The concept of Liberal Progressivism is antithetical and the antithesis of those principles that made this nation the greatest nation on earth. A nation that has liberated multitudes from the enslavement of tyranny and collectivism.
We are not a collective of human beings to be ruled upon by the laws of man; that a Communistic point of view and one that is shared by liberals like Obama.
We start with the concept of Natural rights.
INTRODUCTION to AMERICAN FOUNDING and CONSTITUTIONALISM
The prominence of the natural rights discourse from the Early Modern thinkers played a crucial role in guiding the creation of the founding documents of the American Republic. The rhetoric and logic of the natural rights tradition can be found in the resolutions of the first Continental Congress in their appeal to ‘the immutable laws of nature,’ and in the affirmation of the ‘unalienable rights’ of man in the Declaration of Independence. The Founders sought to secure the liberty and autonomy of the citizens of the American Republic, and the Constitution and Bill of Rights display the preoccupation with and concern for the inviolable rights belonging to man.
As the Republic grew over the next hundred years, natural rights remained a guiding, though not undisputed, principle for many of its leading thinkers. Tensions and obscurities arose as the thinkers of the fledgling Republic struggled to articulate the difference between natural rights and acquired rights and to define the categories to which they belonged. Justice James Wilson, a member of the first Continental Congress, posited that the categories could be overlapping and indicated the examples of marriage, parenthood, and the education of children as instances of the innate compatibility of natural rights and the ‘domestic economy.’ Others, however, favored the notion that rights originate in the social contract, and are therefore derived solely from the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
http://www.nlnrac.org/american
We are not a collective of human beings to be ruled upon by the laws of man; that a Communistic point of view and one that is shared by liberals like Obama.
We start with the concept of Natural rights.
INTRODUCTION to AMERICAN FOUNDING and CONSTITUTIONALISM
The prominence of the natural rights discourse from the Early Modern thinkers played a crucial role in guiding the creation of the founding documents of the American Republic. The rhetoric and logic of the natural rights tradition can be found in the resolutions of the first Continental Congress in their appeal to ‘the immutable laws of nature,’ and in the affirmation of the ‘unalienable rights’ of man in the Declaration of Independence. The Founders sought to secure the liberty and autonomy of the citizens of the American Republic, and the Constitution and Bill of Rights display the preoccupation with and concern for the inviolable rights belonging to man.
As the Republic grew over the next hundred years, natural rights remained a guiding, though not undisputed, principle for many of its leading thinkers. Tensions and obscurities arose as the thinkers of the fledgling Republic struggled to articulate the difference between natural rights and acquired rights and to define the categories to which they belonged. Justice James Wilson, a member of the first Continental Congress, posited that the categories could be overlapping and indicated the examples of marriage, parenthood, and the education of children as instances of the innate compatibility of natural rights and the ‘domestic economy.’ Others, however, favored the notion that rights originate in the social contract, and are therefore derived solely from the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
http://www.nlnrac.org/american
