Details of Freedom III: The Social Leader Daily

Published: Thu, 03/29/12

 
 
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   Social Leader Daily by Oliver DeMille
 

Details of Freedom III

 
In addition to vertical and horizontal separation of powers, checks and balances, and the people keeping their eyes on the various levels and branches of government to keep them within the bounds of the Constitution, at least three additional details are needed to maintain freedom.
 
Specifically, the people must closely read the following:

1)      Proposed bills and especially laws that have passed.

2)      Supreme Court decisions, including the commentaries (dicta) of the Justices.

3)      Treaties, both proposed and ratified.

The way our Constitution is set up, these things once adopted become part of the law of the land.
 
If the people don't know what is happening in these things, they cannot fulfill their vital role of keeping the government within the bounds of the Constitution.
 
If this occurs, our freedoms will be lost.
Sadly, this has been occurring for many years.
 
The founding, pioneering, Civil War and progressive generations from 1776 through the 1890s widely read and studied these things.
 
Changes in our education system to a conveyor-belt model of schooling have created a century of American generations who did not read these things--and our freedoms have declined proportionally.
 
Some today would say that the regular people will never read this way.
 
If this is so, our freedoms will continue to decline.
 
Free nations are the direct work of free citizens who take their role of watching and overseeing the government seriously.
 
This is part of the cost of freedom.

If you are not reading these things, now is the time to start.

And now is the time to help others see the vital importance of doing the same.  

 
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