Build
Independence
建立独立
Jiànlì dúlì
独立性を築く
Dokuritsu-sei o kizuku
ps145
aedificare Libertatis
Love is gracious and kind.
It is worth the effort to find.
It is slow to anger and abounding in courage.
It is the scent of the rose. It makes the heart flourish.
Pray for your enemies that you may be the children of your Father in heaven.
The sun rises or falls with or without faith in the real presence.
The rain is sent to fall on all despite agreement with truth in divine essence.
Leadership in love is good for all.
It lifts you up. It transcends the fall.
Reality is infused with beneficent design.
Compassion helps define the responsibility that's mine.
All your work will reflect your leadership.
Freedom is formed from adversity's flip.
The glory of justice is worthy of speech.
The sweetness lies below the fuzz of the peach.
Joy is the radiance of power.
It is the light that shines after the unexpected shower.
Show the wonders of your work to your people.
The wealthy will learn they know how to thread the needle.
Democracy is the commonwealth for the republic.
The periphery of perception reveals the state of the subject.
Stasis in diversity sees past the confusion.
Common ground is the basis for a lasting union.
Respect for rights generates evolution.
The generations can see we will find our solution.
Life, liberty and happiness shape our constitution.
Government is derived by substitution.
Power comes from the consent of the governed.
Victory is defined when consent is what won her.
A union of states forms the state of alliance.
The nation should protect the market from contrivance.
Trade and travel extend beyond mere compliance.
Defense is limited to the protection of self-reliance.
Rights are respected with respect for responsibility.
The quality of production is the stability for humility.
You will put the immigrant on the path to citizenship
because you were strangers in the land of Egyptian craftsmanship.
The descendants of Abraham confessed that they were foreigners on the earth
to celebrate the promised homeland for all that its worth.
Love supports those who are faithful.
Profit rewards quality. Needs are met. We are grateful.
Charity is drawn from abundance
to provide for basic needs among us.
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ps145.8-14
The Lord is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 The Lord is good to all,
and his compassion is over all that he has made.
10 All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,
and all your faithful shall bless you.
11 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom,
and tell of your power,
12 to make known to all people your mighty deeds,
and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and your dominion endures throughout all generations.
The Lord is faithful in all his words,
and gracious in all his deeds.
14 The Lord upholds all who are falling,
and raises up all who are bowed down.
song of songs 2:8-13
The voice of my beloved!
Look, he comes,
leaping upon the mountains,
bounding over the hills.
9 My beloved is like a gazelle
or a young stag.
Look, there he stands
behind our wall,
gazing in at the windows,
looking through the lattice.
10 My beloved speaks and says to me:
‘Arise, my love, my fair one,
and come away;
11 for now the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone.
12 The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of singing has come,
and the voice of the turtle-dove
is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree puts forth its figs,
and the vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance.
Arise, my love, my fair one,
and come away.
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Deut. 10:19
You will also love the stranger for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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You will put the immigrant on the path to citizenship
because you were strangers in the land of Egyptian craftsmanship.
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Hebrews 11:8,12-14
Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance by faith. He set out not knowing where he was to go.
From one person and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, ‘as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.’ All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth. People who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
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The descendants of Abraham confessed that they were foreigners on the earth
to celebrate the promised homeland for all that its worth.
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Matt. 5:44
I say to you Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He makes his sun rise on the evil and the good. He sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
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Pray for your enemies that you may be children of your Father in heaven.
The sun rises or falls with or without faith in the real presence.
The rain is sent to fall on all despite agreement with truth in divine essence.
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Happy Independence Day!
Men and women are created equal.
We are not equal in terms of being the same in all regards.
We are equal with respect for rights.
The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are expressed politically in the right to vote, speak, assemble, worship, participate in the media, petition, protest, have privacy, due process in law and freedom from slavery.
Even Native Americans came to this land from a different place. We are all participants in the inheritance.
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Hebrews 11:8
Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance by faith. He set out, not knowing where he was going.
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Abraham was to become the father of nations because of the call to inheritance by faith. His hospitality entertained angels. His justice was conditioned by the common law.
Justice is defined by not being partial in judgment.
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Deut.10:17
The Lord your God is God of gods. The Lord of lords is mighty and awesome. The great God is not partial and takes no bribe.
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It used to be believed that it was inconceivable that people could love those who are not of their kind. Jesus spoke for both kingdom and republic with his statement for impartial judgment.
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Matt.5:44
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
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You have to be impartial to love your enemy. An enemy is defined by the intent to do damage. The command to love calls for the consideration of the motivation to cause damage.
How do you persuade your enemy to let go of the intent to harm? Regard for that which is common in law encourages impartial judgment for them in the form of a petition for cooperation.
The time of Jesus was a time of transition with respect for politics and religion. The world was headed toward monotheism. Belief in the God of gods was not unique to Judaism. It was more common in the Middle East, but there were adherents in classical society.
The Romans were polytheists as a society, but they also believed in domination.
Domination was claimed first. Then it was supported by a show of force, negotiation and the claim of victory. Even if a settlement was attained by negotiation, it is likely that 'the people' were told of a great victory in battle in order to persuade them of the need for taxes for a strong military.
Faith in the gods was reduced to support for the emperor, but the support was dependent upon agreement with the patricians and plebians.
The patricians, plebians or the military were active in the overthrow or assassination of a number of emperors. The Romans had the 12 tables for law, but it wasn't the best summary of law and they were not monotheists. Human sacrifice in the form of the exposure of an unwanted infant to the elements was allowed.
None of the factions were inclined to observe common law unless it contributed to their domination of the world. The promotion of Insurrection in foreign nations and rebellion domestically were regarded as elements in fair game.
The 10 commandments provided a better model for law than the 12 tables. Punishment was reportedly cruel, but legal reform was enacted with respect for agreement with the covenant.
The Declaration of Independence was not right in all the particulars, but it expressed some profound truths regarding government.
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"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."
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Independence was defined with respect for equal rights as drawn from just power with the consent of the governed.
The king was identified as a tyrant by the declaration. It seems that this instituted a great flaw in the future of constitutional perspective regarding executive authority. We have to ask ourselves if the reforms in Constitutional law could not have been achieved with a monarch.
Insofar as there are monarchies where constitutional reform has been achieved, it rules out the belief that monarchy was not working in the direction of a written constitution.
Slavery was not protested as an institution by the founding fathers. It was taken as an economic tool for competition. Aside from Locke's argument for the slave trade, there was not a great deal of critical reflection for or against it.
It was taken as part of classical culture with the Renaissance and the Calvinists in the Protestant Reformation.
Slavery was however promoted aggressively by the slave trade that was authorized by the imperial cortes of Spain in order to compete with the Ottomans.
Muslim culture had revered the classical philosophers, Plato and Aristotle. Either of these have been used to support slavery.
The Ottomans took white slaves as well.
Slavery in the Ottoman Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ednt48rcwo
The Ottomans crossed into Europe after 1354. The beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire with the conquest of the Balkans. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror.
Slavery was tolerated as legal in the Ottoman Empire's economy. Slaves were war captives. There were also organized enslavement expeditions in North and East Africa, Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus.
Barbary pirates were Ottoman privateers who operated from North Africa. They were based primarily in the ports of Salé, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast. The term is derived from the name of its Berber inhabitants.
The Dutch Republic entertained the slave trade to compete with the Spanish. It has to be noted that the British and Lutheran monarchies did not authorize the trade. The Russian empire did not entertain the trade either. It was the British parliament that legalized it for a time under the influence of the Puritans in the Whig party.
Republic as a form of government was resurrected with slavery as an institution. It took constitutional reform to abolish it. This meant that those who had been slaves in the US were given rights as American citizens.
This still leaves Republic with the responsibility to consider what might have been accomplished had constitutional reform been achieved within monarchy as the frame for government.
There has been a history of competition between the Muslim and Christian worlds, but the republics and kingdoms in the Middle East after WWII were operating within the frame of the independence of the nation state.
The Middle East has had to deal with Marxist socialism as well, but when socialism is detached from the goal of achieving political change with violence, it is still dependent upon the threat of rebellion to force change on the people with the government.
While the US Constitution has an amendment that institutes term limits on executive authority, this amendment was instituted without popular protest. It looks like it was included to precipitate profit from war for all practical purposes.
While the US achieved independence from Great Britain, it seems that the responsibility to operate at a level of proficiency equal to that which would have been attained without the achievement has to be considered as the level to which we need to aspire for our functional capacity as an independent nation state in a world of nations.
Independence
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The French Revolution took place between 1789 and 1799. There was a republic in France from 1792 to 1804.
A Constitutional monarchy was instituted from 1789 to 1791. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was published during the first year. Thomas Jefferson worked with General Lafayette to document principles for governance.
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy turned the clergy into employees for the state on 12 July 1790. Priests and Bishops had to be elected. They were paid a set wage.
There were Catholics who objected to the election system because it denied the authority of the pope over the Church in France, but the celebration of the mass was left largely intact.
The First Amendment for the US Constitution and the separation of Church and State prevented any such system from being considered in the new republic in the United States of America.
The National Constituent Assembly was convened to draft a Constitution. It was completed in 1791.
The Reign of Terror is a label used by some historians for French history between 1789 and 1794, The Committee for Public Safety came under the control of Maximilien Robespierre. He was a lawyer associated with the Jacobins.
The Jacobins were a club in Paris. They were a group of men who were anti-royalist radicals for democracy. They were willing to use violent revolution and reports about violence to overthrow the government and to maintain the revolutionary replacement.
Public archives indicate that at least 16,594 people were executed by the guillotine. Concern that the government that overthrew the monarchy would be overthrown by a coalition sympathetic to the monarchy contributed to the sense that the report about the executions had to be exaggerated to emphasize the intensity in conviction that a Constitutional Republic would be better than monarchy.
There would have to be as many graves with corpses in them as there were reported deaths to verify the accuracy of the report. The guillotine was brutal in finality, but the report regarding the numbers executed was intended to deter further rebellion.
Decapitation was the cause of death for all those citizens who had to bow their necks to the guillotine. It was used in the republic as modern expression for the Roman republic.
Decapitation by sword was a quick cause of death for the citizen found to be guilty of a capital crime. It did not include physical torture, but murder was not defined as the capital offense at the time.
Napoleon declared his goal for a united republic when he associated independence with public safety. Public safety was tagged as the reason to celebrate the expansion of the French Empire.
The empire under Napoleon lasted from 1804 until 1815.
Crash Course: French Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTvKwCylFY
Republic as a form of government has had to outlaw slavery and grant the right to vote to all citizens of legal age in order to attain to a modern status. There is still a pronounced inclination to use Marxist socialism as the tool with which to judge a society as industrial.
Socialism rules out the consideration of the middle class as anything but 'the problem.' It reduces the consideration of representation in government to industry. Marxism looked at 'the people' as labor. The theory of larger numbers was used to impose demands upon leadership.
Fascism looked at management as the government or government as management. Wars of alliance with other nations against a nation or a number of nations outside of the alliance was regarded as the means to build international consensus.
Legal reform has been defined as a liberal action. This has been the cause of much taxation and the excess regulation of social, business or individual organization for the production of value, be it a product or a service.
Citizen participation in government needs to look at the importance of conservative reform in the light of history. Our ancestors have been taxed, regulated and worked too much for the sake of liberal gain. This gain was largely derived by the liberal politicians that sought to impose legal reform on the people at the cost of the same for the sake of their legacy.
The promotion of insurrection in foreign nations, the threat of rebellion at home and war are still regarded as political tools in the effort to attain dominance. These 'tools' are functionally immoral. They eliminate the value of building consensus with the common law with respect for a free market.
There are two levels of consideration in the self-limitation of power by definition of authority. Government has to limit the reach of its influence in the way that it writes and enforces law.
Overreach has deterred economic development by organization for the production of a product or service. The price for electrical energy as produced by nuclear power has been used to deter organization for solar power for example.
Solar production is safer and less expensive than the nuclear. Is there a waste produced by converting the radiation from the sun? It is so much less dangerous that it seems irrelevant. There would not be a problem with the production of weapons for mass destruction if there were no nuclear power plants.
People have to limit the use of the threat of violence or coercive force to pressure the government to meet their demands based on intolerance for national unity.The open declaration of socialism among political candidates suggests a degeneration in political organization.
Socialists have used populist media expression to deceive people into the belief that liberal expenditure is the only way to solve social problems with the political enforcement of the 'demands' that they say the 'people' have.
Conservative reform is left as the best choice provided that the objective for the reform is conditioned by benefit for the people. A free market allows leadership with organization to rise through the ranks of the social structure to produce value as a reasonable and realistic goal.
