For peace and proseperity to reign upon the earth, it is necessary for mankind to understand some essential principles. Man is the off spring of a divine Creator. We are subject to him and to what our Founders referred to as “The Laws of Nature and Nature’s God”. These laws apply to all of us, even those of don’t even know that these laws exist. You don’t have to know or understand the Law of Gravity to be influenced by it.
These fundamental laws govern the Universe and can not be violated with serious consequences.
The first principle is that all men and women were endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights which include the right to life, liberty and property.
No one has the right to violate the life, liberty or property of another except in the defense of their own life, liberty or property.
Men have a right to organize themselves into communities and may choose to create governments in order to better secure their God given rights. The only power that the people have a rights to grant to their governments are the right that they themselves already possess.
A government that has authority that exceeds that of the people that it was created to protect enjoys a position of superiority over the people. A government that has the power to initiate force in order to get the people to comply with it rules, regulations and edicts can not survive for it violates the God given human rights of the people.
Only a government that respects the life, liberty and property of its citizens and refuses to iniate force on its citizens is capable of creating perpetual peace and prosperity.
Throughout history there has always been powerful groups and individuals that have violated the unalienable rights of the masses in order to satisfy their own personal greed and lust for power.
As long as governments continue to initiate force to get their subjects to do what they want, human bondage and tyranny will reign supreme upon the earth.
I don’t know why I look at these as gifts over rights, maybe because rights are something said by another agreed to by many. But these gifts extend even further because we were also given abilities to create ideas, to find agreement and the ability to decide and bring into existence, although most will leave these out for some unknown reason.
And truly the way of life in which you describe is A Republic as in Life in support of Life, with liberty that allows life, along with our pursuits of happiness the ability to achieve. These principals all have to be in place in order to live as a Republic or one will not exist.
Government intrusion is the stripping of Liberty which defies A Republic or goes against such a Republic by popularity, also known as Democracy.
There is one more gift left out and that is our responsibility to ourselves as a life which encompasses all other life and if viewed from the view in Gods image reflects the true intent of God. Life is given to promote more life and allows life to experience and grow. It is not given to be controlled or lied to or manipulated by false story telling and surely not to be Governed by some who only THINK they carry superiority.
It is time to view life as we are and not all the made up ideas passed along events in history but from the reflection residing in your mirror, to self as life, your decisions as life, your results and achievements as life or lack of. Focus on what you are not doing verses what everyone else is doing for you or to you. WE are capable of holding our own if we realize what life truly is and stop pretending what life really is.
All ways of life are chosen in religion and in direction. A Republic a direction in support of life and its abilities and a Democracy is the opposition by popularity by deceptive practices. None of these appear unless acted upon, including all religions and directions in life. Many in religion have chosen the Democracy direction but how many have chosen A Republic? What do you see today? A Democracy or A Republic? Which one is being acted upon? Lets be real with ourselves first, determine our direction and act upon it to bring it into existence. One religion condemning other religions is what act and in which direction? Supporting or destroying?
That is the thing about honesty itself, it does not lie and in starts in my mirror.