The ability of a people to self govern must be beyond the sight of their own fortunes or pleasures and must be for the betterment of society as a whole. This is to say that he should not have to give up the fruits of his labor, happiness, or earnings but should see beyond the confines of his own success. Despotism is the mark of a society which no man will strive for the reasonable good of his brother and therefore allows tyranny to take hold creating the environment for disdain and revolution. Social justice then often becomes a tool of politicians who claim to correct the “wrongs” of society through abrasive laws that benefit the whole with less fortitude than the prior system. This ultimately benefits no one in the capacity a free society could.
With that, we have been given the tools by our Forefathers to govern ourselves in accordance with Divine Providence only through genuine education and knowledge for without it the laws given to us become ambiguous and without any pretext only open to interpretation by the select elite who may, through their own greed or pleasures, legislate laws the benefit the few over the whole of society.
This has been said by the slew of politicians to fill the polls since the forming of the country, that they will in fact by themselves at times, follow the written social contract called The Constitution for the betterment of society and to full fill any destiny given by the Almighty. The one thing that kept them in their given rolls was the equal knowledge and education of the people they served. Alexis de Tocqueville was astonished in 1835 when the majority of people he met in The New World was absolutely involved in authoring their own laws alongside the men they chose for public office. Today we might find ourselves agreeing with politicians or leaders of our liking but often fail to completely understand the history or value of why the said leaders take the podium in the first place. To be completely complacent as to why a politician would have motivations or agendas can be the greatest mistake of a society as it can give free reign for a leader to indulge in his own self interests apart from what is good for The People. Also, lack of personal understanding for what was common language of the period creates the ambiguity that is described earlier.
Older common language often used words such as “violence” and “force” without actually meaning the present form of physical manifestation. That is too suggest force without actually becoming violent, as words and language had a more profound meaning. A political leader’s lack or moral integrity that lead to his shortcomings could be in fact his end as far as career implications went, but when a politician is sly in forcing unjust laws, meaning that he “bends the language” to meet his own personal agenda or the values of the few, we find it more difficult to be disobedient since in all appearances no written law outside of a man’s faith was broken. Faith determines his facts, and therefore he believes in acting within certain interpretation of laws he is correct and any resistance is wrong or shortcoming of what he has decided to be right.
So in this all do we find leaders or ambitious politicians to be who would speak our own thoughts and beliefs in generalization incomplete discern why they have come to certain conclusions about rule of law and understand them completely from the beginning. Without doing so, we are slaves to the elite’s ambitions or self service living in a perpetual state of bondage. Not everyone strives to obtain public office, even more so is it unappealing with the negativity that now exists, but a true citizen should equal his intelligence of public affairs with the person he or she would vote for. This in itself would lesson the corruption that is profound in politics today. We deserve exactly what kind of leadership we get and to think otherwise is a folly that only leads to tyranny and self ruling despotism that only ends in revolution and ruin from the inside.
Inasmuch as it is needed to have the necessary knowledge to author our own laws, it is even more so to have the moral capacity and often times courage to enact them. That is to say that legislation and local statutes must be written but without enforcement to the whole body of citizenry, leader and follower alike, they merely become arbitrary and meaningless. The desire for profit or personal gain is relinquished to the few elite while the populace may suffer or become secondary to succeed. This is not limited to criminal justice or “black and white” laws, but holds true to social justice as well. This is not to develop comfort or luxuries but to promote the general welfare of society. Though parents are the primary providers of a child’s needs, including education, there must be an acknowledgement that a gulf exists between the rich and the poor. Moral leaders, writers, and theologians that realize this have the capacity to counter the revolutionary type of writings found in Morelly’s Code de Nature or Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto”. Such ideas found in their works have proven that no just society can work on socialism and only creates a despotism that is totally implemented against any democratic thought found in republics.
This type of social justice is often time implied as material wealth and gains which in a faith-based sense should never be. It is passing of the knowledge to someone else to give them the necessary tools to succeed. To give absolute, means to create a class of people that will only envy and lust for more that develops into a thought of class warfare. This in itself also always leads to revolution or a decrepit society which itself is completely distinct from anything good. True prosperity is lost and in that we find what we have today: a class of poor that often turn to any criminal enterprise that will reward quick gratification through less than moral acts and the inability to see the difference between right and wrong since it then becomes relative of the situation. This is not to say that such acts do not exist in a higher income class of society, but often with the proletariat it shows in living conditions and social norms reflect what is come to be acceptable. Often it is described as “cultural distinctions” that follow no faith or set code. Here we find the “wrongs” looked down on with no real need to correct them with respect to the person or established culture.
So with establishing this and the need to educate the people as best as possible, it becomes an absolute must to provide the means create an equality our Forefathers envisioned. It does not imply that all will be made equal through materials gains; that is accomplished after education, standards of work, and the initiative to follow them. Pursuit of happiness means just as it is written, that all men can achieve what they so desire out of moral integrity to achieve it and the moral capacity to sustain their earnings. This is to say that a form of taxation for education be imposed, as there is a separation between those who a capable and willing to educate their children, either from home or finding a good school whether is be public or private institutions. In lower class areas you will find lower class education that is often filled with angst or biased ideas of what knowledge is applicable to be passed on. Generally speaking, and I can say this in my own experience, that ideas or history itself is often taught from the easiest viewpoint leaving the student to become part of the class he or she would not later on wish to experience or be part of. The educator should not be held totally accountable for the raising of someone else’s children, but they also must respect the knowledge and power with impartiality to whom they pass it onto.
This is to say for certain that a man of devout faith and good character must pass on the general knowledge of morality and wisdom which he has been afforded to the younger generation. Else a despotic regime always develops and proves the theories of socialist writers to be true and often ends with destructive habits or in the worst cases amounts to bloody conflicts that takes a generation to right.
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