Architectural License
The
design of our Republic at its best, is a fragile experiment, the foundation of its
people must be morally attentive and vigilant, but apathy has absolutely no
place in a free society, because it will surly be its undoing.
A little philosophy
By de Andréa
August 26, 2013
Because of our ignorant choices we are shamefully allowing America to fail, but we still have the
choice to bring it back, and it begins with truth. Listen very closely my friend; your future
depends on it.
More than two
hundred years ago, our Forefathers took architectural license when designing this
American Constitutional Republic American Constitutional Republic
I guess if one
doesn’t know’ what one has lost, one hasn’t lost anything. But I have been around long enough to
remember or have studied enough American political history to know what a free society
really is and why it works.
‘All’ forms of society
rely on the continuing moral obligation of the people within that society,
which is why Benjamin Franklin, when asked what type of government they had created,
he responded with; “a Republic, if you can keep it.”
With socialism, you
eventually run out of someone else’s money and the system collapses. With
anarchy a stateless society, you eventually run out of someone else’s morality
and the system devolves into utter chaos. With a republic, if you run out
of the people’s attentiveness, immorality reigns in government and then it too’
will eventually collapse. But you will
notice that I said, “‘if ’ you run out of people’s attentiveness”… A Free Constitutional
Republic
Thomas Paine said, “Society
in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state, is but a
necessary evil; in its worse state, an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or
are exposed to the same miseries by
a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is
heightened by reflecting that we have furnished the means by which we suffer.”
Paine is describing
the very paradox of what societies are. What happens without government
will also occur with government; the same consequence, just with different
actors and sometimes for different reasons.
The point that Paine was trying to make is that we hold fellowship with
our fellow man as a blessing, so we desire to live in communities. Small
communities ‘do well’ without much intervention of law, as people are bound by
their closeness to respect each other’s liberty, act morally, and do not tread
on their neighbor’s natural rights of Life, Liberty, Property and Right to
defend these rights and the ability to police themselves. It’s what keeps freedom from self-destructing. Read
Thomas Paine’s, “Rights of man” 1772
and Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law”. However, the larger communities become and/or
the more detached man becomes from his neighbor, the less driven he will become
by a personal obligation to morality. When that occurs, the society will
cry out for laws and as the society will begin to distrust his neighbor’s fair
application of the laws, will elect a government big and powerful enough to
enforce those laws.
Paine expounds on
this by saying: “the reciprocal blessing of which, would supersede, and render the
obligations of law and government unnecessary while they remained perfectly
just to each other; but as nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice, it will
unavoidably happen, that in proportion as they surmount the first difficulties
of emigration which bound them together in a common cause, they will begin to
relax their duty and attachment to each other; and this remissness, will point
out the necessity, of establishing government to supply the defect of moral
virtue.”
A perfect society
is governed by God and morality; that circumstance exists when people remain in
tune with’ and in subjection to God and therefore remain just toward each
other. The socialist societies believe that we will all operate in a just
manner because we are all the same’ and an “inherently good” people, when just
the opposite is true.
The stateless
societies believe we will operate in a just manner because we can police
ourselves as a “society” of an “inherently moral” people. With either of
those systems there is no mechanism to compensate for the actual “inherently
depraved” nature of man. Which is why Paine points out that the
people will then look to the enforcement of ‘laws’ by a body of people, entrusted
to embody the morality of society, a government with unlimited power.
THE BOTTOM LINE is this; the government becomes the
compensation for the immorality of man instead of God. The more immoral
man becomes in a society, the more government is called for. The more
government we establish the less Liberty
the people enjoy. The less Liberty
people enjoy the less government they want.
So hopefully one should then see that immorality is at the core of these
turbulent oscillations.
Our founders
believed a constitutionally protected Republic to be the most stable form of
government as it is a blend of a God fearing people policing themselves, and a
government to enforce the laws established by a moral society. The
Republic has lost its value when a godless PEOPLE no longer police the
government. The negligence of the people will allow them to then assume
we have a “government problem” to avoid the personal responsibility of
their actions. Can there be a “government problem” that is not the
result of a moral problem? Not likely. Therein lays the crux of the
problem. With the breakdown of the morality of the people who have abandoned
their Creator, a society that was originally founded on God’s moral principals will
eventually and inevitably fail.
However, our
founders believed the solution to our problem did not lie in the elimination of
government, as Paine points out; societies naturally tend toward the
establishment of government in some form. The solution lies with the
restoration of the society’s relationship with God. One cannot expect a society
to continue when they have not maintained the very foundation of that society. A society built on the moral principals of a
loving God will crumble as the fundamental ideology of that society deteriorates.
Sam Adams warns: “because
we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion.
Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest
cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral
and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The difficulty is,
as Paine points out, “nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice”
and it appears to have to suffer the “necessary evil” of government as
long as we are a fallen world.
Remember, if you wish to be
ignorant and free, you wish for what never was and never will be. Soon the immoral tyranny of government takes
the place of a moral loving God. The question remains, how long will we
suffer with an intolerable dictator before we cry out to God and ask Him…why he
did this to us, a true sign of denial and irresponsibility in the face of the enablement
of our own demise.
If you agree, please share
these posts with your friends, family, co-workers. The only way to defeat
the apathy and propaganda of the government controlled media is to spread the truth.
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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