Presentation for Individual Independence Day 2018

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5th Annual Individual Independence Day Event

Thursday, June 21, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA

Main Library, 7711 Goodwood Blvd

10:00 AM until 12:00 AM

Participants discuss 1) what the preamble means to them and 2) the American mystery.

Sponsored by Citizens for A Civic People of the United States

Please, visit promotethepreamble.blogspot.com

The leading edge of five years’ collaboration.

Each human being has

            the individual power,

            the individual energy, and

            the individual authority (IPEA)

 to develop integrity.

Developing integrity, the individual may embrace fidelity to the-objective-truth: fidelity to what has been discovered.

Introduction: Two Discussions for Today

What does the preamble to the constitution for the USA mean to you?

Did you adopt the agreement the preamble offers citizens?

What mystery about American history concerns you?

How would you collaborate to resolve the concern?

For those who wish to speak, one speaker at a time, Question I.

The June 21, 1788 preamble:

“We the People of the [9] United States, in Order to

form a more perfect Union,

establish Justice,

insure domestic Tranquility,

provide for the common defense,

promote the general Welfare, and

secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our [Children],

do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Do you think the preamble is the first legal statement in the constitution for the USA?

Do citizens divide themselves on the preamble’s agreement: willing, dissident, rebel?

Does the preamble establish an authority?

Question II. What mystery about American history concerns you?

How would you collaborate to resolve the concern?

De-mystifying American history

1760BCE The Code of Hammurabi refers to slavery as an established institution

1400BCE Writers express that God freed Israel from enslavement in Egypt

405AD The canon of the New Testament includes passages that condone slavery

430 Catholic Bishop Augustine of Hippo: slavery has arisen as the result of sin

1455 Pope Nicholas V “granted” Portugal the right to enslave sub-Saharan Africans

1573 Sir John Hawkins and Elizabeth I led the dominant Atlantic slave trade till 1808

1692 Clergy-officials in Salem, Massachusetts executed 20 of 200 accused “witches”

1763 Colonists perceive personal enslavement under British theism and common law

1774 Farmers took authority to liberate Worcester, MA: kick British officials out

1774 Colonists change “colonies” to “states” and form a 13-state confederation

1776 States declare war for independence on authority of “Nature and Nature’s God”

1778 France, at war with England, joins the American war for independence

1781 England surrenders to France and America at Yorktown, VA

1783 George Washington asserts four civic “pillars” for a nation that may survive

1784 Having won in war, 13 free and independent states ratify the Treaty of Paris

1787 2/3 of delegates in Philadelphia sign the preamble and the USA constitution

1788 June 21 nine states establish the USA under civic people rather than theism

1789 the first Congress, ten states, reinstitute Blackstone common law and theism

1789-91 the remaining three dissident states join the USA

1791 the 1st Congress, 14 states, ratifies the Bill of Rights, the complete constitution

1861 Seven southern states, “a more erroneous” theism, attacks the USA (34 states)

1941 Albert Einstein asserts that physics and morality have the same source

1970 “African-American Christianity” emerges in common language and in England

Slavery: Erroneous Christianity Rather than USA “Sin”?

1760BCE: Code of Hammurabi takes slavery for granted

1400BCE: “God” frees Israel from enslavement in Egypt

405AD: the New Testament condones slavery

430: Bishop of Hippo: slavery the result of sin

1455: Pope “authorizes” African slave trade to the Americas

1573-1807: England dominates the Atlantic slave trade

U.S. Citizens’ Incentives to Break from Christian Civics

1692: Salem ministers executed 20 of 200 “witches”

1763: Colonists feel enslaved under British law and theism

1774: Farmers take authority to liberate Worcester, MA

1774: Colonists change to states, write state constitutions

1776: Leaders regress to authority of theism

1778: France and America combine wars against England

1781: England surrenders to France and America

1783: George Washington describes a durable nation

1784: 13 free & independent states ratify the Paris Treaty

1787: 2/3 of delegates sign the preamble and articles

Consequences of Congress’ 1789 Christian Re-Institution

(1788, June 21: 9 states under a civic people w/o theism)

1789: 1st Congress, with 10 states, re-authorize theism

1789-91: the remaining 3 dissident states join the USA

1791: the first Congress ratifies theism in the Bill of Rights

1861: 7 southern states choose “more erroneous” theism

1941: Einstein asserts that morality emerges from physics

1968 “African-American Christianity” emerges

2018 English public meets African-American Christianity

Why Individual Independence Day Each June 21?

England never understood American independence

The USA empowers civic collaboration for individual happiness by constraining ever-present dissidence

The preamble’s agreement invites civic collaboration

Citizens discover the-objective-truth and its benefits

Each human has individual power, energy, and authority (IPEA) to establish integrity

Integrity empowers comprehensive fidelity

An attainable, better future may start now and be celebrated each June 21 in the USA and abroad

Vocabulary for comprehending comments

(a handout)

“Civic citizens”: those who collaborate for mutual justice during their lifetimes rather than for distant eternity.

Comprehensive safety and security is for the adults including dissidents, the children, grandchildren and beyond.

Humans have authority to collaborate for the-objective-truth

The-objective-truth is actual reality, which willing humans work to discover and use for individual and civic benefits.

Willing citizens use the preamble to classify civic issues; dissidents differentiate themselves by inviting actual harm.

Collaboration is gratefully acknowledged.

All pages are copyrighted May 28, 2018 by Phillip R. Beaver to protect rights to express the collaborative ideas again. Ideas may be shared on permission. The essential theory: A civic people can live private lives, candidly using both the preamble to the constitution for the USA and the-objective-truth; members collaborate for comprehensive safety and security. The theory, lived with my wife, Cynthia and family; discussed continually with Kishon Seth, Henry Soniat, Hector and Mari Presedo, Gordon Totty; advanced first with Hugh Finklea and Holly Beaver with the National Anthem sung by Rebekah Beaver on Individual Independence Day, 6/21/14; 9/17 with Dennis Eilers, Joyce Murray, and Mona Sevilla; Mint Marionneaux 10/26; Kelley Young 12/11; Brij Mohan, Prem Mohan, Gordon, Satish Verma, and Shawn Hanscom 12/15/14; Diana Dorroh 1/29; Jeremiah Wright 2/19; Daniel Liebeskind 3/7; Dona Bean 3/18; Katherine Shurik, Chad Harelson, Doug Johnson, Mark Logan, Richard Martin, Ron Sammonds, Tom Hannie, Elizabeth Johnson and Roger Alexander, 4/8; Austin Guidry 4/19; Rich 5/13; Alex Townsend 6/20; Rebekah Beaver 7/20; Jay Vicknair 7/29; Jacob Irving 8/6; Anna Fogle 9/14; Erick Martin 9/14/2015. Bob Souvestre 2/2/16; Shahed Khan 2/29; David Earle 4/19; Kate Gladstone 5/17; John Earle 5/18; Joyce Goldner 6/21/16; Lorraine Davidson 6/21; Ruth Finklea, Connie Holmes, John Howe, Rose Howe, 9/6. Charlotte Burns, Scott Courtright, Nancy Kunen 9/20/2017; Tyler Roberson, 5/22/2018. Participants and Mary Stein, EBRPL Director, receive revised presentations.

Citizens for A Civic People of the United States, Baton Rouge, LA

A personal preamble by/for Phil Beaver

Willing people in our state habitually collaborate for comprehensive safety and security:

continuity (for self, children, grandchildren & beyond)

integrity (developed for both fidelity and wholeness)

justice (freedom-from oppression)

defense (prevent or constrain harm)

prosperity (acquire the liberty-to pursue choices)

privacy (responsibly pursue individual happiness)

lawfulness (obey the law and reform injustice);

and to develop statutory justice in the constitution for the USA.

Integrity is a practice 

Do the work to comprehend the-objective-truth.

Learn how to benefit from the discovery.

Behave so as to benefit:  Practice fidelity to the-objective-truth.

Publically express fidelity for benefits.

Listen to public response so as to uncover other views.

Remain open minded to future discovery.

Honesty may neglect understanding and thus fail integrity.

The-objective-truth exists and can only be discovered.

Copyright©2018 by Phillip R. Beaver. All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted for the publication of all or portions of this paper as long as this complete copyright notice is included.