On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry gave his famous speech “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”. This modern adaptation by John Ainsworth brings this speech into modern times, drawing a parallel, and telling Americans to fight for truth and the law, in order that we might once again have a limited federal government and true state-rights.
Full text and author’s note at: http://www.americasremedy.com/givemel…
Release date: March 22, 2013
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Johns’ premise: Our current government is flawed, and cannot be redeemed by selection of the “correct” people to political office.
My proposition: all men are flawed and not capable of creating or operating political government that is not corrupt.
There is a “circular illogic” in Johns’ belief that flawed men can create or re-create a constitutional republican government that men cannot corrupt.
Also consider something John stated in his post: “the government/King was the sovereign … (the) people, as a state/body politic (not individuals) were the sovereign”. The king ruled by authority delegated from God (that was the arguement for Devine Right of Kings). If, as we have been told, our American political government is established by consensual delegation of some of our individual rights / authority, how can that recipient of delegated authority claim to be “sovereign”? Non Sequitur.
Only God is sovereign and man was created in His image. Only we as individuals, not a State in any form, can claim the label “sovereign”.