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
Nancy Pelosi expressed her passion before media-writer James Rosen. Is her passion ambition or crime?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Passion “Passion is when you put more energy into something than is required to do it. It is more than just enthusiasm or excitement, passion is ambition that is materialized into action to put as much heart, mind body and soul into something as is possible.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passion
4a(1) : emotion his ruling passion is greed
(2) passions plural : the emotions as distinguished from reason a study of the passions
b : intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction with enough passion to make a great poet— W. B. Yeats
c : an outbreak of anger a crime of passion
Columns
Some writers for the press never consider joining We the People of the United States (The Advocate editors) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_93650a18-16c9-11ea-a62e-7f54e8f3ac4d.html)
I don’t recall a statement as mercenary and prejudiced against children as this: “Whether it is strengthening our universities in national competition for talent or giving even the poorest families the early-childhood experiences that allow children to flourish in school, Louisiana’s product needs innovation and investment.”
Adults may encourage and coach children that they are humans
Consider the U.S. Preamble: “We the People of the United States . . . Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” The proposition is that today’s living adults maintain 5 public disciplines to secure responsible human liberty to our descendants, too.
Neither government nor whatever-God-is will usurp living, adult responsibilities. Humans like the entity We the People of the United States may accept responsibility for civic integrity.
Most writers and editors for the press may either remain passive/dissident citizens or join We the People of the United States as proposed in the U.S. Preamble.
As I interpret the U.S. Preamble’s proposition, the First Amendment assures freedom of expression to citizens who trust-in and commit-to the civic citizens’ ineluctable march to establishment and maintenance of the U.S. Preamble’s 5 public disciplines (integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity) so that liberty to living citizens constantly increases and approaches in excess of 90% civic citizens.
The press either journals the path by the entity We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble or opposes the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. It’s a matter of choice: responsible human liberty or “our democracy.”
Yesterday, someone called these ideas “SANCTIMONIOUS !” Someone in the past called them “condescending”. More than 70 people developed them in EBRP library meetings and beyond. I arrange those public meetings to express a civic concern then open my mind to fellow citizens' responsible human liberties rather than to explore/exploit their private, spiritual lives.
A personal interpretation starts with acceptance of the U.S. Preamble and the intention to choose either practice, passivism, or dissent. It seems over its history demographics favored passivism and dissent: We the People of the United States seems regressed and lessened.
Media reform can begin at journalism schools (Len Apcur, LSU Manship School of Mass Communication) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_ddb349a6-17a3-11ea-98bb-1bdc9a10060b.html)
Media Literacy Chair Apcar need look no further than seeming civic arrogance in his own words, “Educators . . . reduced teaching about civics . . . in our representative democracy.” The USA is a constitutional republic.
According to the entity We the People of the United States (to which I aspire by trusting-in and committing-to civic integrity as I interpret the U.S. Preamble) the USA is a constitutional republic. That means that representatives, both those the people elect, those who elected-officials appoint, and reporters to help We the People of the United States hold officials accountable, function under the USA preamble’s civic, civil, and legal objectives: 5 public disciplines to secure responsible human liberty to living citizens. The U.S. Constitution is continually amended to effect the ineluctable human march toward statutory justice.
Apcar’s students’ parents may consider the U.S. Preamble and develop their personal interpretations so as to order individual civic integrity while responsibly maintaining pursuit of personal happiness. In other words, a citizen can choose to apply the U.S. Preamble’s disciplines with fidelity to personal preferences. Infidelity begs woe and may end in surprising, sudden misery and loss. In other words, human liberty requires civic responsibility, and parents are responsible “to ourselves and to our Posterity.” Posterity includes children, grandchildren, and beyond.
The problem is that universities hired too many socialists, perhaps including Apcar. LSU could include in their vetting of applicants in verbal interview the question, “What is your personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble?” No response would invite rejection. I realize greedy lawyers would consider that an opportunity to line their pockets, but sooner or later, We the People of the United States holds both fellow citizens and aliens accountable; the needed law can be legislated. Consider the Civil War to imagine how deliberate and committed is the entity We the People of the United States.
Apcar moved to Louisiana but may not have considered “freedom of the press” in this state. The Louisiana Constitution, Article 1, Section 7, states: “No law shall curtail or restrain the freedom of speech or of the press. Every person may speak, write, and publish his sentiments on any subject, but is responsible for abuse of that freedom.”
Apcar may also consider the U.S. Constitution’s promise of a republican form of government. The Electoral College is important but one of many preventions of democracy in the USA's rule of law.
I may write another post to express the failure of American journalism so far and suggest reforms.
Second post:
Media schools may reform so as to join We the People of the United States.
Most of what had transpired in the known world, perhaps excluding Asia, influenced the colonization of North America. Competition between England, France, and Spain led to the American Revolution and the 1781 French and American victory against England at Yorktown, VA. The consequence was 13 free and independent states on the Eastern seaboard of what is now America.
In 1787, it was clear that the confederation of states could not stand, and delegates of 12 states met with a plan to form a global nation of by and for individual discipline. Some delegates wanted to preserve the confederation of state and some wanted to codify theism under factional-American Protestantism so establish church-state partnership in competition with Canterbury. Consequently, only 39 of 55 framers signed the U.S. Constitution with its U.S. Preamble.
The U.S. Preamble proposes 5 public disciplines to secure responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens. The 5 disciplines relegate religious pursuits to privacy under responsible liberty. Tacitly, progress on the 5 disciplines is measured by the development of responsible liberty among fellow citizens. Citizens divide themselves, civic citizens versus dissidents, depending upon acceptance of responsible human liberty. Dissidents risk subjugation to the law.
In the articles that follow the U.S. Preamble, there are provisions to amend the law so as to correct discovered injustice. At any moment in time, civic citizens work to increase “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” including dissident fellow citizens through reform. The First Amendment, like all the provisions of the U.S. Constitution protect We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble.
Writers for the press are protected so that they may report events whereby civic citizens may hold local, state, and national government accountable: Writers for the press may either join We the People of the United States or be dissidents who beg subjugation to the law. Writers for the press who journal U.S. progress under the U.S. Preamble’s proposition are critical to the development of statutory justice and widespread civic integrity.
When American universities encourage students to develop human individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than infidelity to the-literal-truth, an achievable better future may accelerate. Among the resulting civic citizens, those who choose a career writing for the press will want to journal U.S. progress toward statutory justice.
The reform of journalism schools may start as soon as the administrators and faculty accept their opportunity to join We the People of the United States.
Quora
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-no-rightand-wrong-without-some-authority-higher-than-humans?
Physics and its progeny seems the ineluctable power humankind discovers and utilizes.
The human being is the leading species in awareness and grammar with which to discover the-objective-truth, develop discovery’s benefits, improve instruments for observation, and approach the-literal-truth. Human success conforms to physics, the object of studies rather than the studies.
The human being starts as a unique ovum in a woman’s body. Fertilization does not lessen individuality.
The USA’s fertile women produce 800 million perhaps viable ova per year and 4 million ova become newborn infants. If so, a half percent of viable ova become newborns. A much smaller percentage of newborns develop physical and psychological maturity.
The newborn has no choice regarding whether or not his or her parents or care givers encourage and coach responsible human liberty. Consequently, most cultures inculcate a mysterious search for higher power.
It takes about 2 to 3 decades for a typical human to acquire the understanding and intent to live his or her full human lifetime. It takes another 3 to 4 decades for a person to realize that human success is grounded in fidelity to the-literal-truth, unknown as it may be. Very few people discover the criticality of fidelity, because no culture advocates responsible human liberty.
Humankind learns to respond to physics. Most people would not throw sand into the wind, because it may blind self or other people. Similarly, most humans accept not lying so as to lessen human misery and loss.
Physics, and its progeny---chemistry, mathematics, biology, and psychology, the objects of human study, do not respond to human reason: Humankind must conform to the ineluctable evidence. For example, to choose food of preferred quality rather than accept a bureaucrat’s handout, a human must work. The person who would claim to be God must hide personal blood and ignorance.
The human who discovers integrity to the-literal-truth accepted human individual power, individual liberty, and individual authority (HIPEA) to conform to physics, humankind’s higher power.
Some humans use HIPEA for crime, tyranny, or other error rather than to develop integrity, substantially because cultures do not encourage development of responsible human liberty. Political regimes learned through experience that by not encouraging development of integrity they can manipulate most people so as to create advantage for the dominant regime. I know of one instance when a republican oligarchy proposed responsible human liberty.
The 5 members of the U.S. constitutional convention’s 1787 Committee of Style revised a lame, erroneous preamble issued by the Committee of Detail. The U.S. Preamble proposes responsible human liberty, maintenance of 5 public disciplines, and equity commensurate with civic integrity. Fellow citizens may individually interpret the U.S. Preamble so as to order their civic life while responsibly pursuing private preferences.
The U.S. Preamble does not specify standards by which performance of the 5 public disciplines may be measured. Perhaps percentage of fellow citizens participating in the U.S. Preamble’s proposition is the direct barometer and reflects the culture’s path to the-literal-truth.
My interpretation of the the U.S. Preamble’s proposition at this moment is: We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to maintain 5 public disciplines in order to encourage responsible human liberty to our continuum of living citizens. The 5 disciplines are integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity. Individual discipline to secure responsible human liberty is the temporally unaccepted American dream.
I encourage every U.S. citizen to develop his or her interpretation of the U.S. preamble’s proposition.
https://www.quora.com/Is-describing-oneself-as-a-classic-liberal-a-19th-Century-construct-an-effort-to-avoid-being-thrown-in-with-modern-conservatism-but-still-being-conservative-about-a-lot-of-issues
Yes.
By the way, I think I am a fiscal conservative and responsible civic liberal. By “civic” I refer to neither initiating nor tolerating harm to or from any person or institution. Thus, a civic theist never challenges a fellow citizens’ afterdeath or spiritual inspiration, and religion is a causal topic on par with the weather or the latest sporting attraction for people who agree to the discussion.
Over my past 4 decades I have studied political morality, the most recent decade focused on the U.S. Preamble. I’m in my 7th year conducting local public library meetings to encourage citizens to interpret the preamble so as to guide their journey toward civic integrity with private hopes and comforts according to personal preference; in other words, individual happiness with civic integrity.
The U.S.-Preamble-interpretation for my pursuits is: We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to maintain 5 public disciplines---integrity (Union), justice (Justice), peace (Tranquility), strength (defence), and prosperity (Welfare)---so as to secure responsible human liberty (under the-literal-truth) to living citizens.
I think the essence of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition is in many U.S. citizens’ genes and memes. With promotion of personal interpretations, I think the population would change from 1/3 each, civic, passive, and dissident to the preamble to 2/3 civic, 2/9 passive, and 1/9 dissident, in only a few years.
In the spirit of your question, liberal-conservatism respecting the U.S. Preamble’s proposition seems favorable.
Law professors
https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/12/10/luther-and-liberalism/
“Moderns—whether believers or nonbelievers—can scarcely imagine what Christianity is supposed to be about if it’s not about [favorable afterdeath].”
My ovum came from my mom and was fertilized by my dad and the conception had no fear. My person has always resisted the imposition of fear. Facing the realities of physics and its progeny, I do all I can for safety, security, and well-being, both for myself and fellow citizens including family.
Beginning on September 8-12, 1787, a controversial, republican oligarchy of 5 delegates consigned to individual privacy both speculative afterdeath and religious doctrine. The U.S. Preamble proposes responsible human liberty under 5 public institutions: Union, Justice, Tranquillity, defence, and Welfare. It tacitly leaves the development of mutual, equitable liberty as the standard of performance for the 5 institutions.
Political regimes oppose the U.S. Preamble. On consideration of the U.S. Preamble, citizens divide themselves by acceptance, passiveness, dissidence, rebellion, and traitor-ship. We hope most citizens are of We the People of the United States.
The fellow citizen who would impose religious practice/fears on others seems at best a dissident. I read, write, speak, and listen so as to promote consideration of the U.S. Preamble. It is labeled “secular” but is in fact neutral to religion (and gender, race, ethnicity, wealth, etc.)
Perhaps Luther was inspired by Chapter XI Machivaellianism.
https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/posts/10157793056973599 and on Page
Open Facebook message to Nancy Pelosi from A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana education corporation:
On October 31, 2019 in her speech to promote hearings on the Trump presidency, Nancy Pelosi quoted the U.S. Preamble “. . . liberty to ourselves and our [children]” then said, “[The] Constitution is the blueprint for our republic. What are we fighting for? Defending our democracy for the people.”
Huh? The republic is no longer a republic? You are seceding from the USA?
On December 5, 2019, Pelosi said, “Let us begin where our founders began in 1776. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another.” Then she segued to, “[The president’s] actions are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office that he takes to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. [With] allegiance to our founders . . . today I am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment.”
The founders of 1776 influenced the 1787 delegates to the constitutional convention but did not control the signers---only 39 of 55 delegates. The signers (not the founders) provided a constitution that is amendable when injustice is discovered. We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble may pursue statutory justice that ultimately approaches the-literal-truth.
Pelosi seems unaware that "the founders" neither behave according to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition nor vote. Living, self-interested voters may develop the civic integrity to neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from fellow citizens. The founders are dead and have no voice in living citizens' civic, civil, and legal disciplines.
Many voters are civic citizens who trust-in and commit-to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition under civic integrity rather than to impose political conflict. Civic citizens have no desire “to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them” with fellow citizens who are dissident to human justice. Rather they hope dissidents will reform for human liberty.
It is shocking that a speaker of the house expressed “allegiance to our founders” rather than civic integrity with living fellow citizens, especially We the People of the United States.
Perhaps Pelosi feels both she and the founders are better than We the People of the United States.
We disagree and always vote in our best interest according to our personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble's proposition.
Second post:
Thinking overnight about the above post about Nancy Pelosi's change from conduct for "we, the people" (who live) to "allegiance to our founders" (who are dead) it occurred to me that Pelosi has abdicated to "the squad." See http://www.intellectualconservative.com/the-new-socialist-gang-of-four/.
They tell me the squad wants “to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them” with civic fellow citizens: the squad wants to impose socialism on the republic regardless of the U.S. Constitution.
Page, A Civic People of the United States, 12/10/19
Yesterday, I published my answer to Gerrit Bernards’ question https://www.quora.com/Is-there-no-rightand-wrong-without-some-authority-higher-than-humans? I wrote, “The U.S. Preamble does not specify standards by which performance of the 5 public disciplines may be measured. Perhaps percentage of fellow citizens participating in the U.S. Preamble’s proposition is the direct barometer and reflects the culture’s path to the-literal-truth.”
Consequently, I changed my interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition and elaborated more than usual, as follows:
“We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to maintain 5 public disciplines in order to encourage responsible human liberty to our continuum of living citizens. The 5 disciplines are integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity. Individual discipline to secure responsible human liberty is the temporally unaccepted American dream.”
My development of the above paragraph has taken about two decades. You can develop your interpretation much faster by merely considering the original with close attention to word definitions, phrases, and their logical arrangement. For example, Union, Justice, Tranquility, defence, and welfare constitute a family of public disciplines to establish and maintain freedom from civic, civil, or legal impositions, whereas liberty seems an inalienable human psychology which the individual cannot consign to another even if he or she wants to.
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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