The God of the Machine - Tranche 27
Posted by mshupe 1 year, 4 months ago to Government
Chapter XII, Excerpt 3 of 3
The Structure of the United States
Let the Constitution as it was originally drawn, including the Bill of Rights, be examined on its merits and in light of performance, as an architectural plan and mechanical apparatus of an earlier day. It will be found amazing in its correctness, respect of the relation of mass and motion, operative through the association of human beings. The dynamo is the mind, the creative intelligence, which our Bill of Rights and the treason clause assert to be free of political control.
By unprecedented limitation, government was debarred from imposing silence. The states were forbidden to make anything but gold and silver legal tender. Citizenship was a Federal attribute . . . private property is the standing ground of the citizen. Therefore, the transmission line of energy could not be tapped by political agency. The American Constitution, by its treason clause, said that private property belongs to individuals by indefeasible title. America first declared this principle as absolute.
Nor could any member of his family be punished for mere kinship; none could be held guilty for the deed of another. The treason clause remains unique in the long record of political institutions. All these provisions are of importance to the flow of energy. It was the existence of the United States, and the consequential spread of liberty, which made the achievements of science possible in Europe. But, with the return of collectivism, the imputation of collective guilt inevitably returns.
The Structure of the United States
Let the Constitution as it was originally drawn, including the Bill of Rights, be examined on its merits and in light of performance, as an architectural plan and mechanical apparatus of an earlier day. It will be found amazing in its correctness, respect of the relation of mass and motion, operative through the association of human beings. The dynamo is the mind, the creative intelligence, which our Bill of Rights and the treason clause assert to be free of political control.
By unprecedented limitation, government was debarred from imposing silence. The states were forbidden to make anything but gold and silver legal tender. Citizenship was a Federal attribute . . . private property is the standing ground of the citizen. Therefore, the transmission line of energy could not be tapped by political agency. The American Constitution, by its treason clause, said that private property belongs to individuals by indefeasible title. America first declared this principle as absolute.
Nor could any member of his family be punished for mere kinship; none could be held guilty for the deed of another. The treason clause remains unique in the long record of political institutions. All these provisions are of importance to the flow of energy. It was the existence of the United States, and the consequential spread of liberty, which made the achievements of science possible in Europe. But, with the return of collectivism, the imputation of collective guilt inevitably returns.
I thought this statement quite profound. The other thought brought to mind is that if any of the founders was plopped down into today's USA, they would probably think the entire constitution had been scrapped. ALL of government these days seems focused on working around the constitution, rather than adhering to it. Executive actions. The whole executive department bureaucracy. Fiat currency. the list goes on and on.
Soon after World War II, a group of academics met to discuss the Nazi book burnings in Berlin in the 1930s. One professor opined that it was not necessary to burn books in order to destroy the great literature of history – the only thing needed was to leave them unread for two generations. I believe that the effort to destroy the Constitution by non-so-benign neglect is in full force as measured by the general public’s lack of knowledge and understanding of the importance to their Individual Rights and the actions of government employees high and low.
The problem we who love liberty face is how to develop the strategies and tactics to win our freedom back.
Now how do we kill John Dewey and Karl Marx?
We have the Philosophy thanks to Aristotle, Locke, the Founding Fathers, and whoever that was who wrote that essay on faith and force. I had thought that this site and others such as ARI might have been the modern The Federalist Papers and served the same purpose. They haven’t.
Do you have any ideas? We seem to be stuck in second gear. (Hat-tip to the TV show Friends.)