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
Accepting the human equity proposed in the U.S. Preamble
The entity We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble is hard to accept. I know, because I tried to be both Mom’s Christian image for me and Dad’s Christian image for me for 5 decades. It took me half again as long to accept that my person prefers appreciation for whatever-God-is rather than homage to either the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus; the God of Abraham and Ishmael; or other God. I yield my opinion to the actual reality: whatever-God-is. I seek improvement to my interpretation of the U.S. Preamble through discussion with fellow citizens who are interested in civic integrity rather than infidelity.
Instead of beginning public meetings with prayer and pledge mimicking colonial-English tradition, American government meetings can begin with recitation of the U.S. Preamble, each citizen continually considering his or her civic interpretation.
Columns
Dissident to We the People of the United States (The Advocate) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_b9b2b7c6-4124-11ea-a04c-5bdc16a779ca.html?)
I agree: "It's ironic that your staff rails against Trump's "virus of uncertainty" in the business climate, as the stock market has continued to hit all-time highs on a regular basis throughout this tariff war."
Is The Advocate in the passion tribe with Adam Schiff? It seems so, and I work hard to persuade them to join We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble. Maybe start by publishing The Advocate's interpretation of the proposition. I interpret it as follows: 5 public disciplines establish and maintain responsible human liberty to living citizens.
Dissident to We the People of the United States (Joseph E. Bellande III) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_511217ea-3ba0-11ea-be68-1bba836d9665.html)
Many adults have never accepted their humanity, their citizenship, and their civic obligations.
Civic obligations were suggested by the Greeks in different venues over 2,400 years ago. The suggestions included, in my view, first, the civic citizen is humble to whatever-God-is rather than boastful about his or her God. Second, the civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or association. Third, the civic citizen pursues equity under statutory justice.
These civic obligations are covered in a people’s proposition to U.S. citizens in the U.S. Preamble. My interpretation for the lifestyle I pursue is: We the People of the United States voluntarily establish and maintain 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. The 5 disciplines do not include theism or any other spiritualism, leaving such pursuits a private choice.
Citizens who quote John Adams, Edmund Burke, James Madison, the Declaration of Independence, the Holy Bible, and many other obsolete references in order to dub the U.S. Preamble “secular” have not yet encountered the challenge of accepting humility before whatever-God-is. Therefore, they are dissidents against the entity We the People of the United States, nice as they otherwise may be.
The entity We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble is hard to accept. I know, because I tried to be both Mom’s Christian image for me and Dad’s Christian image for me for 5 decades. It took me half again as long to accept that my person prefers appreciation for whatever-God-is rather than homage to either the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus; the God of Abraham and Ishmael; or other God. I yield my opinion to the actual reality: whatever-God-is. I seek improvement to my interpretation of the U.S. Preamble through discussion with fellow citizens who are interested in civic integrity rather than infidelity.
Regardless of my ignorance to the-literal-truth, I encourage every U.S. citizen to develop his or her interpretation of the 52-word U.S. Preamble and vote so as to encourage elected and appointed officials in local, state, and national governments and hold the press responsible to either practice the proposition that is offered U.S. citizens or anticipate personal woe at some future time. The first point to understand is that we are "our Posterity" to the framers and therefore are the current "ourselves" who trust-in and commit-to the 5 public disciplines in order to encourage responsible human liberty.
Quora
https://www.quora.com/In-your-opinion-is-American-society-really-becoming-all-the-more-divided-If-so-then-what-do-you-think-will-come-of-it-in-the-near-future?
I don’t know the-literal-truth.
I think “social science,” which I view manipulated statistics, has influenced the media to erroneously think that public policy is determined by public opinion; social science controls public polls; and the press promotes the manipulated statistics so as to control public policy.
Further, the artificial news in America seems owned and controlled by alien companies who ignorantly want Americans to suffer the world’s ruinous opinions rather than pursue the-objective-truth which often leads to human discovery of the-literal-truth.
For example, Adam Schiff’s 3-year quest to impeach President Trump seems to invite the epithet “traitor” in the passion to manipulate public opinion so as to unconstitutionally remove Trump from office. Foreign owners of U.S. media support Schiff’s un-American quest.
I think the media’s regression into irresponsibility to the America proposition is at an abyss, and an achievable better future is imminent but waiting for widespread articulation of what most people want. (Incidentally, I think one of the amendment of U.S. Amendment I will be to limit freedom of the press to responsible human liberty.)
Most Americans want mutual, comprehensive safety and security, and most adults and families think their lifestyle expresses civic integrity. Unfortunately, political regimes since 1787 have done all they can to preserve colonial-British, traditional dependence on higher power rather than encourage the American proposal: responsible human liberty through specific public disciplines. Human liberty is available to all citizens who accept it. So, it is a matter of consideration and acceptance of an American dream. In other words, it seems obvious that whatever-God-is assigns to human individuals the responsibility for civic integrity and justice.
This American dream is offered for each citizen’s use in the U.S. Preamble, which I interpret for my lifestyle and for my connection to fellow citizens as follows: We the People of the United States voluntarily establish and practice 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. The U.S. Preamble offers no standards: Perhaps extent of participation in responsible liberty is the measure of progress toward the ultimate majority. Hopefully, the entity We the People of the United States as defined by the U.S. Preamble will break the 2/3 threshold in a couple years then gradually approach percentile participation in the high nineties. It seems there will always be some fellow citizens who require the constraint of statutory justice.
The expected human life is so brief! The U.S. Preamble’s proposition seems hard to practice: It requires discipline for a complete human life rather than for ultimate appetite-satisfaction before death. Only the aware and encouraged citizen can accept his or her interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition and enjoy its rewards: civic integrity with responsible pursuit of individual happiness rather than submission to some else’s dream for him or her.
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-agree-or-disagree-with-this-statement-All-people-are-created-equal-Why?
I do not know the-literal-truth.
I think every ovum is unique. Insemination, gestation, and delivery does not lessen the individuality of the infant. Neither does his or her environment lessen his or her uniqueness.
I think every person has the human individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than wander into infidelity. Very few humans accept HIPEA and develop integrity.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-improve-the-level-of-basic-civics-education-in-the-United-States-of-America?
The first step is to encourage every citizen to interpret the U.S. Preamble so as to empower his or her pursuit of individual happiness with civic integrity.
The phrase in the U.S. Preamble that can inspire living families and individuals is “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” In other words, we are the “ourselves” to the framers’ “Posterity.” What the framers imagined for 12 generations removed from their time is not pertinent to the constitutional amendments living fellow citizens need. Preserving tradition must not delay the march toward statutory justice. Our grandchildren deserve freedom-from the $23 trillion in debt we continue to increase so that they may have the liberty-to pursue integrity rather than submit to imposition.
My interpretation today is: We the People of the United States voluntarily establish and maintain 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. The 5 disciplines do not include theism or any other spiritualism, leaving such pursuits a private choice. The U.S. Preamble does not offer standards of achievement, perhaps implying that the extent and quality of responsible human liberty being practiced is how progress may be measured.
I think U.S. citizens are grouped in thirds: the entity We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble, passive citizens, and dissident fellow citizens. Once 2/3 of citizens have a personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble, elected and appointed political offices will be dominated by the entity We the People of the United States, and an achievable better future will emerge.
Instead of beginning public meetings with prayer and pledge mimicking colonial-English tradition, American government meetings can begin with recitation of the U.S. Preamble, each citizen continually considering his or her civic interpretation.
With acceleration of this message, the change can happen in only a few years or less. Acceptance of self-discipline in order to empower human liberty is hard to take, as we may observe from neglect of the U.S. Preamble’s people’s proposition since June 21, 1788, when 9 of 13 states established the USA as a global nation.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-reason-mankind-has-made-so-much-progress-in-hard-sciences-compared-to-the-progress-in-soft-sciences-eg-Political-Science-Education-Mental-Health-etc?
Perhaps physical evolution follows the laws of physics and its progeny (the object rather than the study) but psychological evolution requires acceptance of the laws of physics and thus, so far, lags technological progress.
It seems that humankind steadily progresses in psychological maturity, and some groups are at the leading edge of responsible human liberty while others remain in an oppressed state.
My global experience is too limited to guess where responsible human liberty dominates. I perceive most of the citizens of a country with human liberty would practice and promote self-discipline, and I don’t know where that is happening. I live in the USA, and think fellow citizens are divided into thirds: civic, passive, and negligent to responsible human liberty. It seems about 2/3 of fellow citizens do not accept being human.
It takes about 3 decades for a human infant to acquire the comprehension and intention to live a complete human life. By complete I mean to attain both chronological and psychological human maturity. Psychological maturity requires about six or more decades if it happens at all.
Psychological maturity is attained when the human accepts 1) the laws of physics (the object of study) and 2) being human. Being human requires acceptance of individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth. Political regimes encourage U.S. citizens to seek higher power.
The U.S. established a global nation on June 21, 1788, under a people’s proposition that is stated in the U.S. Preamble. However, the First Congress, 1789 -1793, suppressed the U.S. Preamble by labeling it “secular” whereas it is neutral to theism and other spiritualism. It is up to the individual citizen to consider the U.S. Preamble so as to discover his or her interpretation.
Fellow citizens may first realize that the object of the proposition is “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Families and individuals in 2020 are among the 12th generation since 1788. We are “our Posterity” to the 1788 generation and “ourselves” to our grandchildren and beyond. Second, 5 public disciplines to empower responsible human liberty to living citizens do not include theism or spirituality. Thus, those practices, if any, are private choices.
I write to encourage fellow citizens to accept responsible human liberty as proposed in the U.S. Preamble, and believe an achievable better future will begin in my lifetime.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-opinions-on-laws-that-prevent-you-from-doing-something-force-you-to-do-something-because-its-for-your-own-good?
When there’s a category 5 hurricane headed our way, I will obey the order to evacuate and have a full tank of gasoline, transportable food and water, and reservations for my family at a reasonable destination.
In general, I regard Maslow’s hierarchy as a supplemental guideline to human responsible liberty. The primary guide is the U.S. Preamble’s proposition: maintain 5 public disciplines in order to practice and encourage responsible human liberty.
The U.S. Preamble offers civic citizens civic, civil, and legal power. Civic citizens queue to enter sports events, observe traffic laws, and pay taxes due, for examples.
Civic integrity is the key to responsible pursuit of personal happiness instead of submitting to government coercion or force. Civic integrity is pursuing human equity under statutory justice.
Phil Beaver
On September 11, 1777, Redcoats fought
Americans at Brandywine. “Chester County, where the armies were facing each
other, lay in Quaker territory. A majority of these Quakers were pacifists. Yet
some of the residents offered their services to the British in other ways. A
quaker named Parks for instance divulged very specific route information.” https://www.ushistory.
org/march/phila/tobrandywine_9.htm
The next day, September 12, 1777 in
Philadelphia, Thomas Paine wrote “THOSE who expect to reap the blessings of
freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” https://www.ushistory.
org/paine/crisis/c-04.htm
On September 17, 1787, ten years later, 39 of 55 framers signed the U.S. Preamble with its amendable articles. Six months later, the First Congress (1789-1793) began restoring colonial-British traditions. They falsely dubbed the U.S. Preamble “secular” whereas it is neutral to theism, religion, spirituality, philosophy, and reason.
Each citizen has the duty to develop his or her interpretation of the U.S. Preamble so as to establish personal, civic integrity rather than yield to a doctrine such as defining whatever-God-is rather than appreciating and accepting the human individual power, energy and authority to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth.
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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