Defending The True Civil Rights Of The United States

I believe the history of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence is important in understanding it. The ACLU and other groups hate these documents because they contradict their anarchistic or other view of morality. That hate makes them the enemies of the Constitution and they are the individuals that government officers have given an oath to oppose. Many of our government officers have made themselves felons by forsaking that oath. They betrayers pretend to protect our civil rights while violating our true civil rights. They need to be fought by pointing our how they have betrayed the values of liberty our country was founded on and their betrayal endangers our safety and happiness.

I looked up Jefferson’s papers and found some attributed to him by the Avalon Project of Yale University. In these papers Locke and Sidney are credited with being the foundation upon which the bill of rights was formed. I do not know who Sidney was so I won’t address his contributions yet.

March 4, 1825

A resolution was moved and agreed to in the following words:

Whereas, it is the duty of this Board to the government under which it lives, and especially to that of which this University is the immediate creation, to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein, and to provide that none shall be inculcated which are incompatible with those on which the Constitutions of this State, and of the United States were genuinely based, in the common opinion; and for this purpose it may be necessary to point out specially where these principles are to be found legitimately developed:

Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Board that as to the general principles of liberty and the rights of man, in nature and in society, the doctrines of Locke, in his "Essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government," and of Sidney in his "Discourses on government," may be considered as those generally approved by our fellow citizens of this, and the United States, and that on the distinctive principles of the government of our State, and of that of the United States, the best guides are to be found in, 1. The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental act of union of these States. 2. The book known by the title of "The Federalist," being an authority to which appeal is habitually made by all, and rarely declined or denied by any as evidence of the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the United States, on questions as to its genuine meaning. 3. The Resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia in 1799 on the subject of the alien and sedition laws, which appeared to accord with the predominant sense of the people of the United States. 4. The valedictory address of President Washington, as conveying political lessons of peculiar value. And that in the branch of the school of law, which is to treat on the subject of civil polity, these shall be used as the text and documents of the school.

To find Locke’s view on Jesus I looked up his writings where I found he wrote “The Reasonableness of Christianity”

239. In this state of darkness and error, in reference to the "true God" Our Saviour found the world. But the clear revelation he brought with him, dissipated this darkness; made the one invisible true God known to the world: and that with such evidence and energy, that polytheism and idolatry hath no where been able to withstand it. But wherever the preaching of the truth he delivered, and the light of the gospel hath come, those mists have been dispelled. And, in effect, we, see that since Our Saviour's time, the belief of one God has prevailed and spread itself over the face of the earth. For even to the light that the Messiah brought into the world with him, we must ascribe the owning, and profession of one God, which the Mahometan religion hath derived and borrowed from it. So that, in this sense, it is certainly and manifestly true of Our Saviour, what St. John says of him, I John iii. 8, "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." This light the world needed, and this light it received from him: that there is but "one God", and he "eternal, invisible;" nor like to any visible objects, nor to be represented by them....

Jefferson was a Freemason and called himself a Christian though he held that Jesus was a philosopher and not the anointed one. Like John Locke he believed that Jesus was a reformer. I have found no mention of Jesus by John Locke in his Second Treatise on Civil Government though he bases his theory of Natural Law on God’s law and mentions God several times. This is equivalent to the actions of the founders in the Declaration of Independence when they made natural law the law of the United States.

If you have read the Constitution then you know that the Ninth Amendment mentions that there are rights retained by the people. These rights as well as the one in the Constitution are obviously those that the Declaration of Independence and The Second Treatise of Civil Government attribute God giving them by nature, According to the majority of Christian philosophy Jesus is the King who God has chosen to administer his commands by putting authorities over humankind. The authorities being the government and all its branches. These authorities have an obligation to God and to their own people to rule by natural law. Natural law being based on the rule of love your neighbor as yourself.