Introducing A Civic People of the United States

Introduction to A Civic People of the United States (ACPOTUS):  Part 1 of 3.



I realized I appreciate peaceful people as they are where they are and want to collaborate to lessen human loss and misery so studied two questions: 1) What does it mean to be a human being and 2) what are the obligations of an American citizen?

Now, I lead collaboration at public libraries to discover the American opportunity. We nourish words and phrases that are affirmed by human experience and observation. Into the sixth year of meetings, answers to the above two questions seem emerging.

First, each human has individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity to the-objective-truth; that is, the ineluctable evidence by which truth is measured. Each person is free to choose infidelity to the-objective-truth and may reform if the consequences are unlikeable. Unhappily, not every human is reared in an environment that encourages him or her to accept HIPEA.

Second, each U.S. citizen owns his or her lifetime opportunity under the U.S. preamble’s individual proposition: self-discipline for integrity, justice, peace, defense, and prosperity so as to accept and encourage responsible human liberty. The U.S. preamble encourages fellow citizens to individually and collectively accept responsible liberty.

ACPOTUS develops these principles as a civic culture so as to encourage individual happiness with civic integrity.



Introduction to A Civic People of the United States (ACPOTUS):  Part 2 of 3.



Our library meetings and discussions have taught another important principle. In order to discover and practice mutual, comprehensive safety and security (civic citizenship), a fellow citizen may share a concern and viable reform, then listen: listen to both constructive response and detraction in order to discover reform that serves all citizens. Perhaps use the responses to improve the statement of concern as well as the reform so as to discover and use the-objective-truth. The ineluctable evidence is the standard that constrains dominant opinion.

Perhaps our iterative practice is civic collaboration.





Introduction to A Civic People of the United States (ACPOTUS):  Part 3 of 3.



Civic collaboration is an individual, lifetime opportunity to promote integrity at the leading edge of statutory justice. That is, as injustice is discovered, statutory law is reformed, and ultimately, justice may be established. Justice is needed because some fellow citizens think crime pays and thus need reform.

Also, the fellow citizen who chooses civic silence depends on others to provide freedom-from oppression and a surrogate for liberty: fellow citizens cannot think his or her thoughts or preferences. As practice makes these principles evident, living as civic citizens may increase.

We look to increased participation as a measure of success in promoting ACPOTUS, that faction of fellow citizens who trust-in and commit-to the U.S. preamble's proposition.

This Facebook page is dedicated to civic collaboration, discovery, and education that encourages responsible human liberty.

Published starting May 20, 2019 on our Facebook Page. Eventually, we dropped ACPOTUS as cumbersome.

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