[my thoughts are noted as justplainbill jpb]
Declaration of Independence, approved in Cmte June 1776:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it; and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. [emphasis added]
Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, Nov. 13th, 1787:
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is the natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, Paris, May 27th, 1788:
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, & government to gain ground.
P. J. O’Rourke:
If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn’t beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.
Ludwig von Mises:
The two pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.
There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.
Lazerus Long:
TANSTAAFL
[there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch]
David Boaz: There are still plenty of people seeking to take our liberty, to force us into collectivist schemes, to promise us security or handouts in return for our freedom, or to impose their agendas on the rest of us.
Henry Hazlitt: Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can be held within a strictly limited agency of duties and powers can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.[1]
Arnold Toynbee: The Fall of a great nation is always a suicide.
Ludwig von Mises: The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.”
Lee Robinson: It is much cheaper and enormously more profitable for the special interests to purchase the regulatory favors of Washington’s political harlots than to compete in a fair, unsubsidized marketplace.
Gandhi: Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
Marc Geddes: The root source of wealth is human ingenuity. This has no known bounds, so the amount of wealth in existence can always be increased. That’s why capitalism is called ‘making money.’
Frank Chodorov: We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government’s power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the 16th Amendment.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government is the social contract between the citizens of a given jurisdiction who delegate a portion of their inherent power to an institution that is both created and defined by this social contract; and that social contract is organic and called, constitution.
Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, Monticello, Dec. 27th, 1796: There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature & fortune have measured to him.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government is an institution of rules, called “laws”, ideally, but rarely, administered by a bureaucracy in accordance with the will of the citizens.
Justplainbill (jpb): Citizens are a sub-set of the set of residents within that specified jurisdiction. Citizens are wholly and totally responsible for the government.
Justplainbill (jpb): Residents are wholly and totally responsible to the government. You cannot separate the citizen from the government but you can separate the resident from the government but not his responsibility to the government nor the resident’s responsibility to the citizen.[2]
Justplainbill (jpb): The forms of government are varied. They include: monarchy, tyranny, democracy, republic, anarchy, and a host of others including the theological, commonly referred to as a theocracy. Marxist Socialism and Pure Communism, because of their atheistic philosophy, may also be considered as forms of theological government, that is, they are both founded on faith in the unprovable and unknowable[3].
Justplainbill (jpb): Regardless of the form of government, government policy is always executed by a bureaucracy created by the government.
Justplainbill (jpb): This definition fits all human organizations regardless if they be true government, a fraternal organization, or a business organization. All organizations are defined by their laws which are agreed to by their members thereby creating a social contract. This holds true whether or not this organization is secular or sacred. In a unit as small as a family, there is still government and bureaucracy, though they may be embodied in one and the same person.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government and its citizens are inseparable.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government is an identifiable entity which manifests the will of the citizenry and is inseparable from that will. It matters not whether it be tyranny, anarchy, criminal, theocratic, democratic, socialist, beneficial or destructive. Every government is the way that it is because the citizen allows it to be that way either through active participation or apathetic inaction.
Justplainbill (jpb): The United States legitimized this when they held the citizens of Germany and Japan responsible for the actions of their governments between 1929 and 1945 in the various War Crimes Tribunals, one in Nuremberg and one in Tokyo, wherein even local policemen were held accountable for their behavior.
Justplainbill (jpb): The defense of, “I was only following orders,” was rejected based on the social axiom of citizen accountability.
Justplainbill (jpb): Accountability, or responsibility, is one side of the power coin. The other side is power or legitimate authority.
Justplainbill (jpb): These citizens accepted their responsibility as shown by their continued payment of reparations to the victims of their governments’ aggressions and acknowledged this legitimacy by acquiescing to judicial proceedings against citizens and businesses as well as government officials[4].
Justplainbill (jpb): Lawsuits are still being filed against the Japanese, who have yet to admit to starting their war much less apologize for it, none the less, legal actions continue. Consider as well, Saddam Hussein’s first defense to the court was lack of jurisdiction, to which the court was forced to respond and prove.
Justplainbill (jpb): As demonstrated by the manner in which all jurisdictions accept this axiom, consider your family.
Justplainbill (jpb): In a unit as small as a family, the parents are the citizens and both the parents and the children are the residents.
Justplainbill (jpb): The parents make the rules, pay the taxes, enforce the laws, and spend the taxes, albeit, usually, with the input of the children/ residents. Note how the parents are often responsible for the behavior of their children and, to balance that responsibility, they have authority over those children. Note how this is a basic in every country and in every religion.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government may be legal or illegal. During the Viet Nam Conflict, the legal government was elected and in the open in Saigon, even though there may have been irregularities in the elections – consider how elections were held in the former soviet republics and everyone’s acceptance of them as legal by dealing with the government emplaced by them and by the honoring of treaties and contracts entered into with and by them!
Justplainbill (jpb): The illegal Viet Cong government was hidden in the jungle, directed by the powers in Hanoi, and was not elected. It was, in fact, appointed by those in Hanoi, those who were neither citizens nor residents as they had agreed to this split jurisdiction freely and willingly back in 1956, when the French left. Their illegitimacy can be further shown by the fact that during the treaty negotiations, over 100,000 people fled south, while less than 10,000 people fled north. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as one, “voting with one’s feet”. Contained within the southward flood was the illegal government.
Justplainbill (jpb): The process of democratic election had no bearing on the existence of either Vietnamese government. Both taxed the citizens and residents, both dictated policy and both fielded armies.
Justplainbill (jpb): To be a government, as demonstrated historically, one must have access to, influence over, and recognition by, the citizenry it purports to represent. This recognition need only be a fear that the government in exile will become the government in fact.
Justplainbill (jpb): Note the actions and reactions to the various pretenders to the English Crown over the centuries, how Czarist pretenders influenced the Soviet Union, and how Khomeini returned to Iran to see this principle in context as well as the history of the Black Hand, or Mafia, in Sicily and now everywhere.
Justplainbill (jpb): Governmental philosophies can-not be successfully mixed. Once an imbalance occurs, all governments fail through internal oppression or external forces capitalizing on the internal oppression[5] if the imbalance either becomes static or grows.
Justplainbill (jpb): To survive, all governments must follow the centrist path and provide for the long term survival and prosperity of its citizens.
Justplainbill (jpb): A government which swings between the poles, denoted as “left” and “right” as shown below, eventually shakes itself and a large portion of its citizens, to death.
Patrick Henry: The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it [the government] come to dominate our lives and interests.
[1] Keep in mind that the 1787 constitution’s precepts and standards are modifications of Thomas Jefferson’s The Virginia Plan, his proposal for a state constitution replacing the colony’s Crown Charter.
[2] Better than a book to reference, get your hands on the BBC series, Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister. Not only are they funny, but they actually serve as a primer on government.
[3] The government becomes the church and the party the priesthood. Just look to Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR, &c. for confirmation.
[4] No, I’m not forgetting that they were occupied by a bunch of angry soldiers, just remember that after statehood was restored to Germany, they continue to pay reparations as opposed to after Appomattox, the CSA NEVER accepted or acknowledged any wrongdoing.
[5] Look at the final barbarian invasion of Rome. The invasion was justified because there was a marriage contract between the barbarian and a “wronged” princess!
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[my thoughts are noted as justplainbill jpb]
Declaration of Independence, approved in Cmte June 1776:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it; and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. [emphasis added]
Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, Nov. 13th, 1787:
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is the natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, Paris, May 27th, 1788:
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, & government to gain ground.
P. J. O’Rourke:
If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn’t beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.
Ludwig von Mises:
The two pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.
There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.
Lazerus Long:
TANSTAAFL
[there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch]
David Boaz: There are still plenty of people seeking to take our liberty, to force us into collectivist schemes, to promise us security or handouts in return for our freedom, or to impose their agendas on the rest of us.
Henry Hazlitt: Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can be held within a strictly limited agency of duties and powers can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.[1]
Arnold Toynbee: The Fall of a great nation is always a suicide.
Ludwig von Mises: The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.”
Lee Robinson: It is much cheaper and enormously more profitable for the special interests to purchase the regulatory favors of Washington’s political harlots than to compete in a fair, unsubsidized marketplace.
Gandhi: Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
Marc Geddes: The root source of wealth is human ingenuity. This has no known bounds, so the amount of wealth in existence can always be increased. That’s why capitalism is called ‘making money.’
Frank Chodorov: We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government’s power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the 16th Amendment.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government is the social contract between the citizens of a given jurisdiction who delegate a portion of their inherent power to an institution that is both created and defined by this social contract; and that social contract is organic and called, constitution.
Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, Monticello, Dec. 27th, 1796: There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature & fortune have measured to him.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government is an institution of rules, called “laws”, ideally, but rarely, administered by a bureaucracy in accordance with the will of the citizens.
Justplainbill (jpb): Citizens are a sub-set of the set of residents within that specified jurisdiction. Citizens are wholly and totally responsible for the government.
Justplainbill (jpb): Residents are wholly and totally responsible to the government. You cannot separate the citizen from the government but you can separate the resident from the government but not his responsibility to the government nor the resident’s responsibility to the citizen.[2]
Justplainbill (jpb): The forms of government are varied. They include: monarchy, tyranny, democracy, republic, anarchy, and a host of others including the theological, commonly referred to as a theocracy. Marxist Socialism and Pure Communism, because of their atheistic philosophy, may also be considered as forms of theological government, that is, they are both founded on faith in the unprovable and unknowable[3].
Justplainbill (jpb): Regardless of the form of government, government policy is always executed by a bureaucracy created by the government.
Justplainbill (jpb): This definition fits all human organizations regardless if they be true government, a fraternal organization, or a business organization. All organizations are defined by their laws which are agreed to by their members thereby creating a social contract. This holds true whether or not this organization is secular or sacred. In a unit as small as a family, there is still government and bureaucracy, though they may be embodied in one and the same person.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government and its citizens are inseparable.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government is an identifiable entity which manifests the will of the citizenry and is inseparable from that will. It matters not whether it be tyranny, anarchy, criminal, theocratic, democratic, socialist, beneficial or destructive. Every government is the way that it is because the citizen allows it to be that way either through active participation or apathetic inaction.
Justplainbill (jpb): The United States legitimized this when they held the citizens of Germany and Japan responsible for the actions of their governments between 1929 and 1945 in the various War Crimes Tribunals, one in Nuremberg and one in Tokyo, wherein even local policemen were held accountable for their behavior.
Justplainbill (jpb): The defense of, “I was only following orders,” was rejected based on the social axiom of citizen accountability.
Justplainbill (jpb): Accountability, or responsibility, is one side of the power coin. The other side is power or legitimate authority.
Justplainbill (jpb): These citizens accepted their responsibility as shown by their continued payment of reparations to the victims of their governments’ aggressions and acknowledged this legitimacy by acquiescing to judicial proceedings against citizens and businesses as well as government officials[4].
Justplainbill (jpb): Lawsuits are still being filed against the Japanese, who have yet to admit to starting their war much less apologize for it, none the less, legal actions continue. Consider as well, Saddam Hussein’s first defense to the court was lack of jurisdiction, to which the court was forced to respond and prove.
Justplainbill (jpb): As demonstrated by the manner in which all jurisdictions accept this axiom, consider your family.
Justplainbill (jpb): In a unit as small as a family, the parents are the citizens and both the parents and the children are the residents.
Justplainbill (jpb): The parents make the rules, pay the taxes, enforce the laws, and spend the taxes, albeit, usually, with the input of the children/ residents. Note how the parents are often responsible for the behavior of their children and, to balance that responsibility, they have authority over those children. Note how this is a basic in every country and in every religion.
Justplainbill (jpb): Government may be legal or illegal. During the Viet Nam Conflict, the legal government was elected and in the open in Saigon, even though there may have been irregularities in the elections – consider how elections were held in the former soviet republics and everyone’s acceptance of them as legal by dealing with the government emplaced by them and by the honoring of treaties and contracts entered into with and by them!
Justplainbill (jpb): The illegal Viet Cong government was hidden in the jungle, directed by the powers in Hanoi, and was not elected. It was, in fact, appointed by those in Hanoi, those who were neither citizens nor residents as they had agreed to this split jurisdiction freely and willingly back in 1956, when the French left. Their illegitimacy can be further shown by the fact that during the treaty negotiations, over 100,000 people fled south, while less than 10,000 people fled north. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as one, “voting with one’s feet”. Contained within the southward flood was the illegal government.
Justplainbill (jpb): The process of democratic election had no bearing on the existence of either Vietnamese government. Both taxed the citizens and residents, both dictated policy and both fielded armies.
Justplainbill (jpb): To be a government, as demonstrated historically, one must have access to, influence over, and recognition by, the citizenry it purports to represent. This recognition need only be a fear that the government in exile will become the government in fact.
Justplainbill (jpb): Note the actions and reactions to the various pretenders to the English Crown over the centuries, how Czarist pretenders influenced the Soviet Union, and how Khomeini returned to Iran to see this principle in context as well as the history of the Black Hand, or Mafia, in Sicily and now everywhere.
Justplainbill (jpb): Governmental philosophies can-not be successfully mixed. Once an imbalance occurs, all governments fail through internal oppression or external forces capitalizing on the internal oppression[5] if the imbalance either becomes static or grows.
Justplainbill (jpb): To survive, all governments must follow the centrist path and provide for the long term survival and prosperity of its citizens.
Justplainbill (jpb): A government which swings between the poles, denoted as “left” and “right” as shown below, eventually shakes itself and a large portion of its citizens, to death.
Patrick Henry: The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it [the government] come to dominate our lives and interests.
[1] Keep in mind that the 1787 constitution’s precepts and standards are modifications of Thomas Jefferson’s The Virginia Plan, his proposal for a state constitution replacing the colony’s Crown Charter.
[2] Better than a book to reference, get your hands on the BBC series, Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister. Not only are they funny, but they actually serve as a primer on government.
[3] The government becomes the church and the party the priesthood. Just look to Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR, &c. for confirmation.
[4] No, I’m not forgetting that they were occupied by a bunch of angry soldiers, just remember that after statehood was restored to Germany, they continue to pay reparations as opposed to after Appomattox, the CSA NEVER accepted or acknowledged any wrongdoing.
[5] Look at the final barbarian invasion of Rome. The invasion was justified because there was a marriage contract between the barbarian and a “wronged” princess!
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