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Vic Biorseth, Friday, June
24, 2016
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"... 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. ..." --Declaration of Independence (Emphasis Added)
Here, the authors of the American Declaration of Independence established four, unalienable, God-given, Natural Law human rights, as a purpose-for-being, and the very foundation stone, of a new form of government.
"... — 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. ..." --Declaration of Independence
What did the authors mean by "equal"?
What they meant was the Christian understanding of equality, relying on Scripture:
"Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.
So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian; for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there
is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise." --Gal 3:23-29
That meant, of course, that slavery had to end. Benjamin Franklin had already instituted the Abolition movement, to which Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and others among the Founders subscribed, but the writing and arguing and negotiating of the Declaration brought the issue to a head.
To keep the Abolition Colonies in unity with the slave Colonies, with unity desperately needed against the common enemy, English Rule, and to temporarily mollify both arguments, the unalienable, Natural Law right to "Property" had to be reworded to be "pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration.
The argument was between the unalienable right to "equality" and the unalienable right to "property", when, by English law and local custom, slaves were property. Slavery and slave trade were by then so solidly established as to have become a near absolute economic necessity for vast segments of American culture, mostly in the South. Abolition could mean economic catastrophe for many members of the newly established pre-Revolutionary first Continental Congress. If they walked out, the Revolution was doomed.
This terrible situation was imposed upon the Colonies, by England. Many Northern Colonies had already legislated laws abolishing slavery, only to have them overturned by the Crown. England wanted to keep her slave trade to the Colonies going, and she did.
So, what does "Equality" mean, as a foundation stone for the American Government?
American Equality means, at its essence, the right to be heard; the right to present your case. It means equality before the law. It means equal access to the seats of justice, equal rights, equal liabilities, equal responsibilities, equal liberty, and equal opportunities. Combined with Liberty, it means you are perfectly free to work to improve your own condition, any moral and legal way you can.
This American concept stands opposed to the Marxist interpretation of equality, which is, in a nutshell:
Marxist Equality means equality in property. It means the end of private property in favor of community property, and collective property rights. It therefore means and end to personal liberty, in favor of the equality of the Commune, the new "Community".
The Russian or Marxist view of equality always includes equal pay, equal shelter, equal food, equal medicine, equal jobs, equal savings, etc., etc., etc. Which means, men are not free to "get ahead" or to improve their own condition in any way. That would be unequal.
Marxist equality is, of course, quite impossible on any large scale.
Marxism is an ideology of Revolution with global ambitions. Marxism seeks to overturn all existing human institutions, whether by infiltration and inciting of "popular" revolution, a la Machiavelli, or, by slowly but steadily inciting a crisis-by-crisis "progression" toward economic and societal collapse, a la Hegel.
My personal opinion is that Marx developed his "philosophy" and even wrote his Manifesto in reaction to and in opposition to America; the first and only nation of laws, and not of men, in which the supreme law - the Constitution - is the only sovereign, and all men stand equal in its sight. Including even Presidents.
The American concept also stands opposed to the Islamic interpretation of equality, which is, in a nutshell:
Non-existent.
The closest thing to equality in Islam may be found among Islamic men who are devout Moslems; but even they are subject to Imams and various war-lords and Caliphs that arise from time to time.
Women are inferior to men in rights and in all respects. Islam is a religion or ideology that seeks conquest, with global ambitions; trades in slaves; commits acts of piracy against all non-Islamic peoples; exacts tribute and ransom from non-Islamic peoples, and in general acts as an exact opposite force to the American principle of equality.
American equality is the only equality that is real; if it is imperfect, it is the most perfect example that may be found to exist.
It's very simple, really. Nothing to it. It's equal justice.
Equality, as the Constitutionally Protected Civil Right of Citizens:
Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
(US Constitution, Amendment XIV, Section One)
(Amendment XIV was passed only after the Civil War was won. The same Southern political faction that had tried to secede from America over the slavery issue was the political faction that had kept the liberation of all slaves and the end of slavery out of the Declaration of Independence, and then had kept "Equality" out of Amendment V as part of the original Bill of Rights. The Civil War finally settled the Equality argument.)
May God Bless Constitutional America.
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