Safety vs Freedom Part II
Choosing Freedom and a Government for the People - Read closely and with attention to detail
Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Edition
LIBERTY. 1. Freedom; exemption from extraneous control. The power of the will, in its moral freedom, to follow the dictates of its unrestricted choice, and to direct the external acts of the Individual without restraint, coercion, or control from other persons.
"Liberty," as used in the provision of the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution, forbidding the states to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, includes, it seems, not merely the right of a person to be free from physical restraint, but to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties in all lawful ways; to live and work where he will ; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling ; to pursue any livelihood or a vocation ; and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary, and essential to carrying out the purposes above mentioned.
FREEDOM. The state of being free; liberty ; self-determination ; absence of restraint ; the opposite of slavery. The power of acting, in the character of a moral personality, according to the dictates of the will, without other check, hindrance, or prohibition than such as may be imposed by Just and necessary laws and the duties of social life. The prevalence, in the government and constitution of a country, of such a system of laws and institutions as secure civil liberty to the individual citizen.
From the last article, the review included initial discussion of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation (to create a federal government) were created in September 1777, and finally ratified May 1781.
As a quick recap, The United States (unincorporated) was formed on July 2, 1776, as a result of the Unanimous Declaration of Independence. This Declaration was published on July 4th, 1776. The members of this Union were all colonies and they also operated as “the United Colonies of America”. This is not to be confused with Benjamin Franklin’s private business (also unincorporated) doing business as “the” United States at the time.
A key statement in the Declaration was as follows:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
The Rights do not come from man, but are endowed in mankind and are of the Creator. There is frequently a misrepresentation where we have allowed mankind to be diminished by the statement of “God given rights”. There is a distinct difference between “endow” and “given”. There is also an important distinction between “of” and “given”. In the Declaration, the word is “endowed”. This is different than “given” in that “endow” is to be provided with something freely or naturally as in a trait or quality. It purely exists by being of mankind and cannot be taken away (unalienable). The word “of” indicates the belonging to or a possession.
This concept will be revisited again later to discuss the hierarchy of mankind and government and Law of i and others of mankind. This was briefly touched upon in the below article:
“The Unanimous Declaration of These United American Colonies” published July 4, 1776, declares the nation-states (people plus soil within prescribed boundaries) independent. Each former colony issues its own none numerated declaration defining Georgia, Virginia, Maine, etc…
The new nation-states combined forces to fight the Revolutionary War and chose a name: “The United States of America” for their unincorporated union on September 9, 1776. The first color map below depicts the individual sovereign states (sovereign in the meaning that they are not beholden to another nation - not to be confused with sovereign man or woman who is sovereign under the Creator).
Note: It was in York Town, PA starting in September 1777 and finally on November 15, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the “Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States”, proclaimed the first National Day of Thanksgiving, and signed the French Treaty of Alliance. All these events occurred in the nine months York remained “Capital” of the United States – until June 27, 1778. This location was due to the revolutionary fighting with the British occurring in-and-around Philadelphia, PA.
The United States of America (unincorporated) is fully sovereign and not beholden to another country; it functions as a Holding Company for the nation-states. The new states had plenary jurisdiction over the soil, and via The United States of America, also the claim to their international and global jurisdictions.
Our republican nation-states are formed by declarations not by constitutions
The United States of America (unincorporated) is the first and last union formed by our nation-states. (Articles of Confederation)
The United States of America is the Proper Name of our country in international terms and exercises the sovereign (that is, unincorporated) power of the nation-states. All power flows from the people to the counties to the nation-states to The United States of America (unincorporated) and thence to federal subsidiaries.
The States of America (unincorporated) was formed March 1, 1781, by Agreement of the States with the document ratified as the Articles of Confederation. This was a Confederacy of State-of-States created to conduct commercial business on behalf of the Federation States. The members of this original Confederacy went by names like: The State of Georgia, The State of Virginia, The State of Main. Notice the distinct difference in naming conventions from the basic Georgia, Virginia, Maine, and so on… this is just like how we distinguish company names today for different business purposes.
1777 – final version of articles submitted to Congress
1781 – articles ratified (final approval of Maryland)
Article I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be, “The United States of America.”
Article II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.
Confederacy “States of America”
All references within the document styled “united states” depicts an action of being “united” as sovereign states. When referring to the representatives from a state the representation is that of being a “State” the word is with an “S” not “s” - distinction being sovereign status belonging to the state, and the representation being a State
The people from one state were entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states
Free travel between states
the Articles of Confederation were never repealed
The word and its style
Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Edition
CAPITUS DIMINUTIO In Roman law, A diminishing or abridgment of personality. This was a loss or curtailment of a man’s status or aggregate of legal attributes and qualifications, following upon certain changes in his civil condition. It was of three kinds, enumerated as follows:
Capitis diminutio maxima. The highest or most comprehensive loss of status. This occurred when a man’s condition was changed from one of freedom to one of bondage, when he became a slave. It swept away with it all rights of citizenship and all family rights.
Capitis diminutio media. A lesser or medium loss of status. This occurred where a man lost his rights of citizenship, but without losing his liberty. It carried away also the family rights.
Capitis diminutio minima. The lowest or least comprehensive degree of loss of status. This occurred where a man’s family relations alone were changed. It happened upon the arrogation of a person who had been his own master, (sui juris,) or upon the emancipation of one who had been under the patria potestas. It left the rights of liberty and citizenship unaltered. See Inst. 1, 1G, pr.; 1, 2, 3; Dig. 4, 5, 11; Mackeld. Rom. Law.
You may ask why the CAPITUS DIMINUTIO definition at this stage of the history lesson? It is important to understand the intentional uses of words and styling so “We the People” understand what we are reading and how we are tricked with these styling methods in legal and Lawful settings. The founders understood and applied these distinctions. These distinctions are largely hidden in plain sight from those of mankind who are directly affected, yet not explained these subtle differences.
“Simple” rule of thumb:
“John Doe” capital letter at beginning of name - some duties and responsibilities - family or marriage - capitus diminutio minima
“John DOE” full capital last name - loss of rights of citizenship but not liberty - loss of family rights - capitus diminutio media
“JOHN DOE” full capital first and last - transition from freedom to bondage - total loss of freedom and becoming a slave - capitus diminutio maxima
“john doe” - to be one’s own master - sui juris
We are not taught the trappings of words
C.S. Lewis - The Weight of Glory - June 8, 1942
If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. I do not think this is the Christian virtue of Love.
John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Genesis 1:3 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Words, how they are spelled, and what they mean have great power. Take this one step further and subtly change the style of the words and HOW they are spelled, and the meaning and power changes again. The English language is very unique. Unlike most languages on the planet that have very specific male and female attributions within the words themselves, and how a sentence is structured which denotes a gender, the English language can make anything mean anything else by adding, deleting and conveniently redefining the same words. When the worlds language of business is that of a language which can be so easily manipulated, the entire culture could be ambiguous.
Now, let’s assume what you have been taught about history excludes these basic clarifications of words and styling, and that maybe some minor details are withheld or changed. Then instead of only looking for what is there, look for what is not there.
Constitutions:
Now, the National Archives indicate that the Continental Congress and George Washington and James Madison needed more control to deal with issues like coinage, paper currency, war protection, issues between states, and other jurisdictional challenges that needed to be dealt with, and that meant a need for more power. This is slightly inaccurate and only a portion of the story. It was not that the Articles of Confederation were not good enough to address the confederacy of states (see last article and the definitions of those words around confederation, federation, etc…), it was more that the bandwidth and volume of issues and challenges were too much for one business to handle, and there were other jurisdictional issues requiring more focused attention; and thus, more delegated businesses to handle these topics.
This method is exactly how businesses operate today. When the list of things to accomplish or areas of focus need to be split off to another division, business entity, or fully new corporation, these are established by the last business or the original people, in order to handle the focused tasks or commerce related activities. It is a very simple concept and exists in business examples in our lives daily.
This first Constitution starts with “WE the PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES…”. It then goes on in the writing to state, “do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”. It ends with “United States in Congress assembled, Friday, September 28, 1787”. If one were to go back up and review the capitus diminutio definitions above, it becomes very easy to see the PEOPLE are those gathered for the purpose with duties and responsibilities to do stuff “for” the United States of America as an entity. The Constitution is a contract. How it ends is hugely important as well. the “United States in Congress” clearly shows that “States” as defined earlier are the representatives from the states and when all together form the entity United States and are in another entity body politic so named “Congress”.
Take a moment to let that sink in…
people (sui juris - master of their own domain)
state (sovereign nation)
People (capitus diminutio minimus - representatives for the state)
State (capitus diminutio minimus - government of the state)
union of the United States (capitus diminutio minimus - group of nation-states)
the PEOPLE (capitus diminutio media - representatives for the State of States)
UNITED STATES (capitus diminutio maximus - slave to the People of the states with enumerated duties and responsibilities)
the PEOPLE (capitus diminutio media) are now a business unit that forms the UNITED STATES (capitus diminutio maximus) and having duties and responsibilities in that role, and that is comprised of People as States (capitus diminutio minimus) with duties and responsibilities that are representing a state that is comprised of people (sui juris) who are free. There is no interpretation once we realize who is who and what is what. This also clearly establishes that the government reports ultimately to the people as free individuals.
Looking further, the “United States in Congress assembled” were the States New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, etc… and not individuals of mankind that were sui juris. This was the Continental Congress at the time this contract was created. The State of New-Hampshire was the business unit that then provided representation to the newly formed UNITED STATES Congress.
Was anyone taught this in school?
Part III will dig into the next iterations of contracts that took care of jurisdictional deficiencies that needed to be handled. This will get more confusing as there will be more capitus diminutio maximus units in the federal government to form the territorial and municipal governments that now occupy Washington D.C. The definitions of jurisdictions will be further defined and how it is common to copy a contract to a sub-unit business to either delegate powers or take care of other duties and responsibilities.
We will end this current article with this thought:
If words, and how words are written do not mean anything, then nothing has any meaning. In the beginning there was the Word. Words have power to heal, to hurt, to cheat, to lie, and to save.
Wow
Rush Limbaugh always said words mean things. “A tiger is a tiger.” That is why words such as equity, and transgender need to go. These words are incongruent with fact which misleads and corrupts thought. By corrupting language, our thoughts are hijacked.