oyez.org/cases/1970/69-5035.

The LSBA and The Advocate’s misleading statistics convinced the Louisiana Legislature to create an unjust people’s vote to end a Louisiana treasure: the 10:2 majority jury verdict in criminal trials. Statistics show that impartial juries favor black Americans disproportionally, the reverse of The Adovcate's "statistical" analysis. The Advocate is not immune to liability for their misconduct.

I expressed and published opposition during the public blindsiding The Advocate effected. See promotethepreamble.blogspot.com and cipbr.blogspot.com for the record.

The brilliance of Louisiana’s 1880-enacted 9:3 criminal-jury verdicts seems a product of Louisiana’s colonial-French/Spanish heritage more than Reconstruction-injustices. Louisiana was not part of the 1787-1791 colonial-English competition over U.S.-impartiality versus British-unanimity in jury verdicts. And the slave-states without French colonialism did not follow Louisiana’s lead toward impartial jury verdicts.

Louisiana legislators of 1877-1880 could read without English prejudice the 1791 U.S. Amendment XI provision “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” Also, they could read without either English tradition or racial-supremacy prejudice Amendment XIV’s protection of citizen’s rights. The Advocate’s “journalism” is too prejudiced to accept these constitutional actual-realities and some member of the LSBA have arrogant business agenda.

It takes is an open mind to think through the logic of 9:3 impartiality. With only 1 juryperson getting through discovery of fellow citizenship (civic-peer qualification), prejudicial decisions are inevitable and unanimous verdicts produce injustices to all the involved parties. That includes the offending fellow citizen who cannot reform without accepting impartial judgement by his or her peers. Fellow citizens need to know when an innocent-accused has been impartially acquitted. Unanimous jury verdicts work against the victims of crime to favor the criminal.

Only 87 years after Louisiana’s 1880 enactment of 9:3 jury verdicts, England established 10:2 verdicts to lessen organized crime’s jury influence. The "Pulitzer Prize-winning" The Advocate knew this but did not promote the facts to the voting public.

The Advocate now touts a shameful Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. It’s a modern illustration everybody has heard: Power corrupts---another English political falsehood; https://www.phrases.org.uk/.../absolute-power-corrupts.... Only corrupt power corrupts. The journalism-school development of public-opinion power of the press is a topic of another essay. Eventually, a civic people prevails as absolute power; for example, the U.S. Civil War victory.

Humankind marches ineluctably to defeat infidelity to the-objective-truth, by indirectly encouraging its youth to individually develop integrity for life. So far, the present generation of adults leaves it to its youth to perceive their human individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity to the-objective-truth. However, the coming generation can learn to encourage the young to develop their HIPEA for integrity rather than wander into infidelity. The Advocate could be developing a legitimate Pulizer Prize by promoting the U.S. preamble’s proposition: mutual, comprehensive safety and security (Security) among fellow citizens; in other words, civic integrity. This is so, because these articulations come from here.

These ideas have been developed during the recent 6 years in EBRP libraries, The Advocate’s headquarters' public libraries. It is not too late for The Advocate to reform. They could start by assigning a reporter to attend our 6th annual Constitution Day celebration, September 17, 7:30 PM, EBRP Main Library on Goodwood. The Advocate could either report the facts or express opposition to our interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. It takes integrity to communicate, collaborate, and connect for Security.

Today, we interpret the preamble's propostion as We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions---Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens.

I may amend this as the weekend develops. Just now I am busy living (attending a movie and watching the LSU game).

Columns

The Advocate’s hypocrisy in print (Danny Heitman) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/danny_heitman/article_ccfe97ba-c833-11e9-ba3d-635b076c2816.html)

It's amazing to me that writers for the press so neglect their opportunity to lead readers to a better future by example rather than exhortation.

"I feel compelled to mention that this stalwart student who had braved one of the hottest days of the year in service to others was black."

What?!!! I object to such human irresponsibility, and it seems shocking that The Advocate's editors allow the hypocrisy.

Writers for the press have ample opportunity to recognize that the First Amendment is erroneous in granting the press unfettered freedom of expression. On other words, they can develop professional standards despite erroneous constitutional immunity from civil prosecution.

Writers for the press can develop journalism by practicing responsible human liberty rather than yielding to personal compulsion.

Quora



https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-concept-of-civil-society-and-social-movement?

These are proprietary terms created by political scholars to confuse and control the people.

“Civil society” refers to the standards within a civilization. For example, in a civilization founded on God, it matters not whether God conforms to whatever-God-is: Believers wait an eternity for God’s justice. The civil thing to do is believe in God, discounting whatever-God-is. In a nation with God-politician partnership, the civil person may argue that I was un-civil to reject the statement “. . . it matters not whether god conforms to whatever-god-is.” I admit, my statement would be less nuanced with “whatever-God-may-be,” since, so far, there has been no proof that God does not exist. Yet elites partner with God to pick the people’s pockets.

“Social movement” refers to a political campaign to impose an identity politics on public life. For example, the clergy who touted human sacrifice promoted civil pomp in the selection of the object of sacrifice. The most beautiful young woman or strongest young man felt vulnerable. Unbelievably, we read of heavenly hopes and sacrificial pride in some modern societies.

In my youth, I was wary of the slogan “The Christian thing to do.” Now, I consider the claim fair warning that the speaker lobbies to impose mysterious fear by which to pick my pocket.

I support one identity politics: communication, collaboration, and connection to provide mutual, comprehensive safety and security (Security) to living people. Further, a culture/society that promotes Security proposes a worthy civilization. I work to establish a civic, civil, and legal culture of Security.

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-explain-identity-politics-Is-it-a-positive-or-negative-aspect-of-our-society?

“Identity politics” seems more matter-of-fact than “correct politics” which expresses judgment.

It seems important for each citizen to identify his or her politics. When I was a boy, my community asked, “What’s the Christian thing to do?” I did not like the phrase and did not realize it was political, and in fact an identity politics.

In ancient times, sun worship and human sacrifice was an identity politic. All politics has identity.

In the USA, I think most individuals identify with mutual, comprehensive safety and security. Most citizens aid equity under just laws and encourage dissidents to reform

A better future is available if most citizens identify their politics and evaluate it according to the proposition that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. It is the people’s proposition to encourage self-discipline.

My interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition is: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions—-Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare—-in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.

Politically, I identify with the U.S. preamble’s proposition as I interpret it. I think most Americans order their lives under the U.S. preamble’s proposition, even though they may not articulate it as I do. I encourage fellow citizens to develop their own interpretation of the U.S. preamble and express it publicly.

https://www.quora.com/Which-kind-of-society-do-you-think-is-the-most-just-one-driven-by-honor-culture-where-people-take-score-settling-into-their-own-hands-or-by-institutionalized-culture-where-punishment-is-meted-out-by-a-formal?

Pericles, 2500 years ago, informed us, in my paraphrase, humans can communicate, collaborate, and connect for equity under just laws. If all citizens accepted this proposition, you’d have an institutionalized honor system.

When a fellow citizen errs or abuses the system and is caught, he or she may understand that they are suffering just constraint or penalty and may be encouraged to reform to civic citizenship.

Arbitrary score setting is vigilantism, which operates on opinion rather than ineluctable evidence.

Punishment can be taken as a negative to correction, reform, and restoration for offending fellow citizens.

In the USA, the people’s proposition for equity under justice is the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. It is a proposition for civic discipline to provide Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare in order to secure responsible human liberty to the continuum of living people.

https://www.quora.com/Living-in-a-society-means-that-some-individual-rights-must-be-surrendered-to-the-benefit-of-the-society-Does-this-justify-the-right-of-society-to-establish-mandatory-vaccination-in-order-to-protect-the-health-of-all?

The human species is the only one that developed the opportunity more than “right” to discover the-objective-truth, learn consequential benefits, and behave accordingly. For example, the earth is globe-like, rotates on its axis, and objects stay there because of gravity. In a second example, civic citizens don’t lie to each other so as to lessen misery and loss. Both physics and integrity must be learned, since they come from the same source.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution offers individual citizens the opportunity to communicate, collaborate, and connect so as to provide 5 public institutions: Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare. Laws are created to encourage public contribution. With mutual, comprehensive safety and security, individuals may develop responsible human liberty.

The articles that follow the preamble are amendable so that unjust laws may be corrected. Thereby, statutory law may evolve toward statutory justice, or perfection. It’s unattainable yet a worthy goal.

Some citizens---dissidents---choose to live in the USA but neither understand nor behave according to the people’s proposition in the U.S. preamble. They demand “equality” regardless of civility when they are offered equity under statutory law. Dissident citizens must be constrained by statutory law enforcement.

Civility is not complicated:  The civic citizen neither initiates harm-to nor tolerates injury-from any person. The civic citizen appropriately reacts to harm, with verbal objection and caution, by reporting events to responders such as the police or the military, and if directly attacked, with sufficient strength.

First responders are informed that vaccinations do not cause dire side effects but do save lives. Encouraging vaccination follows the intentions of the people’s proposition that is stated in the U.S. preamble.

https://www.quora.com/If-you-could-make-a-change-to-one-constitutional-amendment-what-would-it-be?

I’d change the First Amendment so that it encourages development of integrity, a human duty, rather than protects religion, an integrated, competitive business.

https://www.quora.com/Is-hatred-hardwired-Are-we-becoming-more-selfish-as-a-nation?

Hatred is not hardwired, as demonstrated by the Civil War’s outcome for slavery-abolitionists. We the People of the United States is undergoing a reform more severely needed and more fundamental than overcoming the Atlantic slave trade that was imposed by African captors, Arab traders, and European buyers. A civic people is reforming from freedom of religion, an institutional business, to development of integrity, a human duty. It’s replacement of Judeo-Christianity with mutual, comprehensive safety and security, hereafter Security.

The transition may be difficult. Religion systematically inspires believers to wait an eternity for whatever-God-is to deliver Security. Governments know this and using the clergy’s partnership pick the people’s pockets.

I am not writing a new idea. I am interpreting Chapter XI Machiavelianism regarding the USA’s negligence of the proposition offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. preamble). Procrastination to develop integrity “being exalted and maintained by God, it would be the act of a presumptuous and rash man to discuss.” See Machiavelli: The Prince: Chapter XI to read Nicolo’s irony.

My present interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition is: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect for five public provisions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (original words Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare)---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living people. The standard for integrity is the-objective-truth rather than unity about the mystery of whatever-God-is; ineluctable evidence rather than belief; understanding actual reality rather than reason about what someone imagined.

I think it is true that social democracy, socialism, or communism will not dominate the people. Relief comes as the individual happiness with civic morality proposed by the U.S. preamble to willing citizens. I meet them in my daily contacts and never encounter hatred that I recognize. I am selective in where I go. One of my favorite places is the public park about ¼ mile from my home, where I am often heard singing “What a Wonderful World” substituting “we” for “I” and “appreciate” rather than “love”.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-vision-of-an-ideal-society-that-most-people-would-agree-with?

We think our public meetings at local libraries with appreciation to about 70 people have worked out the (improvable) essentials of an achievable better future. The elements include:

1. Commitment to state a civic concern and well-grounded solution, dialogue to clarify, then listen to the audience for improvements in the concern and/or solution. Develop a glossary of words and phrases that reflect the civic improvements.

2. Acceptance that the human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity and that some people will choose infidelity.

3. An education system that encourages HIPEA for integrity and supports the individual’s lifetime pursuit of statutory justice or perfect law.

4. Adoption of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (or better statement of essential civic goals) as the proposition each citizen considers and interprets so as to order his or her path to civic integrity. My current interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition is:

We the People of the United State communicate, collaborate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living people. In a civic culture, religion or none is a private matter. (The purposes actually stated in the U.S. preamble are Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense, Welfare, and Liberty to us and our Posterity.) I hope people in Sierra-Leone or other non-U.S. citizens will read this and comment as to whether or not it seems useful to them. I think they have better chance to make it happen than I do.

5. Acceptance of the-objective-truth, which is the ineluctable evidence on which discovery evolves, as the standard for civic integrity, justice, and truth.

6. Acceptance that spirituality, religion, and philosophy are personal pursuits for hope respecting private concerns regardless of what has not been discovered and that is why they are not incorporated in the U.S. preamble’s proposition.

7. A constitutional amendment that requires elected officials to begin each official meeting with the unison reading of the U.S. preamble in order to remind the officials that they are first fellow citizens.

8. Acceptance that physics, the object of study rather than the study called “physics,” is the source of evolution of everything including human integrity. Imagination, such as fiction and religion, derives from “un-discovered” physics that may not exist. For example, no one solved the mystery whatever-God-is.

We do all we can to share this message. It is supported by the essays on our website, promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

Our next public meeting is our 6^th annual Constitution Day celebration, September 17, 2019, 7:30 PM at EBRP Main Library, Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA.

https://www.quora.com/Is-freedom-necessary-for-a-perfect-society?

Only one “society” is worthy of majority support, and that is the people who collectively act for mutual, comprehensive safety and security. (For example, in such a society, each individual who chooses to provide a wanted service can earn a living wage, including savings to build the wealth needed for the future including child-education and retirement. In other words, the wealth-building system favors responsible free-market providers more than opportunists.)

Perfect is impossible to attain yet is the goal that keeps fellow citizens at the leading edge of integrity. In the USA, civic fellow citizens discipline under the rule of statutory law so as to constrain dissidents, both foreign and domestic. The people may amend statutory law when injustice is discovered. Thereby, the people may pursue the perfection of statutory justice.

Critical to the rule of law is the individual liberty-to develop integrity. Therefore, the individual must aid freedom-from oppression. For example, in the USA, the citizens’ agreement, to provide freedom-from oppression in order to encourage the liberty-to develop integrity, is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. preamble).

The U.S. preamble is the people’s proposition, and my interpretation today is:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect (CCC) to provide 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens. In short, CCC for freedom-from oppression in order to encourage the liberty-to pursue integrity.

One point remains: the standard by which integrity is measured is the-objective-truth, ToT (or better). Ineluctable evidence aids discovery of ToT. However, a civic people accept ToT, discover how to benefit, and act accordingly. For example, sea-going islanders perceived the earth was a globe and did not fear sailing into the horizon a thousand years before elites got over the Biblical idea that the sun traverses the sky each day rather than the earth rotating on its axis. And the elites clung to the Bible because it was the word of whatever-God-is. ToT neither yields-to nor waits-for reasonable human constructs.

Without the liberty-to pursue integrity, the individual has not freedom-from oppression.

I would appreciate comments on these ideas, especially if you perceive I did not answer the question.

https://www.quora.com/As-a-liberal-are-there-any-conservative-values-you-hold?

As a civic citizen, I consider myself of We the People of the United States, the entity that is specified by the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. preamble). On its proposition, individual fellow citizens divide themselves as civic citizens or dissidents to the agreement.

My interpretation today of the U.S. preamble’s proposition is:  We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to secure responsible human liberty to the continuum of living people. Responsibility is measured by fidelity to the-objective-truth; in other words, the ineluctable evidence.

Since I have no idea what is “liberal” and what is “conservative” to you I pass assessing my political identity. Maybe you will tell me.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Who-enforces-human-rights?

The-objective-truth, or the ineluctable evidence, is the standard by which humankind develops civic, civil, and legal justice. Individuals enforce the right to observe the-objective-truth.

The human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth. No other species has HIPEA.

So far, cultural evolution has not accepted HIPEA with integrity as the basis for human liberty. In other words, so far, no culture approves and encourages responsible human liberty to their youth. With widespread acceptance of HIPEA to develop integrity, crime, tyranny, arbitrary “rights,” and other human abuses would lessen.

However, with or without these articulations, many persons perceive and accept HIPEA and choose to develop integrity regardless of internal and external constraints. Those individuals provide the example that inspires other persons to demand the right to develop integrity. Because of HIPEA, the right to develop integrity is demanded no matter what external constraints the human being faces.

Often, the people who are demanding an arbitrary right, for example, to be fed by a bureaucrat rather than to earn the opportunity to elect food-quality and quantity, meet silence; in a softer example, to receive a passing grade in economics rather than learn economics.

People who accept both HIPEA and integrity often allow the errant individual to experience the harm of infidelity in order to experience or observe the opportunity to reform to human integrity.

https://www.quora.com/Should-equal-rights-be-considered-a-basic-feature-of-human-rights?

No, because some persons choose to develop crime, tyranny, religious doctrine, and other abuses of the human quest for justice and integrity. (Religion is a private rather than public interest, because of the mystery: whatever-God-is.)

The human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth. That is, the ineluctable evidence which humankind works to discover and use for benefit. In other words, the-objective-truth is the standard by which truth and justice are measured.

In a culture that encourages the youth to accept HIPEA and to choose to develop integrity, most individuals communicate, collaborate, and connect for equity under statutory justice. Statutory justice is possible under perfect discovery, and therefore only an essential goal. During the journey, the individual accepts justice under statutory law. Yet his or her lifelong commitment is to increase statutory justice, unless he or she is using HIPEA to abuse fellow citizens who chose to develop integrity.

It seems to me some of today’s youth recognize the-objective-truth that integrity is the key to their individual happiness. Those who want religion for hope and comfort regarding the unknowns such as their afterdeath do not procrastinate in developing integrity in life. Perhaps they will encourage and coach their offspring to use their HIPEA to develop integrity.

An achievable better future may develop wherein most people demand the right to develop integrity and aid equity under continually improved statutory law.

To Mary Scott: Thank you, Ms. Scott, for your upvote. Please share the ideas you especially liked.

We have no intentions of becoming a revenue generating non-profit and therefore count on public communication, collaboration, and connection to develop responsible human liberty.

Also, as of today, we are impressed if not convinced that no politician will support this effort: Only We the People of the United States as defined in the controversial U.S. preamble, or a better people, can establish the development of responsible human liberty.

It is important to note that the words and phrases that motivated your approval are not mine alone but are the consequences—-in our sixth year of meetings at public libraries—-to promote the people’s agreement that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. We had no idea that communication, collaboration, and connection with almost 70 people would yield the ideas that we express today.

More importantly, we have no idea how much better the future can be with two reforms: A widespread citizen’s agreement to individually both develop the U.S. preamble’s proposition or better and accept the-objective-truth as standard for integrity, truth, and justice in civic, civil, and legal human liberty.

Your comments on these ideas would be welcomed.



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.