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Chapter One: Overview of the Social Contracts

Our system of government is based upon Contract Law, an agreement between member and non-member populations as to how government shall interact with the general population and the business of that population. The agreeable parties shall pursue any interaction amongst themselves within the confines of the agreement or within the boundaries of amended agreements. Basically, a willingness to follow this principle on the part of the public is all that is required: to which the key is understanding, for the burden of understanding the law is placed upon all citizens. The complexity of the words within the contract gaining universal understanding is considered nearly impossible; yet the burden still rests with all parties involved to reach understanding. One thing that is promised from this is that we all understand that there will be less understanding than that part which is understood. The reason is that all humans think differently and are less agreeable than eager to understand. From time to time contracts will be breached, to which reason and rational understanding for the cause of failure, certain questions should be asked: mainly, “WHY was the contract broken from either side?” If government fails to conform to the Social Contract, then also the public should be examined as well as to their conformity to the principles at hand. The public’s duty to reign in government and make it accountable for breaking its side of the agreement. Otherwise those who violate any agreement (and left uncorrected) will continue to ignore the contract as it stands. Therefore, no contract worth following, however misunderstood or understood, results in decay of social order if the contract is violated. A contract that is violated is in need of repair. If no repairs are made, the government of “we the people” will continue to unravel.

Our Social Contracts are based upon two major instruments of written agreements. The first is the Declaration of Independence. The second is the Constitution and its amendments.

Our Declaration of Independence is not a ratified document; it is not a referendum document. Simply put, the people who signed the document were not seeking the total democratic approval of all the people nor did the signers necessarily even think that “of the people,” would throughly understand the document. The signers simply were declaring themselves independent of the Crown of England.

The signers of the Declaration of Independence forged their principles under which they would conduct affairs with the general public. Whether they gained the king’s agreement or not, they felt they had removed the king’s authority over the land.

The Second document of our Social Contracts is the ratified Constitution. The original States after long debate agreed upon and framed their understanding to the document making it the central governing contract of the new nation. Part of the process for any new state to enter the Union was that the state was in effect ratifying both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. After its admission to the Union any state could form its own Constitution to suit its particular localized issues in so far as the State Constitution did not conflict in any way with the Constitution of the United States. Also local government organizations such as counties, parishes, and cities could develop laws that addressed their needs so long as the laws did not conflict with the Constitution of the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States has the final say of the legality of state and local constitutions and laws.

These two basic bodies of Social Contracts have become the standard known all over the Earth as the Greatest Social Experiments ever conducted by the human race. Whether or not these instruments do hold total balance to all of America’s achievements is but a sound foundation that can be labeled as evidence for perhaps much of the accomplishments, wealth, and stability of the nation, and is the best claimed “evidence,” that can be associated with the principles and functions of these Social Contracts. There is other “evidence” that would present itself within this debate that the will of the people, their sheer determination, work ethic, dreams, desires, and cooperative spirit have also played perhaps the most important role in the success and accomplishments of this Social Experiment. Then let us not forget the final “evidence” to support the rationalization that this Great Social Experiment takes claim to such success. This evidence is called the Natural Resources to which this nation holds a debt of gratitude as is found and promised in great abundance. And thus - just as is found within this evidence of the written word - that abundance was promised to all mankind - the abundance that God himself told the World would not lack for if only they follow Him in faith. Therefore, I have delivered to the reader not simple evidence, but even better testimony to the very essence of this nation’s success and accomplishments.

Each time an Angel comes forth in the Holy Scripture - the first line, the first Contract they offer to the person they deliver a message is, “Fear Not!” Therefore, I have to ask the reader, “What is our public collectively afraid of?” For the anxiety we can count in this nation is completely unfounded and confusing to anyone gaining wisdom. I don’t say this in any form of arrogance, for I, too, from time to time find myself fearful of things beyond my control. We are only human, fear is a part of being human, otherwise the angels would not have had to inform anyone to, “Fear Not.” However, we can take the advice of the angels, we can manage our fear, we can take steps to overcome our fear - and thus play out our part of the Contract offered by the angels. We can do this to please God, and at the same time please ourselves and beyond which we will be more free to pursue happiness, build upon our Common Wealth, secure our gains, and work toward greater freedoms, improved liberty, and thus fix what is ailing America. How about this: we can even take steps to perform the greatest miracle of all, and God leaves that miracle to humans, that miracle is Belief, not simply belief in God, but also the belief in ourselves. For simply fixing America, is a lesser understanding of what freedom and liberty are all about or supposed to be within the foundation of this or any nation, and that is to fortify our spiritual foundation. Anything less is Nationalism.