Constitution Day 2018 presentation

Meeting plan

• 1.Five years’ “preambling” progress: the leading edge
• 2.Civic fellow citizens celebrate Constitution Day
• 3.Factual study: American myths within global myths
• 4.Clarification and collaboration
• 5.Next planned library meeting
• The leading edge of five years’ collaboration

The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution on June 21, 1788

“We the People of the [nine] 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 [grandchildren],

do ordain and establishthis

Constitution for the United States of America.”

Review of five years progress for future collaboration.

The 1788 preamble legally dissolved the Confederation of 13 states and established the Union of 9 states.

The preamble addresses both civil authority and voluntary self-discipline among fellow citizens.

Under the preamble’s agreement, equal citizens divide: willing, passive, dissident, rebel, alien, and enemy.

It’s an agreement for the individual civic-discipline to manage governance so as to provide impartiality.

Each human being has IPEA:

the individual power,

the individual energy, and

the individual authority

to either develop integrity or not.

With civic integrity, the individual commits to neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any person or civic institution. A civic people resist actual harm.

Mindfulness* seems a civic more than spiritual practice.

The preamble’s agreement invites fellow citizens to develop individual happiness with civic integrity.

* Awareness; presence.

Developing integrity, the individual may discover and embrace fidelity to the-objective-truth,

yet may humbly pursue personal happiness rather than yield to another’s burdens, fears, or plans.

The human being is so powerful that it takes about 3 decades for an infant-person to develop the understanding and intent to live a complete life.

Complete human development---self discovery---typically takes beyond 6 decades, if it happens at all.

The fellow citizen owns his or her person and uses IPEA to manage, for good or for evil, lesser powers: appetites (banality), societies (coercion), and governments (force).

Celebrating the constitution’s potential for fellow citizens

Civic individuals maintain a wonderful world.

A smile is effective whether with silence or with speech.

The National Anthem

Presentation offered for today’s collaboration

• I. What history-myths about America bother you the most?
• II. Four fellow-citizen opportunities for civic integrity

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• 1) We may overcome the civic impacts of global slavery
• 2) We may yet reform from British colonization of the eastern seaboard, especially the tyranny of civil theism
• 3) We may stop neglecting a dream: the opportunity to pursue individual happiness with civic integrity
• 4) A civic concern you’d like fellow citizens to consider
• III. What do you propose so as to resolve the concerns?
• IV. How can a better immediate future happen? De-mystify American history using a global view

• Overview, 1760 BCE to 2018 CE(3,800 years)
• Highlights in three segments to follow      

• •1760 BCE to 1573 CE (3,300 years; global)
• •1692 to 1787 (65 years; North America’s eastern seaboard)
• •1788to 2018 (230 years; U.S. develops under British tradition)

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• •Louisiana was primarily a French colony until 1803

• •Consider Individual Independence Day each June 21.
• To promote individual happiness with civic integrity

U.S. Slavery within 1600 years of Christian-church error

1760 BCE: Code of Hammurabi embraces slavery

1400 BCE: “God” frees Israeli “enslavement” in Egypt

431 BCE Thucydides: human beings under the law are equal

405 CE: New Testament erroneously condones slave practices*

430: Bishop of Hippo: slavery a consequence of the slave’s sin

1455: The pope “authorizes” African-slave trade to use the African “commodity” to colonize the Americas

1573-1807: England dominates African-slave trade
* For example, slaves are coerced, by hopes for their souls to enjoy afterdeath-favor, to brook unjust beatings in life: 1 Peter 2:18-25.

Spirituality is for hope after death: integrity is for life

1692: Salem minister-politicians kill 20 of 200 “witches”

1763: Colonists sense enslavement under British Christianity

1774: Farmers take civic authority to liberate Worcester, MA

1774: 13 eastern colonies order state constitutions

1776: Decl. of Ind. regresses to Nature’s God “authority”

1778: France and 13 colonies combine wars against England

1781: France and 13 colonies defeat England at Yorktown, VA

1783: George Washington proposes a resilient, civic nation

1784: 13 free &independent states ratify 1783 Paris Treaty

1787: Shay rebelled against the Articles of Confederation

1787: 1/3 of delegates won’t sign the U.S. Constitution

Developments after 1789 Congress restores British Tradition

(1788, June 21: 9states under the preamble w/o theism)

1789: 11-state 1st Congress re-institutes Blackstone, elitism, theism

1791: 14-state 1st Congress ratifies theism in the Bill of Rights

1803: France sells Louisiana territory to the U.S.

1852: Frederick Douglass introduces himself as “fellow citizen”

1856: R. E. Lee: blacks to be slaves until they become Christians

1861: 7 southern states attack for “more erroneous” theism

1863: Lincoln speaks of governance: could have been civic discipline

1941: Einstein asserts that integrity emerges from physics

1964: no discrimination on race, color, sex, or ethnic origin

1968: “African-American Christianity” emerges

2018: African-American Christianity touches royal wedding

Conclusion offered for collaboration

Fellow citizens may regard the signers of the 1787 Constitution as providing the opportunity for freedom-from British tradition. Fellow citizens may deny “founders” impositions against the liberty-to develop civic integrity.

Resolution

Fellow citizens may collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity, which may be discovered using IPEA, the preamble’s civic agreement, and the-objective-truth.

Next meeting: Why Individual Independence Day Each June 21?

• 1. The U.S. has not yet reformed from British colonialism.
• 2. The U.S. empowers civic collaboration for happiness by constraining continuous, essential, individual discovery
• 3. The preamble’s agreement invites civic collaboration
• 1)Citizens discover the-objective-truth and its benefits
• 4. Each human has individual power, energy and authority (IPEA) to either develop integrity or not
• 1)Integrity empowers comprehensive fidelity
• 5. An attainable, better future may start and be celebrated each September 17 in the U.S. and abroad

Collaboration is gratefully acknowledged.

All pages are copyrighted September 19, 2018 by Phillip R. Beaver to protect rights to express the collaborative ideas again. The essential theory: A civic people maylive private lives, candidlyusing both the preambleto the constitution for the U.S. and the-objective-truth; members collaborate for comprehensive safety and security.The theory is lived with my wife, Cynthia and family; discussed continually with Kishon Seth, Henry Soniat, Hector & Mari Presedo, Gordon Totty, Woody Wilson; advanced first with Hugh Finkleaand 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 Marionneaux10/26; Kelley Young 12/11; BrijMohan, PremMohan, Gordon, Satish Verma, and Shawn Hanscom12/15/14. Diana Dorroh1/29; Jeremiah Wright 2/19; Daniel Liebeskind3/7; Dona Bean 3/18; Katherine Shurik, ChCEHarelson, 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 Vicknair7/29; Jacob Irving 8/6; Anna Fogle9/14; Erick Martin 9/14/2015. Bob Souvestre 2/2; ShahedKhan 2/29; David Earle 4/19; Kate Gladstone 5/17; John Earle 5/18; Joyce Goldner6/21/16; Lorraine Davidson 6/21; Ruth Finklea, Connie Holmes, John Howe, Rose Howe, 9/6. Charlotte Burns, Scott Courtright, Nancy Kunen9/20/17. Tyler Roberson, 5/22; Shed Duplessis, 8/14; Diana Dorroh9/17; Frank Campbell 9/19/18. MaryStein, EBRPL Director, receives 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 mutual, comprehensive safety and security:

Continuity (for family, grandchildren & beyond)

integrity fidelity to the-objective-truth & wholeness)

justice (freedom-from oppression)

defense (prevent or constrain actual harm)

prosperity (earn the liberty-to responsibly pursue choices)

privacy (responsibly pursue individual happiness)

lawfulness (obey the law while reforming injustices);

and to cultivate justice in the constitution for the U.S.

Integrity* is a practice

• 1. Do the work to discover the-objective-truth.**
• 2. Learn how to benefit from the discovery.
• 3. Behave so as to benefit: practice fidelity.
• 4. Publically express the benefits of the discovery.
• 5. Listen to public response so as to collaborate and mutually improve the practice.
• 6. Remain open minded to future discovery that demands change in behavior.

* Honesty may neglect understanding and thus fail integrity.

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

Vocabulary for comprehending contents

• •“Civic citizens”, during their individual lives, collaborate for mutual justice more than for tradition or society.
• •Mutual, comprehensive safety and security is for the adults (including dissidents), children, grandchildren and beyond.
• •Humans may in integrity collaborate for the-objective-truth.
• •The-objective-truth is actual reality, which willing humans work to discover and use for individual and mutual security.
• •Willing citizens use the preamble to classify civic issues; dissident fellow citizens differentiate themselves by inviting actual harm.

The world I experience and observe.

Home

Friendships

Stores

Online forums

Public library meetings

Reading, talking, and writing

Parks

A preambler’s dream

Lift Every Voice and Sing

The Black National Anthem

For more understanding of the three history pages and for the published report (revised by collaboration)

1760 BCE The Code of Hammurabi treats slavery as an established and accepted institution

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

431 BCE Thucydides expresses that merit under the law is not lessened by status or poverty

405 CE Final 27-book New Testament canon includes passages that condone slavery; 1 Peter 2:18-21

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 under Elizabeth I led England to dominate Atlantic slave trade through 1807

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

1763 Colonists perceive they are personally enslaved under Blackstone and Canterbury

1774 Farmer’s militia takes authority and liberates Worcester, MA: kicks British officials out

1774 Eastern colonial representatives change “colonies” to “states” and form a 13-state confederation

1776 States declare war for independence under the constructed authority “Nature and Nature’s God”

1778 France, already at war with England, adds the American war for independence

1781 England surrenders to France and the confederation of thirteen states at Yorktown, VA

1783 George Washington suggests four civic “pillars” to form a nation with resilience that may survive

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

1787 2/3 of delegates to Philadelphia sign the preamble in the constitution for the USA;1/3 dissidents

1788 June 21 nine states establish the U.S. under civic people rather than under Blackstone or states

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

1789-91 the remaining dissident states join the U.S.

1791 Congress, with 14 states, ratifies the Bill of Rights, completing the politically amended constitution

1803 France sells Louisiana territory to the U.S.. Louisiana has few British passions, if any.

1852 Frederick Douglass, with U.S. President attending, introduces himself as “fellow citizen” and affirms the preamble

1856 Robert E. Lee: African slaves to be subjugated by the Almighty until conversion to Christianity

1861 Seven southern states, under “a more erroneous” theism, attacks the U.S. (27 Union states)

1863: Lincoln could have spoken at Gettysburg about discipline of by and for the people: who wants to govern neighbors?

1941 Albert Einstein asserts that physics and integrity have the same source (my paraphrase)

1964 Congressional acts against discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, or ethnic origin

1970 African-American Christianity emerges in domestic debate and, ironically, in 2018 England

2018 Perhaps the U.S. has reached a political extremity and ascent toward civic integrity is possible