[EL] "We the People" as "CEO"

[Paul Lehto]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Scarberry, Mark <
Mark.Scarberry at pepperdine.edu> wrote:

> Effectively, Paul is saying that the only way we can be free is to have
> the unlimited power to bind ourselves and our fellow-citizens. That is
> contrary to the natural law principles embodied in the Declaration. The
> Declaration argues that the power of the government is limited by
> “unalienable rights,” and that government  is “instituted” by the “consent
> of the governed” not to create unlimited power over those who are governed
> but to “secure” those unalienable rights, including, but apparently not
> limited to,  “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” When government
> interferes with those rights, then “it is the Right of the people to alter
> or abolish it” and to institute a new one.
>

Mark, you're jumping to conclusions about my position.  Individuals possess
inalienable rights.  Our discussion in this thread is about sovereign
power, which is a collective right that no individual (alone) possesses:
"it is the Right of *the people *to alter or abolish..."

When are "We" free as a People?  In elections.  When may we as individuals
exercise freedom?  With inalienable rights.

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> Paul’s Hobbesian notion of the sovereign is not the concept of the
> sovereign that underlies our institutions.
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I'm fairly distant from Hobbes.  :)

Paul Lehto, J.D.

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