Independence

INDEPENDENCE does not imply impunity from justice, for to exceed in this regard is to transgress the good order of moral society. One can not be above nor below the rights of another just as one can not be to the left or to the right of Almighty God but always at the heart, and one is always shoulder to shoulder with the other bearing equally the necessary burden of obedience to law and the onus of taxation with an adequate expectation of return from the state in the form of institutes of national peace and community policing, public health, adult learning and affordable public education, civic services, roads and highways, everything that is meant to empower the people and transmit the authority that is derived by the government from Almighty God through the people with the aim to empower even the very least of the people, making us decent and useful citizens, capable of the labor of lifting from poverty at least the next of our generations. It is the empowering of one generation after another that grants that every generation of it's present time is truly independent for the struggle for independence does not end with a victory in the battlefield, but with a life well-lived in the genuine service of authentic freedom.

The authority to govern in a Republic is never possessed for to hold on to this authority is to instantly lose one's rightful claim to it but to persist in dishonor by holding on to this power corrupts and this greed will ensure that it corrupts absolutely. For this authority is derived from Almighty God and therefore, must be transmitted down the line to touch and to empower even the very least of our citizens, and most especially the very least, our Lord's poor.

Law serves life. The reverse is untrue for God instituted the order of law not to bind the already oppressed but to elevate them and to make ready their hearts for freedom because law is what will, in due time, give birth to peace and an understanding of peace. Without law, reason will flounder in time, but law gives certain shape and guidance to reason so that reason holds it's form long enough for the purposes of human civilizations to be achieved bridging great spans of decades and centuries.