Posting 7
To the readers:
Most rational people would agree that liberty is a good thing. Dictators, despots, and tyrants may routinely work against liberty, but in their own perverse way, they actually reserve to themselves what they deny to others, sort of a self-centered liberty which frees them to do what they want (such as restricting the liberty of others).
But in the preamble of the United States Constitution, one of the purposes of the document is to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” Let us lay aside any nefarious ideas of liberty—such as those propagated through social media—and agree that, at the very least, liberty might very well be found in those rights and freedoms found in our laws (particularly the Bill of Rights).
It must also be made clear that liberties, freedoms, and rights are only as good as their source. A tyrannical dictatorship will not secure many, if any, blessings of liberty, let alone those that would extend freedom in time. “Self” as the basis of liberty has its own weakness, in that it fosters personal ideas which may or may not work for the benefit of our Union, and fails to reflect anyone’s preferences but its own.
This writer humbly believes that the source of our rights and liberties is stated in the Declaration of Independence, in which we read that we are “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” (emphasis added). While our government may work on the application of these blessings of liberty, their Source is transcendent to humanity.
As “we the people” acknowledge this Source, we are far better equipped to secure these blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity.
by Aplo