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The Telmarc Group PROGRESSIVISM, INDIVIDUALISM, AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL And thus all private judgment of every particular member being excluded, the community comes to be umpire, and by understanding indifferent rules and men authorized by the community for their execution, decides all the differences that may happen between any members of that society concerning any matter of right, and punishes those offences which any member hath committed against the society with such penalties as the law has established; whereby it is easy to discern who are, and are not, in political society together. Those who are united into one body, and have a common established law and judicature to appeal to, with authority to decide controversies between them and punish offenders, are in civil society one with another; but those who have no such common appeal, I mean on earth, are still in the state of Nature, each being where there is no other, judge for himself and executioner; which is, as I have before showed it, the perfect state of Nature. Locke then continues: § 88. And thus the commonwealth comes by a power to set down what punishment shall belong to the several transgressions they think worthy of it, committed amongst the members of that society (which is the power of making laws), as well as it has the power to punish any injury done unto any of its members by any one that is not of it (which is the power of war and peace); and all this for the preservation of the property of all the members of that society, as far as is possible. But though every man entered into society has quitted his power to punish offences against the law of Nature in prosecution of his own private judgment, yet with the judgment of offences which he has given up to the legislative, in all cases where he can appeal to the magistrate, he has given up a right to the commonwealth to employ his force for the execution of the judgments of the commonwealth whenever he shall be called to it, which, indeed, are his own judgments, they being made by himself or his representative. And herein we have the original of the legislative and executive power of civil society, which is to judge by standing laws how far offences are to be punished when committed within the commonwealth; and also by occasional judgments founded on the present circumstances of the fact, how far injuries from without are to be vindicated, and in both these to employ all the force of all the members when there shall be need." Locke sees the role of Government as we see in the above the arbiter and guarantor of civility in society based solely upon the laws governing that society. Out of the evolving nature of the contract, the compact, society evolves within which the man agrees to work with others but the underlying principle is preservation of the individual, in his person and his property. 3.1.3 Property Page 46
The Telmarc Group PROGRESSIVISM, INDIVIDUALISM, AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL In particular is Locke's theory of property. It was Locke who created the bifurcation of the King's, read as Government's property, and the individual's property. Establishing individual property apart from the King, Government, and holding it as something which was core to a democracy, was a formidable change in the way of thinking, it was a formidable break from the middle ages and the ideas of regency, and it was the basis for our Revolution and Constitution. Apparently Obama has either forgotten that, yes he went to Columbia and Harvard, or has rejected that. The tyrannical actions against Weinberg, Paralla et al in the Chrysler case this week is an example. The threatening of Weinberg-Parella by the Administration to comply or they would make their lives hell was nothing short of fascist! Let me quote from Locke (John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, The Second Treatise, 1690): "Sec. 27. Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body had any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the State that Nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his Labour with, and joyned to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his Property. It being by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other Men. For this Labour being the unquestionable Property of the Labourer, no Man but he can have a right to what that is once joyned to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others." Here he defines property as the result of the labor of a man. The money invested by the investors of Weinberg-Parella was the result of their labor, it was their property. The laws of bankruptcy apply as a remedy to a breach of contract, namely the debts to Weinberg- Parella were senior to all others and they had pre-emptive rights. The Administration demanded they give those rights up for no value, the Administration demanded that they convey to the Government their property, the fruits of their labor. For what purpose, to enrich the Union. In turn to enrich the people in the current Administration at a later time. Locke continues: "Sec. 45. Thus Labour, in the Beginning, gave a Right of Property, where‐ever any one was pleased to imploy it, upon what was common, which remained, a long while, the far greater part, and is yet more than Mankind makes use of. Men, at first, for the most part, contented themselves with what un‐assisted Nature offered to their Necessities: and though afterwards, in some parts of the World, (where the Increase of People and Stock, with the Use of Money) had made Land scarce, and so of some Value, the several Communities settled the Bounds of their distinct Territories, Page 47
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