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Don't take independence for granted
INDEPENDENCE: According to World Book Dictionary, the freedom from control.
America’s founding fathers worked hard to establish a government that was located between Rulers Law on the one side and no law on the other, a government in the middle, a people’s law. This government was based on characteristics of Anglo Saxon’s common law and the people’s law in ancient Israel. People were organized in small manageable units with the family being the foundation. These units were charged to take care of their own problems and govern themselves and only the most severe disagreements and crimes were to be judged by the head of that nation.
It was the original intent of our founders to have both the ancient Israelites and the Anglo-Saxons on the official seal of the United States. The members of that committee were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. (See Gilbert Chinard, Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanism.)
Some Characteristics of People’s law are:
The governing laws are considered natural laws given by divine dispensation.
Power is dispersed among the people and never allowed to concentrate in any one person or group.
Primary responsibility for solving problems rests first with the individual, then the family, then the community, then the region or state and finally the nation.
On the other hand the founding Fathers seemed anxious that people recognize the characteristics of oppressive Ruler’s law. Some of these are:
People lose their unalienable rights. The government gives and therefore also can take away at any time.
Government is by the whims of men, not by a fixed rule of law, which the people need to conduct their affairs with confidence.
The Ruler issues addendums or edicts to the law and then interprets the law and enforces it, thus gaining or maintaining “tyrannical” control over people.
Problems are always solved by issuing more edicts or laws, setting up more bureaus, harassing the people with more regulations and charging the people for these “services” by continually adding to their burden of taxes.
By the way, did you know the new Cap & Trade Bill was passed last Friday by the House?
Find out what enormous new edicts and laws will be heaped on the heads of the American people. At 3 a.m. on Friday morning 300 pages were added to that bill.
Do you think our elected officials had these additional pages in hand or even read them before they voted? Just one little event to ponder!
I trust in the documents and ideas our founding fathers laboriously hammered out over many months. I know they were inspired and will work now as they did so many years ago.
However, I do not trust that we as a nation are on the right paths and that our government as it stands today much resembles the government the founding fathers had in mind.
As Benjamin Franklin noted: “There is a natural inclination in mankind to kingly government.” History has shown that such governments all come with a high price to its subjects.
With all the other hoopla and fun that goes with Independence Day, please read the precious documents our Founding fathers gave us and what they said about them.
Ponder them and then let us try to work on our problems as families and as communities rejecting hand outs from a government obviously on a crash course with a debt of trillions our descendants will have to pay. Only if we can accomplish that will we, our children and grandchildren be truly independent.
