In in this day and age, the violations of our civil liberties have gone into epidemic levels. We knowthis. I’ve created this information in order to be reminded on how we should fight for our civilliberties. Our rights makes us become reminded about how we can live our lives to the fullest. Ourfreedoms don’t exist from the government or some bureaucrat.
They don’t even exist from us.They exist from Almighty God being undeniable and unalienable. Life, liberty, and Propertyare related to each other. John Locke wrote in his "Second Treatise of Government" bookthat people want to preserve their property and power should be limited among thegovernment
. So, it's easy to decipher that life, liberty, and property were the central, inalienablerights that formed America. The founders believed in the triumvirate division of government (whichis the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government) whose rights are bound to eachother. When one part of the government does injustice, it affects all of the government. Some of ourpolitical leaders claim to love life and liberty, but they pervert our rights by promoting illegal wars andplunders. The right to life is more important than the right to property since one's lives is more thanany possession. Yet, the right to property is vitally linked to the right to life since the right to ownproperty is an extension of the right to life. Property is simply what an individual rightfully owns.Labor can improve property as well. We can use our body, conscience, and our actions to improvethe realms of our property.
Labor for the individual can improve our happiness as well. That iswhy we shouldn't deny an innocent person the right to own property (or legally benefit in hisor her own labor. There‘s always value in labor).
The Founding Fathers of Jefferson, Madison,Samuel Adams and others realized that the paramount role of government in essence was theprotection of our liberties. In the 21st century, threats to our civil liberties occur constantly. That's allthe more reason for us to be more educated on our rights. We shouldn't accept deception and weought to love the truth
While numerous Americans are blinded to our diminished liberty, the big, centralgovernment operators abide to enact policies detrimental to our fundamental God-givenrights
. It just seems that the world will sink even lower in trying to eliminate the need for rationality.For thousands of years, laws in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe influenced our laws inAmerica (like the Constitution, state laws, etc.). A heavy contributor to our law is the Magna Cartathat was created in 1215. This law restricted the excessive power of Kings and other rulers in theland of Britain. The Magna Carta created rules that developed habeas corpus and the right of juriesto determine cases. Habeas corpus protects us from being imprisoned unlawfully.
It made KingJohn of England to proclaim certain rights to freemen and respect rights. It confirmedcommon law that influenced the legal perimeters of the English speaking world.
The EnglishBill of Rights from 1689 (including George Mason’s 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights) was agroup of legitimate laws that inspired the existence of the Bill of Rights as well.The English Bill ofRights supported explicitly the right of the people to petition the King. The people have a right to givegrievances to those holding office. The Blackstone’s Commentaries is one of the greatest legaldocuments in history. It’s related to our U.S. laws and outlined key, succinct principles that areuniversally legitimate to respect plus accept in our lives.
In Book 1, Chapter 1 of Blackstone’s
Commentaries
the point is made that “every individual” has “the right of petitioning theking, or either house of parliament, for the redress of grievance.” These Commentaries hadpro-life and other pro-liberty provisions in them as well.
Of course, the Bill of Rights endorseda host freedoms like the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the right to not be searchedwithout a warrant or probable cause, the right to have a trial by jury, to not have cruel and unusualpunishment, etc. You have to appreciate the Anti-Federalists in supporting the Bill of Rights. Sincewithout them, the Federalists like Alexander Hamilton could have their way in getting rid of the Bill ofRights centuries ago. Civil liberties should be protected not only among those with whom we agreewith, but also with those people we disagree with.The mainstream media may spin, but our liberties are being violated all of the time.
There can belong books on even simple examples of this.
One easy example is the abrupt militarized policeusing random searches against innocent citizens of major cities like New York City. Nationwide,
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