To no one will we sell, to no one deny right or justice. Years ago I was the keynote speaker at the first ever Essentials of Freedom Conference. My topic: Think or Sink - We Think or the West Sinks. There was so much food for thought at the conference - including John Robson’s talk on something I had heard about briefly in high school. Even that brief mention is no longer happening in most Canadian high schools - where world history has generally been dropped.
Interestingly, I just watched a podcast with a member of the Bitcoin movement - he mentioned and championed the Magna Carta a couple of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKByaM5asU8
I'm learning a lot from your postings. Thank you! I was introduced elsewhere (JBS) to a book, "The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates" by Matthew Trewhella, and heartily recommend it! It also draws on the Magna Carta, and its basic message (as I interpret it) is: If the authorities - head honchos such as: president, governor, liturgical or educational authority figures, etc. - do not stand strongly for the values in our Constitution and Bible, then the obligation to stand for what is right falls to the rest of us. Too many of us seem unwilling/ unable to take a stand if the traditional authority figures don't take a public stand for what is obviously right (as in the case of the forced jabs). This doctrine is clear instruction to us to act in defense of what we know to be right and good.
I'm glad you're learning.a lot from my postings. The book, Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates, sounds very interesting. About "too many of us seem unwilling/ unable to take a stand," I see that so many of us don't know what to do. We do things that "should" have a certain response - like get word out about an effective remedy - and are denigrated, etc. Quite a lot of learning to do!!!
This is very great idea. We all must try to develop freedom in all walks of life. But we must study real and factual history of community before allowing this all the way freedom to that community, otherwise,the whole project shall go in to hell. Especially the Islamic community.
Yes, it's vital to study the actual history of a community. If you watch the talk on the Magna Carta you will see that it was created in a community where already there was the sense of the people having rights. So in fact about 600 years before the Magna Carta there was already a community which did not see the king as having the right to do as he wanted.
Interestingly, I just watched a podcast with a member of the Bitcoin movement - he mentioned and championed the Magna Carta a couple of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKByaM5asU8
Thanks for such an interesting post.
For information only the following.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/why-magna-carta-remains-a-foundation-of-our-common-law-inheritance
Thank you.
I'm learning a lot from your postings. Thank you! I was introduced elsewhere (JBS) to a book, "The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates" by Matthew Trewhella, and heartily recommend it! It also draws on the Magna Carta, and its basic message (as I interpret it) is: If the authorities - head honchos such as: president, governor, liturgical or educational authority figures, etc. - do not stand strongly for the values in our Constitution and Bible, then the obligation to stand for what is right falls to the rest of us. Too many of us seem unwilling/ unable to take a stand if the traditional authority figures don't take a public stand for what is obviously right (as in the case of the forced jabs). This doctrine is clear instruction to us to act in defense of what we know to be right and good.
I'm glad you're learning.a lot from my postings. The book, Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates, sounds very interesting. About "too many of us seem unwilling/ unable to take a stand," I see that so many of us don't know what to do. We do things that "should" have a certain response - like get word out about an effective remedy - and are denigrated, etc. Quite a lot of learning to do!!!
This is very great idea. We all must try to develop freedom in all walks of life. But we must study real and factual history of community before allowing this all the way freedom to that community, otherwise,the whole project shall go in to hell. Especially the Islamic community.
Yes, it's vital to study the actual history of a community. If you watch the talk on the Magna Carta you will see that it was created in a community where already there was the sense of the people having rights. So in fact about 600 years before the Magna Carta there was already a community which did not see the king as having the right to do as he wanted.