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[[File:marriage.jpg|right|thumb|In the past, '''[[marriage]]''' was a two-party agreement or [[contract]] between a man and a woman by permission of their natural Father and Mother. In fact, before the twentieth century there were few marriage licenses needed. A shift in the nature of the union of ''Husband and Wife'' had begun in the 1700's that would alter the nature of society itself.<Br>The family as an institution is composed of individuals where the seeds of [[social bonds]] of 
the whole society began to germinate. Those bands are under attack by way of [[masses|degeneration]]. <Br>First, by taking the responsibilities of the family members away and then by turning the roll of it's members against each other. To deny gender roles is to deny nature and nature's God who endowed us with certain rights. Those genders are not in opposition but are essential in order to create the foundation of a free society, the natural [[family]].<Br>A free Community is the product of choice in the [[daily ministration]] of a [[communion]] of [[fervent charity]] and [[Pure Religion]]. "[[legal charity]]" is the antithesis and will bring with it an '''End of the [[family]].''' <Ref name="endfam">{{endfam}}</Ref>. 
https://www.prageru.com/video/three-ways-to-fix-america ]]

== The Family ==


A "[[Family]]" is the fundamental social group in society typically consisting of  two parents and their children. 

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<blockquote>
'''FAMILY''', domestic relations. In a limited sense it signifies the father, mother, and children. In a more extensive sense it comprehends all the individuals who live under the authority of another, and includes the servants of the family. It is also employed to signify all the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root. Louis. Code, art. 3522, No. 16; 9 Ves. 323.

2. In the construction of wills, the word family, when applied to personal property is synonymous with kindred, or relations. It may, nevertheless, be confined to particular relations by the context of the will, or may be enlarged by it, so that the expression may in some cases mean children, or next of kin, and in others, may even include relations by marriage. 1 Rop. on Leg. 115 1 Hov. Supp. 365, notes, 6 and 7; Brown v. Higgs; 4 Ves. 708; 2 Ves. jr. 110; 3 East, Rep. 172 5 Ves. 156 1,7 Ves. 255 S. 126. Vide article Legatee. See Dig. lib. 50, t. 16, 1. 195, s. 2. 
: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1856 Edition
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Society is born first in the family and when its foundations crumble, so goes society.


=== Roman view of  the Teutons ===

[[File:germaniatacitus.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A virtuous and nurturing women was prized and protected among the Teutons just as the courage and since of Justice was prized amongst the men. [[Family]] was key to their survival and success of their society.]]

Not only does the scriptures and many sacred texts profess and declare the ''sanctity'' of [[marriage]] but Rome knew and recorded that it was the [[family]] that was the foundation of society. 

Romans knew full well that “'''…[T]he healthy moral traditions of early '''[[Rome]]''' were maintained by the discipline of the '''[[family]]''', resting on the supreme authority of the [[father]] - the patria [[potestas]] - and the powerful influence of the mother, to whom the early training of the child was entrusted.'''”<Ref> Cf. [[Tacitus]]'s account of Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, and Aurelia, the mother of [[Julius Caesar]], in the dialogue De oratoribus, c. 28.(1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 23/668)</Ref>

When Rome moved their social practice from ''hospitality'' and the charity of the ''hearth'' to the [[free bread]] provided through the [[legal charity]] of the [[welfare State|State]] the course of their own society was altered. 

[[Polybius]] had warned [[Rome]] of the [[degenerate|degeneration]] of the [[masses]] if they became ''accustomed to living'' on a government dole at their neighbor's expense having seen the process time and time again in history.

Tacitus' observations while visiting the Teutons in the land of Germanica stood in stark contrast from what [[Rome]] had become under the [[benefactors|benefaction]] of the [[Fathers]] of the [[Senate]] and the [[emperor]]s as the [[Patronus]] of the [[masses]]:

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"This is in the sense that the matrimonial bond was strictly observed by the Germanic peoples, this being compared favorably against [[licentiousness]] in [[Rome]]. Tacitus appears to hold the fairly strict monogamy (with some exceptions among nobles who marry again) between Germanic husbands and wives, and the chastity among the unmarried to be worthy of the highest praise. " Publius Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania (Ch. 18).
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Tacitus would recall what Rome had lost with envy and almost contempt when observing the Teutons approach to marriage. He admired their woman:

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Their "wedding gifts... are no toys collected to suit feminine frivolities or adorn a bride; instead of that, they consist of oxen, and a bridled horse, and shield and spear and sword. These are the presents that await her as a wife, and her own wedding present to her husband in return is a gift of arms. This is the strongest bond of union this the mystery of [[marriage]]; these are their gods of wedded life. Lest the woman should think that masculine courage and the perils of war lie beyond her sphere, these tokens remind her upon the threshold of marriage that she comes as the man's partner in toils and dangers ; and that in peace and in war she must expect ... to dare the same." Publius [[Tacitus]]
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There was no question about what a Germanic woman was nor neede to be:

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"... they guard the chastity of their lives, with no shows to entice them nor orgies to excite their evil passions... To men and women alike such a thing as secret correspondence is unknown... Amongst all this immense [race's] population adultery is extremely rare, a woman becomes a wife with a wife's hopes and wishes once and once only....to the end that she may not look beyond him nor let her desires stray further ...To limit the number of the [[family]] or to put to death any of the later-born infants is held to be an abomination, and with the Germans good customs have more authority than good laws elsewhere!" Publius Tacitus
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By the same measure the women were cherished by the men who "Unlike the great majority of barbarians, they are content with one wife ..." Publius [[Tacitus]]

The opposite pattern is seen in [[Rome]] at that time where, “Even amongst women there were symptoms of revolt against the older order, which showed itself in a growing freedom of manners and impatience of control, the [[marriage]] tie was relaxed…"<Ref>Encyclopedia Britannica ‘57 Vol. 19 p 490.</Ref> 

“Italy was living through the fever of moral disintegration and incoherence which assails all civilized societies that are rich in the manifold resources of culture and enjoyment, but tolerate few or no restraints on the feverish struggle of contending [[appetite]]s.”<Ref>Idiom.  Encyclopedia Britannica ‘57 Vol. 19 p 490.</Ref>

What ruined '''[[Rome]]'''<Ref>"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." [[Plutarch]]'s ''Life of Coriolanus'' (c. 100 AD.) Alternate translation. "For it has been well said that he first [[masses|breaks down the power of the people]] who first feasts and bribes them. But at [[Rome]] the mischief seems to have crept in stealthily and gradually, and not to have been noticed at once." ''Life of Coriolanus'', Sec. 14</Ref>  was the creation of systems of [[legal charity]] which turned the [[Republic]] into a '''city of blood'''<Ref name="cityblood">{{cityblood}}</Ref> and the people into amoral and [[perfect savagès)].

When the morals of society decay with its sexual revolutions there is an erosion, even rot, of the fabric of society itself. The revoluion of the masses greedy for gain at te expence of others the people [[riots|riot]] with [[selfishness]] in  a rebellion against [[The Way]] of God and His [[righteousness]]. This may begin with [[bite|biting one another]] until their conscience is seared and all are devoured like mere [[merchandise]]. 

Where ever the [[permanency of marriage]] is attacked or decays from neglect there will be a decline and fall of nations. 

From [[Sumer]] to [[Sodom]], from [[Rome]] to Judea the ''die was cast'' by the [[covetous practices]] of their [[public religion]] through the rise of the  [[welfare State]]:

The “sanctity of marriage had ceased… [[Abortion]], and the exposure and murder of newly-born children, were common and tolerated; unnatural vices, which even the greatest philosophers practiced, if not advocated, attained proportions which defy description.”<Ref> ''Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah'', By Alfred Edersheim, Chapter XI.</Ref>

[[John the Baptist]] and [[Jesus]] the [[Christ]] told us the solution if we have ears to hear.

=== Sumerian Family Laws ===


The ''ana ittishu'' was the ancient equivalent of the modern ''words and phrases'', expressing the Law and part of an ancient code preserving the [[Sumer]]ian [[Family]] Laws. Not only is the first government based on the family and ordained by God but all government is based on the precepts of what a family is or should be according to these Laws.

<blockquote>'' “The family is also the first [[government]] in the life of the child, with the father as the God-ordained head of the household and his government under God as the child’s basic government.”<Ref>Law & Liberty by Rushdoony Pg. 78-80 </Ref>''</blockquote> 

In the great domestic relationship of ''Husband and Wife'', the [[Natural Law]] and its Creator provide a ''Father'' and ''Mother'' to have and to hold dominion and custody of their children and heirs. The family was God’s sanctioned government from generation to generation.

In the law of the Latins, the word ''[[potestas]]'' signifies generally a power or authority by which we do anything. ''Patria [[Potestas]]'' signifies the authority which a father had over the persons of his children, grandchildren, and other descendants. There was an almost absolute power over the children by the ''Father'' or ''Patri'' as there also is at Common Law. This was not based on ownership as a slave but as a member of the ''Familia'' in which the status of the Father would effect the status of the son. 

An act by which the ''patria potestas'' was terminated is called ''emancipatio'' or ''emancipation''. 

At the point of emancipation where did the power go?

== Pater Familias ==


The family was and is a political unit. Within the ''manu''<Ref>"In mea manu" means "in my hand." The Family and all it owned was a free unite or entity under God. </Ref> of the family neither the Wife nor the Husband could sue each other for they are counted as one person, one body.<Ref>Matthew 19:6  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.</Ref>

<blockquote>'' "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." (Genesis 2:24)''</blockquote> 

The child is bound within the ''manu'' of the family. The ''manus'' is a Latin word for the power of the pater ''familias'' over his wife and his sons’ wives. Even in its prior history ''manu'' as a Sanskrit word meant the primordial Father of the human race and sovereign of the earth. These concepts fundamentally reach into the antiquity of man’s history and are only supplanted by the twisted thoughts of an usurping substitute for God’s plan.

Some might think it oppressive that a patriarch would have such power and authority within his given family, but is it any more desirable to be oppressed by tribal or national groups? Governments that eat out the substance of men in peace and march millions of minions to murderous deaths in war cannot be a superior or benevolent master to that of our natural parents.

God dispersed dominion among the fathers of mankind. Even with Jesus he established no office of father to rule man in mass. A child is within that power until the Father releases him or is released from life itself. There is no right of usurpation by any.

<blockquote>'' "The child is incapable, in his private rights, of any power or dominion; in every other respect he is capable of legal rights."<Ref>Savigny, System, &c. ii.52.</Ref>''</blockquote> 

The child has a capacity for acquiring legal rights. He could acquire by contract, for instance; but everything that he acquires, is acquired for his father. Without emancipation the child was not free of his father’s power and was also not sui juris.

In Latin the words are from sui meaning of one's own and ''juris'', the genitive of jus, meaning right or law. ''Sui Juris'' is one who is capable of managing one's own affairs. Only the patriarch of a family is sui juris. The first civil governments based their civil powers on the law of the family. The individual citizen would be able to acquire legal rights by contract but would not be sui juris.

While a natural Father may abuse his children if he lacks love for them there is a natural governor within a natural society if the parents are dependent upon the good will of their family, their children, and charitable practices of their neighbor for their protection and [[care]] in their infirmities and old age.<Ref>[[Exodus 20]]:12 "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."</Ref> When the ''[[State]] or its equivalent'' becomes the [[Father]] of the person their is little or no governor to moderate its power of the individual person. Like the ancient soulless [[Golem]] the corporate State may become a soulless  [[Mark of the Beast|beast and master]] making choice and regulations that has its interest more than the interest of the children.

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=== The body of the Family ===


The family unit was a form of autonomous social [[corporation|corporate]] structure designed by the [[Natural Law|Law of Nature]] and natures God. In more  ancient times consisted of the elder father, their married sons and their families but also including unmarried daughters and related family sibling groups that may have lost part of the two parent structure.

Families as autonomous units of society were often considered to be sacred but the authority within a family could also be compromised by the creation of central powers of more corporate forms of government.

The [[imperium]]<Ref>IMPERIUM. (Gaius, IV.103), when making a division of judicia into those Quae Legitimo jure consistunt, and those Quae Imperio continentur, observes that the latter are so called because they continue in force during the Imperium of him who has granted them. "gladii potestatem ad anim advertendum in facinorosos homines men," Ulpian, în D, 2, 1, 3; Gaius definește imperium merum ca fiind. William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Imperium.html Imperium ] </Ref> of some government forms originally consisted of the right to protect the family (merum) which was only outside its naturally established jurisdiction and could only be conferred by a lex curiata and became a from of the ''police power'' of the sword to turn the life of wicked men.

The shifting of authority from the natural Father and Mother of the family as a natural social unit [[citizen|not connected to the administration of government]] to a strictly civil relationship under the [[conscripted fathers]] of the State changes the nature of the union of [[marriage]]. 

The power of governments originated in the power of he family which we see in the principles associated with the [[Patronus]] of [[Rome]].

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'''FAMILY BIBLE'''. A Bible containing an account of the births, marriages, and deaths of the members of a family.
: 2 An entry, by the father, made in a Bible, stating that Peter, his eldest son, was born in. lawful wedlock of Maria, his wife, at a time specified, is evidence to prove the legitimacy of Peter. 4 Campb. 401. But the entry, in order to be evidence, must be an original entry, and, when it is not so, the loss of the original must be proved before the copy can be received. 6 Serg. Rawle, 135. See 10 Watts, R. 82.
: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1856 Edition
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[[File:senaterome.jpg|right|thumb|300px|In [[Rome]] birth [[Birth registration|certificates]] were kept in the [[Temples|Temple of Saturn]], a government depository for records,  by order of the Senate who were the [[Conscripted fathers]] of the people. As the civil [[fathers]] or as the [[Patronus]] of government the [[benefactors]] of the state offered many [[benefits]] at their [[Polybius|neighbor's expense]]. These have been referred to as the [[wages of unrighteousness]] because they result from [[covetous practices]].]]
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