march 15, 2013 by david j. shestokas
filed under: guest commentary & reflections tagged with: bill of rights, constitution, founding fathers, natural law, supreme court
Government needs a basis to exercise authority over people. Citizens must accept government authority. A government lacking acceptance of the people over whom it exercises authority will not endure. Such acceptance comes from fear, tradition or philosophy.
Dictators obtain authority by instilling fear of disobedience in the populace. A theocracy ordained by God arises from religious traditions. A monarchy combines religious traditions[1] and fear of the monarch’s absolute authority. Communists have gained power with a philosophy based upon the “dictatorship of the proletariat”.[2] The United States was founded upon a philosophy of Natural Law as the source of legitimate legal authority for government.
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