Posted on 09/17/2016 4:56:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Why do we have a government? What is its purpose?
Our founding documents give us the reasons in plain English: to secure the unalienable rights of "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" (the Declaration of Independence) and "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 Posterity" (the preamble to the Constitution of the United States).
In other words, our government exists to secure the liberty of its citizens. There is a reason why the word "Liberty" appears in both the Declaration and the Constitution: because liberty is the paramount moral directive by which one human being can interact with another. To rob another human being unwillingly of his time, effort, intellection, the fruits of his labor, or his very life is to violate his self-sovereignty and to do him evil. Governments were known by our founders to be the very worst violators of this principle, and so the founders set up our government to be the very basis for which self-sovereignty was to be preserved, which established our republic as unique in the whole of human history.
At least it used to be. We have lost our way.
The government we know today exists only for itself. It feeds off the citizenry to support its own largesse. It is used as a mechanism by its adherents to further pet projects and ply us with social experiments. It steadily erodes, rather than secures, liberty. The Constitution was established to confine government, but through two centuries of Supreme Court malignance, we have a government that, collectively, does not recognize self-sovereignty as a natural right.
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Cruz would have been destroyed by now.
If he would have made it this far..oh wait he didn’t
Vote Trump or die!
You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your Government.
Is there a conflict between liberty and someone's job, or someone's business model? Liberty should prevail.
Is there a conflict between liberty and the nation's world prestige or power? Liberty should prevail.
Liberty, liberty, liberty above all.
Why? We're not Canadians.
You should have added six steps: 6. Hang ever member of the alphabet news organizations from the nearest tree, lamp post, or telephone pole.
They would tell you to join the Klan.
Wrong. Cruz and his lovely and gracious wife are One Worlders. She has spent the past several years as part of a group promoting it. Cruz himself fancied becoming the first Big Mahaff of the North American Union; Ameri-Mexi-Can, or some such. That’s why he’s still pouting.
Liberty, liberty, liberty above all.
But when challenged, they will say, “But our laws are better.”
Since the gentleman on the grey horse freed his slaves, I’d absolutely listen to what he had to say.
That's part of the Ten Step Plan.
Your infantile simplistic understanding of US history is showing.
Not this again *rme* you ignorant birther
You are another ignorant birther
Since this thread has wandered waaay into politics, I'll toss in that I hope President Trump uses the same unconstitutional powers of Obama, only to do good rather than evil.
Article V ping!
Exactly...we work for them now instead of them working for us.
Really?
Who founded the KKK...Union Veterans, Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Same to you.
Unlike you I am not a birther, so I can not be ignorant.
Are you saying that Morrison Waite was ignorant?
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