Status Updates From The 5000 Year Leap

They were peace-loving, but not pacifists.

A free people will not survive unless they stay strong.

(John Adams:) No man will contend that a nation can be free that is not governed by fixed laws. All other government than that of permanent known laws is the government of mere will and pleasure.

To be governed by the whims of men is to be subject to the ever-changing capriciousness of those in power. This is ruler's law at its worst. In such a society nothing is dependable. No rights are secure. Things established in the present are in a constant state of flux. Nothing becomes fixed and predictable for the future.

What the Founders wished to achieve in the Constitution of 1787 was machinery for the peaceful means of self-repair then the system went out of balance...To solve problems by peaceful means was the primary purpose of the United States Constitution.