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Saturday, October 12, 2019

Restore Louisiana’s 10:2 criminal-jury verdicts

It seems remarkable that the press does not report the Court’s acceptance that: The 1791 U.S. Amendment VI stipulates that states must provide “a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed” excludes unanimous verdicts, even nationally. Does the press control Supreme Court opinion? Does "conservative" mean defender of colonial British tradition?

Were it not for the ruinous U.S. psychology of preserving colonial British error (so called “originalism” in its various interpretations), the U.S. might have made impartiality a clear and concise requirement soon after 1791's Amendment VI or after Louisiana’s 1779 brilliant 9:3 provision or after 1967 when England enacted 10:2 verdicts to lessen organized crime's influence on trial results.

Also, U.S. Amendment XIV.1 protects U.S. citizens from unjust legislation by their state, and the Louisiana Legislature, by creating the 2018 popular vote on killing Louisiana’s 10:2 verdicts, was such injustice.

In a nation whose citizens are divided---civic citizens vs dissidents such as criminals (see the U.S. Preamble’s proposition instead of colonial British tradition)---a state might provide impartiality with strictly enforced qualification of jurors and perhaps 6:5 verdicts.

Consider the Electoral College, where 270 of 538 votes or 50.2% is decisive. And the popular vote in the last election was 51.1% split between the leading candidates. Can you imagine a unanimous vote for U.S. president?

Consider the famously split U.S. Supreme Court, were 5 of 9 votes or 55.6% is decisive.

Louisiana’s 10:2 verdicts should be restored under U.S. Amendments VI and XIV.1. The federal statute should be changed to perhaps 5:4. The 12:0 verdict is a colonial British tradition that England obsoleted in 1967 by allowing 10:2 verdicts, perhaps influencing Louisiana’s unfavorable 1973 revision from 9:3 to 10:2.

It is past time for We the People of the United States to hold the Congress, the administration, and the Court accountable to "ourselves and our Posterity" instead of colonial British tradition.

Comment posted on the sites referenced above.

Pulitzer Prize winning press-wrought woe (Joe Gyan Jr.) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_20754176-e46a-11e9-abd4-07cfcedeaaff.html)

It is egregious that The Advocate (not necessarily Joe) does not point out that this event is anecdotal evidence that a civic people of Louisiana made a costly mistake when they allowed the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Louisiana Legislature, the Louisiana governor, the Louisiana Attorney General, The Advocate, and the Louisiana Supreme Court to impose on them an unconstitutional revision of Louisiana’s non-unanimous majority jury verdicts to require jury unanimity.

The ruinous consequences for the people (gains to lawyers and judges) are beginning to emerge.

Perhaps there will be relief on the basis of U.S. Amendments, both Amendment VI’s demand for impartiality and Amendment XIV.1’s demand that a state not reduce a citizen’s opportunity for justice.

The Advocate could give up its Pulitzer Prize now for the appearance to reform to civic integrity.

Columns

Only one lifetime of chance at human humility (Christopher Simon) (https://issuu.com/richlandcentershoppingnews/docs/oo0322, page 6)

Every human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth, the ineluctable evidence that asymptotically discovers the-literal-truth. There has been no discovery that whatever-God-is is imaginary---non-existent. Therefore, “I don’t know what-God-is” seems a humble opinion.

Cultures erroneously encourage the individual to search for a “higher power” that may control the-literal-truth. Many focus the mystery on theism, competing, reasonable constructs about whatever-God-is. They fail the acceptance that whatever-God-is does not yield to human reason. It is a failure in human humility.

It’s reasonable to hope and pray for favorable mystery against what is unknown. However, it takes hubris to publically proclaim that whatever-God-is will save your phantasm called “soul”.

Moreover, to appeal to a civic citizen to change their way of living on your priesthood begs woe, whether you joined the theism in 1796 or today.

We the People of the United States would---should---amend the First Amendment so as to encourage human integrity rather than defend civic, civil, and legal theism.

Blatant press hypocrisy (The Advocate editors) (https://www.theadvocate. com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_a65f5382-eab2-11e9-ba1e-9b3d2d8f9662.html)

“. . . it’s easier [to] blame the messenger than offer a compelling message of your own.”

The late Bill Bankston taught me that it’s “freedom of the press,” not freedom of the citizen with a cogent message. Not long after that, I began a blog to relieve myself of The Advocate’s business plan. My blog that promotes the U.S. Preamble is read worldwide, but the ideas and library-meeting announcements cannot pass The Advocate’s business plan.

“Everybody knows” the-literal-truth may be approached through the-objective-truth, which may be discovered through the ineluctable evidence rather than by human reasoning. Humankind suffers the mystery of whatever-God-is, and the USA suffers freedom of religion, a spiritual democracy that discourages civic integrity regarding republican government.

The civic portion of U.S. citizens, We the People of the United States who accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition, may---should---revise the First Amendment so as to 1) encourage each individual to apply integrity in life even if he or she chooses to pursue imagined-favor during personal afterdeath and 2) approve responsible human liberty as proposed in the U.S. Preamble: communicate, collaborate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions in order to secure responsible human liberty.

Here’s what I think I observed beyond what Bankston shared. The writer for the press who would report the-literal-truth is also constrained by freedom of the press’s business plan. Therefore, it is unlikely for a media-writer to develop the skills of journalism---reporting humankind’s journey toward the-literal-truth.

Furthermore, since the U.S. media is owned by corporations and the corporations are owned by aliens to the U.S. Preamble, the sooner We the People of the United States amend the First Amendment so as to hold the media responsible to the-objective-truth when the-literal-truth is not evident, the better.

Thank you, fellow citizens who voted for Trump/Pence in the 2016 primaries and again in the presidential election. We the People of the United States may be a step closer to eliminating the media’s singular immunity from the checks and balances provided the people, the cities, the states, and the three branches of the U.S. government.

The Louisiana Constitution already provides a responsibility clause in its freedom of expression, and I commend the Louisiana Legislature to enact enforcement.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-a-good-idea-to-declare-your-political-views-socially?

It is essential to behave so as to share political views and thereby give fellow citizens the opportunity to aid your journey toward comprehending and practicing the-literal-truth. Thereby, a person may develop human integrity.

The-literal-truth is approachable using the-objective-truth, the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured and integrity is pursued.

Integrity is a practice: perceive a concern or discovery; do the work to confirm actual reality rather than a mirage; drop concerns about mirages and do the work to understand how to benefit from a discovery; behave so as to benefit from your understanding; share your reasons for the behavior with the public and listen for suggestions for improvement; with suggestions, affirm the improvement and adjust accordingly; remain open-minded for new discovery that demands change; if so, share the change with the public.

Every human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity. However, communities influence people to seek a higher power, often a competitor in the mystery of whatever-God-is. Unfortunately, many people live a lifetime without accepting either HIPEA or the mystery of whatever-God-is. Such people have not accepted human humility. Reforming this sensitive human conflict cannot be done by coercion or force.

In human humility, the civic individual neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or institution. Therefore, he or she maintains strength against either physical attack or psychological affront.

He or she recognizes that a person’s hopes and comforts against the unknown may be a god or none. However, he or she does not affirm a mystery. If pressured for witness, he or she might say, for example, that the existence of God has not been disproven, so a humble position is “I don’t know.” If the other party says something like, “You are in danger of Hell’s fire and I will pray for you,” a kind response is needed. I like my friend Hector’s response: “I’m not so sure I’m in danger.” I might respond, “Thank you. I’ll pray for you, too.”

Witness to the-objective-truth is essential to peace. Otherwise, there is no standard for the integrity needed to approach the-literal-truth. In fact, political-repression and citizens’-habitual-neglect of the U.S. Preamble is the reason for chaos in U.S. governance. Every U.S. citizen could—should---interpret the U.S. preamble’s proposition and promote their interpretation for use by fellow citizens.

My interpretation today is: The transcendent society we call “We the People of the United States” communicates, collaborates, and connects to aid five domestic institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens now and in the future. I perceive that the five domestic institutions to secure human liberty imply that the performance standard is the-literal-truth. I use this interpretation to order my citizenship.

Accepting the-literal-truth requires perfection that neither individual nor humankind can attain. However, pursuit of the-literal-truth is attainable through discovery and acceptance of the-objective-truth. For example, civic citizens do not lie to each other because experience and observations inform humankind that the-literal-truth eventually speaks for itself.

Only the human species has the HIPEA to converse about the-literal-truth, and each individual has only one life during which to speak of it.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-everyone-should-live-by-the-same-moral-standards-Why-or-why-not?

I think every human being should aid mutual, comprehensive safety and security in order to secure responsible human liberty. Thereby, each human may pursue individual happiness with civic integrity. Individual happiness is unique while civic integrity conforms to standards.

What standard can humankind conform to and allow the individual his or her unique happiness? Statutory justice based on the-literal-truth should be adequate, but seems unattainable perfection. However, the-objective-truth, the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured and the-literal-truth is asymptotically approached, can be used to discover legal injustices and reform toward statutory justice. The-objective-truth as the standard for human justice offers an achievable better future.

For example, civic citizens don’t lie to each other so as to lessen human misery and loss. Civic citizens choose integrity so as not to wander into infidelity.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-feel-like-a-Global-Citizen-or-do-you-just-feel-patriotic-to-your-country-Are-those-two-things-mutually-exclusive?

I communicate, collaborate, and connect for civic, civil, and legal citizenship to the continuum of living people without restriction. I think every person may communicate, collaborate, and connect for equity under statutory justice. I am a U.S. citizen.

So far, perhaps 7 trillion person-years have been experienced and observed by humankind over perhaps 3 million years of physical, psychological, and cultural evolutions. On June 21, 1788, my nation, the USA was established as a global nation by the citizens’ representatives of 9 of 13 free and independent global states, formerly the N. American, eastern-seaboard, British colonies.

Its proposed culture was possible until March 4, 1789, when the First Congress, representing the people of 11 of the 13 formerly free and independent states began restoring colonial-British governance under common law and the factional-American Protestant partnership with Congress. Congress made themselves as divine as the English Parliament in partnership with the reformed-Catholic Church of England. In 2019, the USA partnership has evolved to Judeo-Christianity, to non-believers an oxymoron.

The U.S. cultural proposition is stated in the U.S. Preamble. Each citizen may interpret the proposition and thereby order his or her civic integrity . . . or not. My interpretation today is: The transcendent society we call “We the People of the United States” communicates, collaborates, and connects to aid five domestic institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens now and in the future. I interpret the five domestic institutions to secure human liberty imply that the performance standard is the-literal-truth. I use this interpretation to order my citizenship and encourage fellow citizens to develop their interpretations of the controversial 52-word sentence.

Accepting the-literal-truth requires perfection that neither the individual nor humankind can attain. However, pursuit of the-literal-truth is attainable through discovery and acceptance of the-objective-truth. That is, discovery of the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured and the-literal-truth is asymptotically approached. For example, civic citizens do not lie to each other because experience and observations inform We the People of the United States that the-literal-truth eventually speaks for itself.

I don’t hold that the U.S. Preamble is either the only or the best proposition to aid five public institutions to encourage responsible human liberty. However, I do hold that the standard for human justice is the-objective-truth when the-literal-truth is not known. This principle holds for individuals, for societies, for nations, and for humankind, in my opinion.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-first-generation-of-human-rights?

I suspect an ancient thinker imagined that humans have the right to develop integrity.

Lao Tzu may have said: don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you.

Agathon, in Plato’s “Symposium” suggested that Eros’ greatest power is that he neither causes nor suffers harm to or from any man or any god. The suggestion is that men can live lives of justice.

Socrates asked if the god is good because he is god or is god because he is good.

Jesus may have suggested he was god, and may have been saying that men have the ability to develop integrity and that he himself was such a man.

Socrates may have died to uphold the rule of law even when the conviction is unjust.

I think freedom-from tyranny so as to have the liberty-to develop integrity may be the only justifiable human right, and I’m not certain that right can be denied externally.

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-find-most-invigorating-in-today-s-political-atmosphere?

We may have reached the abyss of identity politics and have the opportunity to establish responsible human liberty at last. When I was a child, my community’s politics was expressed as “the Christian thing to do.” Today, the U.S. Supreme Court may represent the Judeo-Christian thing to do, and the Congress represents chaos. Today’s administration may be effecting the necessary transition toward equity under justice during life, with individual privacy in any hopes for favorable afterdeath.

The Greeks, about 2400 years ago, suggested, in my interpretation, that humankind can establish human equity by developing statutory justice. Two tools are needed: 1) an agreement on which citizens may choose to be either civic or dissident to statutory justice, and 2) a standard by which perfection can be measured and asymptotically approached. Under statutory justice, dissident fellow citizens are encouraged to reform in order to secure human liberty.

I think the essential tools are implied in the U.S. Preamble, the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. First, it specifies five public institutions by which the individual may aid freedom-from oppression so as to secure the living citizen’s liberty-to develop integrity. Second, the U.S. Preamble does not specify the standard for accomplishing the five institutions and encouraging the personal liberty-to accept integrity.

It may be fortuitous that the U.S. Preamble’s proposition can be interpreted that way: I suggest that because the draft presented to the 5-person Committee of Style did not contain the proposition with its six nouns. James Madison may have aided the false interpretation of the U.S. Preamble as secular.

Before June 21, 1788, when 9 of 13 free and independent global states established the USA as a nation, the voting public’s allegiance was to whatever-God-is according to their factional American Christianity, whether Trinitarian or Unitarian. (The voting public was then 4% of inhabitants.) The U.S. Preamble is neutral to religion, race, gender, nationality, yet offers fellow citizens (now nearly 100% able to vote) the opportunity to be either of We the People of the United States or dissident to that entity. Each citizen may interpret the U.S. Preamble and so order his or her civic, civil, and legal life or not.

My interpretation this morning is: The transcendent society we call “We the People of the United States” communicates, collaborates, and connects to aid five domestic institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens now and in the future. I interpret the five domestic institutions to secure human liberty imply that the performance standard is the-literal-truth. I use this interpretation to order my citizenship and encourage fellow citizens to develop their interpretations of a controversial 52-word sentence.

Accepting the-literal-truth requires perfection that neither individual nor humankind can attain. However, pursuit of the-literal-truth is attainable through discovery and acceptance of the-objective-truth. That is, discovery of the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured and the-literal-truth is asymptotically approached. For example, civic citizens do not lie to each other because experience and observations inform We the People of the United States that the-literal-truth eventually speaks for itself.

In summary, we may be at the abyss of theism---the belief that whatever-God-is rather than the individual controls peace. We may be on the rise toward responsible human liberty using a civic proposition like the U.S. Preamble with the pursuit of the-literal-truth.

Perhaps we fellow citizens live in the best of times: the reform to responsible human liberty.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-features-of-social-accountability?

It seems to me “social” implies voluntary association, whereas humans involuntarily live in times and places. Therefore, I prefer to address civic choices, and a personally advantageous option is to aid mutual, comprehensive safety and security. View my point as Maslow’s eight-tier hierarchy of responsibilities to self rather than “needs.”

On the other hand, I must admit I choose a few societies including one with the potential for transcendence within its nation: We the People of the United States.

The basic commitment by which an individual may demand accountability is to aid human equity under statutory justice. The fellow citizen with this acceptance is in a position to support constraints on dissidents such as criminals and tyrants.

In the USA, the people’s proposition for equity under justice is the U.S. Preamble: the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Preamble proposes individual aid to five public institutions: Unity Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare. The purpose is human liberty to both living and future citizens according to personal standards rather than the dictates of others.

In my interpretation of the U.S. Preamble, the five goals are integrity, justice, peace, strength and prosperity in order to secure liberty. My standard for justice is the-literal-truth, which may be approached using the-objective-truth or discovered ineluctable evidence. For example, civic citizens don’t lie to each other so as to lessen human misery and loss. Some people use as standard their personal solution to the mystery of whatever-God-is, and also aid statutory justice for responsible human liberty.

The United Nations’ statement of human rights has 30 paragraphs and near 100 rights. That’s too many variables for 330 million people, much less 8 billion. Furthermore, the only defensible human right may be the rights to develop and practice integrity.

The five goals and one purpose stated in the U.S. Preamble seem tenable as the basis of a society whose members accept the proposition. And that brings me to the realization that the entity We the People of the United States is a society. I am a member.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/In-political-sociology-are-there-serious-concerns-about-this-field?

I am a civic citizen, retired chemical engineer, and advocate for the-literal-truth. There’s no place for “social sciences,” because they beg woe by creating statistical studies to support a belief.

In that third capacity, I try to encourage fellow citizens to consider a civic agreement by which to order their communications, collaborations, and connections for responsible human liberty.

About 2400 years ago, the Greeks suggested, in my interpretation, that human equity can be developed under the pursuit of statutory justice. That is the perfection that is pursuable by discovering unjust laws and enforcement and reforming them. Objectivity is required for discovery, because subjectivity and emotions can bemuse the researcher. By all means, research to prove a belief begs ruin.

In the USA, the people’s proposition for equity under justice is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, and I work to encourage every citizen to consider the U.S. Preamble and whether or not he or she wants to be a member of We the People of the United States as he or she interprets the sentence. I think it proposes self-discipline to develop individual liberty with civic integrity---a human, worthy lifetime.

Some journalism schools have discovered the power of the press and have political statistics partners with whom they develop statistical research to prove a belief. The nested principle is that public opinion sways political power, the press controls public opinion, and “political science” can develop the statistical data to influence most of the public. I think press influence is short lived, because even though civic citizens don’t articulate their interpretation of the U.S. preamble, its proposition is in their genes, memes, and blood.

It is critical for the public to become aware of the press’s political power and how it came to pass. It begins with the 1791 U.S. First Amendment provision called “freedom of the press.” Neither the people, their states, nor the three branches of the U.S. government have unfettered freedom: the press is unconstrained. The consequence is that the press is owned by corporations, some controlled by aliens to America, let alone We the People of the United States.

Here’s a first-hand account of press corruption. This is long and complex, but I think worth understanding. Louisiana’s French perspective on the jury impartiality required of states by U.S. Amendment VI was negated in a 2018 public vote that was bemused to favor criminals over their victims. The effect is 700% disproportionally against black victims of black criminals.

In 1879, when Louisiana, statehood 1812, a former French/Spanish colony (thereby not attracted to British tradition), regained control after Reconstruction, the state enacted 9:3 jury verdicts in non-capital criminal trials. This novel law answers the 1791 U.S. Amendment VI requirement that states provide impartial juries. England itself mimicked Louisiana when in 1967, they empowered 10:2 criminal jury verdicts to lessen organized crime’s influence.

The statistical support for non-unanimous verdicts can be considered in rules for the U.S. Supreme Court. First, with political favor split 50:50 (consider recent popular votes for President) and the makeup of the Supreme Court, impartiality is unlikely. Two provisions favor impartiality. First, the Court forces unbalanced votes with 9 members. Second, the Court allows the narrowest vote: 5:4. The claim that justices are too professional to need such measures would be supported by neither the Congress, the Administration, nor the Court, nor especially civic citizens.

To mimic the Supreme Court, a state might enact 6:5 or 3:2 jury verdicts for criminal trials. Louisiana, in 1880 specified 9:3.

But in 2018, the Baton Rouge newspaper, The Advocate, embarked on a political-sociology campaign to assist the Louisiana State Bar Association in its bid to undo Louisiana’s 10:2 criminal jury verdicts using a 70% vote in the Louisiana Legislature. When that failed they created a popular vote in which 2/3 of voters approved unanimous verdicts. The chief logic was: If I was on trial, I’d want a unanimous decision. The irony is that victims do not subject themselves to criminal accusation.

Other Louisianans can be glad they did not create a resolution like the one Ed Tarpley presented to the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA); http://files.lsba.org/documents/HOD/RES4JUNE2016.pdf. It ignores that Louisiana’s 9:3 impartial-majority verdicts are constitutional according to the Great State of Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court, and U.S. Amendment VI regarding impartiality. It overlooks that U.S. Amendment XIV.1 prevents a state from imposing injustice when justice is established. That provision may arise in immediate, future deliberations.

The Advocate’s contribution was controversial statistics claiming that black victims of crime are disproportionally favored over black criminals (that’s a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of The Advocate’s socioloy statistics). For their corrupt reporting, The Advocate now sports a Pulitzer Prize. A detailed review of events then is posted at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com; use the search bar in the upper left with “unanimous verdicts” and scroll down to the July 17, 2018 post.

The threat to victims created by Louisiana’s move to unanimous juries is illustrated as both 1) a corrupt judicial system and 2) subjugation to lying jurists in the October 5, 2019 article https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_20754176-e46a-11e9-abd4-07cfcedeaaff.html. A jurist with intentions tried to help a convicted rapist win a new trial. The Advocate does not recall its Pulitzer Prize corruption. The Advocate continues its obfuscation of the facts in the October 6, 2019 article at https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_35ef27e4-e7b5-11e9-8844-57c73a50a4f0.html. The new income for Louisiana lawyers and judge is beginning to surface: https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/article_a7a5af44-e6dd-11e9-aa14-fb3c572f7de5.html. Shame on the Louisiana Legislature, the LSBA, and The Advocate.

I know this example is a lot to take in. It is well worth the time to understand it, because the entity We the People of the United States is being destroyed by the press’s unbridled power, recently exacerbated by “social sciences.” I you consider yourself of We the People of the United States, take charge of “yourself and your Posterity.”

https://www.quora.com/What-does-Far-Right-really-mean-in-todays-politics?

Far right people probably think I am not a fellow citizen, because I trust and am committed to whatever-God-is rather than some mystery the far right competes over.

Public meetings I host at libraries and elsewhere attempt to present the-objective-truth, that is, ineluctable evidence that may need adjustment with new discovery as the people’s reliable tool for asymptotically approaching the-literal-truth. My purpose is to have open-minded dialogue in which I may earn better personal opinion. (In fact, the innovation “the-literal-truth” has not yet been presented in a library meeting. The next planned meeting is for the week of June 21, 2020, celebrating Responsible Human Liberty Day, the day the U.S. Preamble became the statement of purpose for the USA as a global nation.)

In a recent series of meetings, a communicating participant kept asking me if I was a Christian. I answered, “No, because my view of Jesus is not represented by Christianity.” In the third of five meetings, the participant asked, “Is Jesus Christ you Lord and Savior?” When I answered, “No,” he walked out and I have not heard from him since.

I consider that participant a fellow citizen who is dissident to We the People of the United States. Christians can hope for their souls as well as aid freedom-from tyranny so as to have the liberty-to develop civic integrity.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/If-freedom-of-speech-is-an-integral-part-of-our-constitution-why-are-we-having-such-a-problem-aligning-with-it?

It’s a fundamental flaw in the 1791 Bill of Rights, which is a colonial-British imposition on the entity We the People of the United States by the First Congress. Many elements of the 1789-1791 Congressional impositions oppose the 1787 U.S. Constitution and its purposes as stated in the U.S. Preamble.

First, freedom of expression, which includes speech, is a responsible human right. When irresponsible expression is the actual cause of harm, the discovered speaker is constrained by law and its enforcement. For example, the person who yells “Fire!” in a crowded assembly is held responsible for consequential injury and damage. Also, parents who risk orphaning their children by poisonous snake handling may lose custody of the children, and the grandparents who do not believe in snake handling may be favored by the court.

The commitment to responsible human liberty (including expression) is proposed in the U.S. Preamble, which I interpret this morning as follows: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (original nouns are Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare, respectively) ---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living people. This seems a proposition to aid freedom-from tyranny so as to secure individual liberty-to develop responsible human integrity as evolution unfolds. The U.S. Preamble is neutral to religion, race, gender, wealth, and other civic factors.

The U.S. Preamble is a civic, civil, and legal proposition. For example, upon its ratification by nine states as of June 21, 1788, the global status of the 13 colonial-British states reduced to four states, and the 1774 Confederation of States was legally terminated. The nine states established the USA as a global nation. Articles that follow the U.S. Preamble are dissident to the USA if they do not aid the journey toward statutory justice, which is the discovery and amendment of unjust laws and their enforcement.

The 1787 U.S. Constitution limits a state’s rights according to the people in their respective states and grants the Union of states limited rights. All other rights are retained by the people. The human right that seems justifiable to me is the opportunity to develop integrity rather than wander into infidelity. By not specifying the standard by which justice is measured, the U.S. Preamble leaves it to each citizen to choose a reliable standard. Establishment of a standard is contingent on acceptance by the majority of citizens under the specified republican system. For example, most 1790 voting citizens were pleased to compete for dominant American Protestantism, but 2019 citizens are not so inclined.

Critical to the U.S. republican system are 1) the retention of responsible human rights as stated in the U.S. Preamble, where the authority is We the People of the United States, 2) the stated retention of states’ rights, 3) and limitations to the Union of states including complex provisions for the balance of powers between the administrative, legislative, and judicial branches including the prevention of democracy. Some states elect chief politicians by popular vote, but popular voting does not hold in federal branches. No where is the press given a role in U.S. governance.

However, the 1789-1791 Congress acted unconstitutionally under the U.S. Preamble to give the press unconstrained freedom. Neither the people, the states, the three branches of the Union, nor the clergy have the civil, civil, and legal immunity that the press enjoys. As we are experiencing in 2019, the consequence is corruption that empowers aliens to influence U.S. governance. This tyranny by foreign powers over the U.S. press will persist as long as the entity We the People of the United States allows it.

The Congress has always been lawless, but the divergence created by the two-party system has entered chaos under the current dominance of the Democrats, who are controlled more than aided by the press. Nancy Pelosi frequently says she is acting for “we, the people.” I doubt she even understands We the People of the United States is the entity that under “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” hold her accountable. But not enough Americans comprehend We the People of the United States.

Second, the fact that the popular vote in recent presidential elections have hovered near 50% plus one vote respecting the two dominant tickets shows that too few voters understand the U.S. Preamble’s civic, civil, and legal power. The U.S. Preamble is a proposition for individual happiness with civic morality rather than a commitment to domestic conflict for dominant opinion. By publically aiding U.S. integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, fellow citizens assure freedom-from tyranny so that each individual has the liberty-to responsibly pursue the life he or she wants. That available future is so appealing that at least 2/3 of voters should be aiding the establishment of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition as a demand on the political parties.

The USA struggles for freedom of responsible speech against the 1791 unconstitutional amendments passed by the First Congress in the Bill of Rights. Especially the First Amendment needs reform to 1) responsible expression and 2) opportunity to develop integrity, leaving religion a private choice. Both houses of Congress should begin each session with the unison reading of the U.S. Preamble. The pledge of allegiance with its reference to the mystery whatever-God-is ought to be discontinued so as to emphasize that the USA serves the people.

Law professors

https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/10/10/the-nation-and-the-bible/

Rogers starts, “in . . . ‘Christian Universalism and the Nation’ . . . Reno writes ‘we need better theology.’”
Then he explains an Old Testament culture of Israeli love-discrimination toward non-believers who live among citizens, concluding, “. . . assimilation is fundamental.”

It’s a false notion. Before assimilation, there must be consideration, comprehension, appreciation, and acceptance.

At stake in the USA is acceptance of We the People of the United States, an entity that is determined by individual trust-in and commitment to a proposition. It is stated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, or U.S. Preamble. The essence of the proposition is: willing citizens aid five public institutions in order to approve and encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens. The five institutions are Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare. The standards for aid are left to the individual who wants responsible human liberty.

The fellow citizen who does not appreciate responsible human liberty may face law enforcement if he or she actually causes harm to a fellow citizen. Accepting citizenship in the USA obligates the individual to consider and comprehend the civic, civil, and legal proposition that is offered in the U.S. Preamble. Living as a citizen in the USA implies that the individual either comprehends equity under the U.S. Preamble’s proposition or will reform if not. This principle applies to Bishops who are citizens as well as government officials.

A citizen has the liberty to read into this proposition the belief in a mystery of whatever-God-is, and responsibly pursue that belief. He or she may privately associate with Abraham or Abram, while practicing civic integrity rather than infidelity. Nowhere in the U.S. Preamble’s proposition is allegiance to a religion, a philosophy, a political ideal, or any other human construct suggested.

I think the standard that applies to the five public institutions is the-literal-truth when known, or the-objective-truth when discovered, or acceptance of not knowing when the individual citizen has only opinion to act on.

Individually and collectively ignoring the U.S. Preamble will not help Christianity, Judeo-Christianity, reincarnation, or any other human hopes for the afterdeath, that vast time after body, mind, and person stop functioning. However, the U.S. Preamble does propose integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity in order to secure responsible human liberty.

https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/10/08/sex-sexual-orientation-and-the-separation-of-powers/

“As stated in the brief by Harris Funeral Homes in the Harris case:
[. . . ] While “sex” views the status of male and female as an objective fact based in reproductive anatomy and physiology, “gender identity” treats it as a subjective belief determined by internal perceptions without “a fixed external referent.”
“As for the constitutional separation of powers, what is being proposed in these three cases that deal with a powerful federal law pervasive in its influence is the takeover by the federal courts of the legislative power.”

Thomas Ascik’s analysis, concludes with the quote from the Harris case, which I interpret: erroneously taking the law from the-objective-truth to subjective beliefs.

The Court already exposed its arrogance against the-literal-truth in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). The-objective-truth is that human life begins with the viable ovum, and its dignity and equality must be protected by the woman whose body produced the ovum and the man who supplies the spermatozoon for conception. This is so, because it takes about 2 to 3 decades for the human being to transition from feral infant to young adult with the comprehension and intention to live a responsible human life, perhaps 80 years pursuing integrity. The human cannot make this fantastic transition on his or her own, and no one else can assume the mother and father’s caretaking. Furthermore, no one else can feel obligated to the ovum’s potential offspring beginning with the parents’ grandchildren. Supreme Court opinion that refutes the-objective-truth begs woe.

The-objective-truth is discovered as the ineluctable evidence that is established by objective research. Research designed to prove a belief begs woe. Sometimes new discovery, often facilitated by advanced research instruments, requires revision of the-objective-truth. Thereby, the-literal-truth or perfect knowledge may be asymptotically approached. Acceptance of a-subjective-truth lessens the power of research.

These principles apply in psychology as certainly as in physics. For example, objective individuals do not lie to each other, because eventually the-literal-truth will emerge. We may be learning that when a liar approaches the President of the United States, the President’s obligation is to protect the pearls (Matthew 7:6, CJB, “Don’t give to dogs what is holy, and don’t throw your pearls to the pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, then turn and attack you.”)

The final sentence in Ascik’s essay could accelerate an achievable better future by promoting a neglected constitutional power: the transcendent society We the People of the United States. That entity, the civic citizens, is proposed in the U.S. Preamble, the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Every citizen may accept or reject the U.S. Preamble’s proposition, and acceptance is advantageous for the individual who interprets it so as to order his or her civic, civil, and legal lifetime. This principle holds for justices.

My interpretation of the U.S. Preamble today is: The U.S. transcendent society we call “We the People of the United States” communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five domestic institutions—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens now and in the future. I interpret the six nouns—the five domestic institutions to secure responsible human liberty—together imply that the performance standard is the-literal-truth rather than the mystery of whatever-God-is.

It is a wonderful time for the U.S. Supreme Court justices to each consider: Am I a member of We the People of the United States or a dissident to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition? What is my personal interpretation of those 52 words? Does my interpretation apply to me and my children and grandchildren or must I be true to dead citizens? Must I adhere to popular opinion?

We the People of the United States is aware and ultimately holds government officials responsible to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

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, October 5, 2019

The-literal-truth

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.

Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “Willing citizens collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.

Selected theme from this week

A quora question prompted perhaps my clearest encouragement for individuals to pay attention to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition with the-objective-truth as standard for justice. The-objective-truth is the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured and the-literal-truth is asymptotically approached.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/How-would-you-define-freedom-1?

Freedom is prevention of arbitrary constraints, both external and internal, with acceptance of the-literal-truth. For example, I am not colonial-British, because I was born in America and want to behave as a member of We the People of the United States.

Humankind is constrained by the laws of physics, which control evolution. As physical evolution unfolds, humankind does the noble work of pursuing the-literal-truth by discovering the-objective-truth as indicated by ineluctable evidence. Asymptotically, the-objective-truth approaches the-literal-truth. Humankind know so much it is difficult for a human to learn much of it in a lifetime, perhaps 80 years.

Some humans argue that reason can be used to extrapolate from the-objective-truth to the-literal-truth, and they influence people whose emotions dissuade demands for objectivity. For example, I once overlooked or warmed to a famous lyric “Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear.” I suffered an imposed fear or psychological tyranny. However, as I progressed into college it seemed clear to me that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs can be viewed as personal responsibilities. For example, if you want to choose food rather than accept from a bureaucrat, you must earn.

When I was a child, I understood that America was exceptional because of “we, the people” and “freedom of religion.” However, a sixteen-month overseas assignment made me realize the world is peopled with great individuals, and that some cultures have open-minded civic practices. It inspired me to examine more closely the U.S. Constitution. I discovered its preamble, the U.S. Preamble. A few decades later, I view the U.S. Preamble as a proposition for self-discipline to achieve mutual, comprehensive safety and security.

The U.S. Preamble offers citizens the proposition which I interpret for my way of living as follows: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (original nouns are Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare, respectively) ---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living people. This seems a proposition to aid freedom-from tyranny so as to secure individual liberty-to develop responsible human integrity as evolution unfolds. It is neutral to religion, race, gender, wealth, and other civic factors.

In my maturity, low as it may be, I accept that I must conform to the-literal-truth, which I may pursue through the-objective-truth, admitting I do not know when I do not know. I accept the mystery of whatever-God-is. I try to be informed of government decisions in my city, state, and country; publically express my preferences; and vote for politicians who seem to be of We the People of the United States rather than “we, the people.” I try to aid freedom-from both internal and external constraints so as to secure liberty-to my wife, me, our children, and other people.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-three-main-causes-of-human-rights-violations?

First, most humans do not accept individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than wander into infidelity.

Second, most humans erroneously believe their god will eventually relieve the people of governmental abuse, not recognizing that theists futilely debate the mystery of whatever-God-is and thereby establish a democracy that prevents non-theists who would like to aid responsible human liberty to develop integrity.

Third, church-state partnerships recognize that theists will neither rebel nor leave the country, and therefore the partnership can pick the people’s pockets with immunity.

Fellow citizens can terminate this abuse of the people by accepting HIPEA to develop civic integrity, maintaining hopes that their god will provide them a favorable afterdeath. Afterdeath is that vast time after body, mind, and person have stopped functioning. Neither governments nor whatever-God-is makes promises favorable afterdeath.

https://www.quora.com/As-democracy-is-losing-popularity-what-other-form-of-government-will-replace-it?

I read, write, and conduct open meetings at public libraries to promote two practices: 1) individual discipline that is so true to human experience and observations that most people practice it and 2) individual pursuit of the-literal-truth as standard for human integrity.

Individual practices when in civic majority promote collective success, and I think 2/3 participation in civic citizenship is achievable as soon as this message is widely read. I have appealed to my two U.S. Senators, Cassidy and Kennedy, to bring the proposal to the U.S. Senate. I will not try again to approach Democrats.

The first principle---individual discipline as requisite to collective discipline---derives from my interpretation of 2400 year-old Greek suggestion. Humankind can establish individual equity under statutory justice. Equity rather than equality because every human is unique. Statutory justice as perfect law, a worthy human goal.

In my country, the USA, the trust-in and commitment-to discover equity under statutory justice is offered in the U.S. Preamble, the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. It is a controversial, 52-word proposal that each citizen may interpret to order his or her lifetime. A lifetime is the perhaps 80 year opportunity to develop human integrity regarding perhaps 7 trillion man-years of humankind’s accumulated experience and observations.

My interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition to fellow citizens this morning is: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (original nouns Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare, respectively)---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living people. There may be a better people’s proposal, and I’d like to know of it. By all means it is not the United Nation’s declaration of human rights.

In my work to comprehend the U.S. Preamble, two principles stand out.

First, the U.S. Preamble does not refer to preservation of the 1788 U.S. culture, a form of “originalism.” The object of the public aid to five institutions is “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” At all times, “ourselves” is living citizens and “our Posterity” is future citizens including grandchildren and beyond. Thus, current civic families aid the five public institutions to secure liberty to the parents’ grandchildren and beyond. Citizens who do not consider much less aid the U.S. Preamble’s proposition are dissident fellows who may reform at any time. Without my articulations, I think about 2/3 of citizens aid the proposition by virtue of their genes and memes, but because of political obfuscations, civic votes teeter on 50% plus one.

Second, while the 1788 standard for justice may have been each voting citizen’s factional American Protestantism (a private division), only 5% of inhabitants could vote, and they were land-owning men. Since its establishment as a global nation on June 21, 1788, the USA has suffered obfuscation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition as secular, whereas it is neutral to religion, race, gender, and other civic errors. Alas, so far, instead of religiously neutral the USA has been a democracy under competitive theists, with non-theists sharing the burden of the mystery of whatever-God-is. American democracy is as ruinous as any other democracy and egregiously ruinous to non-theists. The U.S. Preamble left it to us and our posterity to establish reliable human standards as evolution unfolds.

Both physical and cultural discoveries emerge from ineluctable evidence we call the-objective-truth. For example, like erroneous physical perceptions such as the sun’ll come out tomorrow, lies inevitably are exposed by physical evidence. The men elevated Kipling’s man who would be king to a god until the primitive women cut the god’s wrist to observe the blood. The earth, rotating on its axis, hides the sun each evening and un-hides it each morning.

The-objective-truth often changes because of new instruments or new interpretations of past evidence. Therefore, open-minded people often state “I don’t know,” before expressing a hard-earned opinion. For example, to the challenge “Solve the mystery of whatever-God-is” the civic citizen might answer “The existence of God has not been disproven, so I don’t know.” With open minds, humankind trusts-in and is committed-to asymptotically approaching the-literal-truth.

Regardless of my work, I think humankind is on a deliberate march toward a civic agreement similar to the U.S. Preamble under pursuit of statutory justice through discovery of the-literal-truth. I hope my work will accelerate the march so that I may witness an achievable better future.

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-motivates-voters-more-self-interest-or-public-good?

I think most voters mistakenly perceive self-interest as public good under Chapter XI Machiavellianism; https://www.constitution.org/mac/prince11.htm.

That is, most people think their god controls government and eventually things will work for the good. Their belief is so strong they do nothing: neither hold government accountable nor leave the country. Only a dreamer would object to the god-government partnership under freedom of religion. However, I work to encourage Americans to amend the First Amendment to encourage integrity, a human duty, rather than religion, a business institution.

The church-state partnership in America represses the people’s proposition, which is stated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble). Every citizen is invited to consider: Am I a member of We the People of the United States as stated in the U.S. Preamble? It is a controversial proposition.

First, its provision “to . . . our Posterity” applies the commitments to future citizens. Thus, in “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” the “ourselves” is current citizens and “Posterity” is future citizens.

Further, civic citizens aid the five public institutions---Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---under standards for justice. The standards are not specified, so living citizens may discover statutory justice under the-literal-truth.

In 1788, when nine states established the USA as a global nation, many citizens assumed that their god would work things out. In the 231 years since then it has become obvious that whatever-God-is is a mystery and therefore reliance on personal gods is a matter of theism’s competitive faction versus the rest of the people.

A new standard is needed, and we suggest the-objective-truth, which is the ineluctable evidence of actual reality. Objective research is the reliable tool for asymptotically comprehending the-literal-truth.

When most people accept both physical and psychological evolution, an achievable better future may develop. In a civic culture, integrity is critical to living even for people who have hope for a favorable afterdeath, that vast time after body, mind, and person stop functioning. Neither whatever-God-is nor government nor the partnership promise a good afterdeath.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-does-America-both-live-up-and-fail-to-live-up-to-its-ideals-ideals-meaning-equality-rights-opportunity-liberty-and-democracy?

Your ideals, excepting the opportunity to liberty, seem alien to the U.S. Preamble, our fellow citizens’ stated purpose.

Nine of January 14, 1784’s thirteen eastern seaboard global states established on June 21, 1788 the Union of states that legally terminated the 1774 Confederation of states.

The purpose of 1788’s USA is stated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble). It offers each citizen the opportunity to aid five public institutions---Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare---in order to secure liberty to living citizens.

The U.S. Preamble leaves it to individuals to aid the five public institutions according to personal practice, implying that securing human liberty is an individual responsibility. Hopefully, the collective responsibility under the U.S. Preamble secures national liberty.

The articles that follow the U.S. Preamble guarantee the states a republican form of government not only literally but in many checks and balances to prevent popular dominance. Aliens such as British loyalists and Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO) would like to undo the American republic.

U.S. citizens have the wonderful opportunity to be either of We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble or dissidents. Being dissident risks subjugation to the law, depending upon whether harm against fellow citizens is noticed or not. Dissidence does not mean civic action to identify and correct unjust laws. It means opposition to responsible human liberty---oppositions such as crime, tyranny, or a fellow citizen’s infidelity to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

I don’t think you listed America’s ideals. Democracy promotes chaos. Each human is unique: equality seems neither possible nor desirable. The only human right that seems justified is the opportunity to individually develop integrity, the human right that cannot be denied even by force. Opportunities like earning so as to choose your food rather than accept what is offered by a bureaucrat come with integrity.

I think some people overlook their opportunity to human life. Human living requires a nest of acceptances I have not yet thought through. Here’s a start. Acceptance that you are a human being. Acceptance of evolution. Acceptance that humans are the only species with the awareness and grammar by which to develop integrity. Acceptance that each human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity. Acceptance that civic humans communicate, collaborate, and connect for equity under just laws. Acceptance that in the USA, the agreement to develop statutory justice is offered in the U.S. Preamble under the literal truth as standard for achievement. No one knows the closeness to the ideal We the People of the United States will achieve.

While humankind has been developing integrity for perhaps 150,000 years, with acceleration during the last 10,000 years, an individual’s chance to discover and develop integrity has a duration of about 80 years. Some fellow citizens offer encouragement and coaching unto integrity, and neither whatever-God-is nor government encourages citizens to undertake the U.S. Preamble’s discipline so as to avoid drifting into infidelity. Accepting his or her HIPEA, the individual may discover and develop integrity.

Acceptance of responsible human liberty under the literal truth is offered in the U.S. Preamble rather than in alien literature.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-meaning-of-freedom-2?

It is interesting that “freedom” and “liberty” are each controversial.

I think they can be clarified by using either “freedom-from” or “liberty-to” in natural sentences.

This innovation helped me interpret the U.S. Preamble as offering public freedom-from tyranny so as to encourage the private liberty-to develop responsible individual happiness.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble) is a civic, civil, and legal proposition each citizen may (or may not) interpret so as to order his or her pursuit of individual happiness with civic integrity.

My interpretation today is: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (original nouns are Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare)---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. The standard by which civic citizens develop statutory justice is the-objective-truth, which is the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured and by which the-literal-truth is approached. Dissidents are encouraged by example to join We the People of the United States.

Someone said that maturity is freedom from both internal and external constraints. I think freedom-from external constraints is not possible, because humans must conform to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth. Therefore, maturity seems the liberty-to develop integrity, which is not contingent on external constraints.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-political-belief-you-hold?

A better future is achievable now if most citizens accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition under the-objective-truth.

The U.S. Preamble offers individual happiness with civic integrity to living citizens. It is neutral to religion, gender, race, wealth, and heritage.

Here’s my interpretation today: We the People of the United States (civic citizens) communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (original nouns are Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare)---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. The standard by which civic citizens develop statutory justice is the-objective-truth, which is the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured and by which the-literal-truth is approached.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-social-issues-that-engineers-could-solve?

Engineers are trained to either efficiently discover the root cause of actual reality or accept not knowing for now.

For example, people in a civic culture do not lie to each other in order to lessen human loss and misery rather than to observe some rule.

Everything evolved from physics the object of study, expressed as E=mC². Fiction derives from imagination about what has not been discovered. Humankind’s noble task is to resolve essential fiction.

There is no social issue engineers could not resolve. For example, as long as the mystery of whatever-God-is has not been resolved, it is prudent for a human to not turn his or her back on whatever-God-may-be.

https://www.quora.com/Is-equality-synonymous-to-fairness/answer?

No. Equity is close to fairness and distant from equality.

We say each human is unique. How can the unique be equal or treated equally?

https://www.quora.com/Is-fighting-for-freedom-the-same-as-being-willing-to-give-up-freedom-to-preserve-it?

Fighting-for is active: willing-to is passive.

Fighting is risky: being willing is safe.

Fighting may win: giving up loses.

Loss to preserve is an oxymoron.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-many-human-rights-articles-are-there?

The universal declaration has 30 articles touching more or less than a hundred rights, depending on how you count; https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html.

However, I suggest there is only one defensible human right: freedom-from tyranny so as to have the liberty-to develop integrity.

Since the human individual has the power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to either develop integrity or not, external tyranny may not matter.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-trust-any-form-of-government?

Yes. I trust the statutory justice that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble). Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s arrogance, the U.S. Preamble is a civic, civil, and legal contract offer. For example, its ratification terminated the 1774 Confederation of 13 States and established a Union of nine states on June 21, 1788.

Citizens may choose to be of We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble or be dissidents. Every citizen is invited to consider the U.S. Preamble and use his or her interpretation of it to order his or her civic, civil, and legal life. When life ends, his or her way of living ends.

The U.S. Preamble offers individual happiness with civic integrity to living citizens. It is neutral to religion, gender, race, wealth, heritage, philosophy, governance---essentially everything but discipline; individual discipline that holds collective discipline accountable.

Here’s my interpretation today: We the People of the United States (civic citizens) communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity (original nouns are Unity, Justice, Tranquility, defense, and Welfare)---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. The standard by which civic citizens develop statutory justice is the-objective-truth, which is the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured and by which the-literal-truth is approached.

Under the U.S. Preamble and the-objective-truth or the-literal-truth, there is no way civic citizens would saddle the people’s children with $22.7 trillion national debt! Because the debt is growing, each newborn’s share may exceed $5.7 million. Yet each special interest group (political identity) shamelessly lobbies for more federal dollars. In other words, greedy special interest groups are competitively burdening the nation’s children and beyond.

No one knows how trustworthy could be civic citizens’ discipline according to the U.S. Preamble with the-objective-truth as the standard for pursuing the statutory justice of the-literal-truth. However, I encourage fellow individuals to test the U.S. Preamble’s powers.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-separation-of-the-three-branches-of-government-considered-so-important-What-happens-if-they-are-not-separate?

To bemuse the civic people---the entity “We the People of the United States.”

One source says the purpose is to prevent autocracy; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers. The 1787 U.S. Constitution specifies a 3-branched Union of states in a civic people’s republican federation. By “civic people” I refer to people in acceptance of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

The U.S. Preamble, the preamble to the U.S. Constitution is a civic, civil, and legal proposition to fellow citizens, which each individual may either trust-in and commit-to or deny. It expresses the will to aid development of statutory justice. I doubt any U.S. Supreme Court justice ever claimed he or she was first a member of We the People of the United States who accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

Powers to the Union’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches are limited so as not to impose on either the state constitutions or the civic people. However, the Bill of Rights, created by the 1789-91 Congress, imposed a church-state partnership to make Congress seem divine in competition with the Canterbury-Parliament partnership in England. Additionally, it stipulated unconstrained freedom of the press, deviating from the principle of separation of powers. My state, Louisiana, stipulates that the speaker may be held responsible for expressions.

I encourage every citizen to study the U.S. Preamble and interpret it so as to order his or her practice in human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) so as to pursue integrity rather than infidelity to the-objective-truth, which is the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured. Thereby, each citizen may develop the individual discipline by which to hold government officials accountable.

My claims require no scholarly reviews or quotations of “founding fathers.” However, denial of my claims requires lots of proprietary work so as to pretend to know better than what everybody knows: neither whatever-God-is nor government will deliver responsibility. Responsibility comes only from a civic people, in the U.S., defined as “We the People of the United States” in the U.S. preamble.

https://www.quora.com/Shouldnt-basic-human-necessities-be-human-rights?

No.

Your question is centered on someone else fulfilling the human necessities. Since neither whatever-God-is nor government will meet a human’s needs, it seems obvious that it is an individual responsibility.

Not only that, but only the individual can determine his or her necessities. For example, I do not view infidelity as a necessity and therefore focus on developing and practicing integrity.

Viewed from the human ovum, the only necessity is to perish if he or she cannot expect to be inseminated with the intentions to provide the perhaps 3 decades encouragement and coaching required for the transition from feral infant to young adult with the understanding and intent to develop human integrity rather than fidelity to the-objective-truth. That is, the ineluctable evidence by which literal truth is measured.

Fellow citizens may commit to making certain that every feral infant is encouraged and coached to accept the human individual power, energy, and authority to practice integrity rather than infidelity to the-objective-truth. This entails revolutionary changes in education systems, starting with adult education.

https://www.quora.com/What-type-of-laws-can-be-put-in-place-to-hold-people-in-position-of-power-more-accountable?

Establish the U.S. Preamble as the divisive civic, civil, and legal purpose of the USA. People who are not of We the People of the United States are either dissidents or aliens.

The Greeks, 2400 years ago informed humankind that humans may develop equity by discovering statutory justice, a worthy goal that may be approached by amending laws when injustice is discovered.

It is unjust for the people to struggle for statutory justice while the politicians legislate abusive statutory law. Therefore, a qualification for candidacy for office may be requirement of a platform that reflects past aid to the development of statutory justice.

In the USA, the people’s proposition to aid statutory justice is controversial and expressed in the U.S. Preamble, the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. It is the civic, civil, and legal statement of purpose for this nation of people including its Supreme Court Justices, President, and Congress.

My interpretation, for this post is: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid statutory justice respecting five public institutions---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty according to the-objective-truth to living and future individuals; the-objective-truth is the ineluctable evidence by which literal truth is understood.

Thus, in the USA, the people may require all candidates for office---local, state, and federal---to run on a platform listing both past aid and future plans to aid their individual interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

I have asked my two State Senators to develop this principle by creating the Senate rule that each session will begin with a unison statement of the U.S. Preamble so as to remind 100 Senators that they are first fellow citizens among We the People of the United States rather than dissidents.

So far, their response has been stonewalling. The principle that justice can only come from the people overlooks that elected officials are of the people rather than divine beings.

Perhaps this idea will catch on, go viral, and effect establishment of the U.S. Preamble within the USA.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-there-is-such-a-thing-as-too-much-freedom?

Yes. Too much freedom of opinion.

I think FDR’s 1941 four freedoms address begged woe. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms.

I would replace the freedoms-from with encouragement-to, as follows:

      Speech                        responsible speech

      Worship           development of integrity

      Want                aid statutory justice

      Fear                 aid safety and security.

I assume that Mrs. Roosevelt continued this human travesty by creating the United Nations statement of human rights.

Neither the mystery of whatever-God-is nor government can provide the self-discipline human beings need.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble) offers a people’s proposition for individual discipline. I interpret those controversial 52 words: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens now and in the future.

This proposition offers mutual, comprehensive safety and security as the living people continually discover the-objective-truth. That is, uncover the ineluctable evidence by which actual reality may be understood.

Because most humans ignore the-objective-truth and thereby have no standards for justice and truth, humankind now suffers too much freedom of opinion.

https://www.quora.com/Are-you-fine-with-the-government-funding-Pride-LGBT?

No.

My response is based on the personal acceptances that follow:

I am a human being;

I have the duty to fellow citizens to aid equity under statutory justice;

Human beings emerge from a unique human ovum;

The ovum is due human equity and dignity;

The woman whose body generated the ovum and the man who inseminated it are obligated to encourage the embryo’s equity and dignity to develop unto responsible human liberty;

The USA is a republic with a people’s proposition each citizen may interpret to support the responsible life he or she wants;

My interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution is, today: We the People of the United States communicate, collaborate, and connect to aid integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living and future people;

The citizens who deny equity and dignity to each human ovum are not of We the People of the United States, even though he or she may be a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Today, I answered a related question: See https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-important-ways-queer-LGBT-allies-can-impact-social-justice-work?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-important-ways-queer-LGBT-allies-can-impact-social-justice-work?

It’s important for queer-LGBT allies to consider a set of acceptances that:

Each person is a human being;

Humans are the only species with the awareness and grammar by which to develop integrity;

A human emerges from a unique ovum and may develop equity under integrity but not equality;

Diversity is a matter of statistics of physics and its progeny, e.g., biology, plus individual choices;

With human-individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) a person may choose to test physics;

Individuals who choose infidelity to physics beg woe;

Humans in the same locale, for freedom-from tyranny, develop power for integrity over infidelity,

The standard for integrity is the ineluctable evidence I call “the-objective-truth”;

Evidence informs humans that pursuit of integrity may be encouraged unto the third generation;

Aware families aid human liberty-to discipline to integrity and encourage the parent’s grandchildren;

Most humans want appreciation and companionship;

No human can justly fault a mutual commitment to appreciation and companionship for life;

However, partners for life are not exempt from duty to the dignity and equity due the human ovum.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-inviolable-human-rights?

The human individual continually has the undeniable opportunity to discover and develop integrity to the-objective-truth---the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured.

Typically, individuals allow infidelity to creep in. Many overlook the opportunity to reform. Some mistake a recent infidelity as ruin rather than vital notice to reform.

Under existing civilizations and cultures, independent discovery of the-objective-truth is unlikely. Citizens may reform education systems so as to encourage and coach the young to use their human powers to develop integrity.

Practicing integrity empowers achieving integrity. In the practice, the individual considers a heartfelt concern; obtains the ineluctable evidence to discover the concern is not unfounded; studies the discovery so as to understand how to benefit; orders personal living for the benefit; shares the understanding and open-mindedly responds to public reaction; if improvement in understanding is identified, the adjustments are made and shared; if new evidence requires change in understanding, the process is retraced as necessary. In review, the process is: concern, discovery, understanding, order, share and listen, perhaps improve, and remain alert to new discovery.

With this process, humankind’s understanding approaches the-objective-truth. Individual incorruptibility accumulates as human completeness.

I know of no other inviolable human right. For example, frequently, small infidelities to the-objective-truth negate a right to life. Ova, embryos, and infants are especially susceptible to human infidelity.

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.