Planning Responsible Human Liberty Day (in the USA)

  

Note: when this message was originated, we had rejected the modifier "human" as cumbersome but now recognize that it is essential: it takes 2 to 3 decades for a feral infant to transition into a person who intends to live a complete human life. Therefore, on October 28, 2019, we revised the proposed title of the annual commemoration day to "Responsible Human Liberty Day".

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Our sixth annual celebration of June 21, 1788 is scheduled for June 20, 2019 at 7:00 PM at EBRP Bluebonnet Regional Library, Room 1. The public is invited. See the announcement on our Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/events/332978470722765/.

Each year, we commemorate and celebrate the day the people of nine states ratified the U.S. preamble and the articles that accompanied it, establishing the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Ratification left four eastern-seaboard states globally free and independent. Two states joined the USA before operations began under the people of eleven states on March 4, 1789. The states beyond the eastern seaboard were less influenced by colonial-English strains of bias, yet many English traditions erroneously prevail in the USA.

The USA is uniquely predicated on the self-discipline of the individual citizen. A Civic People work to establish the U.S. preamble’s proposition: mutual, comprehensive safety and security for fellow citizens.

In keeping with the leading edge of our work, we are introducing perhaps the world’s first Responsible Liberty Day. It is appropriate for this commemoration and celebration to originate in Baton Rouge for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that observations and articulations were developed in the public meetings at EBRP libraries conducted by A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana civic-education corporation. Moreover, Louisiana, the 18th state in 1812, is a former French colony and thus was England's adversary, for example, in 1781 at Yorktown, VA.

In March, 2019, substantially in a discussion started by Michael Rappaport, we observed that the U.S. preamble’s proposition to individual citizens is to collaborate for five public provisions for freedom-from oppression so as to accept and encourage responsible human liberty. Union, Justice, Tranquility, defense and Welfare would secure responsible individual liberty to living citizens now and in the future. I encourage every fellow citizen to interpret the U.S. preamble so as to offer for collaboration their preferences for how his or her lifetime will be spent. My interpretation for my life is:  We, a civic people of the united states, practice self-discipline for integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, so as to encourage human liberty to living citizens and to develop statutory justice in the USA. Of known species, only humans have the awareness and grammar to develop, accept, and encourage responsible liberty. 

The U.S. preamble is silent on the motivations many people perceive or construct to oppose the U.S. preamble’s proposition. The preamble is also silent on the standards by which We the People of the United States discover statutory justice. In our theory of a civic culture, the-objective-truth provides the standards for justice. The-objective-truth is the ineluctable evidence by which truth is judged.

We think these articulations are only the beginning of U.S. reform from competition for dominant opinion to collaboration for individual happiness with civic integrity. We hope you will be excited and want to join in the work by attending this informative meeting.

We discuss 1) what A Civic People of the United States does to develop a civic culture and 2) explain our observations about the U.S. preamble’s proposition. The public is invited to join these and future discussions about 1) how the U.S. preamble became ineffective, 2) what can be done for an achievable better future, and 3) what it takes for an individual to accept responsible human liberty.

Copyright©2019 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. Revised June 4, 2019