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If anything is unique about America, it is the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. It told the people of the world the self—evident truths, that each person is endowed at birth with certain unalienable Rights and the sole purpose of any form of government is to secure for each person those Rights.
The Declaration said that among those rights are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, telling us that other unalienable Rights exist.
All governments in history were involved in some way with the production and distribution of goods and services. The Declaration’s second paragraph revealed that the role of government was to secure those rights.
It is self–evident that appropriate goods and services are necessary to satisfy those rights - food, clothing, shelter, education, health care, transportation, etc.
It is also self—evident that government by the people, for the people and by the people must arrange the production and distribution of goods and services to enable each person to appropriately satisfy those unalienable rights, in both good and lean seasons.
The Declaration didn’t mention money, because it was self-evident that those rights were not meant to be satisfied by a person’s ability to buy the goods and services that would satisfy them.
The writers of the Declaration knew that a government of the people must be organized by the people and must arrange the appropriate production and distribution of goods and services that will satisfy the unalienable birthrights of each person.
In our age, we have awesome production and distribution technologies, that can satisfy every person’s birthrights. The reason Americans have failed to create this nation, that was envisioned in the promise of the Declaration’s second paragraph,is that we tried to do that with money.
In our country and most of the world, money should not be used to determine if and what resources are developed, what goods and services are produced, and to whom and when they will be distributed. We are now witnessing the crumbling collapse of vicious money-ruled societies and governments.
We were meant to be a birthright society, with a government instituted by the consent of the people, that would organize the production and distribution of appropriate goods and services to satisfy what each person has a right to obtain.
Human rights are empty words unless we consent to institute new government that will arrange the satisfaction of those endowed unalienable Rights.
Amidst our grim outlook of the economic and social collapse of this country, we may have a chance to change and become the nation that was envisioned in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.
After all, it is self-evident that is what the world had hoped to see occur in America.
What do you think?
- W J Anthony
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