Monday, February 13, 2006
Principles for a Free Civil Society
• A Constitutional Federal Republic: The United States was framed as a constitutionally-limited republic, which places limits not only on the powers of government but also on that of majority rule. Our Constitution and federal system with its checks and balances and institutional safeguards is perhaps the best framework devised in human history for procuring ordered liberty.
• The Scope of Limited Government: The proper and rightful function of government is to defend the people and territorial integrity of our Union, as well as provide for an equitable, just, and fair administration of justice.
• Ordered Liberty: Ordered liberty requires civic responsibility, and as such citizens of have the duty to stay informed on civic matters, to accept jury duty and exercise prudence in voting. The essence of republican self-government is for each and every citizen to govern themselves in accordance to the Ten Commandments of God.
• A Free-Market Economy: The allocation of resources by the free play of supply and demand is the only economic system that is conducive to the freedom, happiness and prosperity of a nation. The free-market prospers within a prudent civil and legal framework for prosecuting acts of force and fraud, enforcing contracts, and upholding private property rights.
• Objective Moral Norms: There is an objective transcendent moral order, which is ascertainable in the customs, conventions and morality defined by Christian tradition and revealed religious truth. Such objective norms serve to inform and guide civil society while the absence of such norms will lead to the deterioration of civil society and ordered liberty.
• The Scope of Limited Government: The proper and rightful function of government is to defend the people and territorial integrity of our Union, as well as provide for an equitable, just, and fair administration of justice.
• Ordered Liberty: Ordered liberty requires civic responsibility, and as such citizens of have the duty to stay informed on civic matters, to accept jury duty and exercise prudence in voting. The essence of republican self-government is for each and every citizen to govern themselves in accordance to the Ten Commandments of God.
• A Free-Market Economy: The allocation of resources by the free play of supply and demand is the only economic system that is conducive to the freedom, happiness and prosperity of a nation. The free-market prospers within a prudent civil and legal framework for prosecuting acts of force and fraud, enforcing contracts, and upholding private property rights.
• Objective Moral Norms: There is an objective transcendent moral order, which is ascertainable in the customs, conventions and morality defined by Christian tradition and revealed religious truth. Such objective norms serve to inform and guide civil society while the absence of such norms will lead to the deterioration of civil society and ordered liberty.
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