We’re quickly assembling an excellent team. Thank you!
But based on some of the email responses I’ve read today, I should have explained this whole thing a little better.
Those who know anything about me know that, for decades, I’ve been promoting Rule of Law under existing constitutions, as written. I’m delighted that I’m no longer feeling so lonely in that quixotean struggle. There are efforts here and here that are better organized, and certainly better funded, than anything I’ve ever done.
Of course I wish them well. I truly hope they succeed, and if I thought I could help them in any significant way, I would.
(On the other hand, I had asked if I could help, and all they wanted from me was my money. …But that’s another story.)
Ron Paul’s successes during and after the 2008 Presidential campaign have been even more exciting and hopeful. The “Ron Paul Revolution” is still winning friends. If I can help with that, I will.
What I’m proposing is that we certainly work toward these efforts’ success, but prepare for their failure.
I hope that there will be a USA for many years to come; but I am pretty sure that there will not be. And while I hope our end is relatively benign like the collapse of the USSR, I think it’s prudent to create a plan for something better than the more typical societal collapse, oppression, slavery, genocide and war that come as regularly as sunrise and as persistently as …death.
I do not believe that we can resurrect the whole nation, and instead think that it’s wise to think more locally.
But…
I’m not thinking that Texas is really any more likely to rise from the ashes than is any other state or region. Yes, I’m focusing on Texas in the particulars of this written constitution. But if the Czech Republic would actually adopt this constitution while others take a pass, then já vůle brát má čeleď až k člen určitý Čech Republika!
Who knows who’ll come to their senses first once the truth about our political order is revealed? Who knows how people will respond to the spanking they’re about to get? God knows I sure don’t.
So our virtual collaboration has several purposes, but mostly these:
- Get people thinking and talking about some very basic, critically important things; things like, “how shall we live?”
- Give smart people a focal point, a rallying flag, a critical task when we most need it…before calamity makes it much, much more difficult.
- Offer a real “Public Option” for peace, prosperity, security and justice.
We need all the help we can get, and I don’t care if you’re in Prague, Terre Haute, or Austin.
Just to start the ball rolling, the role of the justice system is key to a minarchy, as modern life shows us: we have seen society totally change because of legal abuses, and have seen the guarantees and processes of constitutions at both federal and state level gutted by legal actions and fears of legal action.
So what ideas can we look at for a legal system in a constitution, either interim or permanent? I recall that the CSA never got around to even appointing a Supreme Court, although it was stated in the CS Constitution in much the same way as it is in the US Constitution. Do we need such a thing? If so, how is it to be organized and exist? What are the limits on it?
Excellent, Nathan!
I think we’re going to start an internal dialogue elsewhere; perhaps on Facebook, perhaps by another medium. Stay tuned.