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                 71:2.5
                1. 
                Freedom of the person.
                Slavery, serfdom, and all 
                forms of human bondage must disappear. 
                
                
                  
                
                
                
                 71:2.6
                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. 
                 
                
                
                
                  71:2.7
                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. 
                
                  
                
                
                
                 71:2.8
                4.
                Freedom of 
                speech. Representative 
                government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of 
                expression for human aspirations and opinions. 
                
                
                  
                
                
                 71:2.9
                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. 
                 
                
                
                
                 71:2.10
                6.
                The right of petition.
                Representative government 
                assumes THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO BE HEARD.  The privilege 
                of petition is inherent in FREE CITIZENSHIP. 
                
                  
                
                
                
                 71:2.11
                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. 
                  
                
                
                 71:2.12
                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. 
                
                  
                
                
                
                 71:2.13
                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.  
                
                
                
                 71:2.14
                
                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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