Progressives, Liberals, proceed from ignorance. A more generous person than I might quote Luke 23:34: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
I wonât forgive, because there is no excuse for not knowing.
1.They say you canât know where youâre going unless you know where you come from. That may or may not be true in geographic terms, but it is true in terms of political views.
Political thought in America is split in its origins, between England, and the continent, specifically Germany.
2. Real Americans, classical liberals, what we call conservatives today, trace their views and those of our Founders, largely, to England.
One example is in law. In 528 Tribonian was selected, with John the Cappodocian, to prepare the new imperial legal code, the Codex Juris Civilis, or the Code of Justinian. Rome had a legal system dating back to the âTwelve Tables,â written in 451 BCE, based on the 6th century BCE work of Solon of Athens.
Fifteen centuries later, the Codex still exerts its influence on Europe and is known as the Civil Law tradition. The Inquisition, Renaissance, the Napoleonic Code, and the Holocaust are all, in part, an outgrowth of the lex regia: âThe will of the prince has the force of law.â( Quod principi placuit, legis haget vigorem) Today, European law gives preeminence to legislatures, the institution that drafted the statute prevails.
In Anglo-American Common Law tradition, the institution that interprets and adjudicates the statute has the final word.
Due to the absence of a jury, and the deference to whomever writes the laws, Civil Law tradition is friendlier to tyrannical regimes than ours, the Common Law tradition. [See Rosen, âJustinianâs Fleaâ]
As the Common Law made the system accept, equally, the testimony of every person, it made equality its byword.
This was the legal force behind the exchange economy.
The single most important feature of the law that made England, and then America, the engines of prosperity, is equality before the law. A strong argument can be made that this concept emerged from the Judeo-Christian influence, the Bible, Genesis 1:26 Then God said, âLet us make mankind in our image, in our likeness,â âŠsuddenly made every individual special, and made the argument against slavery.
A successful nation is built individualism, not the collectivism of the herd.
Individuals favors freedom of conscience, collectivism is based on coercion of the majority.
The Founders of America knew how to do that. They planned a nation built on these there pillars: individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
They could do this because English settlers brought with them, The Common Law, and not the law of Europe, The Civil Law.
3. If oneâs political views follow from the English, it is the individual that is the focus of society, not the government or the collective.
If oneâs views come form the continent, from Germany, the collective, command and control regulation of private industry, and overarching government that can order every aspect of the private citizen's life....right down to control of his thoughts and speech.
Why donât they teach this in government school? Because Progressives control government school.
I wonât forgive, because there is no excuse for not knowing.
1.They say you canât know where youâre going unless you know where you come from. That may or may not be true in geographic terms, but it is true in terms of political views.
Political thought in America is split in its origins, between England, and the continent, specifically Germany.
2. Real Americans, classical liberals, what we call conservatives today, trace their views and those of our Founders, largely, to England.
One example is in law. In 528 Tribonian was selected, with John the Cappodocian, to prepare the new imperial legal code, the Codex Juris Civilis, or the Code of Justinian. Rome had a legal system dating back to the âTwelve Tables,â written in 451 BCE, based on the 6th century BCE work of Solon of Athens.
Fifteen centuries later, the Codex still exerts its influence on Europe and is known as the Civil Law tradition. The Inquisition, Renaissance, the Napoleonic Code, and the Holocaust are all, in part, an outgrowth of the lex regia: âThe will of the prince has the force of law.â( Quod principi placuit, legis haget vigorem) Today, European law gives preeminence to legislatures, the institution that drafted the statute prevails.
In Anglo-American Common Law tradition, the institution that interprets and adjudicates the statute has the final word.
Due to the absence of a jury, and the deference to whomever writes the laws, Civil Law tradition is friendlier to tyrannical regimes than ours, the Common Law tradition. [See Rosen, âJustinianâs Fleaâ]
As the Common Law made the system accept, equally, the testimony of every person, it made equality its byword.
This was the legal force behind the exchange economy.
The single most important feature of the law that made England, and then America, the engines of prosperity, is equality before the law. A strong argument can be made that this concept emerged from the Judeo-Christian influence, the Bible, Genesis 1:26 Then God said, âLet us make mankind in our image, in our likeness,â âŠsuddenly made every individual special, and made the argument against slavery.
A successful nation is built individualism, not the collectivism of the herd.
Individuals favors freedom of conscience, collectivism is based on coercion of the majority.
The Founders of America knew how to do that. They planned a nation built on these there pillars: individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
They could do this because English settlers brought with them, The Common Law, and not the law of Europe, The Civil Law.
3. If oneâs political views follow from the English, it is the individual that is the focus of society, not the government or the collective.
If oneâs views come form the continent, from Germany, the collective, command and control regulation of private industry, and overarching government that can order every aspect of the private citizen's life....right down to control of his thoughts and speech.
Why donât they teach this in government school? Because Progressives control government school.