Authority
According to Merriam Webster the definition of "authority" is: power to influence or command thought, opinion, or behavior.
The Myth of Authority
“Civilizations are not mandated by authorities, nor are they the products of systemic planning. People did not get together and say to one another “hey, let’s start a civilization!” Such cultures have been, rather, the unintended consequences arising from the interplay of creative forces that sustain and enhance life. ” – Butler Shaffer “The Wizards of Ozymandias”
Those forces are first of the spirit.
Ends with “ I owe nobody that which I have not voluntarily agreed to give, I owe you only non-aggression.” savoy
Talks about “Social Contract”
Talks about “the authority granted to that government by the citizens to protect these natural rights."
What of other spirits of authority granted by the people?
“Does the use of authority provide those which it is enacted on a benefit? Is there a value to authority? If societies did not grant authority to a group of individuals would this society collapse into chaos? “savoy
"I’d like to challenge the paradigm of dependency on authority firstly by asking this question; from where is the State’s authority derived?" Savoy
Was the Constitution and its authority granted to that government by the citizens?
“ No, government issues a government contract “ savoy
“The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.”Plutarch
Antifederalist papers Number 6, Under the pseudonym, “CENTINEL,” States “The evils of anarchy have been portrayed with all the imagery of language in the growing colors of eloquence; the affrighted mind is thence led to clasp the new Constitution as the instrument of deliverance, as the only avenue to safety and happiness. To avoid the possible and transitory evils of one extreme, it is seduced into the certain and permanent misery necessarily attendant on the other.”
“ We are witnessing a decline of empire.” savoy
“ I owe nobody that which I have not voluntarily agreed to give, I owe you only non-aggression.” savoy
Polybius "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; [1] and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder,[2] until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." [3]
“But who would make the laws?” without government??
How many laws do you need?
Tacitus said the more laws the more corrupt the people.
Would ten laws be enough?
- ↑ Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- ↑ Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
- ↑ "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch" Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book VI, p289