Is This The Final Stage Of The Overthrow?

At a time when people were born to serve kings, American colonists were clashing with British troops, and Thomas Jefferson penned a unique doctrine on the relationship between “Governments … instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”.

American Militia, “civilians primarily, soldiers on occasion”, mustered on Lexington Green, and engaged British regulars all the way back to Boston.

From the time the Declaration of Independence was made the first law of a new nation, until hostilities ended in 1783, the People fought a grueling and costly war for independence, not only from Britain, but also from the old collective of monarchs.

A new nation, “conceived in liberty”, was about to form under a concept that was unique to all the peoples of the world; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”

The concept of rights is not something unique to our form of government, nor was it a novel idea at the time of the revolution. When Henry I ascended the throne in 1100 A.D., he set to doctrine the Charter of Liberties of King Henry I.

More than one hundred years later, on June 15, 1215, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta to avert a Civil War when confronted by a host of rebellious barons. Ten weeks later, Pope Innocent III nullified the agreement, and the English countryside was plunged into war.

The history of rights acknowledged, and then revoked is long, and often painted with “the blood of patriots, and tyrants”. While the words in the Declaration may ring as a statement of liberty from birth to death, it is a concept that must be enforced by men and women of courage and fortitude. They must be true to their neighbors, and they must be true in their heart that, above all, freedom is our province, and our responsibility.

Jefferson did not write, nor did the signers of the Declaration recognize “that all men are created equal” and they remain so for the rest of their lives. The concept of equality is a notion of status across a spectrum of laws, abilities, consciousness, determination, and a love of liberty. Obviously, the doctrine laid out in the Declaration can only work when the People understand that freedom does not come lightly. It comes at the cost of diligence and duty. It must be ever protected from the tyrant, the ignorant, the ambivalent, the foolish, and the “useful idiots” that help to destroy a nation.

We are amid, what has been labeled, a pandemic; “an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population.” Whether or not COVID-19 lives up to its label becomes more and more questionable by the day, we are nonetheless acting as if it has the blessings of the Grim Reaper. We have been forced to shelter in place. Schools are closed, only businesses that have been deemed necessary are open, social gatherings of any type are considered inappropriate, and hoarding has become an issue. Many essentials have become scarce.

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Political bantering, and a lack of information has made the situation worse. By this time, every year we could have thousands of deaths from some flu in this nation alone. I have not heard anything at all about a flu problem this year, and certainly the numbers from this dreaded COVID-19 don’t reflect any greater stress on society if we actually count those who died because of the virus, but not with the virus.

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Once again I must point to the fact that the Declaration of Independence lays out the relationship between “governments … instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”, wherein all power stems from the People. Later, after a long and arduous rebellion, the Founders proclaimed that “We the People establish Justice and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” and set down the rule of Law under the U.S. Constitution.

The Framers did not simply make lame proclamations to be interpreted to suit public officials, but rather recognized, and institutionalized, the fact that the one true force for liberty and freedom could only be the body of the People exercising the power written into the Constitution. A power so distinct that it was accompanied by statutes defining its organization, armament, and discipline. A power so well established as to have it roots dating back to the beginning of English common law.

It is the epitome of power as it exists by the fact of universal enrollment for all able-bodied men 18 – 45, organized as a body with the ultimate authority “to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions”.

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