WHAT IS FREE ENTERPRISE?
There is a growing movement (increasingly harder to ignore) in this country to restore our forefather vision of an independent free enterprise economic system. While the established governmental system may feel threatened by this, if every American, every legislator and everyone associated with government and every governmental agency were to see the vision and grasp the evolved understanding of our forefathers; instead of fearing this movement, our whole nation would be wholeheartedly embracing it. In that national embrace, we would see a resurgence of not only prosperous free enterprise economy but we’d also see a resurgence of optimism, pride and the creativity that has always separated America from every other nation on Earth.
The early American principles of true free enterprise expounds on the idea of handing over the keys of the kingdom (political power and money) to the nation’s individuals, limiting the powers of government to specific delegated authorities, restricting its purpose and energy towards protecting the rights of the nation’s individual citizens and looking out for the security of its citizenry.
The ideas espoused in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution are relatively new and highly evolved compared to the historically age-old governmental systems of tyranny and elitism. Any political system where the power and money stay in the hands of the few, subjecting the populace into forced obedience to the will of those in power, must maintain a government or state controlled economy to force the money to unnaturally remain in the hands of the few.
State or government controlled economic systems manipulate the nation's economy so that only a ‘few’ control the money. This control and manipulation being done today in America by just a very few, is being done through government aid to corporations through subsidies, tax breaks and regulation that frees corporations from regulation. These same few own the media influencing the purchasing public (America’s diminishing greatest power) and using the Federal Reserve to print money to cover up the real losses caused by Wall Street, governmental intervention, corporations and domestic and foreign banks. Those not benefiting from manipulating the market or from banking are mere ‘subjects’ without true political power and without ability to accumulate or create personal wealth.
The populace’s displeasure is quieted through excessive debt (if you are working 18 hours a day to care for yourself and your family, you won’t be able to spend time protesting), an aggressive police force that instills fear in the public, and public education systems that promotes indolence, confusion, mental laziness and teaches students not to venture too far away from conventional knowledge (governmetal propaganda) – teaching both fear of and disrespect for Christians and the free market enterprise and denouncing faith in God, morality or individuality.
Free enterprise promises a better way.
Natural Law and the Rightful Place of Government
Our forefathers based a vision of government and economy on the concepts of natural law, an ancient system of knowledge that has throughout history, broken through the stranglehold of elitism and other forms of tyrannical government with its principles (self-evident in the natural world) of liberty and individual rights.
The first and foremost concept that all natural law is based upon is that the human being is created by God and due to this self-evident fact is granted certain inalienable rights; some of which are self-government and ability to accumulate wealth. Free enterprise, in conjunction with faith in God, works to create the most prosperous; the fairest, the most evenly distributed economic system of all time.
Our forefather vision depicted through the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Constitution teaches us that the individual is given by his Creator God, inalienable right to life, liberty and property. The collective individual ‘body’ of the ‘creatures of God” (ideally all self aware and actualized) grants government its powers, in order to protect each individual’s right to live, to be free and to pursue dreams and accumulate wealth. The powers delegated to the government are restricted by both Constitutional law and natural law similar to the natural law imposed upon the human mind.
Natural Law and the Human Mind
The government is given little power to control individuals just as the human mind is granted little power over the function of the cells and organs.
See The Human Brain and the Role of Government http://annayeisley.com/freeenterpriseeconomy/humanbraingovernment.html
The state of our economy and the lack of stability are due to the unnatural and destructive power our government has assumed over individuals for several generations. We are no longer free to follow our dreams, we are chained to massive debt and ever increasing taxes. This has happened slowly, over the course of time through a dismissal of Constitutional and free enterprise principles and dismissal of the laws that support and protect free enterprise. Control, monopoly and manipulation of our national economy is no longer seen as unconstitutinal and no longer recognized as opposition to individual liberty.
Constitutional Principles Protect Free Enterprise
Two of the most important Constitutional principles are: 1) know that you are created by God and this belief grants you the right to life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness. Number one principle. Why? If 'they' (in our case the courts and public education) take away our faith in God, they take away our liberty because it is only through our faith in God that we claim our independence from tryanny and injustice. Removing 'God' from our lips and faith from our hearts has robbed us of the fire and desire to protect our freedom and our ability to retain income and property.
The second Constitutional principle, as important as the first, is that we, as individuals created by God grant government its powers. We give the government power and we can withdraw that power. The only power we the people grant Government in a Constitutional America is to protect our liberty, protect our right to own property, our right to prosper, to provide for our security and promote our general welfare. Our government has claimed power not constitutionally available to it through expensive social programs, never ending regulations and laws created against the American citizen, an unconstitutional income tax and never ending undeclared and unconstitutional wars.
Our Declaration of Independence reiterates where government receives its power: "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." (2nd paragraph of the Declaration of Independence). Those that promote ever expanding governmental power and scope despise the Declaration of Independence! So did the Brits!
Restrictions that Naturally Oppose Plunder and Tyranny
Constitutional principles restrict the natural greed and inclination of humans and human government to take what is not theirs (plunder) and to force their will upon others (tyranny). The natural tendency for humans and governments to watch others work instead of working and producing, and forcing one’s will upon another is corrected by free enterprise vision made known through the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
The Constitution restricts the power and scope of government so that it does not assume more control than will be healthy for a free enterprise system. And the Declaration of Independence declares and reminds us of our relationship with a moral Creator God. The same faith in God that gives the individual his or her Godly claim to be free of government intervention and control, also restricts our natural tendencies to steal from and control others. It is our faith in God that naturally and gently governs the human heart and gives possibility to self-government. The Constitution restrains government with a little more force, as this quote suggests:
"Let no more be said about the confidence of men, but bind them down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution". -- Thomas Jefferson
Non-governmental intervention is the root of free enterprise economy assuring the individual the freedom to move, act and prosper as the will or spirit of God moves him or her. The true purpose of government is to protect the individual’s ability to move, act and prosper and to ensure that the individual keep the fruits of his labor (property and wages). Protecting the life, liberty and property of every individual is not only the true purpose of government but ensures the unparalleled and enduring success of the free enterprise system.
Anna Yeisley
US@annayeisley.com
spotsylvaniapatriots.com
Recommended Sites and Further Reading:
The God-Driven - The Heart of Free Enterprise
http://annayeisley.com/freeenterpriseeconomy/goddriven.html
Why One Man's Vision Must Fail
http://annayeisley.com/freeenterpriseeconomy/onemansvision.html
Corporate Plunder - Corporatism at its Best
http://annayeisley.com/freeenterpriseeconomy/corporateplunder.html
The Human Brain and the Role of Government
http://annayeisley.com/freeenterpriseeconomy/humanbraingovernment.html
Restore the Vision
http://annayeisley.com/restorethevision.html
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