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“The use of the term ‘ordinance’ in Latter-day Saint parlance is distinct from the use of the term in other branches of Christian tradition, where ‘ordinance’ is often used to imply that the act is merely symbolic and does not convey grace.”
Ray was convicted of three counts of negligent homicide following his arrest on February 3, 2010. He was sentenced to two years in Arizona state prison and was released under supervision on July 12, 2013.
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality.
Anarchy: The absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual.
Many philosophers criticize physical explanations of how the universe arose from nothing, claiming that they merely beg the question.
$$$ “The book has sold 30 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 50 languages. Due partly to an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the book and film had grossed $300 million in sales by 2009. TV host Oprah Winfrey is a proponent of the book. On The Larry King Show she said that the message of The Secret is the message she's been trying to share with the world on her show for the past 21 years.
“The earliest mentions of the Constitution as "living", particularly in the context of a new way of interpreting it, comes out of Woodrow Wilson's book Constitutional Government in the United States where he wrote: ‘Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice.’”
“According to the pragmatist view, the Constitution should be seen as evolving over time as a matter of social necessity. Looking solely to original meaning, when the original intent was largely to permit many practices universally condemned today, is under this view cause to reject pure originalism out of hand.”
“Non-binary, also known as genderqueer, is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine—identities that are outside the gender binary. Non-binary people may identify as having two or more genders (being bigender, trigender, or pangender); having no gender (being agender, nongendered, genderless, genderfree or neutrois); moving between genders or having a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid); or being third gender or other-gendered, a category that includes those who do not place a name to their gender.”
“Economist Thomas Sowell argues in his book Knowledge and Decisions that since the original designers of the Constitution provided for the process of changing it, they never intended for their original words to change meaning.”
A state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority (Merriam-Webster), Absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual.
Egalitarianism: A social philosophy advocating the removal of economic inequalities among people.
Beginning in 1789, The French Revolution overthrew the monarchy and established a republic with the motto “liberty, equality, fraternity”. Notice that justice is not mentioned in the motto.
After the First French Republic was established, then came the “Reign of Terror” in which 16,594 official death sentences were issued.
Authoritarianism: The enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom. (Google Dictionary) A form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. Individual freedoms are subordinate to the state and there is no constitutional accountability under an authoritarian regime.
Sacred cow (idiom), something considered (perhaps unreasonably) immune from question or criticism.
“A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls, in which the author addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society). The theory utilizes an updated form of Kantian philosophy and a variant form of conventional social contract theory.”
“Rawls develops what he claims are principles of justice through the use of an artificial device he calls the original position; in which, everyone decides principles of justice from behind a veil of ignorance. This "veil" is one that essentially blinds people to all facts about themselves so they cannot tailor principles to their own advantage. According to Rawls, ignorance of these details about oneself will lead to principles that are fair to all.”
“Utilitarianism is an ethical and philosophical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility, which is usually defined as that which produces the greatest well-being of the greatest number of people. … Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, described utility as the sum of all pleasure that results from an action, minus the suffering of anyone involved in the action.”
"Superiority" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. It depicts an arms race, and shows how the side which is more technologically advanced can be defeated, despite its apparent superiority, because of its own organizational flaws and its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new. The story was at one point required reading for an industrial design course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“DEBT CEILING: A statutorily imposed debt ceiling has been in effect since 1917 when the US Congress passed the Second Liberty Bond Act. Before 1917 there was no debt ceiling in force, but there were parliamentary procedural limitations on the amount of debt that could be issued by the government”.
“During the progressive era, many initiatives were promoted and fought for, but were prevented from coming to full fruition in either legislative bodies or judicial proceedings. One case in particular, Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., enraged early progressive activists hoping to achieve an income tax. This led progressives to the belief that the Constitution was unamendable, and ultimately to find a new way to achieve the desired level of progress.”
“Another common view of the Living Constitution is as synonymous with ‘judicial activism’ a phrase generally used to accuse judges of resolving cases based on their own political convictions or preferences.”
...there is a basic tendency in the development of the human personality toward self-fulfillment, or self-actualization. This implies that as an individual matures, they want to be given more responsibility, broader horizons, and the opportunity to develop their personal potential. This process is interrupted whenever a person's environment fails to encourage and nurture these desires.