Establish Justice: Create a fair legal system, interpret laws, solve disputes, and ensure fair treatment under the law.
Ensure Domestic Tranquility: Keeping peace within their jurisdiction, often managed by local police, state national guards, and federal agencies, as well as maintaining stability within society.
Provide for the Common Defense: Protecting people within their jurisdiction from foreign attacks.
Promote the General Welfare: Supporting the well-being of citizens, which includes public healthcare, social services, education, and social security.
Secure the Blessings of Liberty: Ensuring freedom for current citizens and future generations, including rights like freedom of speech and the ability to petition the government.
Although state and national government have parallel structures, their powers are divided and intended to serve as a check on each other.
According to Articles I, II, III, and IV of the Constitution, as well as the Tenth Amendment, the states retain considerable power to correlate with important state responsibilities.
The states are entrusted with the authority to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people.“
KEY PRINCIPAL:authority is for a purpose, and is unseverably tied to a responsibilityto perform specific duties, honestly, ethically, and fairly, for broad public benefit.
A philosophical shift in thinking about the proper role and source of government itself was also underway in the late 1600s, and was given effective voice in John Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690).
Locke argued that governmental legitimacy was based on the consent of the governed and on a responsibility to protect natural rights.
While the Petition of Right acquiesced to the notion of the divine right of kings and merely reminded the king that previous monarchs had respected traditionally accepted liberties, Locke’s argument was radically different: people not only voluntarily agree to be governed, but possess rights that flow from nature itself, not from kingly decree.
Further, the very purpose of government is not to rule but to protect those rights.
“The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their [lives, liberties and property]” .
(John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, 1690)
Locke also argued that when a government no longer had the consent of the people, or did not adhere to its proper role of protecting fundamental liberties, then the people have the right to change or overthrow it.
Thomas Jefferson would echo these arguments in the Declaration of Independence (1776), asserting that “the history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations [wrongful seizure of power].” Therefore, according to Jefferson, the king was “unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
“the state’s primary role is to serve as the legitimate, territorial monopoly on the use of force to maintain order, protect property, and ensure security.”
It is therefore critical that all use of force, in any action, be held to the highest legal and ethical standards, for broad public benefit, instead of as a tool of manipulation, deception, coercion, extortion, theft, retaliation, and oppression (aka “bullying”) by government “bad” actors and agencies (aka “insiders”) often for private criminal interests.
For the purposes of this website, we stand upon the shoulders of our forefathers, upon the belief that God is good, that all people are created equally, with unalienable natural rights bestoyed on each by our Creator.
We further hold that government power comes with the adjoined responsibility to protect and serve the public, with the even-handed administration of justice, and that it is the express duty of every government actor and employee (both state and federal), to discharge their duties honestly in good faith, acting ethically and lawfully for broad public benefit, without respect of persons.
It is for this purpose that this website is being created; because true equality amongst people and even-handed justice is unfortunately NOT within the practical reach of MOST Michiganders (Michiganians), nor MOST of our fellow Americans.
For the sake of each State, our families, neighbors, friends, associates, and the generations who follow, it’s time that we change that!(It’s actually an international crime against humanity not to.)