A Civic People: Hillsdale College's campaign against the U.S. Preamble's propostion to the people

Some traditional scholarship preserves ignorance rather than pursues the-literal-truth. Only civic living citizens can overcome the consequential lag between discovery and acceptance. For example, the Vatican admitted error in persecuting Galilio 350 years later; however, the egregious offense is modern acceptance of “conflict between reason and dogma, science and faith”[1] rather than failure to accept ineluctable evidence to reject traditional speculation.

Hillsdale College management seems bemused by opposition to the neglected entity We the People of the United States. Here are a few American myths Hillsdale’s Larry P. Arnn promotes[2] in a non-profit campaign for donations:

1. Most individual colonists had Christianity in common.

2. Christianity is exempt from 1692 Salem “witch” executions.[3]

3. The deist phrase “Nature and Nature’s God” refers to Jesus.

4. The 1787 U.S. Constitution merely fulfills the 1774 Confederation of States.

5. The U.S. Preamble is secular rather that neutral to religion.

The above are a few of my major concerns with Arnn‘s message. I will address others by suggesting definitions to perhaps add-to or modify “a civic glossary” we are developing.[4] Also, I may use some of the entries below to initiate a glossary we deem too proprietary for a civic glossary. Phrases in quotation marks below reference Arnn‘s essay.

Glossary:
Appreciation: gratitude to or from someone for fidelity more than “allegiance” to civic integrity; in other words, to mutual, comprehensive safety and security.
Celebrating the dead citizens: awareness of past errors empowers living citizens to observe rather than experience woe.
Change: Since the object of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition is liberty to us and our posterity, civic living citizens cannot consign the responsibility for human liberty to the Articles of the U.S. Constitution, the Federalist Papers, founders, whatever-God-is, or government, and dissidents may discover subjugation under statutory law enforcement. The continuum of living citizens and their posterity is responsible for human liberty in the USA and must maintain the march toward statutory justice.
Civic citizens: fellow citizens who neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from each other or to/from civic institutions. “Founders” and “patriots” may not have qualified as civic citizens. Their errors are cited to support modern erroneous reasoning more than to avoid repetition.
College: a center for encouraging the development of responsible human liberty; in other words, for pursuing integrity to the-literal-truth.
Consent: is an erroneous “rational standard” used by English scholars to detract from civic discipline so as to establish government coercion and force using the falsehood that “all men are created equal.” Every person is unique, and some individuals oppose “common sense” including equity under statutory justice. Un-civic individuals must be constrained under written law enforcement until they reform to fellow citizenship.
Encouraged: seems preferred to “educated,” which is similar to “indoctrinated,” “civilized,” or “subjugated.” A civic culture perhaps features one indoctrination: to behave for mutual, comprehensive safety and security so that individuals may personally develop responsible human liberty.
Expert rule: By consigning Congressional responsibilities to the President, Congress has initiated an unconstitutional entity of a Greek utopia, the “philosopher king.”[5]
Final cause: The U.S. Preamble infers that the standard of human liberty is the level of responsibility ultimately practiced by We the People of the United States. As time unfolds, more citizens with more civic integrity, voluntarily discover and practice statutory justice.
Formal cause: the global civic citizen voluntarily develops human equity under statutory justice, and works to convince his or her country to establish a people’s agreement to that effect. In the USA, the agreement is offered to each citizen in the U.S. Preamble. As the 5 disciplines specified in the U.S. Preamble empower discovery of injustice, written law is examined and may be amended so as to conform to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. Negligence of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition as “secular” instead of neutral to religion has produced an impracticable U.S. Constitution, as currently observed in the U.S. House of Representative vs the U.S. Senate. We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble ought to notify the U.S. Congress to join the USA as specified in the U.S. Preamble.
Golden rule: the false notion that accepting personal doctrine about whatever-God-is positions someone to impose theism on fellow citizens. It is not “fact that the Christian God . . . is the most open to thinking.” Whatever-God-is probably does not respond to revelation, reason, or beliefs.
Good humans: is a subjective opinion rather than the-objective-truth much less the-literal-truth. No one knows the ultimate responsible-human-liberty; in other words, no human knows perfect integrity.
Great books—old and new: “attempts to approximate truth that frequently differ from one another” perhaps detracting from the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth, which may be discover on ineluctable evidence.
Higher learning: pursues not “means but ends,” which are “higher than means.” The end for The U.S. Preamble’s proposition may be responsible human liberty and the means is 5 public disciplines.
Human liberty: is unavoidable and can be nourished by each aware human individual. Freedom-from oppression is essential to personal discovery of the liberty-to develop integrity. Inculcation into “civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety” is difficult to overcome and is the human objection to Chapter XI Machiavellianism.[6] Theism itself is the “first universal religion not to provide government to the faithful.” Theisms compete for church-state partnership so as to pick the people’s pockets with immunity. In a population of believers, only a dreamer would propose reform.
Independent executive agencies: that is, Congress has abdicated its responsibilities to the U.S. Preamble by consigning Congressional responsibilities to the administration under the President. The consequence is regulatory judges and “career officers” who have no ties to the U.S. Constitution. Recall that the U.S. Preamble specifies government by 5 disciplines rather than “by consent,” perhaps a Greek fallacy.[7]
Legitimate: law and institutions in the USA must conform to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. Wherein they deviate from the U.S. Preamble, the articles of the U.S. Constitution must be amended. Amendment to establish statutory justice is inevitable. The deep state is not “more legitimate than the president and the Senate.” Arnn did not specify why he omitted the House of Representatives and the courts from the list of legitimate offices. In no fashion can the Declaration of Independence answer “What to do?” beyond using the U.S. Preamble’s proposition to distance ourselves from colonial-English tradition such as church-state partnership.
Nature’s God: This phrase from the 1776 Declaration of Independence is used by some people to overshadow the 1787 U.S. Constitution and its preamble. Mysteriously, this Unitarian God represents Christianity in its thousands of factions, Judeo-Christianity, and perhaps African-American Christianity. It falsely disparages the U.S. Preamble as secular whereas it is neutral to religion and theism.
“Partner”: The Declaration of Independence, 1776, is both no partner to the U.S. Constitution, 1787, and opposes We the People of the United States, the entity that 9 states ratified civically, civilly, and legally on June 21, 1788.
Pillars: means reliable provider of physical and psychological strength. Hillsdale College was founded on “learning, character, faith, and freedom” to describe “the complete human being” or “the well-lived human life” (1844). Gen. George Washington (June 1781) proposed 4-6 pillars: An indissoluble Union of the States under one federal head; public justice; peace; and civic goodwill so as to overlook local prejudices, to make mutual concessions for general prosperity, and to sacrifice individual advantages in order to establish a culture of integrity.[8] The U.S. Preamble (est. 1788) proposes integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens and their posterity.
Principles: ought to be grounded in the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth. The 1776 Declaration of Independence was an instrument of a war begun in 1774. It was a product of the 1774 confederation of the 13 English colonies that lived in less than 12% of America’s 2020 contiguous land area. Spain and France colonized most of the balance of land area. France won the revolutionary war with the Continental Army’s help, and the consequence was the treaties of Paris, 1783, one of which made the 13 former British colonies 13 global, free and independent states. The 1787 U.S. Constitution legally divided states into a global union of 9 states called the USA. The 4 remaining free and independent states were dissidents for political reasons. Before operations began in 1789, 2 dissident states had joined the USA. Part of the contention was the legal dissolution of the confederation of states under the principle of 5 public disciplines which encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens---under the U.S. Preamble.
Probity: Fidelity to a doctrine/civilization, not necessarily integrity to the-literal-truth.
Reason: “the essential element of human nature . . . a synonym for speech.” More important to the human individual is acceptance of the natural power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity to the-literal-truth rather than nourish appetites.
Science: is a process, and its product is discovery based on ineluctable evidence. To “make society into what we want it to be” opposes both responsible human liberty and sacrifices the-literal-truth to satisfy desire. The tool of “social science” is manipulation of survey statistics by design and evaluation so as to disguise the “researcher’s” speculation.
Standard: human practice “that is complete and perfect.” Perhaps ultimate responsible human liberty is the civic standard. For all we know, complete and perfect human liberty would solve the mystery whatever-God-is.
Technology: “knowing how” cannot be the standard for what to do and human responsibility for liberty isn’t “an engineering project.” In addition to awareness and grammar, the human being has and may accept the individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop motivation and inspiration to establish integrity; that is, fidelity to the-literal-truth.
Understanding: may be considered a process with a product. The process employs at each step integrity toward the ineluctable evidence. Without integrity, the discovery, evaluation, acceptance, practice, promotion, dialogue with fellow citizens, and open-mindedness may be ruined. Without integrity, the product will be misunderstanding and tyranny. For example, the human mystery of whatever-God-is cannot be resolved if every student intends to impose his or her God on whatever-God-is.
Valued: grounded in the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth rather than believed to be “eternal and transcendent,” dignified, persistent in virtue, worthy of permanence by an exclusive “identity group.”

Conclusion

With desire to not lessen even one person’s responsible human liberty, it seems essential to promote freedom-from oppression. Imposition of past understanding, such as “the founders’” vision of the American dream is oppression.

The U.S. Preamble’s proposition seems to be: 5 public disciplines encourage responsible human liberty. Perhaps the measure of accomplishment with time is the extent and quality of fellow citizens’ participation. In other words, the continuum of We the People of the United States gradually approaches majority practice of responsible human liberty: civic integrity. That is, the minority who insist on their dissidence to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition gradually approaches a naturally small proportion of living citizens and their posterity.

I hope this message reaches current and past students of Hillsdale College as well as its administrators and professors. Hard to examine as these ideas may be, the literal U.S. Preamble seems to propose responsible human liberty. It seems to me responsible human liberty is the shocking American dream. It is critical for each U.S. citizen to know the entity We the People of the United States as proposed in the U.S. Preamble, importantly, because no human can tell whatever-God-is what it is.

[1] Online at https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/world/after-350-years-vatican-says-galileo-was-right-it-moves.html.

[2] Online at https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/four-pillars-educating-america/.

[3] Online at https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1098/salem-witch-trials.

[4] Online at http://promotethepreamble.blogspot.com/2014/10/glossary-for-december-15-discussion.html.

[5] Online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king.

[6] Online at https://www.constitution.org/mac/prince11.htm. I perceive that Machiavelli wrote in irony to protect his life.

[7] Online at https://democracyweb.org/consent-of-the-governed-history.

[8] Online at http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/peace/circular.html.