Corporate Regulation, the 28th Amendment, and Game Changing Policies

April 28th, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Having dealt with our social theory of Functionalism+ in my last article, it has now become necessary for the furthering of the movement to outline its politics.

The goal of this article is to outline the movement’s political theory; specifically those aspects regarding Federal and state regulations on American commerce, and defending the constitutional justice of such regulations.

We proclaim the essential function of the constitution as being to protect individual rights of its citizens, liberty being foremost of those rights; individual property following; and commercial entity rights last after all those of the individual citizen.

Commercial Regulation is Constitutional

“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United Sates […] [The Congress shall have power] To regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states…” –The Constitution of the United States

United Americanism agrees with our constitution. We proclaim commerce to be a national right–not an individual right–transacted with individual properties, but enabled and protected by the government’s as a whole with the function of increasing the nation’s welfare.

functionally, American commerce’s purpose is that of increasing the nation’s welfare. The act of employing the laborer, and transacting with the public, and paying advancing wages to increase the welfare of the laborer as an incentive to increasing productivity and beneficial transactions with the public; and this conduct advertises the relationship between laborer and the commercial entity as economically reciprocal: a beneficial livelihood in the interest of both the commercial entity and the individual laborer. This means the relationship is intended to increase the welfare of the public and raise the standard of living for both parties.

And since the function of national commerce is increasing the welfare of the nation’s individual citizens, commercial entities must be subject to regulation through legislation where the commercial entity abridges the rights of the laborers, where it decreases the welfare of the individual, and where it is deemed by the public to be reasonable and in the public’s interest to regulate.

American Commerce is Established to Increase Public Welfare

To achieve wealthy status should not be a release from responsibility to their community, but the solidification that responsibility.

It is written in our Declaration of Independence that our free and independent states will have the right to “establish commerce”, and if it is a right a free and independent state to establish commerce, it is obviously the right of a union of free and independent states, as well as the individual states themselves, to manage the commerce it has established to protect and increase the public’s welfare.

We further hold that legislation regulating commerce should be enacted by first the federal government, and all power not managed by federal government be subject to state legislation. The notion of federal, or united, supremacy over the state is not idiosyncratic of the United Americanism Movement, but rather the position the public has historically chosen. Americans choose union over confederacy because we understand the necessity of being united to individual welfare; we fought and died in a horrible civil war to defend that necessity, and in the end, unity won the day.

The dismissal of the faction-engendering articles of confederation in favor of the union-promoting constitution are actions best accounted for in the texts of the Federalist Papers–propaganda published anonymously in 1787, written with the intent of “selling” the constitution to the American people–and guess what? We were sold; and on March 4th 1789, the Constitution of the United States was put into effect. In the words of the Federalist Papers co-author Alexander Hamilton:

“I propose, in a series of papers, to discuss the following interesting particulars: The utility of the union to your political prosperity […] The insufficiency of the present confederation to preserve that union […] and lastly, The additional security which [the constitution’s] adoption will afford to the preservation of that species of government, to liberty, and to property.” –The Federalist Papers.

Hamilton proclaims it is in the interest of the public’s welfare to adopt the constitution; “A matter of the utmost moment to your WELFARE.”

“Yes, my countrymen,” Hamilton writes, “I own to you that, after having given it an attentive consideration I am clearly of opinion it is your interest to adopt [the constitution]. I am convinced that this is the safest course for your liberty, your dignity, and your happiness.” –The Federalist Papers.

Note Hamilton’s main argument which proposes that the function of the constitution is explicitly that of public welfare–safety, liberty, dignity, and happiness. James Madison, fourth president of the United States, writing in the Federalist Papers as well, had this to say about factions, that is oppressive interest groups, in regards to their threat to society:

“But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.” –James Madison. The Federalist Papers.

What About Our Freedom to Contract?

The human being’s right to private contract is one of the fundamental rights of freedom. But absolutely nothing stops us from selling our labor for a pittance, or whatever we want, but just not to a public organization that employs and transacts with the public in the interest of both’s welfare.

Each and every one of us has the right to incorporate a business, to be our own CEO’s and sell our individual labors for whatever we can, but we don’t all want to be our own CEO’s. Why? Because there is no job security in being the sole member of your own commercial entity, selling your work for whatever you can, so individuals willingly give up the freedom to set their own hours and wages when they choose to join with other individuals in an organized company for job security. And it is in these organized situations where the laborer is vulnerable to exploitation.

The Problem of Space in American Politics

“If you don’t like it, go someplace else,” used to be a valid argument in the United States. Our founding generation had the concept of wide open space and territory of the new world lodged into their conceptions of this nation, and one of the benefits of having seemingly unlimited space, is that if one community is fostering unjust business practice, then you always ultimately have the choice to pick up stakes and move on.

But what happened when the space dried up in America? People no longer have the choice to strike out into the wild frontier and establish a new life for themselves off in their own utopian creations, and so when our communities practice unjust business practices, and take advantage of the the laborers, the people no longer have the choice to leave if they don’t like it. There is no someplace else to go.

Instead the modern day laborer has no choice but to interact with the commercial entities available to him in already established societies, if he wants job security, which he has the constitutional right to pursue, a right the constitution is supposed to protect, having the individual right to pursue happiness; the freedom to elevate themselves from worry of economic destitution, of self-determination. But if the commercial entities have colluded to promote predatory business practices–increasing profits at the cost of the rights of the laborer–the modern day laborer has no choice but to be taken advantage of if they want job security. Thus, our individual rights are infringed upon by the CEOs, and no individual or organization has the right to infringe upon another citizen’s rights, thus commerce must be regulated.

What’s Blocking Government Regulation?

As it is explicitly proclaimed in the Constitution of the United Sates, United Americanism holds that legislation regulating commerce is just.

It does not abridge our individual rights, which affect the welfare of the citizen, because the very creation of a commercial entity implies intent to interact with the public, both transacting business with the general public, and employing the general public to increase the benefit of those transactions.

Commerce is therefore a public enterprise in the interest of the public’s welfare, so if the public deems there is just reason to regulate certain aspects of commerce–such as minimum wage and taxation–which decrease public welfare, the federal and state governments must have the power to pass regulatory legislation to protect its citizens.

The problem is, as things stand, congress does not have explicit power to regulate predatory commerce practices. Explicit power is needed in todays political atmosphere where the supreme court has ruled the nation into a narrow interpretation of the constitution in its Citizens United ruling, and related rulings, which sterilize the constitution, dissolving its capability of regulating predatory business practices. If neither the state nor federal legislation can regulate economic affairs, who can?

The United Americanism Movement is persuaded that the American people must change the payoffs and add incentives for the CEOs of America in order to protect the interests of the individual and strengthen the economy. We need to change the payoffs of unjust business practices and add incentives for improving the community, but none of this is possible without regulation enforceable through sanctions, and this is not possible under the contemporary narrow interpretation of the constitution that favor the corporations.

Regulation is Good for Business

Humanity does not act except to satisfy his self-interest. We cannot control the causes of a CEO’s character, but we can offer payoffs and incentives in the interest of the public that will regulate the effects of unjust business practice, and entice every CEO to be a more virtuous business person by defining legally what a virtuous business person looks like.

If we define publicly and legally what a virtuous business person looks like, then America will necessarily change which values it seeks in a good business person.

When America changes which values it seeks in a good business person, good business people will change their conduct to remain or become desirable business people. When business people supply the desirable character the public demands, the public will be obliged to reciprocally support and esteem good business people in their communities. Why? Because what a good business person is, is a virtuous business person, and must, by law, be in the interest of the public in order to have been successful.

When the public esteems a good business person, there will be incentive for more intelligent, talented people to become good business people, who might have cried off from the profession in the past due to a moral prisoners dilemma that requires the CEOs to exploit their laborers to get ahead in business.

When the public loves good business, the public will support their businesses with a vigor not imaginable in todays economic political atmosphere.

Corporate regulation deemed reasonable by the public, enforced by the federal government is not bad for business, it is necessary for the evolution of American commerce, and is the path to the latent economic recovery this nation so badly needs.

Corporations are NOT Individuals

Only the individual is real and natural, but if one pushed further, one would realize that the society is a requirement of man’s nature. I do not wish to be part of any society that I do not choose. It is my choice, you do not bind me.

“The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS.”–James Madison. The Federalist Papers.

Given this perspective, it seems that one will do what is his given choice, and that choice may contradict our constitution that protects the people. And this conduct will seep into every aspect of business practice which is not checked by legislation.

But as we have seen, change cannot be achieved through external reform alone, it requires an internal revelation in the individual, the laborer and the CEO both. Change cannot be won through violent revolution and overthrow of the extant government. Corporations are not people, but the CEOs who control them are. They are individuals, they are not machines outside of that which we have created ourselves.

Revolution is NOT the Answer

Many people think liberalism has no way to guarantee order and stability. By promising its arguments on the individual and self-interested behavior, it creates tendencies toward revolution. Not only is revolution wrong, but it is dangerous.

It is falsely said that revolutions never go backwards. They always go backwards, and usually further back in social development than the extant system.

Revolution is not the answer. Revolution and overthrow will produce anarchy; anarchy is the absence of order and that which stops us from destroying each other.

99% of us are a single class, we are all politically powerless in the shadow of the 1%. We are all oppressed by the distraction and amazement of the 1%. We are all tricked into unrequited labor for our 1% masters.

What good is our right to self-determination if we cannot exercise it under the oppression of predatory business practices? The only fix is to redefine our values internally, to come to the realization of these truths, and we must regulate public institutions that threaten our individual liberties.

Socialism is born out of a correct diagnosis of the American problem, but an inability to consolidate that diagnosis with affective change in the extant government. This is based on the notion that the system won’t change itself, so must be overthrown to change. This is the greatest flaw of Bronson and Marx’s socialism: the assumption that liberalism is not capable of enacting change in the government.

Self-regulation is liberalism’s only means for change, but it is a means. We have a means, we have a way, we are not locked into violent revolt and upheaval leading to devastating, devolving anarchy.

United Americanism holds that without violent force, and without aggression, liberalism can promote progressive, positive change in our government, not through external revolution, but through internal revelation.

How do we do it? Willingly. That is the only way. We must willingly cooperate with each other to the end of abolishing commercial oppression of the laborer.

The exaggerated need for material wealth and power extant in the members of the American 1% that brings them honor and importance must be maintained, but will be composed of different stuff. We will honor and respect the super-wealthy because we will understand the responsibility these people except for being the super-wealthy.

How do we affect self-regulation? We’ve already defined regulation, but what does it mean to self-regulate? Simply that the individuals in a system regulate the system, and so each individual must regulates themselves.

How do we do that? United Americanism believes the answer is to create a community; a cohesive community fostering a solidarity between its members with a shared ideology of moral and relational conduct.

The American Wage Slave

Men and women are rewarded in reverse ratio to how much they perform. The more you do, the less you get. The worker is exploited. The owners are living parasitically on the backs of the workers.

The ownership class siphons from workers the luxuries they provide. Society rewards the owner managerial class as respectable citizens. He is one of our respected citizens, and perhaps is praised for his liberal donations to the poor, strutting around securely in social protection.

What about the proletariat? Their living conditions can border on inhumane, and they have no political power to overcome it. Freedom of speech and religion are politically useless to the working class.

The proletariat come out of their profession with less than they came into it with. They are drained, working the jobs available to them. The quiet and unassuming, those too proud to beg or apply for welfare, are hopeless. Being a laborer is almost enough to damn the individual to infamy and subject them to discrimination and branding with stigma.

Workers are exploited, the victims of wage slavery. They do not get a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. Wage slaves who are nominally free are not equal citizens to the class that actually controls the political legislation.

But we must understand and accept that these businesses are only possible because of the sovereignty of the united nation. Without the united nation, the business would not exist. In order to have the freedom to create business, you must accept the rules which regulate the game, that protect the players, or you cannot play. This is natural justice. The nation, the people, must not allow for business to grow on the backs of the oppressed.

There is Hope for Change

Government’s job is to advance public good and to advance the vision of american liberalism, to make real the concepts of liberty and equality.

Government can liberate, indeed it must liberate. But when the era of small concerns and small capital was succeeded by great aggregations of capital, all this was changed: the individual labored who had been relatively important to the small employer was reduced to insignificance and powerlessness by his corporate employer, at the same time the way upward was closed to him. This is the impetus of the formation of unions.

Man must not only improve his condition, but the condition of others. The public’s tool is government and the function of that tool must be to improve the condition of mankind.

Labor is the superior of capital, capital exists for labor, so deserves much higher consideration. The steel of Lincoln’s notion was: The man comes before the dollar, the people before property.

Meet the crisis of economic polarization. The dissatisfaction among the working class.

Corporate interests must be limited through regulation. Corporations must be brought to heel in the name of the public good. The true friend of property, the true conservative insists the creature of man’s making shall be its servant and not his master, but Functionalism+ recognizes EVERY INDIVIDUAL as the creator of their own lives, makers of their own realities. Property should be the servant and not the master of society. Government should regulate unjust commerce in the interest of the public.

This means that regulations on American commerce is not unconstitutional, in that it does not abridge individual rights, but controls a national right in the interest of the public’s welfare.

We must give each citizen an equal opportunity for economic success, not to push them up, but if they are a worthy laborer, we must try our best to give them a chance to show the worth that is in them.

Health, safety, welfare, and morals may be policed by the state as long the reformation is reasonable. Wage regulations, hour regulations of workers are not a guarantee of success, but a guarantee of opportunity.

Broadening the Scope of the Constitution

The constitution, in essence, is concerned with the liberty and welfare of the individual citizen.

But in the supreme court case of Atkins v. children’s hospital in 1923, the supreme court struck down a federal law which established an equal minimum wage for men and women working in British Colombia. Then a year later in 1924, Radice v. New York, a case not involving economic regulation allowed gender distinctions in legislation to stand.

Ultimately liberty of contract trumpeted even gender equality–a key factor in public welfare–in economic regulation cases judged in the Supreme Court.

It was cases like these that paved the way to the 2010 ruling on Citizens United case which applied individual rights to commercial organizations, allowing them to spend corporate money on political efforts. What could possibly make it more apparent that commercial entities must be subject to government legislation then that they have the ability to use their economic power to influence American politics? No commercial organization should be able to affect politics as an entity, indeed no group should be able to contribute to political affairs. This is a right reserved only for the individual.

We must add an Amendment that gives federal government the express power by congress to regulate corporations, checked and regulated itself by the people and an associated constitution. I offer the following Amendment to grant explicit right to congress for passing legislation to protect the public:

AMENDMENT XXVIII

Section 1. Commerce is a public enterprise established by the American free nation, made possible by the public acting in tandem with a commercial entity established through the laws of a free State; therefore, commerce is subject to regulation by federal and state legislation; (1)where a public elected commission determines it is in interest of the public’s welfare, and (2)where the people determine there is reasonable cause to regulate.
Section 2. Nothing contained in this article may be interpreted to abridge the rights of individuals, but rather must be interpreted within the bounds of its explicit intent: to regulate a national institution in the protection and interest of the American public.
Section 3. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Society must be organized for the benefit of all. Equal opportunity is the key. Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. Government must step in to protect liberties to their purpose of advancing personal freedom and equality.

Even according to Reagan, Our abiding love of freedom unites us. And if freedom is threatened by unregulated private corporation, then he must agree that it is constitutional for the government to act on the people’s behalf and in their interest.

We have to avoid entrenched classes which give permanent privilege to some and permanent oppression to others.

We must start equally in the capitalist race with the understanding that only some will win. In a race, simply starting at the same point, without preparation, doesn’t give you a fair chance to win the race.

Only by the government uplifting the less prepared can democratic equality be achieved. We must embrace a strong government and national power to make possible the achievement and realization of individual merit. Only with this can the promise of american life be fulfilled. But to realize this promise, we’re going to need a few game changing policies.

Game Changers

Even before the Citizens United Ruling is repealed or thrown out by the Supreme Court, we may have a chance to pass legislation regulating corporations and increase the public’s welfare if we tackle the argument from the premise that, commercial entities are public enterprises and so are not protected by individual citizen rights; furthermore, commercial entities are capable and benefited by abridging the rights of free, individual citizens, decreasing the public welfare.

Here are several examples of policies that could start our nation in the right direction for liberty, equality, and happiness:

1. We must abolish the static minimum wage: we must establish a graduated minimum wage ranging from below the current minimum wage up to $21.72–the amount according to a study minimum wage would be at if we kept balance with the amount of productivity of the worker’s dollars for larger organizations–and beyond. We must also require fair wages for fair work relative to this pay scale for both sexes and all races and religions.

Fair wages is everything that the laborer produces being retained by the laborer. So how does this work in a corporation? Laborers should be paid on a graduated scale depending on the quarterly reported profits of the corporation. This will increase the worker’s incentive to work hard and do a good job. This will naturally change incentives for business to promote employees to positions of both higher pay and more work responsibility.

Graduated minimum wage doesn’t have to be complex; in fact, it can be as straight forward as adjusting a corporations minimum wage based on a percentage of the corporation’s profit. Corporations reporting higher profits will legally be required to adjust minimum wage in their company based on that quarter’s profits. If we max out minimum wage at $21.72, and adjust the highest tier of profit earning to require a $21.72 minimum wage, then we will guarantee that labor is affordable and equally available to the small business CEO as it is to the large business CEO.

A graduated pay range is the most direct way to rebalance the labor pay scale which paradoxically pays higher wages for less work. This will allow for budding commercial entities to be able to afford the labor the require from others, and protect the laborer from unfair pay for their labor.
2. We must offer small business grants to help startups: we can put more focus on giving federal assistance to small businesses that we believe in. Kickstarter, a crowd funding platform launched in 2009, claims it has received over $1 billion in pledges from 5.7 million donors to fund 135,000 projects, all from willing donations from the public. It is obvious that Americans are willing to support small startups, and offers a radically new example of how the government might handle funding its grant program; imagine a website like Kickstarter where anyone can hop online and choose which small businesses look the most promising, and actively engaging in the decisions for federal funding.

Talk about incentive to not only have a good business plan, but also to include the welfare of the public, who the business now must convince of its virtuous intentions.
3. We must enforce graduated taxation on all commerce: we will enforce taxation in tiers that must not have a cap. Taxation must always be enforced based on a reasonable percentage of a company’s profits. We must remember that all commerce is made possible only by our free and independent nation, which protects that freedom and independence at a united level, and so must be considered an inherent partner in all public entities. Taxes must be paid as a percentage of profits, without a cap, to the entity which enables and protects those profits: the government.
4. We support the notion of the Federal Bureau of Investigations overseeing corporate behavior: special commissions can be elected to make sure their interests are those of the American Citizen based on the assessment of an Interstate Commerce Commission. Public power must be capable of checking private power, and private power cannot be allowed to grow to the point it overtakes public power.
5. We need to reinstate an Interstate Commerce Commission: the ICC is a system of commissions dedicated to representing the pleas for regulation and oversight in the benefit of the public good, made up of Experts–public spirited men of great vision who would sit on governmental commissions and look out for the public good–to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of unjust business practices. The new ICC could make sure private interest does not encroach on the public interest.
6. We should launch an Enterprise Investment Scheme: an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is a series of tax reliefs designed to encourage investments in small unquoted companies carrying on a qualifying trade. Investment in companies that are not listed on a stock exchange often carries a high risk. The tax relief is intended to offer some compensation for that risk. The EIS offers both income tax and capital gains tax reliefs to investors who subscribe for shares in qualifying companies. The goal is to stimulate entrepreneurship and kick start the economy.
7. We should make university grants available to all: higher education is expensive. It is too expensive for the proletariat to afford without scholarships, grants, or other assistance. University Grants should be available to all our nation’s students to apply for, be based on student performance and evaluation, and be proportioned equally to each state according to the youth’s population.
8. We should offer state school tax credits: according to Wikipedia, a tax credit is a sum deducted from the total amount a taxpayer owes to the state. A tax credit may be granted for various types of taxes, such as an income tax, property tax, or VAT. It may be granted in recognition of taxes already paid, as a subsidy, or to encourage investment or other behaviors. Enticing Tax credits rewarded for donations to the state school system is a perfect example of those incentives we talked about earlier for CEOs to support our nation’s public education.
9. We must end Super-PACs: a small number of wealthy individuals, utilizing outside spending groups known as “super-PACs” are financially supporting political actions. According to an article by Juan Cole on NationofChange, “Ari Berman has shown that about four-fifths of the money raised by super PACs in 2011 for the Republican primary contests was donated by only 196 individuals, who gave $100,000 or more each.

One way to end Super-PACs might be passing legislation to further restrict donations appropriately by allowing them only within the jurisdiction which governs the registered address of each voter: an individual could donate to someone running for US representative in their own district but not in the neighboring one.

10. It is important that public schools offer the best opportunities to our children to excel in their societies: in addition to better funding for our state schools to allow the students to have access to modern technology and resources which reflect that of contemporary society–if my daughter didn’t have access to an iPad or an iPhone, she wouldn’t know half the words she does now, or have achieved such a level of fine motor skills at such a young age–It is equally as important to provide free school meals to all students enrolled in state schools, because while we can’t control the cause of malnutrition, abuse, and neglect, we can combat it by providing nutritious meals and a safe learning environment for our children.
11. We must subsidize school and public busses: not only are busses an efficient way to ensure our children get to school safely, but public busses reduce pollution, alleviate traffic congestion, and most importantly, they offer the lower income citizens a means of transportation which is be crucial to their social and economic welfare.
12. We must establish fair rent regulations to protect renters: rent regulations are a system of laws, administered by a court or a public authority, which limits the changes that can be made in the price of renting a house or other real property. The objective is to limit the price that would result from the market, where inequality of bargaining power between landlords and tenants produces continually escalating prices. Fair rent regulations would prevent the exploitation of the poor by predatory landlords.
13. We must offer child benefits in the form of child stamps: a major reason for able-bodied workers not currently looking for a job is family obligations, such as the inability to secure childcare or being without transportation.

Offering a fixed payment to parents or caregivers with newborns will do more than help offset the cost of raising a child, and help the parents to afford childcare and return to work, but will provide incentive for caregivers who did not plan on the child, or have fallen into financial ruin, to fulfill the needs of their children, even if the weight of poverty sits heavy on their shoulders.

Our children do not grow up on their own; it takes dedicated parents. Child benefits would offer no incentive to misuse the benefits. I don’t see why these benefits shouldn’t be akin to food stamps, another wonderful program we must endorse, only be baby-food stamps, diaper stamps, baby-clothes stamps, etc.

How are we going to pay for all this? Subsidies, grants, and benefits get expensive, even with all the new jobs and revenue it will produce for the government. So how do we plan on paying for all this?

If the following sounds shocking, bear with me, and if there are other avenues of increasing our revenue that you know will have the same boons to our budget and GDP as the following, then please email me [calebjacobo@gmail.com].

We must decrease our military budget to one-third its present budget, we must protect consumer rights, offer high foreign investing tax breaks to encourage foreign business, levy a tax on land gobbling mansion properties, and fund the sciences in the form of publicly chosen research projects.

Legalizing gambling and prostitution, as shocking as it sounds, might also provide us with a manageable, regulate-able, and taxable means for the excess revenue needed to accomplish our ultimate goal of liberty and equality.

Also, if we launch an effective Enterprise Investment Scheme, no doubt we can expect the benefit of its revenue.

Repealing Citizens United may be a long and difficult struggle, but it is an important one, and these steps taken in tandem with others like them will bring about change in policy.

The Problem of Freedom

What is the relationship between liberty and equality in liberal thought? Which comes first? Liberty, or equality? Are they the same thing? Is one needed for the other? If so, which is primary? For the founding generation, liberty and equality were interchangeable. Liberty is the paramount right. So equality is defined politically based on rights, freedom is one of these rights.

What does the average American want? Do we want freedom, or do we want equality. Clearly both, but what we really want is inclusion in a society from which we’ve been barred. A developing society, the fruits of which we cannot enjoy. We are the American 99%.

Predatory business practices threaten our freedom. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and government must derive their power from the governed. This is our guarantee of democratic justice as long as we have political equality. But as it stands, we are so desperately separate.

The American people want the capacity to be free, to be equal; with equality, political freedom can flow.

The average American’s political power is minuscule compared to the economic power of big money. Politically, we cannot engage in self-determination, and this is felt by the majority of Americans. This is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy.

Equality must be established for all Americans to dissolve this oligarchy, but this is not a task for external reform alone, but necessitates internal revelation on a mass scale which promotes and educates on the necessity of equality. We must create an indivisible community of Americans sharing the same values aimed at a common goal of equality and freedom.

How do Our Politics Relate to Functionalism+

We were founded by puritans who were christian. This is one side of our history. The other is the secular philosophy of civil liberty. So what should be our unified law when spiritualists say our duty should be to God, and naturalists who say it should be to man?

We’ve already offered a solution to this problem in my previous article in the form of Functionalism+. Functionalism+ allows us to create a cohesive community focused not on the matter of the issues, but the causes and effects of the issues. Functionalism+ is the social aspect of the United Americanism Movement, and our means of social cohesion; spiritualist and naturalist alike.

Jesus Christ, the prince of peace, makes it clear for Judeo-Christians, dependents of our puritan ancestors, what our primary law should be; and this is a paraphrasing: Love God with all thy heart, and all thy soul, and all thy mind; This is the first great commandment. The second is to love man as you love God… On this, hang all the law.

The spiritualist says our liberty is derived from God, naturalists say it is derived from nature. But now, in the doctrine of Functionalism+, where not the matter, the stuff, counts which makes up our liberty, but that our liberty exists is what counts, and its functional principles. What are our functional principles?

FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPLES

1. Love that which you name God with all your heart, soul, and mind is the greatest law, and next; love your neighbor as yourself.
2. We must practice self-preservation; we must survive to exist. By natural right, humanity is free, equal, and individual.

Life, liberty property along with the right to defend them the best we can. This is liberalism.

But what policies are good for one generation are often followed with consequences that spell deprivation for the next generation. Therefore, government must grow and change with the needs of the times. If it does not it will fail. And if it fails the response is revolution.

With the concentration of capital, private interests become antithetical to the public good.

This gives the wealthy, the privileged, an unfair advantage over others. What is more, privilege does not die out. But we also cannot abridge individual rights by denying personal heritage of property. Privilege can only be addressed through social change.

Our Covenant is With Each Other

According to spiritualists, our duty is to the glory of our creator, and according to Functionalism+, man is functionally his own creator, whether the relationships are spiritual or natural, our creator is still ourselves. It must be this way.

Moral liberty is between God and man, according to Winthrop, and not a nature. But these are the same thing; moral liberty, civil liberty, is the will to do good; and the will to do good is God’s will.

Christ proclaims that our duty is to our fellow man, and it doesn’t matter if your are spiritual or not, because without God, the naturalist still must realize that government develops naturally in man with the function of protecting the individual from the deviant.

The individual’s interests are our primary concern, but those concerns must be based in right thinking, and right thinking is thinking in line with the law of God and Nature–what we can call Life’s Law–the law that is immutable, universal, and waiting to be realized and perfected by humanity. United Americanism can now sum up its political theory in these words:

The supreme authority governing politics must be Life’s Law–the undeniable, perfect law of the universe that animates us all–and a government’s primary function must be the preservation of all of its citizen’s rights under Life’s Law; among these rights are that of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.

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