There are ten steps, or stages, to the
evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative
government, and these are:
1.
Freedom
of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must
disappear.
2.
Freedom
of the mind. Unless a free people are educated -- taught to think
intelligently and plan wisely -- freedom usually does more harm than
good.
3.
The
reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of
human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance
with accepted fundamental law.
4.
Freedom
of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom
of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions.
5.
Security
of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide
for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves
the right to use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his
personal property.
6.
The
right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of
citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free
citizenship.
7.
The
right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition
must progress to the actual management of the government.
8.
Universal
suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent,
efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a
government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of
those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while
remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified,
regrouped, and otherwise differentiated.
9.
Control
of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and
effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of
guiding and controlling officeholders and public servants.
10.
Intelligent
and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent
on successful representative government; and that is conditioned
upon the practice of electing to public offices only those
individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent,
socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can
government of the people, by the people, and for the people be
preserved.
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The primary platforms of the Canadian Action Party
are Monetary Reform - Electoral Reform and Parliamentary Reform,
addressing root problems rather than symptoms.
This article addresses the duties and obligations concerning the
responsibilities of wealth and the Outrage of War – By Paul Kemp
This article is
written in view of the fact that the nation south of our borders is
in a state of war and economic upheaval. The effects will be felt by
Canadians. This deplorable economic and social situation is caused
by the fact that our monetary system and programs allow wealth
without work, usury, fraud, embezzlement and the theft of the honest
wages of individuals as well as the tax trusts of the nation in
interest on national debt.
As well countless
billions have been invested in the outrage of war. War is strong
medicine, very costly and most dangerous; while often curative of
certain social disorders, it often kills the patient and destroys
the society. In the light of the progress of modern day science war
has now become racially suicidal.
If we as a nation
are seeking economic stability these ideals of identifying clean
money from unclean money should be closely examined. Clean money
strengthens a society; unclean money destroys its economic
foundations, destroys its intrinsic value and allows a fortunate and
wealthy few to rule over the unfortunate many.
The wise use of Money
We, as a national
family, earn our way through the nobility of work, and the honest
efforts of mind and body which creates our Gross National Product,
which means any money created from those efforts rooted in the fact
that our tax trust pays our education and in the good family home we
are taught the nobility of work establishes a social and economic
credit not a debt. In order to do well, every individual must learn
to do at least one thing expertly. This article addresses the
various sources of wealth, in the world. The proper management of
these will secure a strong economic future for all generations of
Canadians. We must understand the origins of our wealth and make
proper use of our monetary systems through rules regulations and
laws that grant an equal degree of liberty and freedom to each
Canadian citizen. Then and only then will peace and prosperity
become the personal experience of all Canadians regardless of their
class or function in the national family.
The Origins of Wealth
In solving our economic
woes we should bear in mind the following ten different methods of
amassing material wealth:
1. Inherited wealth -- riches
derived from parents and other ancestors.
2. Discovered wealth --
riches derived from the uncultivated resources of mother earth.
3. Trade wealth -- riches
obtained as a fair profit in the exchange and barter of material
goods and services.
4. Unfair wealth -- riches
derived from theunfair exploitationor the
enslavementof one's fellows.
5. Interest wealth -- income
derived from thefairandjust
earning possibilities of invested capital.
6. Genius wealth -- riches
accruing from the rewards of the creative and inventive endowments
of the human mind.
7. Accidental wealth --
riches derived from the generosity of one's fellows or taking origin
in the circumstances of life.
8. Stolen wealth -- riches
secured by unfairness, dishonesty, theft, or fraud.
9. Trust funds -- wealth
lodged in your hands by your fellows for some specific use, now or
in the future.
10. Earned wealth -- riches
derived directly from your own personal labor, the fair and just
reward of your own daily efforts of mind and body.
How does our national economic affairs measure
up to these various sources of wealth? Analysis of these can lead to
true economic power and social stability!
We should bestow
material wealth for the enhancement of material life, even as we
would minister knowledge, wisdom, and spiritual service for the
enrichment of the intellectual life, the ennoblement of the social
life, and the advancement of the spiritual life. We should
administer material wealth as a wise and effective trustee of the
resources of one generation for the benefit and ennoblement of the
next and succeeding generations.
