Comments on: Unless Republicans and Conservatives Adopt a Sound Set of Principles, they are Destined for the Political Scrapheap http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/12/07/unless-republicans-and-conservatives-adopt-a-sound-set-of-principles-they-are-destined-for-the-political-scrapheap/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ronald Cherry http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/12/07/unless-republicans-and-conservatives-adopt-a-sound-set-of-principles-they-are-destined-for-the-political-scrapheap/comment-page-1/#comment-75894 Ronald Cherry Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:19:07 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/12/07/unless-republicans-and-conservatives-adopt-a-sound-set-of-principles-they-are-destined-for-the-political-scrapheap/#comment-75894 American Values 1. All men are created equal - equal before the law, i.e.: American equality - not government-enforced economic equality, i.e.: French Revolutionary or Marxist equality. 2. Our human rights to life, liberty and creative pursuit of happiness are sacred - from God and therefore irreversible - not from the State and thereby reversible. 3. Individual Liberty = freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion (religion non-subversive of liberty), freedom to defend life, freedom to own property creatively attained by the sweat of your brow, freedom to have privacy at home, freedom to petition government for grievances, and government power divided into its three branches. 4. The entire reason for human government, and our Constitution, is to secure our essential human rights as listed above. 5. Just government power can only derive from the informed consent of the governed, i.e.: majority rule through elected representatives. All other government power is unjust, and subject to tyranny. 6. When government becomes destructive of our essential human rights as listed above, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish the government; i.e.: we have a right to revolution, if necessary when the government cannot be altered, against government destructive of our essential human rights. 7. Real multiculturalism - from many, one: e pluribus unum 8. Limited government – Limited by the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. American Values

1. All men are created equal – equal before the law, i.e.: American equality – not government-enforced economic equality, i.e.: French Revolutionary or Marxist equality.

2. Our human rights to life, liberty and creative pursuit of happiness are sacred – from God and therefore irreversible – not from the State and thereby reversible.

3. Individual Liberty = freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion (religion non-subversive of liberty), freedom to defend life, freedom to own property creatively attained by the sweat of your brow, freedom to have privacy at home, freedom to petition government for grievances, and government power divided into its three branches.

4. The entire reason for human government, and our Constitution, is to secure our essential human rights as listed above.

5. Just government power can only derive from the informed consent of the governed, i.e.: majority rule through elected representatives. All other government power is unjust, and subject to tyranny.

6. When government becomes destructive of our essential human rights as listed above, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish the government; i.e.: we have a right to revolution, if necessary when the government cannot be altered, against government destructive of our essential human rights.

7. Real multiculturalism – from many, one: e pluribus unum

8. Limited government – Limited by the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

]]> By: jeanedcrusader1 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/12/07/unless-republicans-and-conservatives-adopt-a-sound-set-of-principles-they-are-destined-for-the-political-scrapheap/comment-page-1/#comment-75387 jeanedcrusader1 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:26:17 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/12/07/unless-republicans-and-conservatives-adopt-a-sound-set-of-principles-they-are-destined-for-the-political-scrapheap/#comment-75387 Interesting ideas. I liked what you said about the liberal illuminati's inverted relationship to pain and pleasure: T'hey want the government to inflict pain on those whose pursuit of pleasure is too great, i.e., the rich, and propagate pleasure toward those who are unable to manage their own pleasure, i.e., the poor. So fundamentally, they are against principle-based pleasure, which is the Bible's gift to God's creatures. It's a whole different way of thinking about the Christian concept of pleasure and the secularization and distortion of such an idea by the left. Interesting ideas. I liked what you said about the liberal illuminati’s inverted relationship to pain and pleasure: T’hey want the government to inflict pain on those whose pursuit of pleasure is too great, i.e., the rich, and propagate pleasure toward those who are unable to manage their own pleasure, i.e., the poor. So fundamentally, they are against principle-based pleasure, which is the Bible’s gift to God’s creatures. It’s a whole different way of thinking about the Christian concept of pleasure and the secularization and distortion of such an idea by the left.

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