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The Foundation of Sound Government

By on January 16, 2012 in Uncategorized

In Frederick Bastiat’s “The Law” he defines the principles for sound government. One of his premises he advocates is that man can only delegate to his government powers that he possesses. Since a man can not initiate force against another unless he is defending his life, liberty or property, he can not delegate to his government to the right to violate the unalienable rights of people living in a foreign state. A nation that initites force against it must be in the defense of their rights. Pre-emptive strikes are a violation of the principles of sound government.

Read what Frederick Bastiat had to say about the subject:

What Is Law?

What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

Each of us has a natural right — from God —to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? If every person has the right to defend even by force— his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right— its reason for existing, its lawfulness —is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason —cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

Such a perversion of force would be, in both cases, contrary to our premise. Force has been given to us to defend our own individual rights. Who will dare to say that force has been given to us to destroy the equal rights of our brothers? Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

If this is true, then nothing can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all

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WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

For the record and let it be entirely known now, the Declaration of Independence is the entire deciding factor for or foundation of sound Government because the entire basis lives inside these documented truths. The true declaration is the original draft because the truths removed before its ratification were done so by some by attempting to conceal the truth. Thomas Jefferson assured us the original draft, he was a very intelligent man who fully recognized himself as life and is an example we should learn ourselves.

WilliamSchooler
WilliamSchooler

Very true and is simply based on life itself, the life energy protecting itself, its property is achieved ideas. Since Life in its collective state is all equal in life, no life has any more authority than the other or equal authority or equal right to live.

To defend life is to preserve life and to liberate life is to allow such life. Simply put our liberty is to be free from any other life enforcing itself upon us because each in life has no other authority than that of self authority.

The Law of the land or the Rule of law is based upon life itself as stated in the Declaration of Independence and no where has this been made more clear. Fredrick Bastiat’s understanding were well considered as life as well from the creator.

There is one confusion in all of these statements and that is property rights, or the right to own property is the actions to achieve ones ideas. This is a natural act of all life and has nothing to do with land ownership. That in fact land is unownable in its natural state because deeds are a man made idea that hold no true value. To own ones creations is simple in terms and are identifiable by the view or the experience or they do not exist. But it does not say that some other cannot create or duplicate an idea, this too is made up under patent laws which too are made up and false.

Much can be learned by Bastiat’s work based on life and its capabilities or assets as life, all other basis is a made up idea based upon some other idea all together. The falseness falls under the acts which goes against life, these too are visual or are able to be experienced. All determination comes from knowing and not from assumption or opinions. Verification is the validation something is or isn’t and evaluation the search for the knowledge something is or isn’t. Something said is not and something shown is in existence.

Life can present life to self, question and evaluate self to validate self of self and capacities or abilities given, this can be looked at as the common law of life in and amongst all other life. The example is the will to generate ideas, the will to decide, the will of evaluation of both causes and effects as knowledge to self.

I could literally go on for days because I have studied and verified so much of this. I also Love Bastiat’s work but love Thomas Jeffersons work because of it. Life truly has basis which is knowable should we search.