 |
| Olde Tyme Civil Contract |
In yesterday’s posting we learned that you can’t always
believe what the media say about what anyone says, especially Pope Francis
(a.k.a., the coolest pope ever). As astounding as this revelation no doubt is
to some, it’s really business-as-usual.
The issue was “civil unions” and (surprise, surprise), the pope said
that he wasn’t going to say anything until he knew the facts.
The re-definition of marriage is another thing
entirely. That battle not only should be fought, it must be fought. It will
require constitutional law experts with a bit more savvy about the natural law
than is evident in today's legal profession, and even a complete sea-change in
the interpretation of, e.g., the U.S.
Constitution along the lines described by the late William Winslow Crosskey
(1894-1968), possibly the greatest constitutional scholar of the 20th century.
The bottom line in the United States is that the Supreme
Court and Congress must once again recognize that rights are not a grant from
the State, but are inherent in the human person. The Constitution is not a grant of rights
from the State to the people, but from the people to the State.
 |
| Out-argued Old Scratch |
In order to fight this battle, people need power. Since, as Daniel Webster observed, “Power
naturally and necessarily follows property,” this means that “as many as possible
of the people [should] become owners.” (Rerum
Novarum, § 46.)
The Capital Homestead Act is specifically designed to return
power to the people through an aggressive program of expanded capital ownership
funded by the expansion of commercial bank credit backed up by the money
creation powers of the Federal Reserve.
Nor should advocates of same-sex unions and the redefinition
of marriage be slow to promote Capital Homesteading. If they believe themselves to be in the right
(and, no doubt, many of them are sincere in promoting their causes), they
should not be afraid of putting everyone on an equal footing to be able to
resolve these issues in the public arena, rather than to have them rammed down
people's throats by a government seemingly intent on taking over every aspect
of people's personal, civil, religious, and domestic lives.