To make a civil society one must have the knowledge of the benefits of peace, the ability and desire to be peaceful, and an agreement amongst the members of this society to behave to a peaceful standard. This agreement is called Law. Law is God in society. God is personal, regarding your own beliefs and cannot be mandated or contravened in the just government of a civil society. In that same way Law rules the person of the body politic. If you are prone to say that man invented God, for whatever reason I do not care to know, then you must surely agree that in this self-same way, man created Law. Man is not perfect, and man creates a government that magnifies this fact. Man is not perfect, but in the eyes of the believer, there is a perfect standard to strive for. God and Law may not intertwine; they do not govern the same thing, not by orders of magnitude. God is a profoundly individual choice, one not to be played upon lightly. Groups of like-minded believers may choose to conglomerate into sects, and parishes, and churches, create differentials of greater or lesser orthodoxy, or no belief at all. The very definition of free will. This is a simple standard, allowing each person the natural right to sovereignty of spirit. Made bigger, the metaphor holds though all iterations of government, each one sovereign, and each one submitting to rules under which it was created. It was to this idea that our founders cleaved; that no portion of the successive layers of government would impinge on the individual rights over which it supposedly held domain. The individual under this system is sacrosanct, and is beholden to the Law of the municipality where he CHOOSES to live. These Municipalities join into counties without limiting the right of the individual, because the county holds sway only over the intercourse of cities and townships. Counties come together as states, and to the same degree commit only to the business of this union of individual counties. When a federation was proposed after the Revolutionary War, it was based on the idea that the government at this level would be based on the principal that made up the other levels, and the constitution NEVER would have been ratified among the several states if it weren’t for the proposition of 11 amendments to limit the scope of this new government, of these, 10 would be instituted within 3 years of the constitution. This system worked well. Maximum freedom of the individual, allowed for maximum progress and innovation. The individual states had representation in the senate. The legislatures selected the senators to represent their states, not the country, not the individuals of the state, but the concerns of the states themselves, a natural counterweight to the federal leviathan that had been swamping the ships of state since Caesar. People used to notice those things, people used to engage the people who tried to lay claim to their property. People used to be sovereign; states had an opportunity to individuate. We stopped watching the progress of government and we tacitly ceded control. We used to find comfort knowing that the government could do us no individual harm. We used to have a government that worked within the confines of the constitution. “We don’t need that anymore” Those were the words of Pastor Jim Jones when referring to the tenets of the Bible, but every president has expressed the same sentiment since Theodore Roosevelt regarding the constitution. While the followers of Jim Jones knew and greedily quaffed the poison that would allow them to follow the pastor to impossible vistas, the supplicants of this ever more demeaning federal government seem no less intent on their own destruction, though not at all aware of it. God offers you general direction when guideposts fail you, but only under extraordinary circumstances will address you directly. You will submit yourself before God, be judged by God, and stand beholden to the punishment wrought upon you. If Law is not God in society, then what is? Is there no over arching power to which we must all yield? Are we soccer hooligans, restrained only by the strength of the chain link, the debility found by the fluid and capricious whims of the crowd? When that breach is made, there is no will, but the will of the whole, no resistance to that will, and no freedom to control the direction you travel, or how many hoof prints you have across your back. I wish you the best of luck, but I can’t watch. I get queasy.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:22:58 +0000
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