We Pursue Statutory Justice -- civic representation of the United States Constitution

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Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the ineluctable truth. Ineluctable means:  Not to be assailed, avoided, broken, changed, escaped, mystified, neglected, obfuscated, rationalized, resisted, revoked, or voided. Some people erroneously imagine limiting the ineluctable truth, for example, trying to change it.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society. Civic citizens neither initiate nor accommodate harm to or from anyone. Civic citizens are reliably responsible to the good rather than the bad in connections and transactions.

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 its proposal as follows: The civic faction, We the People of the United States, proffer & practice 6 public pursuits —- integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility, “in order to” pursue happiness “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I want to improve my interpretation by listening-to and considering other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787 text, unless it is amended by the civic-people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one with status 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 appreciative fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the faction who collaborate for statutory justice, We the People of the United States.

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 to both born Americans and legal immigrants. Congressional freedom of religion, which fellow citizens have no means to constrain, oppresses freedom to develop integrity. This can be remedied by changing the First Amendment from “prohibiting” to “promoting”.

Selected theme from this month

“We Pursue Statutory Justice” -- civic representation of the United States Constitution.

The “woke” movement, developed during the recent 7 decades from Liberation Theology, is a blessing to human responsibility. Wokeism divides humankind over theology, which is the construction of divinity, in order to explain mystery. Pursuit of mystery can only achieve mystery. Human concurrence on one mystery would leave humankind in mystery. Democratic accommodation of every mystery produces chaos. Pursuit of mystery is neither a noble nor an economically viable cause.

I accept that The God may exist. But no one knows The God, and many people don’t realize that choosing a doctrinal God does not preserve humility, which The God might seek. And I do not know of a doctrine that represents The God. For example, Christian doctrine claims a triune God and has about 10 canon and 45,000 sects. Other theisms are also sectarian. “In God We Trust” does not seem a viable motto for the United States republic.

The prior motto was E pluribus unum, 13 letters expressing “out of many states one nation”. History shows that the civic faction may and can together provide for fellow citizens who cannot help themselves, reform citizens who won’t help themselves, constrain criminals, and eliminate evils. The goal of unity is limited by actual-reality to the civic faction.

Provisions for the civic faction to amend the Constitution when injustice is discovered, together with the intentions sentence in the preamble, proffers the pursuit of statutory justice “to ourselves and our Posterity”. We Pursue Statutory Justice expresses these four principles.

I share these ideas hoping a fellow citizen or critic will suggest a better motto.

#USpreambler, #acivicpeople

News

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/senate-democrat-leaders-hold-press-conference-on-jan-6-pardons-5799986

Civic citizens who look to the Democrat Party cannot expect improved leadership until they replace all of the elected officers who created/support the 2024 DNC Platform. Its preamble ends, "History has shown that nothing about democracy is guaranteed. Every generation has to protect it, preserve it, choose it. We must stand together to choose what we want America to be."

The DNC cannot "choose what we want America to be", because the United States Constitution commits to a republican form of government. United States republicanism pursues the rule of law rather than preference to a political party, such as the Republican Party. The Constitution provides the opportunity to vote and intentionally prevents democracy, because democracy can only produce chaos and ruin.

Citizens who oppose governance from the Republican Party face dismay as long as they support a platform that wants the chaotic governance of democracy. And no political party can "choose what we want America to be".

Republicans like me hope voters who support the Democrat Party will change its leadership quickly rather than accommodate 100 years of GOP-unchallenged-power due to DNC incompetence.

#USpreambler, #acivicpeople

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-saying-the-end-justifies-the-means-considered-logical-but-not-moral?, Anonymous

I cannot answer for society, so address my personal trust and commitment. Humility aids achievement.

I am humble to whatever constrains human choices, in order to give myself and civic citizens opportunity to either act or wait -- for survival if not success.

In my ninth decade, I accept that I neither know the ineluctable evidence nor approach whatever constrains humankind. “Ineluctable” means the combination unavoidable, unchangeable, and irresistible.

#USpreambler, #acivicpeople

 

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, Feb 8

A repressed, inviolable human right:

The human individual continuously has the undeniable opportunity to discover and develop integrity to the ineluctable evidence, by which truth is measured. “Ineluctable” means: the combination unavoidable, unchangeable, and irresistible. Experience, observation, and civic transparency facilitate discovery of truth and humility towards undiscovered actual-realities.

Typically, individuals allow infidelity to distract their opportunity to perfect their unique pursuits. Many civic persons mistake a recent infidelity as personal ruin rather than notice to reform – to never repeat the mistake. Not repeating discovered error is the key to accumulating fidelity to truth.

Under existing civilizations and cultures, independent fidelity is unlikely. Civic citizens may reform education systems so as to encourage and coach the young to use their human power, authority, and responsibility to develop integrity.

Practicing integrity empowers integrity.

In practice, the individual considers a heartfelt concern; obtains the ineluctable evidence to discover the concern is justified; studies the discovery so as to understand how to benefit; orders personal living to effect the benefit; civically shares the understanding and open-mindedly responds to public reaction; if new evidence requires change in understanding, the process is retraced as necessary; if improvement in understanding is discovered, the adjustments are made and shared: humility is reserved so that new ways of discovery can and may be considered. In review, the integrity-process is: concern, discovery, understanding, order, share and LISTEN, reconsider, improve, and remain humble to new discovery.

With this process or better, humankind’s understanding approaches truth. Individual incorruptibility accumulates as humankind’s completeness.

I know of no other inviolable human right. Frequently, small infidelities to truth negate right to life. Ova, embryos, infants, and children are especially susceptible to human infidelity.

 

https://www.facebook.com/gregoryfrey1/posts/10235197687498650, Feb 8

Thirty-five years as a chemical engineer in service to the customers (safe supply of needed chemicals) informed me that I am a writer and gave me the courage to share experiences and observations, low as my verbal skills may be. I cannot say I wish I had majored in English instead of ChE.

I congratulate you, Greg, on your focus: What Kristin wants and her confidence going forward.

https://www.facebook.com/dirk.klobucar, Feb 7

I do not know much ineluctable truth.

Honig illustrates something I learned by taking college courses in my 7th and 8th decades: professors, especially in non-STEM fields, compete with each other, regarding the adult working-citizen on par with students. That is, the professor expects the working citizen to yield knowledge/opinion to the professor, as though the professor can award a pass or fail to the citizen. When a professor ignores my opinion, I do not express pity, but leave without wish to return to the dialogue, unless the professor contacts me.

Human beings, unlike the other species, may and can learn this: pursuing necessary goodness is in their best interest. Just as an infant must be helped to nourishment, his or her life benefits from example and encouragement to both comprehend human being (the practice) and intend to pursue the excellence their life can and may achieve. Each person has the power, authority, and responsibility to choose human being.

Among history's awesome political philosophers, only one, Yeshua, promoted personal pursuit of necessary goodness, with the intention and commitment to perfect (verb) behavior from the moment of awareness and acceptance forward. When a person encounters and accepts Yeshua's civic influence, humankind -- past, present, and future -- celebrates. Anyone who is unaware of Yeshua's civic influence may and can accept innate tendency to necessary goodness.

I think Donald R. Trump, more than anyone I ever considered, perceives and accepts Yeshua's civic influence (aware or not), in Trumpian intentions to power, authority, and responsibility to necessary goodness. That is, Trump may not be aware of Yeshua.

I regret that some fellow citizens choose to condemn Trump.

I think Honig mistakes compromise as desirable when collaboration is required and uses academic trade-terms to bemuse the public. I recall Trump, perhaps yesterday, saying something like: Peace is a yes or no intention. Peace cannot be negotiated half-way. In the same speech, Trump showed humanity, I think erroneously, traditionally urging legislative compromise when collaboration to statutory justice is required.

I hope Trump's practices will impress Honig and empower Honig to consider collaboration for necessary goodness to humankind rather than compromise to split benefits.

https://www.facebook.com/gcleve.wright/posts/4366460926907468, Feb 6

All seriousness aside, the cartoonist may not have encountered the secrets Cynthia taught me. My wife gave me my best opportunity to pursue authentic manhood. Thank Yeshua I knew that 25 years into our 55 years married.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkjEILbesQ8

 

https://www.facebook.com/emily.toth.10, Feb 1

Persuading people that necessary goodness is in their self-interest is difficult. Sumerian law codes made it obvious 5500 years ago. Genesis 1:26-28 parochially expresses the Sumerian political philosophy: humankind may and can rule to necessary goodness on earth. The Complete Jewish Bible (1998) illustrates the consequences of resistance to necessary goodness. Yeshua, reared in tiny Nazareth 2000 years ago affirmed Genesis 1:26-28 in Matthew 18:18, Matthew 5:48, Matthew 19:5-6, in the "Sermon on the Mount", and more. Christianity hid Yeshua's civic influence by projecting on his person The Divine.
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The 1791 United States Constitution, in its republican form of government, amendability, and the intentions sentence in the preamble, proffers the pursuit of statutory justice; that is, intentional reform when legislated injustice is discovered.
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Yet the 2024 Democrat Party platform has a preamble that ends, "History has shown that nothing about democracy is guaranteed. Every generation has to
protect it, preserve it, choose it. We must stand together to choose what we want America
to be." What could be better than a republic that pursues statutory justice to "ourselves and our Posterity"?
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History has shown that democracy brings chaos. Only the rule of statutory justice can facilitate necessary goodness to humankind.
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In its 234-year history, the United States has maintained necessary goodness in a conflicted world. Her most serious challenge came from Liberation Theology -- the Marxist politics of oppressor vs victim. Like the French Revolution of 1789, a collection of self-styled victims proposes to employ social democracy to overthrow the United States republic; terminate rather than assist the pursuit of statutory justice.
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After 70 years under democratically diffused Liberation Theology, or competitive Marxist collectivism, there is a chance the Trump-Vance era will, during the next few decades, save the United States from democracy. Humankind may and can hope so.
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I write hoping to receive ideas that improve my opinion.
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#USpreambler, #acivicpeople

https://www.facebook.com/mick.kassem, Jan 31

I hope Kristi Noem will correct this burden.

https://www.facebook.com/hampton.peele/posts/10233933974830120, Feb 6

Thank goodness for Al Green's freedom of speech, too.

I get about 20 "Occupy" messages a day, and this is the first one I've read. Now I know to find out how to keep them from appearing on my page.

Jan 31

Hampton, that's a fact. And some Democrat States would not remove Robert Kennedy, Jr. from the ballot after he dropped out. Democrat judges denied his law suits. His 0.75 million votes added to Trump's 77.3 m come to 50.2 % of the popular vote.

I regret that some neighbors are not thrilled with the beginning of Trump's second term. For example, the next day after the helicopter downed a commercial flight, I heard the Commander-in-Chief lay out the facts about the incident but withhold conclusion pending proof. I was thrilled with Trump's transparency.

Because Obama’s Democrat Party is so overwhelmed with globalism or something other than United States republicanism (form of government rather than opportunity to vote), I think we are in for 70 to 100 years of Republican Party dominance. That's dreadful, because unchallenged power invites corruption. I want to encourage democrats who want the United States republic to succeed.

Also,

Hampton, I'm part of a faction of a small minority who would favor a United States Civil War History Month to replace Black History Month.
In a so-revised forum, my topic might be interesting: The Civil War was an avoidable white-Christian on white-Christian war that Abraham Lincoln could-have, should-have clearly-challenged if not stopped.
A review follows:
In 1845, some Protestant churches, e.g., Baptist, split over slavery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triennial_Convention and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church,_South).
Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech (https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf), with President Millard Fillmore present, was pivotal to Bleeding Kansas, 1854 to 1861 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas). General R. E. Lee, in Texas, wrote to his wife about abolitionists' evil attempt to impose on Christianity (https://www.civilwarcauses.org/Lee-Mary.htm). Lee was smart enough to have considered and accepted the Genesis 1:26-28 suggestion: On earth, only humankind can pursue order. Instead he listened to competitive Church in his home state.
President Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, was well aware that he led a 27 state to 7 state advantage and the United States industrial complex as he taunted the CSA's February 1861 cession. Lincoln said to the Christian zealots, "“In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? . . . justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.”
The war Lincoln accommodated took some 650,000 United States' lives. The equivalent at today's population would be 7.2 million lives lost.
Slavery was practiced worldwide from the beginning of recorded history, some 5500 years ago. During the United States' second 100 years, the civic faction of We the People of the United States ended slavery, which the whole world may mimic.
I encourage fellow citizens to consider Genesis 1:26-28, which suggests that on earth only humankind may and can provide safety and security -- constrain harm. The complete Bible attests to the idea, for example, in Matthew 18:18 -- The God will not change what humankind chooses.

https://www.facebook.com/jim.robertson.52687, Jan 27

What we don't know on faith could affect us in actual-reality.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/, Feb 6

Dear President Trump:

Thank you. Your excellence aids our family life.

Your speech at the prayer breakfast inspired us. I think humankind’s intentions, at an abyss, turn positive on your persistence to discover the truth and acceptance that you cannot discover the ineluctable evidence on your own. “Ineluctable” means the combination: unavoidable, unchangeable, and irresistible. 

You changed my prior allegiance to Thomas Paine’s common sense. Some scholars opine that Paine meant: how a person’s heart guided their choice to act rather than wait. You choose the ineluctable evidence rather than belief, in order to pursue necessary goodness to humankind. Paine also wanted fellow citizens to choose humble action grounded in experience, observations, and discovery. Thereby, choice may and can employ ineluctable evidence.

The 13 English colonies, who won independence from England, could not flourish alone, so negotiated a union. Willing people of 10 of 14 states ratified the United States of America, in the Constitution dated 1791. Its provisions for amendment and preamble proffer the eternal pursuit of statutory justice “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Whenever injustice is discovered, legislators act to improve the law if not enact just law. A representative national motto, in humility to ultimate judgment, might be “We Pursue Statutory Justice”.

Today, you happily recognized personal and political opponents, inferring to them: You are welcome here. You described the challenge of good choices as either or; yes or no; peace or conflict, then hoped to resolve division through compromise. But compromise cannot establish peace. The work for peace follows intentions rather than dependency. Please change the United States’ political goal to collaboration to necessary goodness rather than compromise to power.

You wonderfully share the common sense and necessary goodness encouraged by the American motto “In God We Trust”. However, humankind, at the leading edge of 200,000 years as Homo sapiens, has used mysterious gods to compete in war rather than collaborate for peace.

Genesis 1:26-28, a 5500 year-old Mesopotamian political philosophy, asserts that humankind may and can pursue peace order on earth: “in our likeness, so that they may rule [life on earth]”. However, competitive pursuits in the Middle East mutually constrained inhabitants in 3 inner-sectarian conflicts about 3 Abrahamic gods, opposing all other people.

Today, 7.8 billion people split: 0.2 % sectarian Jews, 24.3 % sectarian Muslims, and 32.3 % sectarian Christians, at their own mutual expense and oppressing the other 43.2 %. Thus, 3.35 billion people suffer Abrahamic pride to 4.45 billion descendants from 4000 year-ago Near East.

The United States’ excellence -- pursuit of statutory justice, is a unique consequence of humankind’s desire for necessary goodness. Polytheistic Mesopotamians, primitively observing the laws of physics, speculated that the gods were busied by their domain, defaulting order-on-earth to humankind.

Socially, 400 years ago, physics was labeled “nature”, in order to accommodate psychological-motivation-and-inspiration, such as peace. Philosophers hoped to rationalize facts rather than wait for ineluctable discovery. Modern physics researches psychology as a branch, obsoleting “nature”.

As the United States pursues colonization on Mars, humility to whatever constrains the consequences of human choice can be established. Only the United States has the experience and background to beneficially reform its motto from “In God We Trust” to “We Pursue Statutory Justice”, or better. Only you could effect such profound change to humankind.

It has taken most of my lifetime to pursue these thoughts and additional time to articulate them. I can’t imagine anyone but you, President Trump, effectuating any reform you may perceive from them. I appreciate your time to read this and want to help.

 

Sincerely,

Phillip Beaver

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to theineluctabletruth, 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. He uses the hashtag #USpreambler.

Rather than political party, persons, group, and nations may and can pursue necessary goodness

Phil’s Executive Summary

Scholars continually evaluate the political divide effected by parties: Republican, Democrat, and Independent, the first pursuing conservativism and the second pursuing liberalism. The first led by civic faction of the people, the second ruled by elite politicians, and the 3^rd often urging less governance. Recently, parties are further divided, for example pitting, capitalism v socialism, classical liberalism v license, responsibility v rights, tradition v progressivism, necessary goodness versus ideology, Protestantism vs wokeism, and many more internal competitions.[1] 

I long since declined to promote, as a political party, A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana Education Corporation. Yet I work to persuade fellow citizens to consider civic integrity, which I define: responsible pursuit of necessary goodness. Necessary goodness is subject to the laws of physics, and humankind’s opportunity is to research those laws and discover how to use them to benefit life on earth.

                The articles I studied [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] fail to disclose the collaboration for necessary goodness that humankind may and can pursue. Each person’s choices to act produce consequences that are constrained by the laws of physics and progeny. Progeny includes forces, chemistries, biology, psychology, and imagination. Individuals use imagination to construct reason, in other words rational mystery, in the absence of ineluctable evidence. Humankind’s opportunity is to do the research that is required to discover the ineluctable truth and how to pursue necessary goodness. Valid reporting and records prevent repetition of error. As discovery transpires, reason and mystery lose utility. For example, research proved that the sun is a natural nuclear reactor, obsoleting history’s sun gods.

                Every newborn baby has the opportunity to comprehend and intend human being (verb), even though education systems make it unlikely. Practicing human being places an individual above all other species. People past, present, and future collaborate to not repeat mistakes.

The ancients – people who lived before 4000 years ago – suggested that female and male Homo sapiens is the species that may and can pursue necessary goodness on earth. For example, the law codes developed in Sumer civilization, beginning about 5500 years ago, advocated public support to widows and orphans. Since then, some nations have improved law codes, and the United States Constitution that was ratified in 1791 accommodates the pursuit of statutory justice “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Statutory justice is pursued by eliminating discovered injustices in the written law.

                Today, at the leading edge of some 200,000 years’ Homo sapiens development, humankind is beginning to acknowledge if not accept the power, the authority, and the responsibility to purse statutory justice on earth rather than attempt to impose a higher power to usurp humankind’s role. The civic faction of We the People of the United States realize that a utopia is not possible. The laws of physics reliably constrain human choices. Referring to the United States Constitution, “ourselves and our Posterity” may and can aid people who cannot help themselves, constrain criminals, and eliminate evils.

Today’s world seems at an abyss and needing pivotal leadership by the United States. The key to success is educating youth as well as adults to pursue and practice necessary goodness as individuals, as interest groups, and as nation, each collaborating to practice human being – civic integrity. Every political party may and can accept the responsibility to collaborate to practice human being. Future voters may and can influence parties to demonstrate collaboration to achieve necessary goodness.

 

Phil’s Key Points

Scholars write in language developed over centuries of debate and cite recognized authorities of that language. For example, “common good” might reference Plato, John Locke, and many others. Scholarship leaves it to the reader to acquire understanding. I try to develop language that may be representative yet comprehensible without education in political philosophy. The key points and comments that follow are intended to transition to my writing from the scholarly review I undertook. It isn’t easy, and the reader needs patience to relate to historical documents. One option is to skip my evaluations and go straight to the documents I studied.

1.       The western world seems to favor responsibility to humankind rather than to progressive ideology. Humankind is comprised of individuals.

a.       Most human-beings pursue necessary goodness despite spiritual, religious, or ideological doctrine. Reliably responsible citizens can be both religious and civic (pursuing necessary goodness).

b.       People tend to politically self-order on key issues: good, bad, or evil behavior; the pursuit of civil order; wealth; race or ethnicity; gender.

2.       The individual who pursues the responsibility of home ownership ineluctably accepts civil risks -- local regulations, national security, and world peace, in addition to physical threats like weather.

a.       Neighborliness or civic integrity can be constrained or prevented by unfavorable local, state, or national governance or by alien-foreign assault. Hopes and comforts proposed by religious institutions offer benefit only when the believer is civically self-positive.

b.       The prudent individual either chooses a nation that pursues his or her preferences, or aids the nation they were born into, to develop statutory justice, meaning the gradual elimination of injustices in the law or civil regulations.

3.       Given one life (amidst the dead, the living, and the unborn) the conservative aids deliberative lessening of interconnected civil injustices, in order to limit unexpected bad-consequences. On the other hand, the liberal imagines and seeks immediate relief, often without confirming that injustice existed. For example, the religious person would impose his/her God’s view, neglecting humility to The God, which is: whatever constrains the consequences of human choice.

a.       Politics addresses the individual’s power to pursue necessary goodness. Each person may choose to grant their power to fellow citizens.

b.       In these political considerations, the individual is a person, with mind, body, and intentions, informed to humankind or not. Introduction of mystery, such as soul or divinity, lessens the person’s attention to politics.

4.       The modern writers I considered in this study help me conclude that conservatism is more reliable than progressivism to preserve individual opportunity to choose necessary goodness.

a.       The administrative state bemuses, distracts, and discourages responsible goodness.

                                                               i.      Wilson’s un-joined league of nations, Roosevelt’s New Deal, Johnson’s great society, Biden’s green new deal.

                                                             ii.      Bureaucratic inertia avoids and resists civic accountability.

                                                           iii.      The left turns colonial America’s Declaration of Independence from England and its claims to individual rights on its head to propose freedom from civic integrity.

1.       The people in their newly independent states authorized and specified the United States republic in the 1791 US Constitution, amending the 1787 draft as intended.

2.       The provision for amendment facilitates the pursuit of statutory justice.

b.       American freedom from Western impositions and others requires civic integrity.

                                                               i.      Rational religion yields to reason, which promotes actual-reality.

                                                             ii.      Redistribution of wealth prevents generation of shared well being.

                                                           iii.      Citizens have the right to pursue necessary goodness, risking life, property, and fortune.

                                                           iv.      Celebrate civic citizens, reform slackers, limit criminals, and eliminate villains.

                                                             v.      U.S. Constitutional civic integrity to increase as history unfolds.

1.       Necessary goodness discovers and reforms injustice.

2.       Progressives pursue big government, threatening statutory justice.

3.       May constrain entrepreneurial ventures using the laws of physics

a.       DNA evidence may prove crime

b.       Gender change is not to be civilly supported

c.       Military for defense rather than imperialism

d.       Drug and sex trafficking outlawed

e.       Female generates ova, male inseminates the ova, and female gestates and delivers a dependent infant. Together, the couple nourish the infant unto human being (verb) then aid the resulting adult unto wanted family expansion.

4.       Reform Education Departments to inform and inspire human being (verb).

a.       Many choose to aid US pursuit of statutory justice.

b.       Neither a God nor a government will usurp human duty.

c.       Use the laws of physics, as the impact human history, to guide personal vote. For example, we now explore “the heavens”.

d.       Great Books seem too subjective to aid young adulthood: teach the chosen principle and challenge the student to better it.

                                                                                                                                       i.      What’s great about Twain’s, Huckleberry Finn?

                                                                                                                                     ii.      Who’s speech seems civic in Plato’s, Symposium?

                                                                                                                                   iii.      What’s the point of Chekov’s, Rothschid’s Fiddle?

e.       Education Departments cannot admire modern chaos.

c.       Some writers are bemused by Christianity

                                                               i.      Yeshua, a political philosopher above all others, because he alone recognized the potential for humankind to develop civic integrity, was born in 4 BCE. For example, human being (verb) can pursue necessary goodness (Matt 5:48).

                                                             ii.      A small faction of Jews imposed Yeshua onto the Messiah, the prophesied king of the Jews, including mysteries competing with Elijah, Moses, and others.

                                                           iii.      A Torah defender, Paul, promoted Yeshua to the pagans (non-Jews), constructing inculcation of divine blood to be sacrificed for believers’ souls: past, present, and future.

                                                           iv.      Consequently, the object of Christianity is in the mind of the pursuant: G-d, God, Jesus, Christ, Jesus Christ, Church, the Eucharist, the Holy Spirit, The Trinity, or, rarely, Yeshua’s civic influence.

                                                             v.      By 400 CE, there were nearly 10 Christian canon and today there are 45,000 Christian sects among 31% of the world’s population.

                                                           vi.      Christianity is about personal and church doctrine rather than morality; it is institutional civility rather than human civicality; it is church faith and church morality rather than civic integrity.

                                                          vii.      To the civic citizen, none of these controversies justifies exclusion from US republicanism: believers can and may choose to practice civic integrity.

                                                        viii.      Civic presidents may and can be religious, e.g., Reagan and Carter, because they are first civic citizens.

                                                            ix.      Despite religious tradition in U.S. ceremonies, “Christianity” can prioritize neither republicanism nor voter regulations.

1.       The hope for Protestant Nationalism resists the pursuit of civic integrity.

2.        

5.       Pursuing statutory justice

a.       Recognize that human being (verb) involves both trust and commitment to purpose.

                                                               i.      The individual may and can discover their preferences for their unique life.

1.       In childhood, my parents and community mysteriously convinced me that if I mastered Holy Bible interpretation, I’d control my life.

2.       Beginning my 9^th decade, all I want to do is use my mind, body, and person to pursue and practice necessary goodness.

a.       The message in Genesis 1:26-28 affirms the laws of physics as humankind’s guide to necessary goodness, and I doubt either “creator” or “God” is the correct term for its cause.

b.       Not knowing the ineluctable truth, I pursue Yeshua’s civic influence. See the Wikipedia article.

c.       I read about Yeshua in the Complete Jewish Bible and talk with willing citizens to improve my understanding.

                                                                                                                                       i.      I like to talk to people who trust-in the New International Version’s “the Lord Jesus”, which extends Genesis 1:26-28 to divine miracle working.

                                                                                                                                     ii.      I do not advocate “Christ”, which imposes Paul’s church onto Yeshua’s civic influence yet do not object to other opinion.

                                                                                                                                   iii.      I appreciate civic citizens who pursue either Jesus or Christ or Jesus-Christ, whether as The God or not.

                                                                                                                                   iv.      I would like to consider Yeshua with Messianic Jews, whether they regard the Messiah king of the Jews or blood sacrifice for all believers.

                                                                                                                                     v.      Indeed, I would like to talk with non-believers about Yeshua’s civic influence.

d.       I would like to talk with non-believers some label “atheist” about necessary goodness and perhaps about Yeshua’s civic influence.

3.       I seek conversation with people who care nothing for competitive philosophies reported in the Holy Bible, as long as we mutually advocate voluntarily necessary goodness. When someone responds with violence, I retreat to local topics -- LSU sports, weather, attire, and such.

4.       I think my being represents the ovum my mom produced and dad inseminated, my developing person, my pursuit of necessary goodness, and my achievements.

                                                             ii.      Likewise a nation may and can discover its preferences.

1.       The United States Constitution affirms Genesis 1:26-28’s political philosophy: female and male human being (verb) may and can rule to necessary goodness on earth.

2.       Morality is guided by the laws of physics and progeny.

a.       Religions may voluntarily accommodate physics.

b.       The laws of physics prevail over both reason and rational faith.

c.       The individual pursues trust-in and commitment-to necessary goodness.

3.       A nation cannot, ought-not, sponsor competitive mystery.

a.       The ultimate human license

                                                                                                                                       i.      Protestantism

1.       The Good yields to necessary goodness.

                                                                                                                                     ii.      Sexual license, gender change, or genetic preference

                                                                                                                                   iii.      Self-ruinous wealth

                                                                                                                                   iv.      Self-loathing; ensoulment

b.       Civic classifications beyond good, bad, and evil (reliably responsible, criminal, and tyrant)

c.       Opposition to the laws of physics and progeny

                                                                                                                                       i.      Resistance to capitalism.

                                                                                                                                     ii.      The welfare state or administrative state.

                                                           iii.      United States political parties cannot compromise the nation.

1.       They may collaborate to accelerate discovery-of and benefits-from the ineluctable truth “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

2.       They may catalogue lessons learned in the past so as not to repeat them.

3.       Democrats, Libertarians, Republicans and others may and can be first: civic citizens.

                                                           iv.      Humankind may and can pursue perfect justice, in other words, ultimate necessary goodness.

1.       It is essential to not expect to reach a utopia.

Phil’s Comments

1.       McGinnis on classical liberalism and new political right vs post WW2, 12/31/2024

a.       Events in 2024: Trump reelection, Le Pen party weakened, UK Reform Party beat tradition, and other conservative party revisions from Italy to Slovakia.

b.       Variations on national identity, historical grievances, and local traditions.

c.       Gaulist large and dominate state, cultural unity, and national independence: Rassemblement National tightened control, embraced Russia, anti-Muslim.

d.       US founded on individual liberty, free markets, and religious pluralism morphed to neither personal responsibility nor civic integrity, “decaying into license and disorder”.

                                                               i.      Trump brings opposition to “the administrative state”

                                                             ii.      Aiding past GOP reform of unaccountable bureaucracy, the New Deal, procedural change, and un-beneficial expenditures.

                                                           iii.      But bureaucracy dominates domestic agencies like EPA and HHS.

e.       2^nd Trump adm. needs to curb agencies independence and use Schedule F to replace unwanted bureaucrats; civic accountability vs bureaucratic inertia

f.        GOP pushed tax cuts and limited government last 100 years, but now not restricting entitlements. It’s a gamble.

g.       “Political movements cannot stand still; they must adjust to new circumstances while remaining rooted in enduring principles.”

h.       Trump to answer in policy and politics

                                                               i.      Policy: radical deregulation pays for entitlements

                                                             ii.      Politics: Federalists and Whigs learned virtue cannot defeat political majority.

                                                           iii.      Break cultural elites’ monopoly by replacing the institutions like HHS.

                                                           iv.      Replace elite media through conservative owners

                                                             v.      Minimize overseas involvement

1.       WW2 demanded involvement.

2.       Founders discouraged “entanglements” and John Quincy said, “Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”  

3.       Cold War resisted threat.

4.       Modern bids for local dominance deserve sharp, decisive response but not nation-building

5.       Tariffs not new, but application to sustain entitlements is

i.         “For friends of liberty in America as opposed to France, this is a time for careful reflection rather than uncritical celebration or wholesale rejection.”

                                                               i.      Can “economic independence coexist with . . . free markets and limited government?”

                                                             ii.      Can “conservatism remain compatible with pluralism”?

2.       Claes G. Ryn, “Why Conservatism Failed”, 8/9/2023

a.       Russell Kirk’s 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, established influence

b.       William F. Buckley’s National Review (founded 1955) sought practice

                                                               i.      Libertarians, traditional Catholics, and other traditionalists consented

                                                             ii.      Ancient Greek, Roman, and Christian alliances opposed the Leviathan state

                                                           iii.      Limited Constitutional government by people in their counties and states

c.       Big government being advanced by progressives

                                                               i.      Threatened the rule of law

                                                             ii.      Fiscal discipline in government

                                                           iii.      Universities suppressed conservatism

d.       Reagan presidency seemed successful, but universities prevailed

                                                               i.      The fed expanded and decentralized through agencies, like EPA

                                                             ii.      US Constitution effectively abandoned

1.       President rather than Congress can go to war

2.       National security can constrain citizens’ speech

3.       “the military-industrial complex” is strong

4.       Big banks and big corporations prevail

5.       There’s a gender-change industrial complex

                                                           iii.      Constitutional republic gave way to plutocracy (wealth)

1.       Accumulation of debt to the majority

2.       Legalizing crime; legalizing drug use

3.       Goodness culturally canceled by wokeism

4.       Conservatives focused on elections rather than on civic people

a.       Tried to make The God responsible for goodness

b.       Kirk had “religion, the universities, literature, movies, music, the other arts, and the media” influencing morality

c.       Peter Viereck, influenced by Irving Babbitt, d. 1933, re “imagination plays a central role in forming the lives of individuals”, promoted traditionalism to preserve US Constitutional order. 

5.       Wrote to win presidential elections, neglecting the philistine culture

                                                           iv.      Victory in the 1980s masked New Left and Counter Culture of the 1960s & 70s

1.       Undermining classical and Christian beliefs

2.       Woke and cancel merely continuations

3.       Produced progressive radicalization of US politics

4.       Confused conservatives

a.       Suggest “great books” programs

b.       Portraying arch-elitist Plato as defender of “democracy”

c.       Imagination dominated by “faith” in doctrine

d.       Influenced by Leo Strauss: nothing moral to be learned from history and tradition

                                                                                                                                       i.      Un-intentionally accommodated leftist revolutionaries

e.       Edmund Burke extolled learning from history and opposed abstract French Revolution

f.        But we can consider the wisdom of humankind

g.       James Madison opposes the “ingenious theorist” working “in his closet”

                                                             v.      Will “deep-seated intellectual and other habits . . . stand in the way of urgently needed self-examination and soul-searching”?

3.       Scott Yenor, “In Defense of National Conservatism”, July 28, 2022; responding to 2 recent criticisms.

a.       Tyler Syck pits national conservatism vs reigning civil rights regime

                                                               i.      Seeks to defend LGBTQ et.al. against traditional family

                                                             ii.      Sexual license lessens freedom

                                                           iii.      Third-wave feminism, gender radicalism

                                                           iv.      Aggression against marriage and family

b.       Mark Tooley challenges national conservatism regarding religious faith

                                                               i.      Seeks “to maintain a common life rooted in Christian faith and a Christian moral vision”. [What do these terms mean? Praising the blood of Christ?]

                                                             ii.      Thinks separationism accomplishes it

c.       National conservatism issued a statement of principles

                                                               i.      Sovereignty being attacked by globalist powers imposing inhuman ideology

1.       Governments, global corporations, other oligarchies

2.       Reigning civil rights regime deems merit oppression of equity

                                                             ii.      Defend rule of law, free enterprise, family, and evidence

                                                           iii.      Limit if not prevent foreign ownership of domestic property

1.       Military privacy

2.       Upward pressure on pricing

3.       Protect farmland

                                                           iv.      Limit foreign participation in engineering

d.       Unresolved national conservatism needs

                                                               i.      Legislate to protect marriage and family

                                                             ii.      Classical liberal neutrality

1.       Public institutions necessarily legislate morality

2.       Morality pursues religion (No: physics and progeny)

                                                           iii.      Hold Christianity first but allow people to choose their religion.

1.       Take Protestant roots more seriously

2.       Legislate toward a Protestant vision of family life, public research, etc.

3.       Tocqueville praises obscenity laws, pro-family ethic for men and women, and female chastity.

4.       No state churches.

                                                           iv.      Oppose secular, atheist vision of the good life

                                                             v.      Replace our civil rights regime [promote civic integrity]

                                                           vi.      Promote “stable family and congregational life and childraising”

1.       Rollback gender equality and sexual libertinism

2.       Restrict immigration, requiring natives to work

4.       Mike Rappaport re Breitbart on Libertarians and Conservatives, February 17, 2012

a.       “Conservatives, especially right now, have a hell of a lot more in common with libertarianism than Barack Obama and what the progressive left stand for.”

b.       “libertarians — even those who are hostile to conservatives — must recognize that Obama and the progressives are the great threat now”.

c.       “Sadly, the Weekly Standard for many years was quite unfair to libertarians.”

d.       “There is, whether we like it or not, a social side to politics, and people — being both social and political animals — respond to both.” [Similarly, there is a goodness in people that appeals to both their politics and their religion or none.]

5.       Garrett Quinn, 2/11/2012, re Andrew Britbart speech at CPAC

a.       “called liberals the ‘the least tolerant people you will ever meet in your entire lives’."

6.       Daniel J. Mahoney, “Crutonian Conservatism Reconsidered”, Forum, LibertyLaw, January 1, 2025, online at https://lawliberty.org/forum/scrutonian-conservatism-reconsidered/, writing primarily about Roger Scruton, who died 5 years ago.

a.       Opposed each “the willful and indiscriminate rejection of the Western intellectual, moral, and civic inheritance, in the form of pathological self-loathing, [or] “cancel culture", scientism [natural rationalization], totalitarianism, and every ideological effort to deny the ensouled human person. 

b.       Upheld patriotism and humane national loyalty: the human person accountable to himself, to society, and to a moral law not of his making. [To self, fellow citizens, and the laws of physics with humility to its source.]

c.       1980 book, The Meaning of Conservatism

                                                               i.      Free will in property, contracts, moral commitments, family, economics, the law, and politics; [reliable responsibility to necessary goodness].

                                                             ii.      Hegel versions of increasing “right”: abstract, moral, ethic practiced among family, civil society, and the state in world history; thus, past, present and future. It’s a possible march to freedom. [Achievement]

                                                           iii.      Furthered Burkean individuality but with the “right” to be obedient to the rule of law. [No: the opportunity to aid pursuit of statutory justice.]

d.       2018 book, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

                                                               i.      Conservatism facilitates liberalism

                                                             ii.      [Classical liberalism must yield to necessary goodness.]

                                                           iii.      Rule of law [Pursuit of statutory justice], civic peace [integrity], religious tolerance [humility], and the prosperity and abundance made possible by the market economy [capitalism], are precious goods that have been encouraged and sustained by the modern liberal order.

                                                           iv.      [Accept that there is no utopia – only statistical variation in commitment to necessary goodness or civic integrity.]

                                                             v.      “Progress” is [constrained by humility-to or correction-by ineluctable evidence].

                                                           vi.      [The Good yields to necessary goodness.]

                                                          vii.      [These principles existed and were known before Genesis 1:26-28 was offered.]

                                                        viii.      Aristotle [trust and commitment] to: moderation, constitutionalism and 4 virtues -- courage, prudence, justice, and temperance. [integrity, justice, safety, strength, prosperity, and responsibility].

                                                            ix.      [Female and male humankind pursuing statutory justice to necessary goodness rather than] a social contract by a community and [civic integrity] rather than civilized order. [Civil refers to humanly constructed rules, which may and can defy the laws of physics.]

1.       Choosing to purchase property requires selection of civil-ordered land – to attach to a home a nation on earth.

2.       The secular order of property obligations [may and can accommodate] Christian neighbor-love.

3.       [Loyalty to nation accommodates local association that lessens necessary goodness.]

4.       Scruton more like Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel than Burke.

a.       Liberal conservatism neither revolutionary nor ideological

b.       Burke foresaw France’s Terror (1790) and saw in American reformation conservation or no “Year Zero”. [The US Constitution accommodates Genesis 1:26-28.]

c.       Burke saw trust, commitment, and [remembrance “to ourselves and our Posterity”.] He was proud of England.

d.       Burke tried to maintain . . . the moral inheritance that is Western and Christian civilization. [Better to consider the ancient civilizations, in order to avoid mistakes already known.]

                                                             x.      Favors religion versus progressive materialism and joins with liberals against socialism.

1.       Conservatism against its despisers – Western political correctness and Islamic terrorism.

2.       Implies that [civic integrity] is necessary for repentance and forgiveness.

e.       2005 chapter “How I Became a Conservative” from memoir Gentle Regrets

                                                               i.      Need a place for ova and for soul.

                                                             ii.      Constrain progress that leaves ova and soul behind.

                                                           iii.      Humane national loyalty above arrogant nationalism.

                                                           iv.      A friend of May 1968 France, the Czech people under totalitarianism, and the United States.

                                                             v.      The United States “social contract” is to amend the Constitution unto statutory justice “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Lincoln’s first inaugural speech, “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?]

                                                           vi.      . . . rights within their legitimate sphere . . . in free and lawful political communities [but not in arrogance]

                                                          vii.      Left facilitates “atheistic apprenticeship”

1.       Desperate repudiation, degrading pornography . . . assault God

2.       political philosophy, theology, and philosophical anthropology

                                                        viii.      Returned to rational faith --- mysterious meeting points between the sacred and the profane to encounter the True, the Good, and Beautiful.

                                                            ix.      . . . our dignity as morally accountable persons.

f.        2017 book, Where We Are: The State of Britain Now

                                                               i.      Habitual neighborliness

                                                             ii.      Without religious belief despite Christian feeling like Orwell’ 1940 essay “The Lion and the Unicorn”

                                                           iii.      Nevertheless humankind longs for the transcendent, the sacred, and the eternal

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[5] https://lawliberty.org/breitbart-on-libertarians-and-conservatives/

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[7] https://lawliberty.org/forum/scrutonian-conservatism-reconsidered/