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
A cautionary view of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition seems to propose discipline.
Consider the goals proposed in the U.S. Preamble: Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defence, Welfare, and Liberty. We convert them into precautions: avoid deceit, injustice, disruption, weakness, poverty and dependence. Viewed this way, the preamble seems a proposition for discipline.
The U.S. Preamble so interpreted: We the People of the United States maintain the rule of law to encourage disciplined human independence to living citizens.
Columns
On the right path (Leila Pitchford) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/faith/article_5a7cdd72-529a-11ea-8222-07a54fe24ac7.html)
It’s good to have an authoritative list. “The seven deadly sins are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. They are considered deadly because Christians thought they had the power to kill the divine spirit in people.” In an afterthought, I perceive two groups: 4 civic jealousies and 3 personal indulgences.
This week, I interpreted six public-precautions from the U.S. Preamble’s proposition: deceit, injustice, disruption, weakness, poverty, and dependence. My list seems to define two groups of preventions: 3 public offenses and 3 personal indulgences.
I’d like to read the consensus list of disciplinary cautions according to the living U.S. civic citizens: We the People of the United States who trust-in, rely-on, and amend the U.S. Constitution toward the perfection of statutory justice. It seems obvious that whatever-God-is holds humankind responsible to develop statutory justice or the perfect law enforcement.
While I think Christians have the right to take responsibility for their divine spirits, civic integrity requires each to observe the precautions the individual Christian perceives in the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. It is deceitful to claim to be of We the People of the United States, never considering much less accepting the people’s proposition for equity under statutory justice. Aliens to statutory justice should not be allowed to vote; pray to a God that may not conform to whatever-God-is? yes: vote? no. Privately pray and publicly uphold statutory justice? Yes.
On the right path (Crystal Daniels) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_792d2ac0-51ae-11ea-827b-eff198b367c6.html?)
Excellent as her ideas are, Daniels only starts on the path to improved education of children (and adults like me). Children need to comprehend actual reality and intend to live a complete human life by the time they enter chronological young adulthood.
Here’s a starting list of the basics of childhood encouragement and coaching. It’s shocking that we have not begun the reform that is available to U.S. citizens:
1. Accept
that you are a human being
a. The
most powerful species due to awareness and grammar
b. So
powerful that it takes 2 to 3 decades for a human infant to transition to a
young adult with comprehension and intent to develop integrity rather than
nourish infidelity
i. Human
individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) enables a person to choose to
develop criminality instead of civic integrity
ii. Neither
whatever-God-is nor government usurps a person’s HIPEA to choose
c. The
collective purpose of a civic culture is individual self-discipline so as to
develop responsible human independence. (See the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.)
2. A
favorable option for each human lifetime is heterosexual monogamy for life
a. This
fact is founded in physics, the object of discovery, and its progeny including
biology and psychology.
i. Rationalization
can inspire people to erroneously resist physics.
ii. Resisting
physics does not alter the laws of physics. For example, “fly like a bird” begs
woe.
b. The
decision to consider intimate conversation with a person should be founded in
the potential for monogamy for life.
i. Heterosexual
monogamy may involve conception and child-rearing.
1. The
woman’s viable ova are due human appreciation, equity, and dignity
2. A
potential spouse who does not appreciate human ova is not a promising candidate
for intimacy
3. Heterosexual
spouses share their monogamy for life with their children, grandchildren, and
beyond
ii. Homosexual monogamy upholds the dignity and
equity of each human ovum.
Louisiana is at a pivotal time with
so many positions open in education departments. Let’s reform them to the Department
of Human Encouragement.
I’m writing for you, Gov. Edwards.
Did they neglect the U.S. Preamble? (Walter Williams) (http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams021220.php3)
We’ve had over 231 years to consider the choice that is offered in the U.S. Preamble. Did “A More or less Perfect Union” or Walter Williams consider it? It seems not.
“Ginsburg explores freedom of the press and religion, slavery and civil rights, the Second Amendment, separation of powers and the . . . framers sought to limit the power of the federal government.”
Patrick Henry was not a framer; https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/founding-fathers. In fact, his resistance delayed Virginia’s ratification making New Hampshire the 9th required state to establish the USA as a global nation on June 21, 1788. Virginia suffered the chagrin of joining the USA on June 25, 1788; https://www.thoughtco.com/ratification-order-of-constitution-105416.
It is egregious to continue to exploit African slavery as America’s original sin when European countries, dominantly England, colonized this land using slaves. Freemen realized they were being enslaved as overseers of the doctrine of discovery (for God’s kingdom) and rebelled. The unbiased history shows that the Civil War was Christian bloodletting by white supremacy believers against the abolitionists. Consider Bleeding Kansas, R. E. Lee’s letter to his wife in December, 1856, and the Declaration of Secession.
The Bill of Rights attempted to re-establish the colonial-British traditions in the 13 eastern seaboard states. Patrick Henry and others pushed it to repress the preamble with its elevation of We the People of the United States over the 13 free and independent states. Whereas the framers were apolitical, and after Benjamin Franklin’s failed motion for daily prayer areligious, the First Congress unconstitutionally established a church-state partnership by tradition to compete with England’s Church-of-England-Parliament constitutional partnership.
We the People of the United States must require, by our votes, Congress to reform to America’s proposition as stated in the preamble instead of the Chapter XI Machiavellian preservation of English psychology in America. Every Senator must either conduct himself or herself first as a member of We the People of the United States or else not be electable. Any elected or appointed official who claims allegiance to his or her religion over and above We the People of the United States must be fired from office. Like it or not, even Mormon “saints” must be first a citizen rather than an alien to the preamble’s proposition. This is a shocking proposal, but the sooner it happens, the sooner America’s promises can be effected after over 231 years of repression by Congress.
Also see https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/programs/perfect_union/index.php for more about the TV show and https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V1JSVWD/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 about the book.
Posted, excluding the last paragraph, at the above URL for Jewish World Review.
Quora
https://www.quora.com/Are-you-a-bad-person-if-you-are-against-freedom-of-expression?
No. Speakers may be held responsible for the consequences of their expressions.
A few example should suffice. The person who falsely yells “Fire” in a public place, causing trampling injuries and deaths should lose independence.
The man who said “Give me liberty or give me death,” should be defamed for the will to abandon his wife and six children. If the statement was insincere, it counted for nothing and should again be defamed.
Nancy Pelosi stated that impeachment of a U.S. President should be bipartisan but then used Adam Schiff and other Democrats to construct a false impeachment should be impeached.
Adam Schiff, who is a blatant liar to both Congress and to We the People of the United States should be tried for his crimes.
Media who have conspired to “leak” false reports to help institutional liars should be fined a year’s revenues.
The Alinsky-Marxist organizer who applies for a permit for a public disturbance that results in injury, property loss, or death should serve jail time.
The spirit of the French Revolution---public disturbance for egocentric “liberty” and “solidarity”---should be defamed by humankind, let alone living French citizens.
The artist who depicts gruesome behavior that is enacted by a fellow citizen should serve jail time. We know that people ought to be moral despite suggestions, but some people are not. The promoter of an art gathering that is expected to inspire injury, property damage, or death ought to serve jail time.
Those are some of my opinions: what are your opinions on your question?
https://www.quora.com/What-does-Camus-mean-when-he-posits-that-true-justice-cant-exist-without-also-upholding-true-liberty-Please-correct-me-if-I-misinterpreted-his-thought?
Camus died in 1960 at age 46 with opinions developed during about 30 years, assuming he, like other humans had to learn some basics about which to think. Humankind’s discoveries in the seven decades since his death are so astounding I would not spend much time pondering them.
Only in the past month, I have discovered that liberty is a form of license that can be used to coerce people. I would not join an Alinsky-Marxist organization (AMO) that routinely disrupts civic activity for the sake of liberty, as the French did in bloody ways in 1789. To this day, French politics is tainted by violent, bloody disruption.
My reform comes only a year after the 6th annual commemoration of June 21, 1788, the day 9 states legally established the U.S. as a global nation, leaving four free-and-independent-global-states according to the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Two states joined the USA before operations began on March 4, 1789, leaving 2 dissident states and an 11-state union.
The legal status of the union implies the U.S. Preamble is a civic, civil, and legal proposition. It’s object is “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Since we are “posterity” to the 1788 ratifiers, we are “ourselves” to future posterity.
In my cautionary interpretation of the preamble’s proposition, I have dropped “liberty” in favor of “independence,” which is prudent no matter what the AMO cause may be. Every citizens owes it to himself or herself to own and nourish an interpretation of the U.S. Preamble. Here’s my cautionary interpretation today: We the People of the United States intentionally discipline ourselves and encourage fellow citizens to both avoid and discourage deceit, injustice, disruption, weakness, and poverty in order to empower responsible human independence to living citizens.
I don’t think Camus’s opinions about liberty matter, and I would not dare try to correct your opinions about him or his ideas.
https://www.quora.com/Do-we-human-beings-have-significant-freedom?
Yes, and more important is responsible independence. However, most citizens erroneously prefer to seek higher power than connect for mutual, comprehensive safety and security to each other. Physics and its progeny biology and psychology require humankind to provide safety and security. However, to do so requires civic integrity, and so far, no culture encourages people to develop integrity. We work to change that.
Through evolution, the leading edge of human beings have the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or nourish infidelity. A few persons discover HIPEA, accept it, and live by responsible human independence. The majority does not accept HIPEA because they never discovered it and their culture does not encourage them to consider it. Many cultures teach their young to consign their human independence to a higher power---whatever-God-is or government.
The few who accept their HIPEA either choose to develop integrity or to take advantage of the many who neglect HIPEA. Of the latter group, some think crime pays and a few exercise tyranny.
Tyranny takes many forms, for example, partnership by church and state in a nation that has a God that the people hold superior to whatever-God-is. I call this form of tyranny Chapter XI Machiavellianism (The Prince, 1513).
Most believers are so enslaved to their hopes for a favorable afterdeath that they dedicate their lives so that ministers and government officials can live high on the hog. Believers neither rebel, nor leave the country, nor reform “freedom of religion” to opportunity to develop integrity.
In the USA, we promote the U.S. Preamble as the proposition for civic integrity. . A cautionary interpretation is instructive, and mine today is: We the People of the United States intentionally discipline ourselves and encourage fellow citizens to both avoid and discourage deceit, injustice, disruption, weakness, and poverty in order to empower responsible human independence to living citizens.
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-in-equality-of-opportunity-or-equality-of-outcome-Why?
I try to avoid claiming I believe anything, so as to reserve trust-in and commitment-to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth. Humankind continually invents instruments by which to perceive the-objective-truth so as to gradually approach the-literal-truth.
Each human ovum is unique, and insemination, attachment, gestation, and delivery does not lessen the newborn’s singularity among humans. The person who cries for equality has not accepted his or her human individuality.
The newborn is in a unique environment according to his or her care giver(s) and despite the environment he or she needs to develop the understanding that he or she is a human, a member of the species with superior awareness to other species and grammar by which he or she may exchange comprehension and intentions with fellow humans. In this human connection, he or she has the human individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity.
Not every human discovers HIPEA and few choose integrity. However, on this choice the human chooses a complete human life or not. Neither society nor whatever-God-is will usurp the human being’s choice to develop integrity or not.
I hope I have shown convincingly that neither equality of opportunity nor equality of outcome is feasible for human beings. Even equity is contingent on external forces and cannot be provided.
Perhaps the meaning of a human life is to discover and accept HIPEA and use it to develop integrity so as to make the most joy. It seems a good basis for an achievable civic culture wherein citizens are encouraged to behave with responsible human independence.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-look-down-on-those-that-dont-contribute-to-society?
During adolescence, we get the message that we owe it to each other to clean our own plow. So we enter young adulthood with the intent to behave for a complete lifetime so as to always take care of ourselves and help each other when we can. It seems reasonable that everyone will feel the same way, and when an individual thinks otherwise, we feel they are begging woe that might inspire their reform. We let resting logs die.
When we are discouraged and don’t want to get out of bed something reminds us that worse things have happened to better people. At that moment, we get up and take action. Perhaps foolishly, we think all humans should be able to reach that conclusion.
Perhaps in both cases we are independently trying to encourage the dissident to be responsibly human more than responding to someone else’s idea as to how we should behave.
https://www.quora.com/Is-justice-or-a-sense-of-justice-the-most-fundamental-moral-principle?
Maybe so, but I doubt it. Acceptance seems important.
The person needs to accept that he or she is a human being. The human being is the only species with the awareness and grammar by which to develop integrity.
To develop integrity the human individual accepts his or her power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) and uses it to avoid infidelity.
The civic citizen accepts equity under written law and helps improve toward the perfection of statutory justice. He or she neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or association.
The prudent person accepts that he or she does not know the mystery: whatever-God-is.
Perhaps justice is a consequence of mutually accepting responsible human independence.
https://www.quora.com/What-single-object-has-most-impacted-humankind?
Imagination about the unknowns of physics and its progeny such as chemistry, biology, and psychology. The constructed mystery whatever-God-is comes to mind.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-first-step-to-losing-democracy?
The quick answer is: unlimited license to vote. I develop my response below.
First, I’d like to understand your meaning of “losing democracy.” The USA is a republic under the rule of law, not a democracy.
Merriam-Webster online has first “government . . . especially rule of the majority” and second “government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.” These two definitions describe governments wherein the people may vote; in the first, majority vote rules and in the second, representatives rule based on their interpretation of the people’s vote (or not). Neither of these democracies is worthy of support by the people, as either one develops chaos rather than discipline. The problem is that the majority want to vote but very few citizens do the work so as to make certain they are voting to favor discipline for self, living family, descendants, and future immigrants.
Discipline seems the reason the 55 framers---moreover the 39 signers---of the U.S. Constitution designed and guaranteed a republican form of government. Fortunately, acceptance of discipline was abstractly expressed by the 5-member Committee of Style during September 8-11, 1787. Their posterity (living citizens from then to now and beyond) may be grateful that 9 of 13 former British colonies ratified the amendable 1787 U.S. Constitution, with its abstract preamble (the U.S. Preamble).
U.S. citizens owe it to themselves---are civically, civilly, and legally obligated---to interpret the U.S. Preamble so as to order their civic lives. Thereby, fellow citizens may pursue individual happiness with civic integrity rather than submit to the happiness the majority or a coalition of minorities would impose on them. Like traffic fines, citizens who are ignorant of the U.S. Preamble pay the price anyway.
I like my current interpretation of the U.S. Preamble and discovered yesterday that negatives help express its proposition for personal and collective discipline: We the People of the United States establish written-law enforcement so as to pursue statutory justice (perfect law) while constraining deception, injustice, disturbance, weakness, poverty, and dependence. These six disciplines are my 2020 application of the 1787 goals: Unity, Justice, Tranquillity, defence, Welfare, and Liberty. However, I want to recite the 1787 U.S. Preamble at public events. Fellow citizens would mentally express their personal interpretations to accommodate their lifestyles within the disciplines originally expressed.
The U.S. is a republic (Article VI) under the rule of law and discipline of by and for the people. It was viable from June 21, 1788 until March 4, 1789, when Congress restored colonial-British American traditions as much as possible. The U.S. Preamble was falsely labeled “secular” whereas it is neutral to religion---assigns it to the privacy of the individual citizen. Our generation can restore the U.S. Preamble’s civic, civil, and legal power.
I work to persuade Americans to practice the U.S. Preamble’s disciplines in order to establish republican discipline of by and for the people.
Just as citizens and visitors must be licensed and own liability insurance to drive a vehicle in public, citizens must consider the U.S. Preamble’s proposition and interpret it so as to order their civic, civil, and legal conduct. Religion or none is a private pursuit. Demonstration more than declaration of this commitment to discipline of by and for the people should be required for a license to vote.
Rule of the majority may be the world’s worst form of political tyranny and chaos. Loss of republican order begins when existence, chronological adulthood, and no felony convictions are adequate to grant license to vote.
Rule by Congress since 1789 has brought the U.S. Chapter XI Machiavellianism by tradition to a state of chaos. Adoption of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition for civic, civil, and legal discipline offers relief from the divergent control we are experiencing. European democracies and other foreign tyrannies love the U.S. misery.
Let’s reform today.
https://www.quora.com/Does-immunizing-democracies-against-disinformation-from-below-require-trusting-citizens-and-civil-society-rather-than-viewing-them-as-a-fickle-mob?
Fellow citizens may consider the cumulative suggestions humankind has already expressed, including the following:
1. The
human being must accept his or her individual power, energy, and authority
(HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-literal-truth.
2. Civic
citizens behave for equity under statutory justice, the perfection of written
law enforcement.
3. Civic
citizens neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person or
association.
4. In
humility toward whatever-God-is, the civic citizen accepts responsible human
independence.
5. In
the USA, each citizen may accept or reject the opportunity to pursue an individual
interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
U.S.
Citizens who are not behaving according to their personal interpretation of the
U.S. Preamble are members of a fickle mob rather than connected to We the
People of the United States. In this, the U.S. republic, such citizens should
not be allowed to vote.
https://www.quora.com/What-happens-to-my-vote-if-I-dont-use-it?
By not voting, a citizen submits to citizens who lessen a freedom from oppression. Your vote might have preserved the freedom.
As an example, in 2018, judges and trial lawyers in Louisiana influence victims of crime that if on criminal trial they would want a unanimous jury verdict or elimination of all doubt. However, crime victims are never on trial for crime, and the unanimous jury verdict empowers organized crime to dominate courts.
Louisiana’s majority verdicts, 9:3 in 1880, was a unique state treasure born of the fact that Louisiana was originally a French colony rather than an eastern-seaboard British colony. England reformed to 10:2 majority verdicts in 1967, and Louisiana moved to 10:2 in 1970 with U.S. Supreme Court approval in 1972.
https://www.quora.com/As-a-student-of-mass-communication-study-sociology-of-the-family-how-will-you-change-the-society?
I work to persuade human cultures to teach their youth to accept being a human being.
No other species has the human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity, and many people unfortunately use HIPEA to either develop or drift into infidelity. The consequence is the chaos the world is now experiencing.
Second, the person who develops integrity may use the proposition that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, as he or she interprets it, to pursue individual happiness with civic integrity and encourage fellow citizens to also join the entity We the People of the United States.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-about-Social-Justice-Day?
Social justice day is just another organization for inequity among human beings: civic pacifists beg citizens of responsible human independence to pay the pacifists’ means of living.
We understand that many human beings connect for equity under statutory justice and that some people think crime pays.
Many human individuals accept their power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity. They apply Maslow’s hierarchy for personal and collective responsibility more than need. Thus, such individuals always make certain they earn enough to pay for their way of living, including educating their progeny, and saving for retirement. In addition, they accept the responsibility for statutory law enforcement and encourage criminals to reform. Many people are pacifists to amendment of unjust law enforcement so as to develop the perfection of statutory justice.
Among the most egregious offenders against humankind are the political tyrants who combine criminal elements and pacifists so as to abuse the people who use HIPEA of by and for integrity. Their greatest strength is to appeal to the passions of the pacifists in order to enlist their help for the criminals. They sponsor Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO) that use disruption of civic integrity to advance a cause. “Liberty” can be a bloody, erroneous cause.
Social Justice Day is an AMO-like organization. People who are interested in responsible human independence do well to avoid AMO.
https://www.quora.com/In-today-s-modern-society-what-form-of-social-control-is-applicable-or-effective-in-resolving-criminality?
Today, cultures inculcate living errors such that the young must achieve the nearly impossible: 1) accept that their culture practices errors, 2) overcome personal indoctrination into those errors, 3) learn the-objective-truths humankind has already discovered, 4) accept that he or she is a human individual and therefore has the power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to either develop integrity to the-literal-truth or nourish infidelity, and 5) choose to practice integrity. The consequence of teaching error is the civic chaos we are experiencing.
Starting now, cultures can reverse this process by changing Education Departments to Encouragement Departments with immediate emphasis on adult encouragement and gradual shift toward encouraging youth, without neglecting adults.
In a well-designed system, so as to relate to both chronological and psychological maturity, Encouragement Departments transfer humankind’s understanding and facts based on the-objective-truth, leaving beliefs, fiction, opinion, and bad intentions as subjects being promoted by others. Beyond this mundane task is the responsibility to approve and encourage these human principles:
1. No
one has discovered whatever-God-is, and it is important to accept that
whatever-God-is may not approve of a particular personal God. If an individual
develops spiritual beliefs, it is prudent to reserve humility toward
whatever-God-is.
2. Compared
to the human species, other living beings are unfortunate in that they do not
have the awareness and grammar by which human individuals may discover and
practice integrity.
3. It
is critical to the human to accept that he or she has the individual power, the
individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity.
Looking to higher authority is self-defeating, because no known higher
authority is trust worthy for the individual.
4. Humans
who use HIPEA to develop integrity (civic people) are characterized by some
principles, including:
a. The
civic citizen behaves to increase statutory justice, the perfection of law
enforcement.
b. The
civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or
association. Hopefully, a word is sufficient. If not, defensive strength is
sufficient to repel the offender’s attack.
c. Despite
pursuit of private happiness, the civic citizen trusts-in and commits-to a
public agreement for mutual, comprehensive safety and security. For example, a
civic citizen’s private hopes and comforts concerning afterdeath do not
compromise his or her civic integrity.
i. In
the USA, the citizen’s agreement to civic integrity is offered in the preamble
to the U.S. Constitution. On acceptance of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition, the
fellow citizen chooses whether or not he or she is a member of the entity We
the People of the United States as defined in the US Preamble.
ii. Intentionally
or not, the U.S. Preamble is an abstract sentence that addresses living
citizens rather than “founding fathers” or other historical persons. Therefore,
each living citizen may interpret the sentence for personal use or not. In my
interpretation, the U.S. Preamble proposes responsible human independence. If
so, the irresponsible citizen chooses dependence in some form.
iii. The
U.S. Preamble does not specify standards of achievement for the six public
disciplines it offers of by and for the people. Perhaps the development of
responsible human independence is the measure of progress.
5. The
culture that adopts these principles or better may have an achievable, better
future, because the children who face issues their parents and teachers could
not imagine are empowered with HIPEA and many will develop integrity. The few
who choose or drift-into infidelity will be encouraged to reform by the happier
livelihood they see around them.
Law professors
https://www.lawliberty.org/liberty-classic/james-fenimore-cooper-and-the-american-experiment
Professor Matthes adds to my recent discovery that despite my short fascination with “responsible human liberty” as the object of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition to living citizens I prefer “responsible human independence.”
Past revolutions for liberty involved preference for death (American Revolution of 1774) or blood (French revolution of 1789). See my essay at https://promotethepreamble.blogspot.com/2020/02/nationally-accepting-responsible-human.html. A chief difference regarding “the right thing to do” is that liberty can be license to harm others or self (Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death.”) whereas independence implies resisting liberty to avoid harm to or from any person or association.
Often, professors’ essays are proprietary to academia's acceptance of the writer’s agenda and are thus often constrained to the past. And the public can’t understand. For example, “humanity’s natural justice” invokes conformity to “natural law,” an often erroneous 15th century expression of unchanging human morality constructed by reason. In 2020, it is more promising to consider the evolution of the human species as intentional compliance with the laws of physics (the object of discovery) so that human psychology gradually approaches statutory justice.
The quote, ”Nature has rendered man incapable of enjoying …” can be interpreted as follows: The laws of physics and its progeny, psychology, constrain the human individual to neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person or association so as to maintain the independence to develop integrity.
And”Liberty is not a matter of words, but . . .” may be interpreted as follows: Responsible human independence is so civically beneficial that when it is publicly encouraged, citizens require both elected and appointed officials to uphold the rule of law.
A Greek, 2400 years ago, suggested that humankind can develop equity under statutory justice. In the USA, the proposition to develop statutory justice is stated in the U.S. Preamble, which each citizen must interpret if he or she intends to order his or her civic life. A cautionary interpretation is instructive, and mine today is: We the People of the United States intentionally discipline ourselves and encourage fellow citizens to both avoid and discourage deceit, injustice, disruption, weakness, and poverty in order to empower responsible human independence to living citizens.
https://www.lawliberty.org/2020/02/12/the-inescapable-particularity-of-strong-gods from last week
To Colin O’Keefe:
Your stand is no good to me and I doubt it’s good for your citizenship. From my perspective, Christian religious communities are entitled to the hope and comfort they place in Jesus as long as they do not use it to abuse fellow citizens who practice civic integrity.
Some Greeks suggested 2400 years ago that humans may pursue equity under statutory justice; that no one knows whatever-God-is; and that an independently responsible human being neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or association.
In the U.S. the proposition that meets the above principles is the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which must be interpreted by the individual human citizen. My cautionary interpretation today is: We the People of the United States intentionally discipline ourselves and encourage fellow citizens to both avoid and discourage deceit, injustice, disruption, weakness, and poverty in order to empower responsible human independence to living citizens.
The U.S. Preamble does not specify standards by which performance may be measured. Perhaps the proportion of citizens who practice responsible human independence is the implied measure.
From my view, the person who claims to be a member of We the People of the United States but tries to ignore the precautions he or she observes in the U.S. Preamble is a dissident if not an alien. The deception is especially egregious when a Christian community ignores the Holy Bible that the rest of us read.
The Apostle John’s writings are especially egregious and divisive for humans who choose the humility to admit they trust-in and commit-to whatever-God-is. The most offensive passage addresses disciples of Jesus in John 15:18-23, CJB: “If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would have loved its own. But because you do not belong to the world — on the contrary, I have picked you out of the world — therefore the world hates you. Remember what I told you, `A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours too. But they will do all this to you on my account, because they don’t know the One who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t be guilty of sin; but now, they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also.”
Hate is common to John’s writing, but I reject his hate along with all the rest. I prefer to appreciate my fellow responsible citizens, without probing their private pursuits such as religion or spirituality.
A second egregious practice by some Christian individuals is to ignore precautions plainly stated in the Holy Bible perhaps 3700 years ago. For example, Genesis 1:26-28, CJB, “Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.’ So God created humankind in his own image; in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. God blessed them: God said to them, ‘Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth.’”
I expect Christians and every special-interest association who practice civic integrity to accept that whatever-God-is assigned to humans the duty to discipline self and encourage fellow citizens to both avoid and discourage deceit, injustice, disruption, weakness, and poverty in order to empower responsible human independence to living citizens.
Citizens choose whether they are of We the People of the United States (or another nation’s civic, civil, and legal proposition) or not. The Christian who uses pursuit of egocentrically favorable afterdeath as an excuse to refuse to “fill the earth and subdue it” along with fellow citizens (and more egregiously if he or she accuses non-believers of hatred), is an alien to the U.S. proposition, civic integrity, and human justice.
I urge readers to own a personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition and publish it so as to thereby encourage fellow citizens.
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Nationally accepting the U.S. Preamble offers each citizen an achievable better future
Civic, civil, and legal subject, predicate, and object of the U.S. Constitution’s proposition:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
An affirmative interpretation for living citizens:
We the People of the United States intentionally discipline ourselves and encourage fellow citizens to integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity in order to empower responsible human independence to living citizens.
A cautionary interpretation:
We the People of the United States intentionally discipline ourselves and encourage fellow citizens to avoid and discourage deceit, injustice, disruption, weakness, and poverty in order to empower responsible human independence to living citizens.
Let’s establish this citizens’ purpose after neglect since June 21, 1788. Let voters choose candidates for election based on whether or not the platform reviews conduct and intentions that conform to the U.S. Preamble according to the candidate’s interpretation.
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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