The theologian and polymath Abraham Kuyper, while later becoming ironically the prime minister of The Netherlands, nevertheless identified a commonly (and conveniently) ignored dilemma per government's perpetuity upon presumption over each new generation without extending inquiry and certainly without soliciting consent. Thomas Jefferson, while later becoming ironically the 3rd president of the United States, also identified the same commonly (and conveniently) ignored dilemma aforesaid a century earlier.
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living:' that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Letter to James Madison (1789)
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living:' that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Letter to James Madison (1789)
Yet still in 2026, Americans continue to be burdened even oppressed by documents, addendums, legislations, regulations, taxations, expenditures, debts, treaties, and many other government arrangements established and instituted by prior generations recent and distant. The dead truly remain to rule over the living, and do so without question. To clarify, this is not a call to reject the past wholesale, rather the right to reassess, revaluate, reprioritize, reaccept the conditions as a society although more critically thus logically, consistently, ethically as individuals.
Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Is 1:18, Mt 5:9, 2 Tm 2:15, Cl 3:23
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