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== Rights == | == Rights == | ||
An individual in a private capacity is a free person with rights. | An individual in a private capacity is a free person with rights. An individual is sovereign, while the state is not. | ||
== Truth == | == Truth == | ||
Government and its agents must be truthful in all of its actions and dealings. | Government and its agents must be truthful in all of its actions and dealings. Lying my omission is not truthful. Therefore, transparency is mandatory; classification for secrecy must be strictly constrained to prevent being abused to deceive or mislead the people to whom the government serves in a subordinate capacity. | ||
== Expiration == | == Expiration == | ||
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The intent is to ensure that government agents are not granted qualified immunity. | The intent is to ensure that government agents are not granted qualified immunity. | ||
The Constitution is the highest law of the land, and the oath of office for government officials specifies their one job: to defend the Constitution. The highest law cannot be enforced if each individual whose oath is to defend it has no power or responsibility to act in its defense. Every person must retain the right to refuse to obey an unconstitutional order. Every person must be able to refuse to enforce or obey an unconstitutional law or regulation. Every person must be able to defy an unconstitutional decision by anyone, including a judge. The Constitution exists above all these subordinate mechanisms. | |||
The founders envisioned a free country of free men. How would sovereign individuals act in relation to each other? Not as masters and slaves; or as kings and subjects. A society properly designed would not establish asymmetrical relationships. Equality under the law and equal protection by definition means that such an asymmetry must not exist. | |||
= Unilateral Exit = | |||
Succession is a unilateral option to every state, locality, and individual. | |||
= Regulation = | |||
Consumer regulation is the only legitimate and incorruptible form of regulation. Government regulation is not legitimate. | |||
= Constitutionality = | |||
Every citizen sworn to defend the Constitution carries out that responsibility by exercising the power to refuse any unconstitutional order, disregard any unconstitutional, and disobey any unconstitutional law. No one with any special privilege or office possesses a unique power to adjudicate what is constitutional or not. | |||
Latest revision as of 19:57, 9 March 2025
Rights
An individual in a private capacity is a free person with rights. An individual is sovereign, while the state is not.
Truth
Government and its agents must be truthful in all of its actions and dealings. Lying my omission is not truthful. Therefore, transparency is mandatory; classification for secrecy must be strictly constrained to prevent being abused to deceive or mislead the people to whom the government serves in a subordinate capacity.
Expiration
Legislation must have sunset expirations by default. Renewal must be authorized explicitly, not en masse, according to cost-benefit analysis.
Equal Protection
Laws must not classify individuals with unequal privileges and immunities.
The intent is to ensure that government agents are not granted qualified immunity.
The Constitution is the highest law of the land, and the oath of office for government officials specifies their one job: to defend the Constitution. The highest law cannot be enforced if each individual whose oath is to defend it has no power or responsibility to act in its defense. Every person must retain the right to refuse to obey an unconstitutional order. Every person must be able to refuse to enforce or obey an unconstitutional law or regulation. Every person must be able to defy an unconstitutional decision by anyone, including a judge. The Constitution exists above all these subordinate mechanisms.
The founders envisioned a free country of free men. How would sovereign individuals act in relation to each other? Not as masters and slaves; or as kings and subjects. A society properly designed would not establish asymmetrical relationships. Equality under the law and equal protection by definition means that such an asymmetry must not exist.
Unilateral Exit
Succession is a unilateral option to every state, locality, and individual.
Regulation
Consumer regulation is the only legitimate and incorruptible form of regulation. Government regulation is not legitimate.
Constitutionality
Every citizen sworn to defend the Constitution carries out that responsibility by exercising the power to refuse any unconstitutional order, disregard any unconstitutional, and disobey any unconstitutional law. No one with any special privilege or office possesses a unique power to adjudicate what is constitutional or not.