Here's another item exposing the reality of "America," in this case from Davidson via Vox.
...Those who would reduce America to an abstract proposition either misunderstand or misrepresent our history and heritage. As I argued at NatCon last year, nearly everyone who argues that America is a proposition is wrong about what the proposition is and what it means. “All men are created equal” is a specifically
Christian[Catholic] claim, not a universal call to multiculturalism and mass immigration. It emerged as a political ideal fromChristian[Catholic] Europe, and arrived in America by way of settlers and pioneers who came here specifically to establish a nation where they could practice their Christian faith as they saw fit.In other words, America isn’t a grab-bag of Enlightenment tropes about free speech and equality, but the product of
Christian[Catholic] Europe. The ideals that animated our founders are universal in the same way that theChristian[Catholic] faith is universal: God created all men equal, they all bear the imago Dei, the image of God, and are all His children. But the only people who ever took that self-evident truth and used it as a foundation on which to forge a new nation were the English colonists in America....
That is the truth of the matter. That said, the obvious implication for US law is that it must rest on Natural Law for its liceity. One could also propose that such a Natural Law must be understood in its Christian context.
That being said, when do you think Trump is gonna force all the American law schools to start teaching natural law again?
ReplyDeleteNot this again. Davidson and Vox...and Dad29 are dead wrong here.
ReplyDeletePreserving rights “for one’s posterity” was legal and political repudiation of feudalism, which stated liberties were a grant from a monarch and the State, and reverted upon his/her death. That is, fundamental freedoms were NOT passed to future generations. The Declaration and the Federalist Papers in particular destroys that feudalist notion. More importantly, Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, as a component of our Constitution and reflects original intent, granted Congress and NOT the States the authority to establish uniform rules of naturalization. By definition, naturalization extends citizenship, and the liberties related to it, to an “outsider”.
So, the drafters of our Constitution and the adopting states fully comprehended the new Congress would have to power to receive immigrants and set forth the standards under which they are naturalized. Citizenship therefore was NOT exclusively confined to the British nor Christians. This means this argument that the franchise of citizenship is meant to be confined solely to the Protestant British children of rebel British subjects is not reflected in the clear meaning of the document. Since immigration was allowed to the United States, at first to Europeans but later extended to non-Europeans, the “posterity” includes more than the actual descendants of residents of our great nation at that time.
Posterity does not refer to the progeny of the founders but of the People as a whole. While this population was primarily of British descent, the Dutch, Germans, Irish, Scots, French, Africans, and Native Americans ALL fought to remove the shackles of tyranny from Great Britain.
Posterity is synonymous with “legacy”–what we leave behind. Indeed, few, if any, had imagined when the Constitution was created that anyone BUT a white European had the intellectual capacity to embrace Republican principles of government…YET the criterion of commitment to those ideas is NOT itself racial or ethnic specific. Of course, that does NOT mean foreigners have the right to enter our shores, and it is legitimate, although in my opinion unreasonable, to doubt that non-white groups are equal to the task to embrace such principles.
Have you any idea what you're talking about?
ReplyDeleteI quoted the part which is correct. I am not Vox Day. Take your wall-of-words bs elsewhere, thanks
ReplyDeleteI clearly provide the argument. You and he are dead wrong. No amount of your piss and vinegar is going to change that fact.
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