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, safety, 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 month
Accepting that a human being
may pursue the-good
It takes a quarter-century
for an infant to acquire the comprehension and intention to become a human
being. Many accept that they may pursue human being (verb). However, few connect may
to can-choose human being.
The people may reform Education
Departments, in order to practice, facilitate& encourage people to choose
civic-integrity. “Civic” means reliable in every human connection& transaction.
The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers
reliable human independence (RHI), and twelve generations left us the
opportunity to begin the practice “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
#USpreambler
News
https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-rules-against-biden-administration-in-agency-lawsuit-dispute_5193828.html?
Two points: First, this
SCOTUS 9:0 opinion helps restore the separation of branches the administrative
state ruins. Its tyranny long predates the Biden administration. Second, it
underscores the administrative state's relentless attacks on Justice Thomas, a
champion to the people. Interested readers can enrich these 2 points by reading
Charles J. Cooper's 2015 article at Confronting the Administrative State |
National Affairs.
Quora
uora.com/What-is-your-understanding-of-ethics-How-important-is-it-to-you-and-how-can-you-apply-ethics-in-your-life-1?
by Rose Ann
I think ethics is a distraction politicians employ to
control people. What people need is integrity. (Honesty can be egocentric and
is insufficient.)
Integrity requires a person to confirm their perception or
concern is discovery rather than a mirage, research how the discovery can be
used for positive benefits, pursue the means to effect the benefits and to
constrain any negative applications, and report the discovery and benefits to
fellow-citizens.
The record of the integrity adds to ethics – the journal of
human progress to date.
quora.com/How-do-I-have-a-good-moral-and-just-character?
by Han Ni
Let me repeat the question: How do I have a good moral and
just character?
I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth. But I think it is
essential to accept that you may choose the-good in every decision to act and
thereby know how to respond to injustice. In other words, since you may always
choose the-good, you can develop just character.
This way of living is not often practiced, because
civilizations do not teach these principles to their youth and adults. Most
cultures teach people that they are weak and must depend on a higher power for
personal success. They must believe in, worship, and praise the most powerful
God. And their church’s God is the most powerful God. Their God needs no
humility toward the-God. And the-God may be
the-overarching-and-interdependent-laws-of-physics. Or they must think their
government is the best ever devised. Themselves and their posterity will
eventually be relieved of long-standing abuses.
The moment a human-being accepts that they may constrain chaos in the way they
live, from then on, they can choose-the-good in every decision and build a
lifetime with civic justice. “Civic” refers to reliability in human connections
and transactions.
Share: That humankind may pursue good morals
and just character was suggested 5,500 years ago in civil codes developed by
successive Sumerian kings and ending with their conqueror’s “Code of
Hammurabi”. Since they may, human-beings can choose the-good.
#USpreambler
quora.com/In-your-opinion-does-a-persons-motivation-matter-regarding-whether-an-action-is-morally-good-or-does-only-the-action-itself-matter?
by Bratha Dan
Deeply considering the ancient thought expressed as a theism
in Genesis 1:26, NIV, each human-being may choose to independently pursue
order to life on earth. Since he or she may choose, it follows that
they can
choose to pursue order rather than chaos.
If they take action that lessens order, it is morally bad.
If their action causes harm, it matters, depending on the extent of harm.
Some harm attends by chance and some by
perpetrator-intention. Either way, the harmed fellow-citizen deserves justice.
Therefore, cultures have designed rules of law, to act as referee between the
harmed and the perpetrator.
Unjust rule of law can cause harm. Consequently a moral
culture intentionally improves written law to statutory justice.
I know of only one nation that proposes statutory justice. The 1787 U.S.
Constitution proposes 5 public disciplines “in order to” pursue
reliable-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”.
#USpreambler
Comment: The 1787 U.S. Constitutional intention, statutory
justice, seems neglected yet in reform.
#USpreambler
quora.com/Where-do-you-learn-your-morality-from?
by Santa Santina Gatta
In my late adolescence I pursue comprehensive safety&
security. I learn from the consequences of my choices and by observing the past.
A couple experiences should suffice.
First, I made a
promise to a dear friend, then begged release for social convenience. Later,
the friend lost his life in that risky social practice. I feel beyond guilty to
this day. (Forgiveness means nothing. There’s only remorse, because my friend
is gone.) A reliable person does not re-negotiate a promise.
Second, my
company’s affiliate made plans to lie to the government on behalf of my
employer. How I foiled the plan is a long tale. Regardless, the affiliate
thought I was arrogant and fired me. Humility is in the self-interest of the
correct party in a dispute. (Happily, my company gave me a new assignment, and
I finished my career with them.)
And from the
past, R.E. Lee wrote to his wife in December 1856 that, based on local
Christian principles, slavery-abolitionists are evil -- for trying to
accelerate God’s plan of redemption of black-ancestral sins. Already, white
Christians were killing white-Christian-free-staters in Bleeding Kansas. Lee
could have sold all his property and moved to a non-slave state. He lost
everything.
I am neither alone nor novel in my commitment. The Sumerian
civilization, 5,500 years ago developed a political philosophy that assumes
that reliable human-beings can& may choose to pursue comprehensive
safety& security – order instead of chaos – to life on earth. The idea is
suggested in a 3,000 year-old report in Genesis 1:26-28, NIV: humankind may
(thus can) choose to pursue order to living species on earth.
A-reliable-people can choose to pursue comprehensive
safety& security.
#USpreambler
Comment: Each fellow-citizen can& may choose to pursue
comprehensive safety& security to life on earth. #USpreambler
quora.com/Is-there-a-moral-law-that-governs-our-actions-and-choices-or-are-we-free-to-create-our-own-morality?
by Kenneth McRans
Happily, I assert, yes:
There is a moral law that governs our actions and choices, and we are
free to create our own morality. The law is: conform to the discovered laws of
physics& progeny.
My opinion is not new. Sumerian kings who lived between 11
thousand and 4 thousand years ago developed republican monarchies, with written
laws. The culmination was the Code of Hammurabi, the Babylonian conquer of
Sumer.
Hebrew scholars expressed the Sumerian political philosophy
in divine terms in Genesis 1:26-28, NIV. I call it the human-independence
principle: female& male human-being can& may choose order to life on
earth.
It is good to read on your own and draw conclusions. Other
versions don’t lead to my thoughts. For example, NKJV, says “let them have
dominion”, which erroneously implies consumption more that responsibility.
If you accept my interpretation, then you have a scriptural
reference that says that you, Kenneth, are in charge of constraining chaos in
your way of living. Neither the-God nor government can constrain your
opportunity.
However, everyone knows, even though some don’t want to
accept, that no one can defy the laws of physics and its progeny. Progeny
includes mathematics, strong& weak forces, the chemistries, biology,
psychology, fiction, and lies.
For example, if a tsunami has been reported, head to high
ground. If you want to be a god, don’t bleed. If you want to care for your
children for life, so as to grandparent their children, reserve intimacy to
your spouse.
Applying Genesis-1 human-independence to your way of living
facilitates self-interested happiness that develops joy. A reliable journey is
pure pleasure once you accept the future: joy.
Approaching 80 years old in June, I perceive this joy daily.
#acivicpeople
Comment: Conform to the laws of physics and progeny, in
order to pursue a happy journey to joy. #acivicpeople
quora.com/Is-liberalism-paradoxal-if-market-the-rich-decides-How-can-each-person-have-equal-rights??
by Glenn Rasmussen
The elite politicians, rather than the wealthy, have
reasoned that the civic-citizen* is so gullible that they will accept
subjugation, hoping that justice will eventually be delivered. To state it in
Anglo-American tradition, God save the country. Parents promote this religion (gullibility)
to their children and grandchildren. The consequence is adults neglecting
government responsibility. [*Civic means reliable in all human connections and
transactions.]
Rule of the majority (democracy), socialism, and communism
are miserable failures, and the only way a republic can survive is with
free-market principles. That is, legislators must decide on principles to
preserve the free-market. For example, a monopoly empowers an entrepreneur to
pick the pockets of the civic-citizens and must be constrained by legislation.
Also, in today’s entertainment world, rent-seeking administrators abuse the
artist& fans by driving ticket prices to increase administrative wealth.
And the same administrative largess diminished U.S.-university education. Under
the U.S. intentions, voters inform themselves about governance, collaborate for
responsible-human-independence (RHI), and practice civic-integrity.
Elite politicians discovered that entertainment to balance
crises can distract most adults from self-interest in anything but social
awareness. People struggle to know what sports team or musical group or
political group is at the top of the competition more than to prepare to vote
in their personal interest.
As a consequence of civic-citizens neglecting their own
self-interest, elite politicians have reasoned that they can tax hard-working
people, provide welfare to slackers, and please the wealthy, thereby keeping elite
political power. It’s a reality of the middle-class-worker funding life for
derelicts so that consumerism never fails providers.
Elites have so corrupted themselves that they think they can
ignore the U.S. Constitution. Many members of the Democrat Party reject the
U.S. Constitution and do all they can to ruin its intentions. We observe some
Democrats promoting the preposterous mutilation of children to promote a
gender-change industrial complex. This is an age-old struggle between human progressivism
versus the-laws-of-physics& progeny (nature). For example, humans who try
to fly-like-a-bird perish, because they do not consider aerodynamics or jet
propulsion. Civic-citizens are awakened to the evil of gender-change and other
modern injustices. New industrial complexes expand government, creating wealth
to the elites and their rent-seekers. Relief is on the way by the hand of U.S.
civic-citizens.
The U.S. intention expressed in 1787 is for every citizen to
accept that they can& may develop human being (verb) and to
choose to be a human-being. Experience& observations informed the
framers and signers that not every person will choose to develop their unique
human-perfection, and therefore, legislators must reliably develop
statutory-justice. That is, written law that does not invite injustice. For
this reason, they guaranteed every state a republican form of government.
Justice is weighed on the-ineluctable-evidence rather than judicial precedent.
U.S. political intentions are modern extensions of principles developed by
Sumer kings around 5,500 years ago, predating Judeo-Christianity.
The U.S. is in a transition from accepted-ignorance of the
nation’s intentions to awareness of the consequences when citizens don’t know
how to vote in their self-interest – under responsible-human-independence
(RHI).
#U.S.preambler
Comment: The U.S.-citizen is in transition from placid
ignorance to acute awareness of the nation’s intentions, stated in the 1787
Constitution (minus the 1791 Bill of Rights). #U.S.preambler
quora.com/To-what-extent-is-philosophy-important-for-an-individual?
by Yodahe Ejo
Personal philosophy is a development of human being (verb).
Without philosophy, a person does not develop responsible-human-independence
(RHI). Unhappily, he or she remains dependent on others.
A life-time of self-interested civic-integrity facilitates
happiness that humankind, low as existing performance may seem, gradually
develops statutory-justice. “Civic” expresses reliability in human
experiences& observations; connections& transactions.
Civic-awareness is not acquired by the study of philosophy,
which aspires to know every thought about an object, for example, appreciation.
Awareness is grounded in the consequences of personal choice& action. The
philosophers keep a journal of reported thoughts but cannot know the RHI each
civic-person is practicing.
#U.S.preambler
Comment: It seems human being (verb) continually develops
the civic-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence (RHI).
Law professors
To
Investment Discussion
Zoom by invitation,
May 26
I give talks on reforming from tradition to reliability --
to physics& its progeny, such as mathematics& work. I perceive New
Constructs practices, facilitates, and encourages reliability to the self.
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May 20, 2023, edited May 23 & May 26
I doubt attempting to maintain competitive mystery can
rescue the-church from its ongoing decline: reform seems ineluctable if
the-church will serve the-people.
I suggest practicing, facilitating, and promoting the-civic-Jesus.
"Civic" expresses reliability in human connections& transactions
more than conformity to religion, civility, or government rules.
Fellow-citizens may& can expand Jesus' appreciation of the-good to
"ourselves and our Posterity" (quoting the preamble to the U.S.
Constitution). Unreliability is practiced as some form of dependence:
passivism, pretense, cheating, crime, stonewalling, violence, and worse.
Christianity is grounded in Christ, a factional-Jewish competitor to Messiah.
But Christ is for the believer's afterdeath, whereas Jesus is for living.
Christians can accept Jesus' civic-reliability more than continue to attempt
the Christ-mystery-competition. Believers can nonetheless enjoy hope&
comfort in their salvation through surrogate sacrifice.
The Bible is literature that suggests the-good by reporting consequences when
human-beings choose civic-bad even though they may, and therefore can, choose
reliability to self. Jesus' civic-integrity stands against church doctrine and
can be applied& expanded during each generation's era. For example,
defending before Pilate his own life, Jesus said, ". . . the reason I was
born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side
of truth listens to me." The truth is ineluctable, and each person
may& can choose it. Our generation may& can master the word
"ineluctable" and apply it in court rather than invoke the excuse
"so help me God".
Matthew 25:31-45 expresses that people divide themselves as either civic or
dependent, based on behavior toward each other. The person who wrongs another
lessens the-civic-Jesus; lessens humankind's performance. It is in each
person's self-interest to practice, facilitate& encourage modern expansion
of the-good that can be gleaned& developed by considering&
comprehending Jesus' ideas.
Jesus' impact on history is unstoppable. Humankind may& can choose to
influence the-good, quoting the U.S. Constitution, "to ourselves and our
Posterity".
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May 18, 2023
Perhaps Genesis 1:26-28, NIV, is a
message from Jesus (John 1:1) and means that each human-being may& can
choose to pursue order to their life on earth. Matthew 25:31-46 instructs that
if we aid a fellow citizen’s life, we aided Jesus. If we lessen a fellow
citizen’s life, we lessened Jesus.
By our choices we direct ourselves into
either regret or happiness as images of Jesus.
Further, per Matthew 5:48, we may&
can choose intentions to perfect our unique self, accepting that human-beings
can mimic Jesus (Genesis 1:26).
Heartfelt expression by the writer,
Matthew, in Chapter 25, can mislead the reader, for example, to focus on doing
good more than not doing bad. Yet by applying contemporary experiences and
observations, a-civic-people can grasp the-civic-Jesus-guidance: do no harm.
When civic-citizens find themselves
divided by an incident, civic-Jesus-guidance can apply. Citizens may& can
mutually resolve the perceived offense, not to repeat it (John 5:14 and John
8:11).
Appreciatively inform each other when
wrong is perceived. Resist demagoguery and judgement, by listening and
considering. I'm learning this practice with fellow-citizens.
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April 12, 2023
Borrowing words
from Governeur Morris, December 22, 1814:
The current disturbance in the state of Tennessee, whose
Legislators swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution, was perceived when the
Constitution was formed. Disturbers were expected.
If municipal councils prevail, the state cannot last; and, if it does not, the
utility of the councils cease. When the necessity of drawing a line between state
sovereignty and city independence is “insisted on”, disturbers perceive
dilemma. It is one thing to perceive a dilemma, and another thing to resolve
it. The rule of law is preferred.
Leaving Morris’ legacy, the U.S. Constitution guarantees a republic – the rule
of law -- rather than social-democracy, such as Alinsky-Marxist-organized
disturbance or Obama-Foundation right to change things. Europeans and other
aliens cannot imagine the republic that flows in the U.S. civic-citizen’s genes
and memes.
Civic-Americans know& practice the rule of law and leave it to fellow-citizens
to privately or civilly discover it. Civic-reform is invited to U.S. citizens. It
is 6 decades past time to pursue domestic safety& security.
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.
