Constitution's Mission Statement

The Long Clasp (Post 14)

Part III– THE RESPONSE First Principles Newly Named In the previous Post we considered the necessary corollaries to the principal principles of the Constitution. Herein we propose a similar exercise with respect to the newly named purposes of the Constitution as laid out in its Preamble, its Mission Statement. First and foremost, with respect toContinue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 14)”

The Long Clasp (Post 13)

Part III — THE RESPONSE First Principles and Identity The evidence is in. After sifting several millennia of written reports, experts conclude that human nature in its total expression and manifestation has not changed. And the evidence projects to an irreducibly small number the likelihood that it ever will. The short-handed characterization of the unchangingContinue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 13)”

Democratic Republicanism vs. Republican Demockery

The authors of the US Constitution gave detailed account of the purposes and the bases of the governmental structure which they had proposed for adoption by the People of the United States. They did this in a series of 85 essays, later collected as “The Federalist Papers.” Characteristic of their account are these remarks ofContinue reading “Democratic Republicanism vs. Republican Demockery”

The Long Clasp (Post 3)

** The Aspiration Between the first and last phrases of the Constitution’s mission statement—its Preamble—are the following six phrases, which, in fact, list the long-range goals, the desired outcomes that lay behind the system of governance set out within the document: in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provideContinue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 3)”

The Long Clasp (Post 2)

*The Idea Ask a thousand US citizens, or a thousand thousand, to catalogue some of those ideas, and sure to be included on every list will be Freedom and Liberty; on nearly every list in one form or another, the Right to be left alone to do as you please, to worship as you please,Continue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 2)”