To Our Humanity
An Historical Record Knowledge UPDATE and No Cost Downloads for further private research and inquiry. We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Flaubert DaySpring Gatherings Network Gabriel Paul January 27, 2008 DaySpring Library Upload Updates Blog RSS Feed here: http://dayspringgatheringscircle.org/blog/?p=95 <http://dayspringgatheringscircle.org/blog/?p=95> Truth the Greatest Disinfectant like Light against Disinformation, Lies and Spin To Our Humanity What has history left for us? Let Us Hold On To Our Humanity, for our social state in totality emanates from our proper nature and must not contradict it or wrong it. THERE NEED BE NO WAR BETWEEN SOCIETY and man; and tyranny alone declares it. There is fraud or force defeating the great law of nature in every case of a surrender of human rights under human government. Who can rise superior to the laws of the Supreme Judge and Advocate of the Universe and dictate the surrender of a single human right? A King? and why a King? A King dispensing such power is the not the product of the Supreme Judge and Advocate of the Universe or a product of nature but is born of ignorance and weak submission. A Parliament? Legislative Houses? What does a parliament or legislative houses properly represent but the genuine rights of humanity? The genuine rights of humanity give birth to Parliament and Legislative Houses and by blotting the genuine rights of humanity out, it should extinguish itself forever. A surrender of human rights? Who stands up before man and the Supreme Judge and Advocate of the Universe to receive the dreadful sacrifice? A man? Man dare not. But government, government may swallow up all rights. And what is government in its very nature, but the instrument adopted by mankind for the declaration, DEFENSE and PROTECTION of the rights of humanity. The American Constitutions uniformly declare that the people are the source of all political power. to them, in their collective capacity, pertains the office of government and the direct and immediate exercise of its moral force. It is both the right and the duty to discharge this high moral function wherever it is practicable, and when they seem to relinquish the power of governing by delegating to State Officers the exercise of certain public functions, they do not renounce their sovereignty, but are still principles of State, retiring from the direct and immediate control of its affairs from motives of CONVENIENCE ONLY through its delegated Agents. The people delegate to representatives such of the powers of Government as they cannot conveniently discharge in person across a large territory. The people appoint agents like other principles- and prudence dictates that they should be rendered as secure as possible from the mal-conduct, breach and derelict of duty discharging the office of agent, Hence there at once arises the necessity of a written Constitution containing the grant/delegation, distribution and limitations of their AGENTS and to RESERVE to the people their sovereignty over all things not expressly committed to care of their agents. But after such a Constitution shall be adopted by the people, they retain the Supreme power of the State. The relationship created between them and their representatives is that of principle and agent and the former still exists, although the latter may be appear to be invested with full powers of sovereignty, and the people, in virtue of that sovereignty which is inherent in them and which they are incapable of being divested of, either by consent of by force, may revoke the power which the conferred upon their agents, and by the amendment/substitution of a different Constitution, may create and delegate new agents, clothe them with other powers, and place them in new and different relations to their principles. The Supreme power of the State, therefore always resides with the people, and no Constitution or instrument containing the delegation of powers of Government can be regarded as irrevocable, or as divesting from the people, the true sovereign, of supreme control in State affairs. A Constitution in no more a contract than a common law power of attorney, which vests no personal interest in the agent. It is an appointment, an authority, merely during the pleasure of the principle. A contract cannot be upheld which subserves immoral or unjust purposes. Again, the American Constitutions all regard Government as based on the consent of the people. Those expressly adopt a Constitution, consent to it-- and those afterward who live contentedly under it tacitly consent to it as the supreme law of the land. Is is not strange that our ancestors resorted to the British Constitution in preparing the framework of our political institutions? Nurtured as they were under English laws, it was natural enough that they should continue to respect them after independence was achieved and that they should remain the moral colonists of the mother country. The American lawyers that signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were students of the English system of jurisprudence, which at the period of the Revolution had undergone the most skillful rearrangement, and at the hands of learned commentators, has received such adornment and polish as that its defects were concealed and its merits rendered conspicuous and striking. Prejudiced by their legal education, our American Founding Lawyers readily acquiesced in the opinion that the common law was the perfection of reason, while the people regarded the British Constitution as the best and purest in the world. Perhaps in comparison with the laws and constitutions of other countries at the time, those of England merited must eulogium. Moreover it has been plausibly asserted that the revolt of the colonies from the parent country, arose more from the pride of merchant/corporate self-government than from a disposition to reform abuses, more from a love of a national commercial independence than from a profound scrutiny into the defects of the English system of laws; and if so, it is not difficult to account for the main features of British institutions remaining among us after our independence. I hope I shall not be understood to be attempting to derogate from the merits of our Revolutionary ancestors. Theirs was a vast labor, never was so much done by one generation for human liberties and rights as they accomplished. But after all, they left us a mighty work to do, in perfecting a fundamental rule of law, which shall be in harmony with the principle of just government. They gave us the seed of free institutions which experience could only expand into full life and maturity. They erected a might framework whose main pillars were worthy to support the great temple of Liberty, but the minor parts were composed of foreign materials gathered from British Institutions, which it is our duty and privilege to reject, as our experience shows them to be out of harmony with the main design of our political fabric. It is well known that the framers of the Federal Constitution doubted of their success of their experiment in free government, that many of them believed that the republic would soon glide into Monarchy of the British type, and in that view desired our institutions to correspond from the onset as near as possible with those of the mother country, so that the shock would not be much felt when they should give way to monarchical rule. The debates of the convention reported by Mr. Madison, confirm this view. The British Constitution was eulogized by several of the most distinguished lawyers of that body and it was expected by them that this government would finally end in like form. Mr. Pinckney declared that he expected this result but not until a long time should have elapsed. Mr. Hamilton acknowledged he thought unfavorably of republican government, but addressed his remarks to those who thought favorable of it in order to prevail on them to tone their government as high as possible. Dr. Franklin thought there was a natural inclination in mankind to kingly government, and he was apprehensive that the government of these States would end in a monarchy. Elbridge Gerry thought democracy the worst of all evils. The Constitutions of the General Government and of the States were framed in fear and dread of the experiment of confiding power to the people, by men who were without the light and wisdom of experience, except of what history unfolded of the disasters which had befallen all former republics. In this hesitation of doubt and fear, the British Constitution appeared like an ark of safety, and it was greatly imitated, by adopting an almost omnipotent Legislature- by clothing the Executive power with appointments to office, and by embracing the English system of jurisprudence and its Judiciary. In all this our ancestors may have adapted many wise institutions and salutary laws- but at the time of their adoption they had not a true option, for they knew of nothing better. They had no experience except under the British Constitution- a departure from which was declared and regarded as an hazardous experiment. They did not believe without doubt, in the capacity of our race for self-government, the mass of our citizens had not enjoyed the means of education, and a free press had not shed its influences upon the popular mind, moral and political science was still in its infancy, AND EXPERIENCE WHICH TEACHETH ALL WISDOM AND IS THE ONLY TEST OF THEORY. But whenever the majority of the people rise up and demand a reformed Constitution, it is their right to have it- and they will have it since the consent that give the birth to the existing Constitution, is withdrawn, and falls for want of moral public support and consent. An amendment or another takes it place. But it is said this is revolution. Let us not be frightened at the sound of a word. It is a change- a peaceful, moral change promising a healthy improvement in State affairs. It is a step of progress and it may be of great progress of all human liberties and rights. It is a work of REFORM OF THE ERRORS OF THE PAST, based upon a broader and more enlightened experience. The case may demand a great and comprehensive reform, an uprooting of numerous public EVILS and a thorough purification of the Government. WHY SHOULD HUMANITY AND THE PEOPLE DISTRUST THEMSELVES? Has any convention assembled to deliberate on a State constitution ever intentionally done anything EVIL OR WRONG AGAINST THEMSELVES? What and why do the AGENTS fear a correction if needed? It is entirely out of harmony with our whole theory of government to deny the right of the people to appoint their agents. But the framers of the American Constitutions provided for an experiment, whose career has been to date triumph but is now very sickly and gasping for air and in the light of which MAY WE so summon the strength, courage and peaceful WISDOM while it is still within our grasp and arrange and finalize the details of this Republic as to secure the complete supremacy of the popular will of we the people and rid ourselves of the last vestige of political injustice. 1845 Murray and Gibb//Hulbut In Service, Peace be with you Gabriel Paul http://www.dayspringgatheringscircle.org <http://www.dayspringgatheringscircle.org/dayspring_library.html> Fear knocked at the door.....Faith Answered........There was no one there. Truth cannot be bought and sold, only temporarily obfuscated by falsehood.Yet all falsehood and illusion will themselves ultimately be crucified upon the cross of the omnipotent Sword of Truth when it pierces the heart in purification. There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. Nikola Tesla I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. "History is nothing but a procession of false absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the improbable." "War is the best way to remold society. War! Shatter society to bits. Break it apart. Then we can remold it nearer to the heart's desire. And what is our heart's desire? Collectivism." Men with great knowledge are easily enslaved if they do nothing to defend their freedom. Knowledge by itself is not power, but it holds the potential for power if we have the courage to use it as such, and therein lies our hope for the future. 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