The Salem Witch Trials and Today
Miss Constitution knows that you all have heard that human nature does not really change, and that history often repeats itself. This is true. The Founders who wrote the United States Constitution tried to create a structure through reason that would guide human behavior toward individual happiness that would
Plantation Capitalism; Does This Correctly Describe Our Current Economic System?
As if parallel to life in the United States today, the funeral of John Lewis in Georgia was a combination of the appropriately respectful, the historically accurate, the politically cheap, and the philosophically questionable. For some reason, we are unable to have a proper funeral for a political person
The Myth of Privilege; What Threads Should We Weave Our Society With?
Last week Miss Constitution distinguished the sincere efforts in the 1960’s for equal protection of the law for black Americans from the attacks on our culture and economic system that seem to be woven together in one tapestry. It is this one tapestry concept that is causing chaos, injury,
Constitutional Conversations – Harvard Business Review
Miss Constitution has posited the abstruse proposition that abstracts stated as reality and repeated constantly can become “true” whether or not there is a correspondence between the abstract and reality itself. Last week she applied this to the notions of systemic and implicit racism and white privilege. She called
Where Are the Adults? – There’s No Government Substitute For Developing a Person.
Miss Constitution intends to move the discussion from the abstract to the real. She has called abstract concepts involving social justice issues “clouds” that involve the theoretical, not the actual. Many in today’s very communicative world talk about “equality” but equality is a theory, it does not actually exist
Getting to Social Justice Now – How Do We Get There?
When all is said and done all the slogans we see on signs or hear in chants ultimately go to how to achieve social justice in America. The word “equal” and “equality” are thrown around, but they do not quite fit so we shall just say that social justice
The Illusion of Equality; Why The US Constitution Respects Every Individual
Last week Miss Constitution talked about the meaning of words and how important it is to stipulate accurate meanings. She said that the word “equal”, relative to the Constitution means having the same rights, duties, and protections under the Rule of Law. The word “equality”, however, is different. This
Our Republic Is Lost And Disoriented – What Happens When The Servants Become The Masters?
There was a recent incident concerning a woman in Hawaii who became disoriented on a hike and was not discovered for seventeen days. For some of the time she was alone she stood atop a precipice and furiously waved her arms hoping a search plane would spot her. They didn’t