Why All Christians and All Americans Should Support Ron Paul
Christian Political Presumption
It is presumed by most Christians in America that
the sign of a Christian politician is based upon their views on homosexuals,
abortion, drinking, prayer in school, drugs, prostitution, pornography, etc. etc.
But this is really not what Christian America was about to the founders. The
truth is that these issues were left to the church to decide the moral
correctness of such behavior. Meanwhile, the Christian patriots agreed on one
thing, namely, lawful government is created only by consent of the governed solely
for the protection of their property consisting of life liberty and “the pursuit
of happiness” or the acquisition of possessions to sustain the other two (life
and liberty).
Christian America
According to Thomas Jefferson, the American system of human
liberty was based upon the writing of only two men, John Locke and Algernon
Sidney. Sidney
wrote his Discourses Concerning
Government in 1683 but was beheaded by Charles the II for placing
sovereignty in the people rather than the monarch before he could publish it.
Locke published his First and Second
Treatise of Government in 1689 unsigned for fear of the same treatment. The
writer of the Declaration of Independence would know something about the views
of his associates and the source. Sidney
showed exhaustively that history revealed monarchy to be a bad and ultimately
unlawful form of government. Locke developed and elaborated upon the principles
of property that regulate every aspect of government from its lawful creation,
limits of power, lawful means of support, and means of dissolution. After you
read the Second Treatise you will wonder why people in “leadership roles” in American
education do not want you to know these things about your Christian political heritage.
It is the sole purpose of tax supported public education in Texas to teach the Principles of Property to
students so they can protect their lives and liberties according to Article 7
Section 1. Read 2nd Treatise at http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtreat.htm
Principles of Property
Locke began his second treatise with the State of Nature and the Law of
Nature that men find themselves in without government or when government is
dissolved. He bases all government upon the natural God given rights to each
person in the state of nature and showed that government can never lawfully
acquire more authority than any one person has in a state of nature. Locke
demonstrated the following realities:
- In a
state of nature individuals are at full liberty to do with their life,
liberty and possessions (or property) as they wish without asking any
other person or group.
- All
persons are free to do as they wish as long as they do not harm another in
their life, liberty or possessions.
- People
join together under contracts or constitutions for the sole purpose of the
protection of the property of each individual in the society.
- Locke
said when the state is created by consent the power of it is based upon
the authority in each individual to protect their own property in a state
of nature with force if necessary. The French economist, Frederick
Bastiat, proved this further in his book The Law written in 1850.
http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm
- All
power in government is based upon the delegated authority of the
individuals not the transfer of their properties consisting of life
liberty and possessions to the state.
- The
State, therefore, cannot acquire property consisting of life, liberty or
property. Therefore the state is not sovereign over the people who create
it.
- The
State is the agent of the people to protect their lives liberties and
possessions. This is also stated by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist
Letter 78. http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa78.htm
- The
State is sovereign and must remain so related to foreign, states, nations
and foreign citizens of same or it is thereby dissolved.
Christian Principle of Delegated Authority
Locke’s father was a Calvinist Attorney and Locke was a
defender of the protestant struggle for liberty under the Catholic monarchs and
he relied and built upon the work of Reverend Samuel Rutherford the
Presbyterian Professor of Theology at the University of Scotland
entitled Lex Rex written in 1644. Rutherford showed that the monarchs were under the law
and were monarchs only by the people with a contract and once the contract is
breached by the monarch the people are released from obligation. Rutherford and
Sidney relied on the natural law of delegated authority. Locke also used this
same law in his two treatises. This law says that no one can delegate to
another more authority than they hold in themselves. And Rutherford
showed that men have always the right of self-preservation and cannot delegate
their lives, liberties or possessions to anyone and become a mere caged animal.
Simple and true is it not? This is a major limiting factor to the concept of
“democracy.” http://www.constitution.org/sr/q04.txt
“Democracy” remains dead in America
after its burial in 350 BC
The founders of America never believed that
democracy was a legitimate form of government and its use was limited only to
those areas where it was clear that the people had authority to determine the
issue. Plato and Aristotle abandoned democracy in 350 BC as tyranny by the many
rather than tyranny by the few or a monarch. “Of the above-mentioned forms, the
perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of
constitutional government, democracy. For tyranny is a kind of monarchy which
has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the
interest of the wealthy; democracy, of the needy: none of them the common good
of all.” It was not until the publication of the 2nd Treatise that
the true common good was known in the protection of the property of each and
every individual in society. http://www.constitution.org/ari/polit_03.htm
Global bankers have bought up or funded global news outlets
like the BBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN and they control global public opinion
and shape policy and determine what the behavior of the individual will be in a
voting booth. They do not bother to explain to the voter that they may not have
authority in many cases to vote on the issue and the person votes to grant
power to government that the state cannot lawfully hold or exercise. For
instance, property taxes did not exist in the time of John Locke but were born
in America.
Such taxes are unlawful because no one can put a lien on my land or home without
showing that I have abused them someway by not paying an obligation I owed them
related to my property. Then how can millions of these people enter a voting
booth and determine that I owe property taxes on my private possessions to be
paid every year or the state will place a tax lien on it and seize it and sell
it to the highest bidder if not paid? It matters not that a majority of those
without authority voted to implement such a tax. Under this system the people
do not own land or homes they continually rent them from the state even after
paying for them fully and even building it with their own hands. The English
did not pay such a thing even to the monarchs. Holland was the only European nation that
paid ad valorem property taxes as of 1776 according to Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations.
American Civil Disobedience
Algernon Sidney elaborated upon the meaning of Romans 13
where St. Paul
admonishes the disciples to pray for their rulers and obey their commands. Most
pastors and preachers today do not nearly as well explaining Romans 13 as
Algernon Sidney in stating the ordained power of the government is to do good
for the people. Sidney
explained that when rulers do bad for the people and reward evil and punish
good that they lose their authority to rule the people and their ordination
under God. You owe this click to yourself to know how really smart our
forefathers were in 1683 and to know just how far Western Christianity has
slipped from what it once was under its new global mercantile master, http://www.constitution.org/as/dcg_310.htm
Ron Paul is only candidate to express the principles of property
While other candidates are lying about how they are going to
fix the “social security” theft, the “health care” system, stop the deluge of
illegal immigrants, manage a more efficient war and pray about it and seek God’s
guidance and insight, they also ignore 2000 years of Christian struggle to
advance political science based upon the principles of property residing in the
individual only and the state’s limited authority to protect that property. Ron
Paul will simply stop doing unlawful things in the office of President of the United States
and begin to do lawful things. Ron Paul gave a speech before the Americans for
Prosperity Foundation where he said that private property rights or property
ownership should be reinstated in America. He said that we no longer
own property because we pay the state annually to live on it and we must ask
the government to do anything on it. You owe it to yourself to see this video
at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8YWSK0_vHc
This video alone is sufficient to show that Ron Paul is the
only real reflection of real historic Christian principles rather than mere
Christian platitudes and personal testimonials. Ron Paul understands that America is
sovereign in relation to all other nations and that the UN is an unlawful
combination and that no state is sovereign over those who create it for their
own benefit. While all the other candidates speak about fixing socialism and the
police state in the name of Jesus, Ron Paul speaks with the vocabulary of the
founders to return to liberty and freedom through the practice of the
constitution and the Christian Principles of Property.
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Sincerely,
Ronald F. Avery