>>I certainly don’t disagree with anything you said. I got to the end of the one thought and decided that brevity might help the letter get published. It didn’t.
Sadly, its a thought that could have been explained with brevity 70 years ago. Maybe even 30 years ago. But today, it is lost on a culture of prosperity, greed, and envy. Most Americans aren’t pioneers anymore. They would doom an expedition by starting out scheming like they are the actors on Survivor.
And I’m talking about people of both ends of the political spectrum. The only difference is in how they phrase their appeals to the others to sacrifice for them.
On July 4 we recognize the Declaration of Independence defining the American Dream as inalienable natural rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Constitution establishes a government embodying these rights by promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty.
Whatever the Constitution further defines relies upon natural human rights independent of and superior to any government construction. They are intangible property sourced in opinion, religion, communications, use of abilities to labor physically and mentally, and in conscience. Only by application of these inherent rights can one truly possess material things.
The American Dream never meant government largess ensuring college funds, retirement accounts, savings, affordable health care, home ownership, lifetime employment, corporate wealth, political careers, and union benefits.
Politicians become patricians offer enchanting elements of material security such as described above, while obscuring subservience to administrative laws and regulations vastly increasing their power. Their legislation and rules negate our Bill of Rights confiscating intangible human freedoms for these apparitions.
Such devices are the soft underbelly of our Constitution. Under English Common Law, basic to our Constitution, a person is innocent and not subject to the penalties of law until proved guilty. Administrative laws and regulations, like Roman Civil Law, subject people to government penalties and restrictions until they find legal means to extricate themselves.
People now routinely make unconscious Faustian like bargains to exchange their human essence for illusions of material comfort. However, true freedom requires uncompromising adherence to American ideals of inherent, intangible natural rights.
The History and Danger of Administrative Law https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/history-danger-administrative-law/
Constitution Society: John Locke CHAP. V Of Property. http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr05.htm
Property by James Madison http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/property-by-james-madison-march-29-1792.html