Definitions you should know
These are some terms that are vital to your understanding of our Constitution. These are essential to your understanding of what it takes to maintain your freedom once won.
liberty
LIB’ERTY, n. [L. libertas, from liber, free.]
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Is liberty important to you? We wrote our Constitution and Bill of Rights to protect our liberty. Patric Henry said,”give me liberty or give me death.”
This used to be the most important concept to ever be coined by man. Just think about what it represents. As former slaves, the first thing we wanted to do was get rid of our constraints. The second thing we wanted to do was free ourselves from those keeping us in bondage.
Freedom from restrain and arbitrary rules of others is the only way that you can exercise your freedoms. Liberty comes first when it comes to being free.
“Freedom from positive laws and the institutions of social life.” What comes to mind for you here? These constraints are laws in place to control your personal actions. Laws like these have no victims, and are designed to be “enforced” by the police state they erect. Drug laws, along with blue laws forced upon us by the nanny state seek to control your discretion. Where does your liberty begin? Three feet from your body, or do you own your own body? Only you can make a decision as to what you are allowed to do with your own life, and that means to waste it if you choose to do so–it’s YOUR life.
“Exemption from arbitrary rule of others.” The word “arbitrary” is an important word for your understanding. It’s why we wrote down the exact duties that were to be performed by this limited government we originally set up to protect our rights.
arbitrary
ARBITRARY, a. [L. arbitrarious.]
Do you know the duties we laid down for this government to perform? If you don’t, then how are you going to know when it is acting arbitrarily and stop it. Don’t feel bad if you don’t know right now what those rules are, they have been removed from our collective consciousness. Our Constitution has been thrown on the scrap heap of history by some very unsavory individuals. Just remember that the document is OURS and was written to protect us from a government. Here we are sitting around letting a branch of that government define our document for us. Now you begin to get the picture that government hates any constraints on its power.
Our current President is quoted as saying that “the Constitution is nothing but a God damned piece of paper.” He’s right, it has no way of defending itself. That is our job if we are to maintain our liberty.
licentiousness
LICEN’TIOUSNESS, n. Excessive indulgence of liberty; contempt of the just restraints of law, morality and decorum. The licentiousness of authors is justly condemned; the licentiousness of the press is punishable by law.
The reason I defined licentiousness is because it has been removed from our modern day dictionaries (lexicon)–I wonder why? As a matter of fact, dictionaries have been one of the tools used by tyrants to return you to bondage.
Liberty means that you have the right to live your life anyway you wish, as long as you are not encroaching on another’s life or liberty.
Next, property rights.
In Liberty,
John Conway
