- it does not bother me at all it is just not that important to me. For it only has power over you if you let it = kind of like the Devil IMO.Yes - I recall the statement - NOT WORTH A CONTINENTAL - the first fiat failure so see we can over come a currency failure. Just not that big a deal if we use our natural resources.
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- I believe this is the complete transcript of Mr. Franklin's 'examination':
http://www.founding.com/founders_library/pageID.2331/
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- Our Constitution basically recognizes that there exist unalienable rights, following from common law which is the how society has come to interpret through reason and logic the basic ‘laws of nature’. Natural Law is mostly a philosophy that there exist objective laws which can be found through reason and logic. Common Law is the process which takes these ‘unknown’ natural laws and through logic reaches an understanding of its meanings Natural Law, unlike Common Law, remains mostly unwritten. Transcendental consciousness is the unified field of all the Laws of Nature. Its source is experience. Its discovery is through study, thought, deliberation, and debate, it is the home of all creativity and intelligence within you, and all your thoughts arise from here.Romanticism dismisses logic and reason and cultivates a greater sensitivity to feelings, metaphysics and mysticism. Its source is emotions, and spiritualism. Its discovery is intangible feelings. The cultivation of empathy for the sufferings of others is the vehicle for social change. Negative responsibility … is the notion that we are as responsible for events that occur as a result of our omissions (whether or not intended) as we are for events that occur as a result of our deliberate acts." Or so the government wants us to believe. What we have discovered is that the government is inept at resolving the nation’s problems, it is incapable of creating jobs, it has failed to curb inflation, it has not ended poverty, and it can not control the actions of other countries. It has responded to the vocal minority’s cry for the government to do something, but what that minority wants is to be relived from its own responsibility to take charge of their own lives to lead their own families search for the American dream. The government cannot and should not be all things to all people.The Problems that we face is the need to deal with the reality. To correct many of our nations problems require positive action we live in mistaken notion that government is the solution to all problems and that we are helpless to act without the force of government to institute positive change. We have been brainwashed to believe that anarchy is the death of democracy. If we are to have an intellectual identity of our own, we must make the effort to distinguish ourselves from those who preceded us, and perhaps pre-eminently from those to whom we once had the greatest indebtedness. We must find solutions of our own, to the complex problems we face. We must use reason and logic to find strategies to propel us into the next century.Ludwig von Mises taught that people will always act in their own best interest if they have to. This includes reaching into the public purse. It has been far too easy for people to act in this way. I am not talking about the poor but contractors, employees, foundations, charities, schools, and environmentalist, all acting, all believing that they are acting in and for the public interest, but in reality they are acting in their own best interest they seek solutions from the government because it is easy, they use the force of government to loot the property of others because it is easy. They do not seek answers from the privet sector because it requires work, intelligence, and innovation.If we are guilty of anything we are guilty of allowing federal government to become involved in any of these things.
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- What did the founders mean “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”. Surely these were not idle words. My understanding of the equality spoken of was “…in respect of jurisdiction or dominion one over another”.“To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature; without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man. Though I have said above, chap. ii. “That all men by nature are equal,” I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality: age or virtue may give men a just precedency: excellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level: birth may subject some, and alliance or benefits others, to pay an observance to those whom nature, gratitude, or other respects, may have made it due: and yet all thisconsists with the equality, which all men are in, in respect of jurisdiction or dominion one over another; which was the equality I there spoke of, as proper to the business in hand, being that equal right, that every man hath, to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man.”I am not superior to, nor can I claim any special power over other men. No one is “created” with jurisdiction or dominion over others.
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- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de TocquevillThere is no Constitutional right, Natural law right, to equality of results. IMO this is the error that all make in reading the Constitution. In fact much was written on this subject by the Founders and they were very concerned about creating a caste system. They were abhorred about the monarchy and class system of England - they went the extra mile to make sure that did not happen in the Republic. That is why they designed it to protect the smallest minority from the majority and that minority was the individual. IMO Like de Tocquevill we are anal about individual freedoms.
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- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
PlatoMany hundreds of years ahead of Locke and most of his peers studied these Greeks where the concept of the individual originated pre-Christian 422 BC
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- When the government mistakenly defines “economic rights” to things it cannot guarantee, it ends up creating conditions that deny people the very liberties and property rights it should protect. How can the government guarantee you a certain wage? It has no way of knowing what your productivity is, or what the value of that productivity is. Only your employer and you know what your work is worth, and it is up to you to demand to be paid for what you do. Not the government.
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- Nice history lesson you did not mention the seventh amendment proposed by Jefferson that basically through out Admiralty law. The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases. In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.As Thomas Jefferson explained: that
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- Unfortunately, JDR, the judiciary no longer recognizes the rights and power of juries. In law [Constitutional] juries still posess the authority but by judicial edict, and practice, they do not. chk out: Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 6.
A good read:
http://www.constitution.org/lrev/roots/runaway.htm
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- if these are the issues - all concerned have been jailed - British Common law - case law theory is now established. The courts will not permit any challenges as no one has standing? Even you Troy had no Standing so the court just dismisses your motion out of hand.
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