The Firm League of Friendship - Softcover

Firth, Brian W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930859589 ISBN 13: 9781930859586

Publisher: Elderberry Pr, 2003

Synopsis

It was once held that all educated men were liberal-liberal in a sense far removed from today's usage. Educated men once had faith that all public and political questions might be settled by reasonable men taking counsel together. Thus could men live together in liberty. The founders of these United States, men who pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor to the cause of revolution took this faith for granted when they assembled in 1787 to draft a Constitution promising domestic tranquillity. Whatever powers they delegated to the new Congress were both necessary and correct. By use of logic and concrete example gleaned from a career as engineering consultant for the auto industry, Brian W. Firth proves that there is but one requirement of a free peope if they would stay free-that they insist the Congress, President and courts abide by the law of the land.

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From the Publisher:

A philosopher who knows a self-evident truth when he sees one, Brian W. Firth discovers the radical theory of ethics that caused the "perpetual" Articles of Confederation to be abandoned after a mere decade — and shows that it can resolve any problem we face today.

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION of the thirteen United States echoed around the world. Eleven States arrived at a Constitution by Unanimous Consent. Why is it that, today, even the rights of man are subject to debate and dispute among us?

Our Constitution promised us domestic tranquility. These pages prove that the powers delegated to the new Congress were either necessary or in favor of the minority — proper, or, as we today would say, correct. Thus there is no occasion for us to argue or quarrel — all we have to do is, insist that what we have commanded the Congress, the president, the courts to do is in fact done.

Firth stands on the shoulders of philosophers of Objective Knowledge, such as Karl Popper and Ayn Rand: he knows a self-evident truth when he sees one. Also, he has pawed through the wreckage of hundreds of failures, and very often found that they were not accidents — they were caused by aristocracy, by government running out of control.

From the Author:

Occasionally, someone does object: "That is not the law — that is what the law ought to be." I reply: "Compared to what ought the law to be?" So far, no complaint.

Does all this theory still — in the third millennium — matter? Even the simplest newspaper columnist can see that the changes that are possible are becoming greater and greater. People no longer must meet together to do business, many of us work at our keyboards in our own homes. Now that all the banks are linked together instantaneously, it would be possible to do away with bank-notes in dollars and pounds and francs and marks and rubles and yen, whose rates of exchange fluctuate unpredictably, and simply wire (or fiber) grammes of gold from one person’s account to another’s. All sorts of other things might change . . . . But, extraordinarily, we see, every day, these United States giving up the time-honored process of trial-and-error and substituting mere fiat. What are politely called public choices, momentous decisions, are instituted with indefinite lives, and they cannot even be changed by electing different legislators. No, there is no Great Dictator, but there are a dozen special dictators who do not pretend to have the consent even of one another, let alone of the several States. If a regulation is both made and enforced by the same office, peopled with unelected officers, then we have neither democracy (which means that the many agree first, advise, not only consent, last) nor republican government.

About this edition

• Publisher: Elderberry Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1930859589
• ISBN 13: 9781930859586
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348