Celebration of Liberty

    "Individuals must act according to law if they would maintain the justice that protects and prospers them for keeping law and punishes them for breaking law. For example, when the laws of aerodynamics are obeyed flight is possible. When these laws are ignored or disobeyed, inevitable failure follows--one falls from the heights where they might have flown. The law of aerodynamics does not exist because man made a law about it. The same is true of life, liberty, and property. These rights are based on laws that are unalienable. Life, liberty, and property existed before governments and will exist long after. Because these rights and the laws that naturally govern them exist separate from human-created governments, any government should be established for the sole purpose of protecting the rights to live, have liberty, and own property (property includes one's physical body). Those who framed the Constitution understood that life, liberty, and the ownership of property, which produces happiness, were unalienable. They understood that government should be limited and that mankind should be left to act for themselves--to apply their faculties and use their intellect and industry to produce and prosper. Law does not create justice. Justice is the consequence of human motives and behaviors. Justice secures our rights and demands that rewards or punishments are intrinsically applied according to law. The eternal law of restoration--restoring good for good and bad for bad--holds each of us accountable for our actions. We can control ourselves, but we cannot control the ultimate consequences. Consequences are predetermined by individual free-will choice. (It's important to note that when the eternal law of restoration--restoring rewards or punishments, good behaviors or bad--becomes distorted when man begins to manipulate rewards and punishments to suit their own whims, desires, passions, and appetites. A behaviorist approach to individual law may undermine unalienable law and will ultimately prove unsuccessful.) A society based on the proper understanding of unalienable law is orderly and prosperous. Equality, civility, and mutual respect is the fruit of such a government. Any other is counterfeit to the laws that precede peace and prosperity.

    Laws made and dictated by flattering and powerful people, that do not protect unalienable rights, apply rewards and punishments solely according to their whims, desires, and appetites. Under those who disrespect or do not understand unalienable rights, our rights become alienable (capable of being transferred by a legal process to another owner). As noted, the fixed rule of unalienable rights (the rights to life, liberty, and the ownership of property--self and/or land) were not granted by any government--by any human. To challenge this assertion, consider the implications of this question: Have you ever had a sense to help another person and then not followed that sense? Consider the question carefully. No mentally capable human can honestly answered "no" to this question. All humankind, no matter the culture, socioeconomic state, ethnics, environment, or any difference have experienced a sense to help another person and then for various reasons have justified away that sense. The source of that sense that lies within each person becomes the center of debate. We might call it a moral sense. Under every government exists morality. Morality dictates human conscience which guides free-will. Unalienable rights are sustained by unalienable morality, which should be protected by law--law that sustains what is gifted to mankind irrespective to any government. Search yourself and see if you feel that the source of your life and your rights to pursue liberty and own property, which consequence is happiness, are naturally endowed or are solely gifted by a governing person, or group of people. Notice that when mankind welcomes and invites a government to control them and dictate their laws (to be rewarded or punished according to another's standard) their inward sense diminishes, people act according to their whims, appetites, desires, and passions and lower themselves to act solely according to instinct without reason and civility. Sunk in the luxury of an all-powerful government, granted power by the majority of people, we lose our lives and liberty. We become created in the image of the dictator, or group of dictators. Individual conscience is subverted and gives way to a collective or state mandated conscience. Government legislated morality causes each person to lose their moral sense. The unalienable sense will contradict the collective government-dictated sense. The result will be either submission or rebellion. There will be no other consequence. Power-starved governments prefer submission because forced submission breads slavery. Service is performed to achieve some reward--usually a substance that sustains life such as food, shelter, or clothing, or some item or activity that appeals to the baser human cravings and desires for "fun" (not happiness or joy--fun and joy are very different things).

To abide by the Constitution is to limit the power of government, to allow all people to act for themselves as equal partners honorably, honestly, and legally--with justice for all. In a system where an individual's free will is valued and respected, the wealthy become more charitable and the poor have more opportunities for prosperity. This was the intent of our founders. Laws set forth in the original constitution establishes a foundation for prosperity for all people. Other systems of government, and several amendments to the original Constitution have failed because they dictate free will--they make people agents of their government--a government ruled by the whims of an individual, or group of individuals (oligarchy). In such a government, the economy is controlled and morality is legislated. The unalienable rights of life and liberty are darkened. Thus, as other governments have been attempted and failed, retried, modified and tried again as a "neo" type of system, they have consistently failed, and will continually fail. Philosophical debates about human nature and types of governments to control it will fail without the same principles upon which the Constitution of the United States was established. The principles contained in the Constitution of this land as it was originally drafted will continue to hold a strong people together as long as justice is served and it remains the primary governing document of our nation.

Properly expanding your understanding of the Constitution and the other founding documents will continue the strength you and the United States of America."