Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Friday, November 10, 2017
CONTRACT NOT POLITICS
CONTRACTUAL NOT POLITICAL
Specific performance of our sacred American covenantal documents is neither liberal, nor conservative; it is right, fair, reasonable, good faith.
It is not political to comply with the constitutional contract that binds us one to another. Instead it is just
politic to do what one agrees to do.
A contract that is simple direct and plain requires no genius to explain.
Our Amended Constitution is such a document . It buried slavery. It bequeathed to all citizenship rights. It guarantees Due Process and the Equal Protection of the Laws. It federalizes, universalizes, equalizes the right to vote. It grants the same Privileges and Immunities of one as to all, who are citizens of the United States of America.
This contract is supported by very adequate, ample consideration. That consideration consists of the blood that was shed by the millions of our American dead, fighting for, fighting to preserve, for specific performance of our covenantal Constitutional national documents.
One either performs or breaches the terms of our legal documents.
The issue is not political, nor legal. It is practical, ethical, contractual: Fix my car. Replace my roof. Make my meal. Clean my clothes. Pay my wages. Honor my coupon or claim.
We innately know what is right and wrong. Do unto others as we would have them do unto us, is that rule.
Ideally the American people, if not its political parties, and contract breakers of any denomination, may soon come to realize that in order to revitalize totally the true original American spirit, simply performing what its covenantal, Constitutional, documents say, now must be done.
It is contractual not political. It is ethical not legal: right not wrong.