Posted on 07/29/2019 1:14:55 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Why do patriots love their country? Like love of oneself and family, love of country is a natural emotion. From a rational standpoint, what is not to like and love about the greatest force for good, the US, in world history?
I find pride in American citizenship. I am not the subject of a king, nor a slave in an islamic or authoritarian hell-hole, nor a proletarian ruled through fear by communist party thugs. To be a citizen is to be equal before law of our own making, not through direct democracy, but by representatives, our agents who craft law on our behalf. We the People are still the sovereign, the source of all earthly law.
John Adams recognized the essential nature of law and that without law, republics cannot survive. The self-perception, the self-regard of the people must be that of sovereign lawmakers who bind themselves and later generations. Yet why, as Leftists like to claim, are we bound by what they deride as the “dead hand of the past?” Not because current or past generations of representatives were sages, but precisely because no matter when laws were passed, we can amend, repeal, or replace them today.
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Since, in the eyes of Article V opponents, you are not virtuous enough to reform your government, they defend the status quo, a system whose corruption invites civil disorders and eventual anarchy. To deny an Article V COS to the sovereign people is to deny self-government itself. Rather than sentence posterity to the fate of other failed republics, implement the Framers’ gift, the law of Article V. Is a favorable outcome guaranteed? Of course not, and neither is an unfavorable outcome certain either. But since love of country is natural, and no people ever knowingly sold themselves into slavery, reason informs
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“Since, in the eyes of Article V opponents, you are not virtuous enough to reform your government, they defend the status quo, a system whose corruption invites civil disorders and eventual anarchy. To deny an Article V COS to the sovereign people is to deny self-government itself. Rather than sentence posterity to the fate of other failed republics, implement the Framers’ gift, the law of Article V. Is a favorable outcome guaranteed? Of course not, and neither is an unfavorable outcome certain either. But since love of country is natural, and no people ever knowingly sold themselves into slavery, reason informs us of either a beneficial outcome or no recommended changes at all from an Article V COS.”
The original convention did not guarantee a favorable outcome, but we the people got one despite the original diversity of the delegates. To risk it all for a second time is certainly taking a risk unnecessary when the Republic will be the potential loss. It is at best a fifty fifty shot as to the winner and frankly Scarlett it ain’t worth the risk. The fact that COS is willing to risk it all, should be enough to dissuade anyone with half a brain to the folly of their chosen course.
That last sentence might better reflect my point if it read, convince anyone with half a brain to the folly of their chosen course.
I was going to agree 100 percent with your FR home page, but was unfamiliar with Will Durant. The first picture I saw after searching his name was at this link: Well forget that, the link is not authorized by Yahoo.
The picture quote was: “Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”
I miss read the last word in the quote even wearing my trifocals as chads rather than chaos. It took some enlarging to see my error. My original thought was, how perceptive.
I still agree 100 percent with statements on your home page.
“Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said
‘This is my own my native land?’”
— Sir Walter Scott
I was in middle school when I fell in love with history by reading Will Durant’s “The Story of Civilization” over summer vacation. I couldn’t put it down.
Wow, eleven volumes in middle school summer vacation?
yew loves history, or at least Will’s history.
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