Saturday, March 27, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court exacerbates Chapter XI Machiavellian chaos

 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 interpretation of its proposal as follows:  "The good People of these" united states facilitate and encourage five civic disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, "in order to” develop responsible human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.”  I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and 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 U.S. Supreme Court exacerbates Chapter XI Machiavellian chaos

It occurred to me this week that judges are more culpable than both priests and politicians in regressing the U.S. from its proffered intention to develop responsible-human-independence in conformity to standards to be discovered by future “ourselves and our Posterity” rather than preserve Anglo-American law.

I have long perceived that James Madison was aware of Machiavelli’s Chapter XI irony concerning governance by a priest-politician-partnership. The partnership lives high on the hog and fellow-citizens neither rebel nor emigrate, maintaining faith that their family-God will eventually relieve their descendants’ misery and loss.

The people ignore the 4500 year-old political philosophy in Genesis 1, which suggests that the-God assigns to human-beings the responsibility for order on earth. The Sumerian suggestion predates Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. There was a brief time, perhaps a thousand years, when humankind could have accepted the Genesis 1 necessity to establish peace on earth. However, individual tribes focused on attempts to harness the-God so as to usurp responsible-human-independence; to subjugate others to their-God-led tribe, despite the-God. The consequence is chaos that is divergent in 2021.

Events before 1774 convinced the USA-founders that they must establish humility toward both humankind and the-God; physics and metaphysics; civic-church and civil-state. Therefore, nothing in the 1776 declaration of war against England disparaged England’s reformed-Catholic Trinity. And in 1778, the founders negotiated military-providence from France. Ratifying the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the 13 free and independent states accepted that their confederation was too weak for global survival.

The framers, in 1787 specified a federal-republic with the states in a Union led by 3 equal and competitive branches: legislative, judicial, and administrative. Five days before the signers finalized the 1787 U.S. Constitution, the preamble became a statement of purpose: five public disciplines “in order to” develop responsible-human-independence according to standards to be discovered by “ourselves and our Posterity”.

When Congress unconstitutionally re-established English legal precedents, the Supreme Court should have rendered the acts unconstitutional. Under “the rule of law” the Supreme Court so thoroughly bemuses itself with precedents that it is confused when a man, persuaded by a metaphysical entrepreneurship, claims the right to be a woman.

Since 1513, Chapter XI Machiavellianism focused on the clergy-politician-conspiracy.  It’s time to recognize the court’s collaboration against the people, so far. I hope we, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” demand amendment of the First Amendment so as to encourage and facilitate civic humble-integrity rather than civil religious-opinion.  

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-honour-is-the-highest-virtue? by Paul Lucy Savage

No. Each ethics and honor may be subjective.

Merriam-Webster Online has usage 8.a, “keen sense of ethical conductINTEGRITY.”

However, the integrity must be humble to physics and its progeny, including biology and psychology. Humble-integrity is the standard by which a person may gauge their personal-integrity.

Second, the ethics on which honor may be granted must be founded on the-ineluctable-evidence; never on metaphysics.

I think the greatest honor is to continually develop the humble-integrity required for responsible-human-independence. Thereby, an individual may perfect their unique person before dying.

FB add on:  Perhaps the greatest virtue is to continually develop humble-integrity during life.

https://www.quora.com/Did-human-rights-exist-before-the-UDHR? by Maciah MacPherson

Yes.

However, “rights” is a human construct by which the authors intend to arbitrarily bemuse most people’s attention to necessity, in order to license the authors. I think the only valid human right is inalienable/un-consignable; the human opportunity to-develop humble-integrity and to-constrain chaos in personal living cannot be consigned to another.

Necessity requires the entity female&male-human-being to constrain chaos. That is, each human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop the humble-integrity with which to practice, encourage, and facilitate responsible-human-independence (RHI) during life.

However, physics and its progeny such as psychology are imperfect, and not every person accepts these four human conditions: that they are a human being, that humble-integrity is in their self-interest, that they may use HIPEA to perfect their person before death, and if so, they can develop statutory-justice to-necessity, in order to constrain RHI-dissidents. Dissidents are in one way or another dependent on fellow-citizens. For example, the criminal needs a victim.

Thinkers who perceive these political theories could encourage an achievable better future. However, deep-thinkers prefer power and develop poverty, war, religion, ideology, and other means to bemuse and control fellow-citizens. A perfectly powerful political partnership may be entered by priests, politicians, and judges. The people inculcate in their children religious faith that ultimately the family-God will usurp RHI. Families neither rebel nor leave the country, and the priest- politician-judge-partnership lives high on the hog with immunity.

The UDHR is a consequence of the rule of judges’-law, a human construct that wraps on itself and drifts so far from physics as to facilitate metaphysical-industry, such as the one that offers gender-change for sale.

In the U.S., the evil First-Amendment-religion-clauses empowered the priest-politician-judge chaos that has develop since March, 1788, when 11 of 13 formerly free and independent states seated the first Congress and began to restore Anglo-American tradition (reformed Catholic/Protestant Christianity but with USA-factions) rather than embark on U.S. intentions (RHI). At the soonest possible moment, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 must effect amendment of the First Amendment, in order to encourage and facilitate civic integrity rather than religious opinion (a private, optional pursuit).

Evidence that the U.S., on September 17, 1787, embarked on development of RHI is in perhaps three documents. First, is 4500 year-old Sumerian political thought, in Genesis 1:27-28:  Female&male-human-being is charged to constrain chaos on earth. However, descendant tribes divided by creating a doctinal-God that would favor their tribe. But in 1776; the founders’ declaration of war against England and their 1782 appeal for French military-providence affirms the Genesis-1 separation of church and state. And the signers’ 1787 U.S. Constitution offered not one word that lessens the humble-integrity of the founders’ 1776 declaration. So far, fellow-citizens have not effected the 1787 intentions.

Each person who accepts that she or he is a human-being has the right to constrain chaos in her or his life, notwithstanding a confused world.

FB add on: The human right to constrain chaos in living is a unique, personal self-interest.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-benefits-of-volunteerism-to-society? by Francis Obieze

I don’t know. But my view is that it’s a big negative, especially when it escalates to “philanthropy”.

Necessity and power require female&male-human-being to constrain chaos on earth (Genesis 1:27-28 for example of primitive political philosophy). Throughout evolution, it has been plain to the individual that constraining chaos in lifestyle is a self-interest. Further, the human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop the humble-integrity with which to practice responsible-human-independence (RHI). So the first valid volunteerism is to develop the self-discipline to responsibly earn the way of living one desires. That is, to provide a good or service that fellow-citizens are willing to buy during enough years to pay the provider’s family-living and responsible retirement.

People who do not appreciate this human self-interest acquire and nurture dependency of two kinds: neglect and intent. Intent develops in to crime, tyranny, evil, and worse, unless constrained by statutory law-enforcement. People who indiscriminately volunteer exacerbate dependency of both kinds.

The U.S. Constitution, being based on legal constructs rather than physics and its source (“Nature and nature’s God”), is manipulated to restore English precedents, primarily elites vs the middle class mimicking lords/clergy vs commoners. Consequently, the U.S. generates millionaires and billionaires on entrepreneurship and entertainment and their managers. Included is tax favor for philanthropy.

Philanthropy empowers the ultra-rich to defeat the 1787 U.S. intention to develop statutory justice. I’m reminded of George Soros who has $8.5 billion but donated $32 billion to Open Society Foundations. I don’t know, but understand he influences leftist politics. The Democrat party seems alien to U.S. intentions: public discipline so as to develop RHI.

In summary, the volunteerism I favor is fellow citizens both initiating no harm and opposing harm to or from any person or group.

I oppose the Democrat Party and work to reform the Republican Party. I work to end the religion-Congress partnership that repressed the 1787 U.S. intentions and purpose. Even more culpable than Congress is the Supreme Court, who develop the law in defiance of physics and its progeny, including biology, psychology, and economic viability.

FB add on: I don’t think volunteerism is the apple pie it’s purported to be.

https://www.quora.com/Explain-the-paradox-of-sharing-your-right-with-another-and-yet-fully-having-it-What-is-the-moral-truth-behind-this-paradox-Illustrate-by-giving-example? by Yuri Beast

Maybe it’s folly more than paradox.

The notion that the-God or a government will assure a person life, liberty, property, or the pursuit of happiness is certainly a foolhardy notion. Consider the citizens who were killed by Democrat-sponsored license to the liberty-to trash property and injure and kill fellow citizens in the U.S. during summer, 2020.

The “rights of man” is a political propaganda developed by elite writers in Europe’s enlightenment era. In 2021, some would-be elites propose the “right” to mathematics.

In my view, the only valid right to female&male-human-being is the right to develop humble-integrity. It is a self-interest that would proliferate if encouraged and facilitated to fellow-citizens, especially the young.

Careful study of three documents shows that this is not a new possibility. Genesis 1:27-28 proposes constraint of chaos, the 1776 USA-declaration of independence from England separates church from state, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution has not one word that lessens the humble-integrity of the former two documents.

FB add on: The right to develop humble-integrity doesn’t seem competitive.

https://www.quora.com/Is-morality-a-burden-to-man? by 1 person

Taking “man” to mean female&male-human-being, burdens depend upon whether the individual accepts that they are a human-being. If so, throughout life, they perceive the-good in their self-interest rather than a burden. They accept the opportunity to neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person.

This principle was expressed perhaps 4500 years ago in Genesis 1:27-28, viewed with discoveries through 2021.

https://www.quora.com/What-drives-dissent? by Graham C Lindsay

Merriam-Webster online tells us “dissent” is “to withhold assent or approval”. You ponder what drives it.

The civic citizen’s greatest strength is that they do no wrong, neither causing nor tolerating harm to or from any person. The few who behave this way act in self-interest, because their greatest desire is civic, mutual, comprehensive safety and security that facilitates the responsible-happiness the individual perceives rather than subjugation to someone else’s vision for them. “Civic” in this usage refers to human connections rather than municipal conformity.

But not every person perceives the self-interest of responsible-human-independence. Some choose dependency on fellow-citizens: gaming the system, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.

It seems dissent is driven by failure to accept and appreciate the opportunity to develop a human being rather than one of the opposites: animal, plant, or mineral.

FB add on: Dissent seems driven by failure to appreciate the opportunity to responsibly develop a unique person.

https://www.quora.com/If-Americans-only-understood-that-what-were-conserving-is-our-right-to-life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness-So-why-deny-anyone-those-rights-so-long-as-people-respect-others-right-to-life-liberty-and-the-pursuit? by Adam Creech

I do not agree with the violence the Democrat Party is conducting under V.P. Harris and President Biden. Neither do I agree with the tyranny imposed by Congress in 1789: freedom of religion, speech, and he press according to Congress rather than We the People of the United States.

Beginning my fourth quarter-century, I have always faced no appreciation for my trust-in and commitment-to the-ineluctable-truth, most of which is unknown. I recall I was 7 years old when fear induced by the minister at Calvary Baptist Church, Knoxville, TN motivated me to “quietly leave [my] seat with every eye closed and head bowed and walk down the aisle to give my life to Jesus.” Mom and Dad were such good providers that I struggled for the next 4 decades to choose one of the competitive Christian faiths they offered. To this day, I do not know who was subjugated by the other.

All during my first quarter century the politically correct saying was “the Christian thing to do” or “what would Jesus do?” Slowly I realized that “I am a born again Christian” meant the speaker planned to pick my pocket. People who learned of my opinions quickly labeled me agnostic if not atheist. However, my satisfaction increased in humble-integrity toward whatever controls the consequences of a person’s actions. I would never return to the risks I took in purporting to choose a doctrinal-God.

By the end of my second quarter century, my serenely-confident, Louisiana-French-Catholic wife and our 3 children helped me accept what I call responsible-human-independence. I would never go back to before and would not encourage anyone to follow my path. Let each person pursue their unique perfection.

Quoting the 1776 Declaration, there’s “Nature and Nature’s God”. Then there’s “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”. These human provisions, excepting “liberty” were not repeated in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Instead, its intentions are 5 public disciplines with unconstrained standards: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity.

We learned from the 1789 French Revolution and again from the U.S. Democrat-Cities summer of 2020 that “liberty” is often taken as license to injure/kill fellow-citizens. I prefer responsible-independence to freedom and especially liberty.

It seems plain that neither the-God nor government can assure the individual life, liberty, property, or the pursuit of happiness. Peace on earth can only come when most individuals behave with responsible-human-independence. My confidence in this message comes from the combination Genesis 1:27-28, the founders’ 1776 USA Declaration, and the signers’ 1787 U.S. Constitution. All 3 documents represent separation of church and state plus responsible-human-independence.

We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 must effect reform to humble-integrity rather than religious hubris, a reform due since March 4, 1789.

The Democrats are effecting tyranny against We the People of the United States. Tyranny is tyranny whether it comes from “woke terrorists” or the Christian majority. It’s past time for reform to U.S. humble-integrity, the intention that was proffered in 1787.

FB add on: Neither the-God nor government will usurp the responsible-human-independence to assure fellow-citizens civic life, independence, property, and the pursuit of happiness.

https://www.quora.com/If-all-people-made-up-their-own-minds-about-who-is-good-or-bad-without-the-influence-of-clergy-political-parties-and-the-media-would-we-live-in-a-kinder-more-equitable-society? by Mary Bunbun

First, from the statistical anomalies that occur in physics and its progeny, such as biology and psychology, I do not think “all” can ever apply. The best we can hope for is “most” and it seems regarding the basics open-minded people are split into thirds: active, passive, and middling. When an issue is well understood, it seems the people arrive at a 2/3 preference. For example, it seems 2/3 of Americans oppose forcing/coercing a woman to remain pregnant more than they oppose abortion.

Education of men and women to not become sexually intimate in circumstances that threaten the woman’s viable ova is the common-sense approach to lessening abortion.

To your point, in the U.S. the clergy-politician-partnership created by the First Amendment’s religion clauses positions men to subjugate women by tradition. U.S. women can lead the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” to amend the U.S. Constitution so as to encourage and facilitate humble-integrity rather than religious-opinion. The reform should apply to all three branches of the federal government, the media, and the state governments. Thus, instead of “Congress shall . . . “, the effective First Amendment will read “No elected or appointed official in the United States shall act to lessen encouragement and facilitation of the individual citizen’s development of humble-integrity” . . . or better.

Many reforms would develop from this first step. For example, the purpose expressed by the signers of the 1787 U.S. Constitution is public discipline with 1) unconstrained standards of discipline-achievement and 2) provisions for “ourselves and our Posterity” to amend the law toward statutory justice. From the USA founder’s 1776 Declaration, “Nature and Nature’s God” rather than law as the standard of human development, and military-providence (strength) by “the good People” is “the Supreme Judge of the world”. Thus, with the reformed First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court would be compelled to turn from English precedent, obsolete or not, to U.S. intentions to pursue the-ineluctable-truth rather than human reason.

These principles are so shockingly plain as to seem incredulous. However, a few hours contemplation of Genesis 1:27-28 might convince many citizens who want mutual, comprehensive safety and security so as to responsible live according to personal happiness rather than submit to someone else’s vision for them to perceive the Genesis message as: female&male-human-being is charged to constrain chaos in life. With most individuals doing so, dissidents would be motivated to reform, and peace on earth might be more possible. In other words, the promise of Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, and the 1787 Constitution is not restricted to U.S. citizens.

FB add on: Through individual, responsible-human-independence there can be more peace on earth.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-the-principle-The-customer-is-always-correct-be-optimized-among-human-beings/answer/Bob-Copeland-22 appreciating commenter Bob Copeland

Speaking of history, in 1774 there was talk of Nova Scotia being the 14th American colony. British North America thereby might have become part of the United States.

Also, the Continental Congress wrote 3 letters to Quebec, hoping their French citizens would join the war for independence from England.

I don’t know why it did not work out. Do you know some of the reasons? Interestingly, France, in 1778 dedicated some of its ongoing war with England to American soil and was dominate in the victory at Yorktown, VA, 1781.

My wife could have a French passport, too, because her maiden name is Marrionneaux, with direct Parisian ancestors who immigrated to New Orleans, Louisiana. She has two Acadian-French ancestors, LeJeune and LaBauve, who immigrated to Louisiana’s prairie country from Canada.

To me, it would be altogether appropriate for the U.S. to observe an achievable better future in Canada, predicated on Canadian, 2021 updates of Genesis 1:27-28, the 1776 Declaration for USA independence from England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution with the preamble revised for clarity and to change “liberty” to “independence”, if not “responsible-human-independence.

The bravery of individuals who undertake habitation of space will be at least on par with the American settlers. Indeed, they will offer humankind a renewal of the opportunity to develop peace on earth, which so far, the U.S. “ourselves and our Posterity” have neglected under the unconstitutional Congress-tyranny of Protestantism morphed to Judeo-Christianity, perhaps now Judeo-Catholicism, and covertly tending toward Judeo-Tewahedonism.

To Bob Copeland again:

I’ve seen your point in my studies today.

I read or scanned each:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/french-immigration-in-canada, which led me to a map of provinces that informed me Nova Scotia is lost in the Atlantic Provinces, east of Quebec. Quebec was New France when Nova Scotia was Acadia. The Acadians were “Roman Catholic” but different. (There goes some biased reporting, I think.)

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/catholicism, which does not date Acadia-French arrival in Canada and understand how they are different. (Biased reporting, I think.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadians, which vaguely informs that the Acadians were different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain, which gives and overview of New France and suggests the next item:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-Royal_National_Historic_Site, which was France’s first permanent settlement, 1605, and became the capital of Acadia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis_Royal, which reports the 1755 deportation of the Acadians.

A Catholic-history of France was too much for me, but it must contain information about the SE French Catholics who were exiled to Canada, why, and when; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_France.

The above articles made it clear that both Canada and the U.S. were resolutions of French and English wars with aid from indigenous peoples and slaves. Not so much Spain and the Netherlands. I found a UN 2010 survey on religions in global-regions and nations therein at http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/regions/europe. I tabulated the data and was surprised.

Unaffiliated varies from 12-16 for Denmark, Italy, and U.S., respectively; 19 Spain; 24-28 Canada, Germany, and France; 42 Netherlands. Catholic is 14 England; 24 U.S.; 29-39 Netherlands, Germany, Canada; 60-81 France, Spain, Italy. Protestant is 1.0 – 1.8 Spain, Italy, France;  22-34 Netherland, Canada, Germany; 48-50 England, U.S.; 82 Denmark. The variations are mostly filled by Muslim then 1% or less. I did not include Ireland, even though it was mentioned in the Canadian articles.

 

https://www.quora.com/When-did-freedom-of-speech-become-allowed-for-all-people-and-where-did-it-start-first/answer/Phil-Beaver-1 appreciating commenter Bill Sands

Thank you.

Enlightenment writers, especially in 17th-18th century Great Britain and France, suggested that freedom is an un-consignable human condition. In other words, a human-being cannot consign freedom if they want to. And that is consistent with Genesis 1:27–28, which suggests that humankind is assigned, perhaps by necessity, to independently constrain chaos on earth. That is to say, neither the-God/nature nor government will usurp the individual human’s responsibility to offer peace in world-order.

The writers also suggested, with less clarity, that liberty is not license-to prevent a fellow-human’s freedom. For example, a fellow-citizen does not have the liberty-to impose their personal God on another; that is to say, each civic-citizen has the freedom-from civil religious opinion. Church and state must be independent of each other.

Too late for the 1787 U.S. Constitution, France demonstrated in the 1789 Bloody Revolution that, too often, errant-citizens take “liberty” to mean the license to shed fellow-citizens’ blood. The U.S.-alien Democrats of 2020 cheered blood-in-the-streets as domestic and foreign terrorists burned and looted Democrat-controlled cities and injured and killed citizens and stormed the Capital in 2021.

Clearly, “liberty” in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution must be reformed to “independence” if not “responsible-human-independence”. And the statue in NY Harbor must be renamed “The Statue of Independence” on “Independence Island”. Appreciation to France for their 1778–1781 civil-providence in the USA’s war for independence does not require civic-submission to license.

Moreover, we, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 must, preferably by 2022, amend the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, in order to deny the license of any elected or appointed official in the U.S. to constrain individual freedom to develop the humble-integrity to practice responsible-human-independence, whether by religion, speech, or reporting. The First Amendment’s pretension of constraint on Congress is shared-license to all government officials, especially the U.S. Supreme Court, the President, and the media.

FB add on: Freedom-to develop responsible-human-independence is inalienable to the individual human-being. Liberty is arbitrary license-to abuse fellow-human-beings’ freedom.

https://www.quora.com/Should-mercy-compassion-and-sympathy-be-a-privilege-for-the-deserving-or-an-entitlement-for-all? by Idris Abdullah

Neither: The practice is judgmental. Philanthropy, beyond judgmental, is unjust, as some of the world’s billionaires demonstrate.

Three pivotal documents, in combination, charge “ourselves and our Posterity” to constrain chaos on earth: Genesis 1:27-28, the 1776 declaration of war against England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution. The combination expresses appreciation for the female&male-human-being.

The civic-citizen, the individual who applies this combination, be they a U.S. citizen or not, offers each fellow-citizen equity and statutory justice in human-appreciation. Citizens who deny appreciation risk constraint until they reform. When injustice is discovered in written law, civic-citizens aid amendment toward justice.

Physics and its progeny, including biology and psychology, imperfectly controls the consequences of action. For example, often, global variations in the earth’s atmosphere produce local variants that are destructive: ice storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, and more. In human action, lies cause loss and misery.

In human reproduction, babies need 100% care until age 3-7 then develop themselves into viable young adults in about a quarter century. Young adults, those who acquired comprehension and intention to be a human being rather than one of the opposites, develop, during a quarter-century or more of service to fellow-citizens, the humble-integrity by which to judge and develop personal integrity. During retirement, the individual may approach perfection of their individual.

In the statistical variations resulting from physics, consequences of human life are infinitely variable. Some babies are born incapable of self-development and should be aided until they can sustain self-development or for life. Some individuals can be incapacitated by accident. Life-support should be provided.

Otherwise, the combination mercy, compassion, and sympathy seems judging rather than appreciating a fellow-citizen’s responsible-human-independence.

Unfortunately, no civilization teaches their youth that a human-being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop the reliable-independence to responsibly-pursue the-happiness-they-perceive rather than submit to someone’s mercy, compassion, and sympathy. No culture teaches Genesis 1:27-28 as a charge to human independence.

I think the nation that improves and applies these principles will have an achievable better future and that the U.S. intends such as future, considering the 3 documents mentioned above.

FB add on: Philanthropy subverts responsible-human-independence, increasing chaos on earth.

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.

Saturday, March 20, 2021

It’s OK if the U.S. learns responsible-human-independence from Canada, England, or other nation.

 

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 interpretation of its proposal as follows:  This good citizen practices the U.S. disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, "in order to” develop responsible human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.  I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and 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

It’s OK if the U.S. learns responsible-human-independence from Canada, England, or other nation.

Right or wrong, my writing to encourage “the good People [of the U.S.]” to reform the tyranny of civil “freedom of religion” in order to encourage and facilitate responsible-human-independence (RHI) does not imply that I would dislike another nation establishing an achievable better future before the U.S. reforms.

I imagine and hope-that any of the former subjects of the British Empire may establish RHI as soon as possible, and my message is offered and read worldwide through two blogs: promotethepreamble.blogspot.com and cpbr.blogspot.com.

Before, I mused that Canada might move faster than the U.S. However, there is English precedent for developing statutory justice after a U.S. state discovered a statistical brilliance. Let me explain. After debate over the English tradition of unanimous criminal-jury verdicts, 12:0, Congress worded the Sixth Amendments’ demand on states as impartial rather than unanimous, giving the states flexibility to improve procedures for justice when the entire court is predicated on a rigorous path to trial then prosecution vs defense competition rather than ultimate justice.

Louisiana, the eighteenth state, and the only one accustomed to Napoleonic law, recognized that with inhabitants split 50:50 it is statistically unlikely to seat an impartial jury. Therefore, in 1880, with 68 years’ statehood, French influence emerged with the brilliant innovation, 9:3 criminal jury-verdicts, so as to lessen the influence of prejudiced jurors who made it through the competitive selection process. England, 87 years later, created the 10:2 criminal jury-verdict so as to lessen organized crime’s influence on criminal trials.

In 2020s Ramos v Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court cited fourteenth-century English law obsoleted in 1967 following Louisiana’s 1880 brilliance. On a vote of 6:3, Ramos v Louisiana required all states to provide 12:0 criminal verdicts, predicated on obsolete English precedent instead of U.S.-responsible-independence.

We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 must stop the U.S. tyranny of preserving Anglo-American tradition. We must start with amendment of the First Amendment so as to encourage and facilitate humble-integrity rather than religious-opinion. It should done before 2022 begins.

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Of necessity each person who accepts that they are human appreciates that female&male-human-being has the independent power to constrain chaos in their way of living. Developed with Trevor Lopez, 2/15/2021.

Afterdeath in heaven seems as mysterious as Bible-interpretation, so we’d best have fun while we’re here. Developed with Tawanda Walker, 3/14/21.

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https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Did-you-ever-care-about-what-was-right-even-when-it-showed-you-were-wrong-Explain-pls? by Kevin Konze

Thank you.

In my 1954 adolescence, I appreciated “The Salem Witch Trials” as an element in the U.S. decision to separate church and state. Now, I see U.S. scholarship as divisive propaganda, bemusing the people over license-to liberty rather than the humble-integrity for responsible-human-independence.

In my own experience, a “once saved always saved Southern Baptist” fell in love with a serenely-confident Louisiana French-Catholic woman. Courting her in our 53rd year, 51 married, I discovered that I had in those adolescent years formed an intention to trust-in and commit-to the-ineluctable-truth. I would never have articulated that if I had not cherished my bride and our 3 children more than Mom and Dad’s religions (competing Southern Baptists). Yet Mom and Dad were such good providers I struggled to choose one of their religions---subjugation v impendence---for 4 decades. I cannot say which parent was struggling with subjugation, nor could my sister (rest in peace).

By the late 1990s, I published the proposal to amend the First Amendment in order to terminate civil religion, civically develop religious privacy, and pursue the rule of statutory justice---to separate church and state. I re-read the “Salem” history and learned that a Christian sect, Puritans, effected “witch” executions (at least 22 victims) rather than Witch Trials. It is shameful that a nation would re-establish civil religion when such an awful event as the Massachusetts “witch” executions is in its Christianity-dependent past.

The human-authority for the 1776 declaration of war was “Nature and Nature’s God”, perhaps the founders’ humble-interpretation of the-God of necessity expressed in Genesis 1:27-28: humankind is independently responsible to constrain chaos on earth. Quoting, “the good People of these colonies” take responsible-human-independence from England. Loyalists were free to fight for England and leave when they lost. When it seemed “the good People” would lose, the founders negotiated French military-providence.

With physical and political independence won, the framers studied the world’s governments and specified the first federal-republic with “the good People” hold both their state and the federal government accountable. Their draft-preamble did not state a purpose, so the Committee of Style provided one 5 days before the signing. Only 39 of 55 framers signed the formal 1787 U.S. Constitution on September 17. Perhaps some of the 16 non-signers dissented against the areligious document. Not one word of the signers’ product lessens the humble-integrity the founders expressed in the 1776 Declaration.

However, on March 4, 1789, the First Congress, representing eleven of 13 formerly free and independent states in a confederation, began to re-establish British-colonial dependence. With 14 states in 1791, the required 10 state representatives codified the tyranny of church-Congress-partnership. In 2021, the rest of the federal government observes that the First Amendment constrains only Congress, so both the Supreme Court and the President impose their religious opinion on We the People of the United States.

In this short post, I expressed delight to know of the 22 Massachusetts-Puritan “witch” executions, implied that infant baptism may be the more humble than catechism-free choice and that necessity does not edict transubstantiation, suggested that neither the-God nor government will usurp the individual’s necessity to constrain chaos in their living-style, and asserted that the three U.S. branches impose the tyranny of “freedom of religion” rather than encouraging and facilitating humble-integrity.

We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” must amend the First Amendment before 2022 arrives, in order to reform We the People of the United States to the 1776 and 1787 “the good People” rather than continue to tolerated U.S. hubris against Genesis 1: only human individuals can constrain chaos in their lives, in order to provide peace on earth.

FB add on: The 22 Massachusetts “witch” executions is the tip of an iceberg of U.S. propaganda to preserve the chaos of civil Christianity, a tyranny We the People of the United State mistakenly brook, now into the twelfth generation and posterity. Believers who appreciate responsible-human-impendence ought to free themselves from tolerating the First Amendment’s religion clauses, in order to encourage and facilitate humble-integrity toward the-God of Genesis 1: perhaps necessity.

https://www.quora.com/Which-of-your-core-beliefs-and-principles-most-often-guide-your-course-of-action-in-your-daily-life-in-a-given-situation? by Arnold Milla

The most important virtue seems to constantly develop humble-integrity. Thereby, each person may monitor their personal integrity.

The principle practice is to keep and defend “I don’t know” when that is so and do the work to discover the-ineluctable-truth if you need to know. Usually humankind does not know, so references to celebrity-thinkers discloses failure to admit to self: “I don’t know”.

FB add on:  Continuously developing humble-integrity seems a virtue.

https://www.quora.com/Which-of-your-core-beliefs-and-principles-most-often-guide-your-course-of-action-in-your-daily-life-in-a-given-situation? by Kiril Degtarev

Appreciate the other person as a human-being until they indicate otherwise and if so, be as kind as possible in your response. In a conflict, consider their view of the object, not you. If you see their point, say so as soon as you perceive it. Be concise and precise in addressing the object, rather than their difference. Listen carefully to seek a way your solution can be applied in their self-interest that differs from yours. (For example, in worshipping a doctrinal God, it seems prudent to reserve sufficient humility toward whatever controls consequences of events.) Foremost, neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person or institution.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-the-principle-The-customer-is-always-correct-be-optimized-among-human-beings? by Phil Beaver

To Sandy Paonessa:

Thank you. Your thoughts increase my intention to suggest that it’s in the capitalists’ self-interest to consider consumers’ actual request rather than potential-customer’s erroneous expression.

I think the wise entrepreneur listens to then questions the customer, in order to appreciate the necessity/desire that motivated them to seek consumption. The entrepreneur thereby capitalizes direct opportunity to 1) help the potential customer articulate actual need rather than perception, 2) either locate or be the supplier, and 3) alone, research non-availability of the sufficient/best product or service to 4) consider starting a new business if enough people would consume that good/service.

Does this interpretation of the vague customer-always-right-saying shed light on an-achievable-economic-future?

Bob Copeland:

It can’t because “The customer” could be a nation, ideology, cult. etc.. “The customer is always correct” applies to business because the customer is a businesse’s boss since the customer can fire the business by not buying there again.

To Bob Copeland:

Thank you.

I currently write essays and quips that point to the reason, in my view, that the United States is in chaos. Perhaps that focus empowered this economic-viability question. Please take the time to understand my message.

Among societies such as nations, ideologies, cults, etc., the customer is the individual who accepts that they are a human being and therefore appreciate the individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop humble-integrity, in order to constrain chaos in their way of living. For conversation, I call such people civic-citizens among dissidents to mutual, comprehensive safety and security.

Among the development of civilizations, none considers its purpose is to encourage and promote humble-integrity to gauge individual integrity. Such a culture is suggested in three historical documents: Genesis 1, the 1776 declaration of war against England, and the 1787 United States Constitution.

The political philosopher behind the perhaps 4500 year old Genesis 1 lived before Abraham, perhaps a myth from 3800 years ago. Careful consideration of what humankind has learned since those times suggest that Genesis 1:27–28 claims that female&male-human-being is both responsible and independent to constrain chaos on earth. That is, there is no power higher than humankind that can provide peace on earth. The 2021 implication is that the author of Genesis 1 primitively expressed separation of church and state; metaphysics and physics; hope and responsibility; infidelity and monogamy-for-life; life and death.

Also, about 3800 years ago, the British Empire began to emerge. In 1215, King John agreed that the Catholic bishops at Canterbury and the Lords would legislate a mixed population with elites and commoners. In 1689, Mary and William oversaw the 1689 Bill of Rights, requiring a Protestant monarchy. The Europeans who left this religious squabble in order to pursue responsible-human-independence included loyal British subjects.

By 1763, under King George III, inhabitants of the 13 British colonies, on land representing about 13% of today’s USA, perceived that British subjects of Great Britain were enslaving the colonial subjects to be overlords for the African-slaves placed in America for agricultural enterprise. Colonists began to resist.

In 1774, the USA founders met as Worchester, MA was being liberated by local militia. Shots were fired in April 1775, and in 1776, the founders declared war.

The founders claimed human authority under “Nature and Nature’s God”, representation of “the good People of these colonies”, and reliability “to the Supreme Judge of the world.” They wrote not one word to disparage either England’s transition from Catholic to Protestant Trinity or the Trinity itself. In 1778, the founders negotiated military-providence from France. Humble-integrity toward both civic-church and civil-state had never before been expressed by an emerging nation.

England surrendered to France (30,000 military personnel) and the 13 colonies (11,000) in September 1781, and in January 1784 the 13 free and independent states ratified their global status under the 1783 Treaty of Paris. However, the 13 states could not manage domestic disputes. Therefore, 12 of them created a constitutional convention in Philadelphia in summer, 1787.

The 55 delegates, the framers, wrote a constitution predicated on “the good People” of their states holding a federal republic accountable to develop the framer’s intentions. Delegates who were loyal to colonial-British tradition resisted the outcome, and a few of the 16 non-signers dissented for that reason. Only 39 framers signed the document with its 5-day old, revised-preamble. We are indebted to the signers for a constitution that fulfills both Genesis 1 and the 1776 Declaration regarding both responsible-human-independence and separation of church and state.

Among the dissident framers and other 1788 non-signers were influential people who demanded re-establishment of colonial-British tradition. The consequence is a religion-Congress-partnership that by tradition mimics Parliament with 26 seats constitutionally assigned to the church. In the 1791 Bill of Rights, Congress defied Genesis 1, the 1776 USA Declaration, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Observing the effectiveness of Chapter XI Machiavellianism, the First Congress imposed freedoms of religion, the press, and speech—-tyrannies all three, as we observe 230 years later.

The customer of U.S. government needs and wants the responsible-human-independence that is proffered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, and its 1787 provisions for amendment by the people. Nothing therein advocates religious opinion and we have observed that the British confusion of freedom and liberty need to be replaced with humble-integrity and responsible-human-independence.

Conforming to Genesis 1:27–28’s responsible-human-independence is essential to humankind’s survival.

Bob Copeland

I don’t seriously disagree with your comments. I agree with you that the United States is in chaos. I heard today that your former president is now writing in a supremacy site. I enjoy writing on the human condition too & how everything fits together with the universe so our interests align. I also agree with you that our species is here to solve problems or prevent chaos (Genesis 1: 27). Our species, like all species is built on patterns & is highly competitive. The elites control our competitiveness through drugs, alcohol & religion (losing your soul). My observation is that the war for independence scared the living hell out of the United States so everyone was given gun rights & the government was organized so no one has control. The citizens of the United States will give the shirt off their back to help other nations in trouble but are reluctant to solve their own citizen’s problems so racism is allowed to continue. To be fair all of us are racist since we’re a pattern based species & it’s hard to reconcile our patterns with the patterns of other groups within our species or basically to interpret other patterns in the interest of harmony. Also, except for the WW11’s Marshal Plan the United States doesn’t have any staying power to get the job done or has an isolationist tendency to avoid involvement in the world unless attacked as seen in Pearl Harbour. The United States also says it’s a melting pot but from my observations it isn’t. Anyway, my e-mail is bcope16@hotmail.com if you want to get in touch or alternately just continue the discussion here for the readers.

Second to Bob Copeland:

I agree: you and I work to suggest similar goals.

The elites control us by involving us in their competition for their wealth. That’s the point of Chapter XI Machiavellianism. The church-state-officials live high on the hog and believers neither rebel nor emigrate, hoping their God will relieve their grandchildren’s misery and loss.

Your creative focus on Genesis 1:27 reminds me of the metaphysical claim: “in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them”.

One way the claim could be psychological (a progeny of physics) is that the-God, a male, created female and male with the potential to perfect their unique human being before death.  Another physical interpretation invokes V 28: a family-flourishing human-being is female&male (religiously, what God has joined let no man divide) and God images a monogamous pair, based on “he created them”. Just as God does not die, he is an androgynous person, much as some Christians believe he is the-Trinity. But humans are constrained to gods-facing-death; physics.

But what about chaos? Modern biological entrepreneurs attempt to create both hermaphrodite humans and the market for “gender” services. I suppose the industry’s success would mean that future offspring would be hermaphrodites. It is an endeavor I would not subject-myself-to on the principle that it increases rather than constrains failure-statistics: chaos. Furthermore, physics and its progeny, biology, evolved humans as placental mammals with reproduction/not assigned to the woman’s responsibility. If she does not know a reliable man with whom to consider mating for life, she does not risk abuse of her viable ova or herself. Likewise, an authentic man does not risk a woman’s viable ova or her. Again, the gender-entrepreneurs increase chaos if they make viable the choice of hermaphrodite families.

A civic-American would not at all agree that the war against England “scared the living hell out of the [founders’ USA]” (the framers’ or signers U.S. did not yet exist). When it seemed the former fellow-commoners in red coats might win the war, the Americans took responsibility independent of the-God, in order to personally kill them. When it seemed the red coats might win, the founders negotiated French military-providence more than praying for the-God’s aid. Cornwallis surrendered to France with 30,000 military men plus the Continental Army’s 11,000 against red coats and Hessians with 9,000. The English treaty with France was negotiated before the English treaty with the 13 globally free and independent states, each named in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.

In 1787, 12 of 13 states accepted George Washington’s 1781 urgency: to survive, the colonies must form a nation rather than a confederation of states. The 55 delegates negotiated a federal republic with the people in their states holding the national government accountable to an amendable constitution.

A very small number of U.S. citizens, let alone other victims of British tyranny, even less other global fellow-citizens do the work to comprehend, practice, and promote the proffered proposition in the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Yet it conforms to the principles in Genesis 1:27-28. Therefore, any civilization on earth can study it, improve it, and have an achievable better future.

The good People’s proposition was proffered only 5 days before the signers activated the 1787 U.S. Constitution for ratification by 9 states. Here’s my interpretation of the preamble’s intention to pursue statutory justice under humble-integrity: civic-citizens among We the People of the United States maintain 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage and facilitate responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. None of the 5 disciplines suggest religion or lessen the privacy of religious independence. The French Revolution of 1789 convinced the world that liberty can mean egocentric license to draw fellow-citizens’ blood. The statue in New York Harbor should be renamed “The Statue of Independence”.

We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” need to effect the First Amendment reformation by 2022 so as to promote and facilitate civic-integrity rather than civil religion, and un-constitutional Congress-authorized speech and press.

Any non-American who reads this and is motivated to form their own interpretation of the preamble’s proposition has the opportunity to improve it for their country’s use. The personal charge to constrain chaos in one’s way of living, suggested in Genesis 1:27-28, is universal. It is proffered and repressed in the U.S., so far for 230 years or for 12 generations.

We can break the generational replication of patterns by recognizing the importance of “ourselves and our Posterity” as human beings. I think the framers chose “Posterity” rather than “descendants” in order to include immigrants. The motto, established in 1782, was “E Pluribus Unum” instead of “In God We Trust” (1954), and it’s still on the President’s seal. Moreover, by recognizing that Genesis 1:27-28 assigns the establishment of peace to humankind, competition for a God one nation can persuade to usurp responsible-human-independence might lessen. There could be more humility-toward the-God rather than hubris-in “our-God” or God.

I added your name and today’s date on my appreciations post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com (unless you object).

Third to Bob Copeland:

Bob, I must have written something that seemed condescending. I apologize for my poor expressions.

I suspect, with dread, that it was “A very small number of U.S. citizens, let alone other victims of British tyranny, even less other global fellow-citizens do the work to comprehend, practice, and promote the proffered proposition in the 1787 U.S. Constitution.”

I foolishly took for granted that “very small number of U.S. citizens, let alone other victims of British tyranny” would express inclusiveness of Canadians, British Islanders regarded as “commoners”, Australians, indeed every individual who accepts that they are a human-being and therefore equipped with the power, energy, and authority to develop responsible-human-independence rather than tolerate either church or state or their partnership to impose a happiness the individual does not want.

Further, I was developing the suggestion that I would love it if the U.S. reform came from another country adopting the 1787 U.S. Constitution’s intentions as I see them, but improving the encouragement and facilitation of individual responsible-human-independence. “Liberty”, “freedom of religion”, and Anglo-American tradition are so inculcated in the American psychology that reform from within may not be possible.

I already have learned so much from your side of our joint dialogue that I would never stonewall you. No one before motivated me to write “Anglo-American tradition”. You are my friend and also Canadian, I think on the same side: for mutual, comprehensive safety and security so that the individual may responsible pursue the happiness they perceive when they perceive it rather than submit to someone else’s vision for them.

Lastly, I am cautious rather than smart and subject to my journey to comprehend 1) what it means to be a human being and 2) what is added/taken by being an American—-by choice, by birth, or by illegal occupation. I simply use the Internet to affirm that my thoughts can be verified by anyone who goes to the Internet to consider their view of my opinion.

You seem like me in that regard, and we can share the-good, if we want to. I do.

Fourth to Bob Copeland:

Thank you. I understand now that my angst about the 1788 Congress imposing Anglo-American politics on the U.S. intention to establish responsible-human-independence evolved from the 3 human documents: Genesis 1, the 1776 declaration of war, and the 1787 proposal for domestic discipline comes across as animosity toward England and the English people. Unlike any message from the originator of universal events, human documents are flawed, and must be viewed so as to benefit from the-ineluctable-truth of later discoveries.

          The above mentioned documents do not suggest racism in any way. Consider the author of Genesis 1 perhaps not knowing that the political philosophy of female&male-human-beings dominating the other species was thought out perhaps a few millennia before 4500 years ago---maybe 7 thousand years ago. But the discovery/proposal that the dinosaurs had perished due to the high temperatures from a cosmic collision 65 million years ago is only 40 years old. Likewise, racism is a product of erroneous reason rather than discovery.

          That is to say that people who accept that they are human beings do not tolerate infidelity to HIPEA: human, individual power, individual energy, and individual authority to develop humble-integrity. To interpret skin color as a measure of human potential is as ignorant as not comprehending what happened. Humankind discovered, so far, that the earth is 4.6 billion years old (BYO), biology on earth is 3.8 BYO, the necessary 21% oxygen level was attained in earth’s atmosphere 0.6 BYO, placental mammals emerged 0.065 BYO, humanoids appeared 0.007 BYO, humans appreciated awareness about 0.000,000,200 BYO, the red-hair-gene mutated 0.000,000,100 BYO, some tribes constructed religious competition 0.000,000,052 BYO, then mono-theistic conflict 0.000,000,045 BYO. Abraham was born/mythologized 0.000,000,038 BYO, and writers claim Jesus said “Before Abraham was born I AM.”      

          The individual who uses their HIPEA to address human-constructs rather than the-ineluctable-evidence constrain themselves if not beg woe. They blind themselves to the charge in Genesis 1. For example, scholars knew the earth was like a globe 2500 years ago, but sailors (with church teachings and without Internet search) debated falling off the earth even after the Vikings sailed to Canada. Global discovery accelerated 700 years ago. If continental discovery was repressed for 1800 years, it is no catastrophe if it takes the U.S. 234 years to discover the necessity to separate church and state; to encourage and facilitate civic integrity rather than promote civil religious-opinion, where “civic” refers to good-human-connection rather than municipal conformity. People who insist on civic religion are ignoring the message of Genesis 1, which may be authored by Jesus. I think Genesis 1 is a political-philosophy of necessity rather than religious omniscience. It would not surprise me if Canada or England takes advantage of the-ineluctable-evidence before the U.S. does. Racism is hot in England as we write.

      You mentioned the Civil War. White-Christian-church fired on white-Christian-church, staring in 1856 in Kansas. Abolitionist there from Massachusetts were evil for proposing to accelerate the Trinity’s plan to redeem blacks for the sins of their forefathers and fathers, perhaps in a few millennia. Commenting on Bloody Kansas, R.E. Lee could have applied HIPEA to sell all his property and move his family to a non-slave state. Alas, his Christian ministers distracted him to the loss of everything. What a sad end for his family!

          Political philosophy based on physical characteristics is a human construct based on reason rather than evidence. The unfortunate construct is founded in religion. By nature, a church must claim omniscience-now and omnipotence-in-eternity, in order to persuade some individuals to try-to-consign their HIPEA to dependency rather than responsible-human-independence (Genesis 1). The problem is that the-ineluctable-evidence exists and controls consequences of trust and commitment (faith as a practice rather than as a subject, such as “my religion”).

   Whereas the Catholic canon was interpreted in art as a white-skinned God, the more extensive Ethiopian Tewahedo canon may promote a black-skinned God. The logical consequence of this competition may be the expectation of a war to make the-God’s people reign in the-God’s kingdom. That is to say, the-God intended whites to be slaves. So much for human constructs that defy the-ineluctable-evidence: the human-individual is responsible to constrain chaos on earth; create peace on earth.

          The blunt response to someone who accuses an individual of racism can be: I appreciate and accept that I am a human-being with the individual power, individual energy, and individual authority to develop responsible-human-independence to myself and to fellow-citizens. Thereby, citizens can develop equity under statutory justice. Let the racism-accuser decide if they behave for justice or not.

      Bob, excepting a few family duties and fun living, I have worked on this response since you last posted. I covered a lot of facts, not on my knowledge, but by looking up each one I doubted using the Internet. None of the Internet URL’s I relied on is useful to our dialogue, because you can check them with sources you trust. By all means, I do not trust American media-writers. The idea of journalism is almost nonexistent in the U.S. For example, Fox News believes anyone who does not conform to Jesus can be smugly laughed out of existence, not realizing they are imposing their religion on their image of Jesus. For all we know, the Jesus of I AM authored Genesis 1 and opposes the individual who does not behave to constrain chaos on earth.

https://www.quora.com/When-did-freedom-of-speech-become-allowed-for-all-people-and-where-did-it-start-first? by Graham C Lindsay

Constraining Congress to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion constitutes civil impositions, so these freedoms are yet to be established by We the People of the United States.

Perhaps the politics started with the English Bill of Rights, 1689:


1) it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.

2) The freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament. (from Wikipedia)

Typically, England favors the church and the lords. It is a cast society, with “commoners” paying the bill. Under the developed 1787 intentions, the U.S. has no commoners.

The framers’ draft U.S. Constitution and the signers’ September 17, 1787 publication left freedom of speech to the people. James Madison defended speech in Federalist 10: “As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves. The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.” Powers not authorized to the central government or to their state were intended for the people.

Unfortunately, perhaps 2 states influenced a rush to ratification with 7 other states, provided an English-mimicking bill of rights be added. We’ll never know if 2 non-bill-of-rights states might have stepped forward to prevent the 1791 tyranny by Congress, now exacerbated by the Supreme Court. The U.S. Bill of Rights, primarily because of re-introduction of U.S. psychological dependency on England repressed the 1787 U.S. intentions to promote public discipline so as to develop responsible-human-independence.

Especially egregious are freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech (not restricted by Congress but freely restricted by others) rather than freedom to develop humble-integrity under the preamble. The combination of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1787 U.S. Constitution intends separation of church and state, development of public discipline, and “ourselves and our Posterity” to ultimately approach statutory justice.

Unfortunately, under the 1791 Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court we have chaos.

For example, the Supreme Court, in Ramos v Louisiana (202) used fourteenth-century English precedent to overthrow a state’s right to provide impartial criminal juries under Amendment VI, when England, following Louisiana’s 1880 brilliance of 9:3 verdicts to ensure impartiality, in 1967 enacted 10:2 verdicts to lessen organized crime’s influence on jury trials. The U.S. Court, on a 6:3 opinion required states to provide 12:0 verdicts! Tyranny!


The 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” must amend the First Amendment so as to promote humble-integrity by which citizens measure their personal integrity.

FB add on: Amend the religion, speech, and press clauses of the First Amendment so as to encourage the people to humble-integrity rather than Congress to hubris.

https://www.quora.com/Did-President-Trump-embody-peace-through-strength/answer/Phil-Beaver-1 Comment by Morva Ory

I wasn’t aware that Democrats were mentioned in the Bible.

 

Phil:

Likewise, the Bible does not equate pigs to Republicans. However, Republican Mike Pence betrayed the voters who voted the Trump/Pence ticket in 2016 and in 2020. Also, Pence misrepresented both Trump and Jesus.

What is your interest in my comment, if any?

To Ory again:

What about Jesus? Pence betrayed Jesus as well as Trump and the Constitution.

I didn’t catch the idea that only Christians can run for VP. Where’s that come from?

The Bible is first Middle Eastern literature, Jewish literature, Arab literature, then Christian literature, then the Islam development of the Middle Eastern literature. Even later is the Protestant literature. Perhaps the oldest, largest canon is the Ethiopian Tewahedo Canon, perhaps a branch of Christianity, but I don’t know.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-negative-impact-of-the-absence-of-the-rule-of-law-on-individuals-society-and-the-nation? by Abre Ham

The nation’s individuals need to establish statutory justice, the 1787 U.S. intentions.

A political philosopher some 4,000 years ago suggested that the human being is in charge of constraining chaos in their way of living. However, the developed cultures do not teach this principle to their youth. Therefore, most people look to God or government to provide peace in the world. However, neither God nor government intends to usurp the individual’s responsible-human-independence to resist chaos rather than brook infidelity to self.

When at least 2/3 of fellow-citizens appreciate and develop this principle, their development of statutory-justice will encourage the 1/3 dissidents to reform or suffer for the harm they caused.

The civic-citizen behaves for equity due to statutory justice rather than equality under the law.

These principles are developed in three documents: Genesis 1:27-28, the 1776 declaration of independence from England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution. They are repressed by the 1791 First Amendment’s religion clauses.

The individual citizens who want to can collectively amend the amendment so as to promote humble-integrity rather than religious-opinion.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-honesty-so-hard? by Majeed Baniyan

I think honesty is hard because it is an erroneous human quest. The human-being is capable of developing integrity to the-ineluctable-truth.

First, a person must accept that they are a human-being rather than one of the opposites: animal, vegetable, or mineral. Second they must choose humility to gauge personal integrity. Third, they must accept the human characteristic: the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop humble-integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to self. Fourth, the must maintain the comprehension and intention to live a complete human life, both chronically and psychologically.

If so, they may almost perfect their unique person before dying.

Honesty is insufficient: humble-integrity is what we need.

FB add on: Appreciate HIPEA and use it to approach perfection before dying.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-major-goal-of-civics-and-ethics? by Siru Ibro

I don’t know, and can only express my opinion about how to use the terms “civics” and “ethics”. I prefer to address each term in appreciation of the ultimate species: female&male-human-being. Within that group, civics and ethics reference mutual-safety-and-security and responsible-human-independence, respectively.

Civic citizens of the world develop the humble-integrity needed to constrain chaos in their lives. Statuary justice developed with humble-integrity is human ethics, or civic integrity. Necessity is sufficient inspiration and motivation for most citizens to pursue the-good rather than tolerate infidelity during their life’s journey. Persons who do not appreciate and use their human power for the-good have chosen to pursue one of the opposites: plant, animal, or mineral.

These ideas derive from discussing with neighbors my views of 4 documents: Genesis 1:27-28, the founders’ 1776 declaration of war against England, the framers’ 1787 U.S. Constitution, and the un-constitutional religion clauses in the First Amendment.

The First Amendment must be reformed to promote civic integrity rather than religious opinion.

FB add on:  Citizens of civic-integrity must reform the First Amendment in order to promote responsible-human-independence rather than to impose civil-religion.

https://www.quora.com/How-is-freedom-grounded-in-concrete-human-experience? by Giselle Seiton

It is made plain to each person who accepts that they are of female&male-human-being that self-interest demands each individual to constrain chaos in their way of living.

The individual has the freedom-to either accept or deny/reject their necessity to promote peace on earth. They thereby reject self-interest. Many of them are bemused by religious-political-opinion about the source of self-interest.

Neither the-God (whatever-it-is) nor government nor fellow-citizens will usurp the individual’s responsible-human-independence, unless force is required to limit harm.

FB add on: Self-interest urges each human-being to constrain chaos in their way of living.

https://www.quora.com/Considering-the-sources-presented-what-is-the-best-way-to-establish-a-civic-nation-inclusion-rights-values-beliefs? by Amal Chehade

Rights, values, and beliefs are private. Not making them civil-issues is the foundation of a civic nation.

It is made plain, to each person who accepts and appreciates that they are of female&male-human-being, that self-interest demands each individual to constrain chaos in their way of living.

Each human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop humble-integrity rather than tolerate infidelity. The choice to attempt to impose rights, values, and beliefs on fellow-citizens begs woe. Woe is a reliable monster.

FB add on:  There’s self-interest in constraining rather than inviting woe.

Law professors

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/history-empire/

I offer a slight modification of Hay’s statement “History, by this reckoning, rated societies as backward or advanced and excused actions deemed to have brought improvements over the long term. Rather than healing all wounds, Satia argues that time’s judgment itself became an excuse for inflicting [human misery and loss].”

We, the “ourselves and our Posterity” of 2021 have the twelfth-generation-opportunity to establish the responsible-human-independence proposed by three historical records: an ancient political philosopher’s suggestion in Genesis 1:27-28, the founders’ 1776 declaration of war against England, and the framers’ domestic discipline the signers enacted on September 17, 1787.

The ancient philosopher suggested that the-God assigned to female&male-human-entity the responsibility to constrain chaos on earth, separating divine duty from temporal responsibility; church from state. The 1776 Declaration expresses humble-integrity to both church and state, without compromising humility toward the-God. The 1787 Constitution has not one word that lessens the humble-integrity called for in the former two documents.

It is past time for the entity We the People of the United States to hold both Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court accountable to stop preserving colonial-English tradition as legal precedent.

The first tyranny to be reformed is the First Amendment’s religion-Congress-partnership. We must amend the First Amendment so as to promote civic humble-integrity rather than civil religious-opinion.

The second is to reverse Ramos v Louisiana (2020), which by a 6:3 vote imposed fourteenth-century English requirement of unanimous criminal-jury verdicts. In 1967, England established 10:2 majority-verdicts, in order to lessen organized-crime’s influence on criminal trials. The U.S. Court accepted Ramos’ erroneous claim that 1791’s Amendment VI requires states to provide unanimous rather than impartial verdicts. Statistically, only majority verdicts usually provide justice, a fact Louisiana accepted in 1780 by providing for 9:3 verdicts. U.S. Supreme Court opinion is shamefully opposed to the 1787 intention to independently develop statutory justice. As of September 17, 1787, there is not one valid English precedent.

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https://lawliberty.org/encountering-thomas-sowell/

I don't think I've ever before read such egocentric hubris when someone expressed abject ignorance.

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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.

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