Bringing Passion & Critical Thinking Anchored In Our Solemn Responsibility As Americans To Defend The Original Letter & Spirit of our Union

A respect for the listeners, the readers, and the participators of our national discussions surely merits bringing forward our conversation to the greatest possible satisfactory quality; unhindered from prejudice, bias, or self-interest. 

As it regards participation of individual Americans in the national discussions, how should they be taught to order their intellectual endeavor; the alignment of the causes that they champion unto a practical sequence of rational’ that ultimately arrives at a connection of finding the roots of their cause in the fundamental laws as written and originally intended in 1776 (Declaration Of Independence) and 1787 (U.S. Constitution)? Would not such a process have to be established upon a critical thinking, independently-minded mode of an interplay of reason, and ultimately an action of participation in national discussion? As such, is it not the role of parents, and our American schools to responsibly shape the generations of children; the people, to have such a mind, and such a determination to bring to the forefront? 

The determination of ordering the championing of a cause in alignment to: the word of our foundational, unalienable laws, and the spirit of intention as intended in 1776 and 1787, would bring us to a place of reason that our founding fathers, and selfless champions of liberty since that founding approached: a respect for human life, for self-determination, for the natural laws of humanity; the creation of a national community established on those laws, and an ‘unction’ of duty, that the people maintain the word and spirit of the laws meant to protect individual human rights. Such a ‘spirit’ can only be discerned if we can rightly identify the champions of liberty, study their writings and examine their works. Doing so requires a critical mind that is trained to be unbiased, and selfless in its end, seeking no final narrative of justification aside from upholding the word & spirit of intent of the Declaration of Independence: a document that promises in our agreement unto it, a shared national community of specific truths that ascertain justice for all in our acceptance of our equal liberty, starting at the point of creation.

That ‘unction;’ a solemn duty of the responsibility of individual Americans to maintain the laws in alignment with the original understanding of the promises of individual liberty, are referenced in our Declaration of Independence: it is our right to alter or abolish government found to be in opposition to these fundamental laws; not for transient causes, but “when the long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariable the same object evinces design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is the right, it is the duty to throw off such government, and to provide  guards for their future security, (Declaration of Independence, 1776).” 

So it is that generations of critical thinking American individuals, anchored in these correct understandings of the natural, fundamental laws of the United States of America, must with the ‘good conduct’ that Alexander Hamilton spoke of in Federalist #1, enjoin national discussion with a legal mind that brings their passion for strengthening the life of our nation into the public domain.

Therein is the challenge, and therein we find if the quality of education in our American schools suffices to produce Americans who can adequately champion their causes, ordered in its reasoning, sequential and legal in its approach, and tethered unto the original proclamation of words and spirit of 1776 & 1787.

How else did our founding fathers of our Continental Congress create such a mighty union?, or how did John Quincy Adams exemplify his defense of equal individual liberty for those of black skin color, and of Native American heritage? With what strategy did Frederick Douglass apply to reach the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and the people’s of Ireland and England? What instrumentality did Abraham Lincoln introduce and employ to shape his compassion for others? 

They were civil. 

They had tremendous respect to the formula of winning with civility. It was public speaking and writing to the listening and reading audience.  It was being a presence in the community; walking and organizing civil protest within the letter of the law, as was the case of Martin Luther King. Because we are a nation of laws and civility is the grace rendered to a people who adhere to the law,—we approach peace; always endeavoring unto that end; justice.

So it is, that the maintaining of America as a nation of laws wherein we create civility, peace, and ultimately true justice, we must teach the writings & spirit of intention of the selfless champions of liberty, that we may know how to order our speech with respect for the intellect of our reading and listening audience. Our safeguard against political self-interest in government and in the midst of much politically-slanted journalistic outlets, and the always present reality of political factions is ‘selflessness.’  It is the shaping of unalloyed, independent-minds that are critical thinking, with gentle hearts; firmly anchored in that unction of determination to keep our nation of laws as one that is for the protection of individual human rights, at all points, across all stages of humanity, in an unbroken sequence of life, beginning when we are created. Our championed causes being saved as we anchor these upon the promissory note that is our Declaration of Independence; our spirit of American union; honoring and reclaiming our liberty to champion with good conduct, and yet roaring; with civility, and yet,-- relentless.