2) We shall at long last live by secular government of the people, for the people, and by the people, with a wall of separation between government and religion, and with equality of all religions under the Spirit of Divinity by whatever name;
3) We shall no longer allow one individual person to play god or act as a king or queen or presidential head of state;
4) We shall no longer be divided by a competitive rivalry for the throne;
5) We shall freely choose, nominate and elect, by secret write-in ballot, an executive council of six men and six women to serve and represent us in the executive branch of our government;
6) Political advocacy will be confined to brief, positive, free public service messages through the print and broadcast media;
7) There shall be no paid commercial political advertisements; and
8) The news media shall print and broadcast the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and lose their privilege to operate if it is proven that they knowingly violate the public trust.
It is also solemnly declared that the government thus produced shall have full power to levy taxes fairly and equitably without any loopholes or shelters and without any deductions for charitable contributions; provide for the common defense; keep the peace; contract alliances; regulate commerce and the economy to ensure equity, fairness and stability; provide for the health, education and welfare of all the people; use the common wealth to serve the common good; be good stewards of our environment; protect the environment, correct the mistakes and clean up the mess that greed, corruption and folly have created; and do all other acts and things which independent states have the right and the duty to do.
For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we the people mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
May God truly bless our nation. May it abide by the new covenant with God and finally become known in truth as the land of the free and the home of the brave, under God or the Spirit of Divinity only, and may all nations in the world follow suit and be liberated.
© 2006 - 2009 Joseph James Adamson
Commentary Regarding Democracy
Some scholars are of the opinion that the early Greeks established a pretty good form of democracy 400 years before the birth of the Christ Jesus. And that's probably true, since one of them wrote that "power should be in the hands of the whole people," rather than in the hands of one monarchial chief executive or an oligarchy of a relative few. They had the right idea, and a study of that era is worthwhile.
As the Greek democracy matured, the idea was that all citizens must be equal and have an equal voice, and there was recognition that in a democracy the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them.
Unfortunately, over time that has turned out to be more theory than substance, and in fact the idea about the poor having more political power than the rich died out pretty quickly. Throughout history ever since then power has been in the hands of the richest few who have been able to impose their will by hiring paid armed guards and even armies and police forces. And most nations and states have been ruled by the richest few who have considered themselves royalty, nobility, aristocracy, or, more recently, "servants and representatives" of the people, and the "upper class." But whatever they consider themselves, they are the wealthiest few who hold and control 90 percent of the wealth.
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