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 appreciation: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and
paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows We the People of the United States proffer &
practice 5 public disciplines —- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and
prosperity, “in order to” encourage & facilitate
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 human ovum is due dignity& equity
Appreciation of family is the basis of a civic-culture,
where “civic” refers to reliable human-connections more than civilization.
The reliable-woman attends to wellness of body, mind, and
person so that each viable ovum during her fertile years may expect either
statistical termination or reliable insemination to a single-cell embryo.
The reliable-man who talks to a woman would never threaten her
viable ovum and her with unwanted conception.
Thus, humankind’s chances for survival hinge on mutual
fidelity of femal&male-human-being.
This week’s questions touch on this topic. See for example, questions
by Deopersad, Perrier, Alofipo, and Issa, not to slight Jackson and Grove.
Quora
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-importance-of-recognizing-and-respecting-the-roles-of-family?
by Nandkishore Deopersad
Mr Deopersad, I appreciate your question and answer with my
view, which can’t approach the-ineluctable-truth.
Anyone living in 2021 can form a serenely-confident-opinion
about the importance of family by considering two pivotal records of homo
sapiens’ 300,000 years’ psychological evolution. It includes the recent ice
age, ending about 11,500 years ago; https://www.cdm. org/mammothdiscovery/wheniceages.html.
The 2 documents are Genesis 1, perhaps 5,000 years old, and
the 1787 U.S. Constitution.
If we assume that most development occurred after the
climate let homo-sapiens leave caves, that’s only 3.8% of the species’ history.
The U.S. intentions were published at 98% of the cave-free-history. During the
last 70 years, only 0.6% of cave-free living, humankind discovered we can
explore “the heavens”. Yet psychological advances, especially for the family,
have been repressed in favor of social-democracy’s chaos. Imagine how fast we,
the 2021 humankind, can accelerate civic integrity, once the-good message is
widely known.
First, Genesis 1 suggests a promising political philosophy:
female& male-human-being may collaborate to provide order& and
prosperity to extant living-species on earth. Fortunately, that idea came 65
million years after the dinosaurs. Necessity& justice empower civic
decisions, where “civic” refers to fidelity in human connections more than to
submission to civilization. In civic-politics most citizens aid the
establishment of peace on earth, and the collective of civic-citizens, or
civic-society practice, facilitate, and encourage
responsible-human-independence (RHI). The driver of necessity&
justice is physics& its progeny, including economics.
However, not every human-being wants RHI, so there exists a dependent-society.
Members adopt& nurture spirituality, indolence, infidelity, abuse, crime,
evil, tyranny, and worse. The civic-citizens both accept self-interest in RHI
and appreciate the dependent-fellow-citizen’s lifetime opportunity to reform.
Therefore, they work not only to responsibly-pursue the happiness they desire;
they also fund both law-enforcement-constraint to dependent-fellow-citizens and
research to reduce civil arrogance& partiality by discovering and
implementing statutory-justice. This keeps the Genesis-1 political-philosophy.
The Bible canon, from Genesis 2 through the end, each
reflects the consequences when families& tear themselves apart through
infidelities and the consequential civilizations exacerbate the chaos. Most of
the stories feature illicit-sexual-intimacy or reproductive-jealousy that
invites ruin. Many tribal wars are waged over a leader’s sexual fantasy. Much
of Western literature features spousal infidelity.
Thus, it should be no surprise to say that female& male
human-success begins with mutual-comprehension, intention, and performance to
either remain unmarried, perhaps holding civil partnership, or to beget family-fidelity
to children, grandchildren, and beyond. In other words, anyone who cannot
provide family-fidelity ought not be encouraged to pretend. The consequences to
posterity are too severe.
The authentic-female knows she may cyclically carry 400
viable ova during her fertile years and that she is solely responsible for
protecting each one’s dignity and equity in this world. Her responsibility for
life is unavoidable, unchangeable, and irresistible. Likewise, the authentic-male
knows when he talks with a woman, that he would never risk her and her viable
ovum to an unwanted future. The Bible stories illustrate the family-importance
of these principles and thus serve a literary purpose. They condemn any person
who would demand a woman remain pregnant when her responsibility dictates
termination. Family fidelity is essential.
Second, the 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers resolution of 5,000
years’ tribal-competition to force others to subject to civil preferences
rather than to pursue human-opportunity. In other words, to sacrifice personal,
civic-integrity for “the common good” under “consent of the governed” as a
“property of God: arrogant-tyranny by Englishman John Locke. In the U.S.
proposal, the civic-citizens, We the People of the United States, practice,
facilitate, and encourage 5 domestic disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace,
strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish and nourish
responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity” including legal
immigrants. Chosen discipline-to-religion is left to adult-personal-privacy.
Thus, a faction of adult citizens take responsibility to accommodate
necessity& justice for the future their descendants must live rather than
preserve& advance existing injustices. For example, increasing $29 trillion
federal debt or imposing a personal-God as the praise-worthy Creator rather
than the controller of the consequences of human-decisions, whether it be
the-God or physics or something not previously imagined.
The primary cause of the 2021 U.S. travesty is the 1789
Congress taking the license to domestically re-establish English tradition in
the then independent USA. The 1787 Constitution does not grant Congress the
authority to legislate “freedom of religion” to themselves. That it is, their religious-freedom-alone
is demonstrated by the fact that they do not define “religion” and instead
opine on the plaintiff’s or defendant’s definition. Congress’s offense against
“ourselves and our Posterity” exacerbates the Supreme Court’s arrogance to
choose English legal precedence rather than the 1787 U.S. Constitution. For
example, in Ramos v Louisiana (2020) the Court dismissed 1791s U.S. Amendment
XI impartiality-requirement, in order to re-argue 14th Century
English unanimity. The Court’s trumped-up 6:3 vote required Louisiana to revise
from 10:2 to 12:0, when in 1967 England revised from 12:0 to 10:2 to reduce
organized-crime’s control of trial-juries. Tyranny like that can be stopped by
we, the 2021 “We the People of the United States.
We may amend the First Amendment in order to promote
civic-integrity rather than civil-religion. And we may require the Supreme
Court to yield to the-ineluctable-evidence when judicial-opinion is arrogant.
“Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster.com.
When the law rebukes the-ineluctable-evidence, the Court can freeze decisions
and inform the civic-citizens, who then hold the Congress accountable to
legislate statutory-justice. Finally, fellow-citizens who alienate themselves
to 1787 U.S. intentions and Genesis 1 ought not be licensed to vote, or to
issue press reports, or to occupy elected or appointed office in local, state,
or federal government.
The civic-rules of family permeate human-kind’s evolving civil-rules,
including those of the U.S., which are in 2021 devolving to social-democracy
rather than upholding republic --- the rule of law for “ourselves and our
Posterity”.
The principles expressed above may seem far-fetched to most
readers. I contend that is because the U.S. proposal has never been pursued. We,
in 2021, may begin to restore the promises of the 1787 U.S. Constitution for an
achievable better future, perhaps beginning in another country if the U.S.
defaults.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-general-concept-of-libertarianism-so-controversial?
by Emirey Jackson
Merriam-webster.com suggests “libertarian” usage: “the
principles of individual liberty especially
of thought and action”.
Impartial-necessity& justice demand civic-integrity,
where “civic” refers to human-connections more than to municipal rules.
Necessity is driven by physics& its-progeny, such as economics. For
example, each human-being must responsibly-earn the way of living they desire.
But some fellow-citizens prefer a dependency, such as
spirituality, indolence, abuse, infidelity, crime, evil, tyranny,
democratic-socialism, and worse. Consequently, civic-citizens must additionally
earn enough to fund law-enforcement& national-defense as well as the
research to pursue statutory-justice; that is, to discover unjust laws and
amend them to approach if not attain justice.
Developing statutory-justice is based on
the-ineluctable-evidence rather than on judiciary opinion, where “ineluctable”
means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. The sooner Justices reform,
the better.
Libertarianism seems to deny if not oppose these principles.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-common-good-relate-to-human-dignity?
by Julia Perrier
It takes about a quarter-century in exemplary
civic-integrity, facilitation, and encouragement for a human infant to acquire
the comprehension& intention to practice human-being rather than accept
mineral, plant, animal, or spirit for living. Necessity& justice demand the
choice to be human, and unfortunately no culture promotes the required
responsible-human-independence (RHI).
Consequently, the current mutation, homo sapiens, divides
itself into 2 groups: civic-citizens and dependents.
Civic-citizens accept impartiality in responsibly-pursuing
the happiness they want during each personal phase of living, rather than
submit to the view some other entity has for them. Aware of their individual
power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos
in their personal way of living, they practice civic-integrity in personal
self-interest. That is, they neither initiate nor accommodate harm/injury to or
from any fellow citizen or association. In appreciation to fellow-citizens,
they rebuke the-bad they observe or experience, intending to facilitate&
encourage reform. Success with civic-rebuke results in clarification if there
was no harm or offender-repentance& forgiveness. In this civic-process,
forgiveness is repeatable as long as the same dependency is not repeated.
Otherwise, arbitrary-forgiveness by the offended can exacerbate dependency.
Since no culture promotes RHI, it is neither well known nor
precisely& accurately articulated. Consequently most of human-being is
dependent rather than civic. Typical dependencies include political passivity,
spirituality, indolence, abuse, infidelity, crime, evil, tyranny, and worse. Because
civic citizens regard dependents as fellow-citizens who perhaps have not
accepted each being human, HIPEA, developing civic-integrity for life, and RHI,
they do all they can to share the opportunity to live in responsible,
personal-happiness.
Happily, many if not most U.S. citizens practice this way of
living and promote it in exemplary privacy. However, the competition between
church& state the 13 English colonies experienced in their loyal
subjectivity to Parliament, the 1784 free& independent states restored in
the 1791 Bill of Rights. The impartiality of physics& its progeny,
especially economics, demand the human-being earn their way of living.
Consequently, whatever spirituality a U.S. civic-citizen may pursue, they still
attend to necessity& justice with RHI, never failing appreciation& best
encouragement to dependent-fellow-citizens. We can be thankful for the American
genes and memes that sustain impartial RHI in the United States, despite the
Bill of Rights.
Additionally, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity”
including legal-immigrants may articulate the intended American dream by
interpreting the U.S. preamble according to the way of living the individual
will commit to. That is, according to the interpretation that will guide their
civic living. Not surprisingly, the 5 proffered disciplines --- integrity,
justice, peace, strength, and prosperity leave religion to personal-privacy,
“in order to” practice, facilitate, and encourage RHI “to ourselves and our
Posterity”.
The civic-citizens among We the People of the United States
may reform the U.S. government by amending the First Amendment so as to promote
civic-integrity rather than civil-religion; humility rather than pride;
whatever controls the consequences of human-being choice rather than
personal-God. There’s much more to be done; that seems a first step.
https://www.quora.com/Who-has-the-responsibility-of-creating-reform-in-society-the-people-or-the-government-Why?
by Zoram Alofipo
We don’t know, but we think homo sapiens is at 300,000 years of its psychological evolution. About
5,000 years ago, observing necessity& justice, a political philosopher
suggested that female& male-human-being may on-their-own-provide order&
prosperity to the living inhabitants and to the earth. However, not every
person chooses order& prosperity. Consequently, humankind divides itself
into 2 societies: responsible-human-independents (RHI) and dependents.
Dependencies include civic passivity, indolence, abuse, infidelity, crime,
evil, tyranny, and worse.
RHI is born of physics& its-progeny, such as economics.
Energy is required to sustain a human life, both physically and
psychologically. The human-being must earn their way of living. The human being
may develop the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual
authority (HIPEA) to begin young adulthood with the comprehension&
intention to live a complete human lifetime. By complete I mean live long
enough to perfect their unique person. Low as they may be at this moment, they
may perfect their unique journey before afterdeath, that vast time after body,
mind, and person stop functioning.
It takes about a quarter century of encouragement,
facilitation, and exemplary-RHI by parents/caretakers for a human infant to
transition to prepared-young-adulthood. And if they learned self-discipline as
an exhortation rather than by example, the invitations to dependency on the
journey may prohibit RHI. The RHI-adult thinks self-discipline is
self-interest.
The RHI-citizens rebuke fellow citizens for dependent
incidents& habits because they appreciate the fellow-citizen’s person&
opportunity for unique perfection. Therefore, they develop statutory justice, grounded
in necessity to the-ineluctable-evidence. “Ineluctable” means “not to be
avoided, changed, or resisted”, merriam-webster.com.
Unique perfection is not possible if the person never
discovers RHI and remains dependent for life.
An RHI culture is not communitarian, where the preferences
of the majority are imposed on the individual. Instead it is a culture founded
on the individual responsibly-pursuing the happiness they perceive for their
person rather than accepting the happiness the community would impose on them.
Yet each person’s RHI is grounded in civic-integrity. In no instance would they
impose their happiness on another, including a spouse. Nor would the spouses
impose on their children.
It may seem I have described a utopia. Recall it’s a social
duality of RHI vs dependency, by personal choice or habit. Moreover, I have
described the intentions that are abstractly specified in the 1787 U.S.
Constitution and described in its preamble. My interpretation today is: We civic-citizens, who perceive human-being
thrives on necessity& impartiality, practice 5 domestic disciplines ---
integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to”
facilitate& encourage responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our
Posterity” including legal immigrants.
We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” may initiate
essential U.S. reform by amending the First Amendment so as to promote
civic-integrity rather than civil-religion. Second, we can reform the U.S.
Supreme Court so as to assure necessity& impartiality on
the-ineluctable-truth rather than majority opinion on judicial precedent. As
RHI-citizens, the Justices have every right to recommend legislative reform or
constitutional amendment and the people can vote approval.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-importance-of-social-planning?
by Salmin Issa
First, let me say your name strikes awe, perhaps suggesting
Solomon& Jesus.
Second, thank you for drawing my attention to what I think
is an evolutionally-misguided endeavor --- misguided by attempts to solve problems
rather than to prevent creation of chaos. I think after 300,000 years
psychological development, homo sapiens
is aware of necessity& justice and should take responsibility for the
viable human ovum. I suggest procreation licensing as the key to social
planning to aid the next mutation of human being, perhaps homo integritas.
According to https://oxfordre.com/socialwork
, “Social
planning emphasizes the application of rational problem-solving techniques and
data-driven approaches to identify, determine, and help coordinate services for
target populations. Social planning is carried out by a myriad of
organizations—from federal agencies to community organizations—attempting to
solve problems ranging from child welfare to aging. The advantages and
disadvantages of this empirically objective data-driven approach, including
different forms, will be discussed along with past, current, and future trends
within the field of social work.”
I question some of the phrases. “Rational . . .
data-driven” smack of statistical surveys, a pseudo-science used to claim
evidentiary research and thereby promote an agenda. “. . . to target
populations” affirms my first suspicion. For example, I doubt any social agency
is studying how to keep the elites from leaving America. The reader must beware
the double speak in phrases like “this empirically objective data-driven
approach” as attempted surrogate for “research based on
the-ineluctable-evidence”. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or
resisted”, merriam-webster.com.
Necessity& justice require human-being to constrain
chaos in this world. Each person has the individual power, the individual
energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop the humble-integrity
that is required for the responsible-human-independence (RHI) that is necessary
to self-discipline personal-life choices. In other words, for collective RHI,
there must be some RHI-citizens.
It takes about a quarter century for an infant human to
transition to young adult with the comprehension and intention to practice,
facilitate, and encourage RHI rather than to accommodate infidelities in
human-connections. Some persons choose to practice HIPEA to pursue a
dependency, and others never accept being human. Therefore, the RHI-citizens
must constrain the dependents& facilitate reform. Rebuking an errant
fellow-citizen is grounded in appreciation of their person and is not taken as
mere “social work”. To accuse is a heavy burden, unless reform occurs.
By accommodating civic evolution without focus on being
human, the recent 300,000 years’ civilizations have produced a preponderance of
adults who have no desire to discuss RHI much less procreation licensing.
Therefore, children are born for a life of misery and loss every moment.
It is well known that a RHI-adult does everything they can
to help children. This morning, Andy Hale, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA said
“A compelling vision-of-thriving empowers others-to-serve”. The best way I know
to help children waiting to be born is to make certain every viable ovum is
treated with the dignity, safety, and security that is due each human-being.
This is not at all a novel idea.
If you’d like an achievable, better future, please share this message. I
appreciate the question.
Law professors
https://lawliberty.org/a-maxim-for-power-skeptical-conservatism John
G. Grove
Rarely do I appreciate so much: First, Dr. Grove’s quote of
Henry Merchant “The power to guarantee quickly turns into a power to control”. Corollaries follow: consent to be governed
begs tyranny; passive citizenship accepts enslavement by fellow inhabitants.
And soon I will undertake my first reading of Mel Bradford’s
“Original Intentions”. I especially await his views on the intended repression
of the 1787 abstraction: the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. A personal
interpretation ought to guide each citizen’s civic discipline.
Rather than religious freedom, “ourselves and our Posterity”
ought to practice, facilitate, and encourage civic-integrity. Citizens for
the-good --- We the People of the United States --- must constrain the Supreme
Court to pursue statutory justice founded in the-ineluctable-truth rather than
judicial precedent. Justices influence amendment when ineluctably necessary;
“ineluctable” a word purposefully withheld from the people means “not to be
avoided, changed, or resisted”. A civic-republic can only discover& advance
the-ineluctable-truth rather than “mass democracy”, commonly called “social
democracy”. “Civic” refers to reliable human-connections more than observance
of civil rules.
A civic-republic practices, facilitates, and encourages
responsible-human-independence (RHI) so that each citizen may pursue the
happiness they perceive rather than submit to a movement such as
religious freedom, civil rights, revisionist history, or economic inflation. “Shouldn’t
the law and the state support and guarantee the vital social elements of a good
human life?” Yes.
A civic-republic is not feasible when citizens who oppose
its intentions can vote. Most 2021 voters could not care less about “ourselves
and our Posterity”. If the U.S. republic is to be saved, the license to vote
must include demonstration of the citizen’s personal interpretation and
practice of the U.S. intentions abstractly stated in the preamble to the Constitution.
My interpretation just now is: We, who
appreciate fellow-citizens, practice, facilitate, and promote 5 domestic
disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order
to” develop responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity”
including legal immigrants.
“. . . limits on power
preserve . . . the good society” and the first limitation in a representative
republic must be the opportunity to vote. License voting not due to existence
but to intentions for a culture wherein every individual may pursue personal
happiness rather than submit to another entity’s vision for them, and dependent
fellow-citizens are appreciated enough to receive rebuke when needed for reform
to RHI.
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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.
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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