FREEDOM: A people unwilling to govern themselves will be governed through tyranny.

I have been studying how America was founded on the biases of common law. Common law is the idea that court cases are settled on precedence and local values and ideas. Common law’s authority is founded on Private Property rights. In essence, anything and everything is legal as long as it does not injure or harm someone’s person or property. Punishments for crimes under common law are also based directly on the crime. You steal a cow, you give a new cow to the owner. You take a life, you forfeit your own life, etc.

Common law assumes that people can morally govern themselves. This process works only so long as the People of the land are willing to do what is right. Once a people start to become immoral, they lose their ability to govern themselves and common law must be replaced by the more tyrannical form of law called statute law. Statute law is founded in rules and regulations and is enforced by fines and prison sentences. Unlike common law, the fines do not go to the victim, nor do they equally match the crime. You break the speed limit and you pay a predetermined fee; you steal a cow, you may pay restitution but you also go to jail.
Common law protects personal freedoms and property by encouraging common sense and common courtesy behaviors. Statute law dictates to the people what is right and wrong and controls the people for the benefit of the Government under the guise of protecting the people’s safety.

The United States of America’s law is now based almost 100% on statute law. Another way of looking at it is “law of proclamation” (Tyrannical law). Our leaders proclaim what is law and it becomes enforceable. What was legal yesterday can put you in jail today, because a new proclamation or statute was created. In other words, our elected officials have deemed us too immoral to govern ourselves through common law.

I am going to stop here for today. The above is rather dry and so I prefer to keep this post short for you to read over a couple of times. It sets the foundation for our next series titled “American Entitlement” where we will exam how “We the People” have given up our right to be self-governing.
If you have been asking yourself, “what happened to my Country?” then you need to read the upcoming blogs where we examine just how we have lost our faith and country.