FULL CIRCLE We have provided a detailed analysis of Divine Law (natural rights) and Positive (man made) Law and have determined that God’s Law is superior in every regard and that no positive law is obligatory on us when such is in contravention of God’s Law. We as a society can covenant to manage affairs between us but such covenants must be in harmony with God’s law. Since we enter into civil covenants these covenants must satisfy the objective for which they were created to ensure harmony. This places a responsibility by both parties to the covenant (governments at a federal, state and local jurisdiction) to satisfy the terms obligatory on them. The failure to do so requires penalties for both government and the community entering into such covenants. The determination that we are a nation of laws means that we honor God’s laws and civil law that is in harmony with God’s law. The enduring, consistency and durability components of law ensures domestic tranquility for many generations and when either party to these covenants are in breach of their covenant responsibility the covenant becomes null and void. It is easy to have governments enforce the law through pure force but what is the recourse that is available when the government exceeds its power This is the very reason the founders stated that it is our right and DUTY to abolish governments that absolve themselves of their responsibilities & duties. The masses of people must get together and in like manner force the government to fulfill their responsibilities and as a final recourse simply abolish such government. People cannot delegate to their government authority that they do not have in the first place therefore no power can be granted to make laws that you cannot force on another individual without such law outside of course the sacrosanct inalienable rights. It doesn’t matter how many people agree with the action. A majority cannot make an immoral act moral. If you as an individual do not have the moral authority to use the ultimate violence of killing someone to either prevent or compel a certain behavior, you cannot empower a democratically elected government to do it for you. Misunderstanding this principle is the means by which we can commit sins (like stealing someone’s property). Everyman’s willingness to be accountable for his own sins is a precondition of liberty. If we believe in agency only so long as people choose what we want them to choose, then you don’t believe in agency at all; you really believe in coercion. If you believe that the country’s (or school district’s) problems can be solved by government coercion, then you have switched sides in that war that began in heaven and continues here, and how you vote reveals what you believe. It hasn’t been said any better than by Bastiat in the last sentence of his work The Law, “…try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works. Government operates on the principle of coercion. Every law passed by governments either forbids or compels certain behaviors. Government holds a monopoly on the use of violence to enforce all its laws and regulations. Violators of the laws are threatened with the loss of property, then liberty, and ultimately of life. If a person resists the coercion of the government to do or not do that which has been decreed, that person will have his or her property confiscated. If he or she resists the confiscation of his or her property, he or she will be arrested and jailed and then have his or her property confiscated. If he or she resists being arrested and jailed, he or she will be killed. You could start the whole process with a simple parking ticket, or with a property tax, but the escalation process is the same in either case. So every government law and regulation has the effect of depriving individuals of their agency to act according to their own choice and replaces it with the choice of bureaucrats or voters. Depriving a person of their agency is a moral issue. Therefore, every act of government is a moral issue because every act of government deprives people of agency. Since there is no such thing as a right to injure another you must be extremely careful when you vote to be sure the officials and laws you support do not violate this principle of agency, otherwise you become an accessory to evil. The federal government has historically always abused power and have declared themselves above the law, or derive personal gain by ignoring the laws of the land. Should the government through force ignore its responsibility and constraints placed and resist its abolishment then the final recourse is to the 2nd Amendment and abolish such government by force. This is a last resort but historically again we have learned that war with government at times is the final solution.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 01:29:07 +0000
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