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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Love your post and the Henry quote. I would die for that.
Trying to change the subject,aren’t you? I am not falling for it.
That’s not changing the subject. But you might well be exposing yourself....just a little bit.
Of course you are. I am not an idiot you know. What does Morrison Waite have to do with this?
Why are you asking me? You said you weren't ignorant....you lied.
You're probably lying about not being an idiot too.
5. Salt the earth where it stood.”
Lol, best plan I’ve heard in years.
But . . . but . . . but, the people on FOX News keep telling us that our government's first job is to protect and defend our national security or something! /blecch!
The North had their Klan too.
If he does, he should be impeached and convicted, just as Obama should have been.
Probably, but I never said that.
Indiana Klan
Well, they have democRATs in Indiana.
Check out the link at #34.
Show me, using the Constitution, where I am wrong democrat.
Doing "good" by unconstitutional means is a contradiction in terms.
Precedent increasingly trumps the law.
The next president will have Obama’s despotic powers.
That’s as may be, but I don’t have to endorse or support despotism.
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