Magna Carta
I'm reading the wikipedia entry about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
Apparently this is all about a bunch of landowners (barrons/"middle class") declaring their sovereignty. Basically they're saying "fuck you" to the king and saying that the only authority the civil government has is to reaffirm common law principles.
It says that many founding fathers appealed to the principles of common law by the Magna Carta.
Common Law is based on the bible. For example Deuteronomy 4 commands the children of Israel to POSSESS the land:
>1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and ```possess``` the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
>5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to ```possess``` it.
>14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to ```possess``` it.
>22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and ```possess``` that good land.
>26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to ```possess``` it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
>47 And they ```possessed``` his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
And this principle does resonate with the english definition of property:
1. that which a person owns; the ```possession``` or possessions of a particular owner:
``They lost all their property in the fire.``
2. goods, land, etc., considered as ```possessions```:
``The corporation is a means for the common ownership of property.``
3. a piece of land or real estate:
``property on Main Street.``
4.ownership; right of ```possession```, enjoyment, or disposal of anything, especially of something tangible:
``to have property in land.``
That's pretty significant. Most people don't own property anymore. Why is that?
Why have most, nay, all churches abandoned these principles. IF we were all secure in our property, we would have God's intended authority of husband over wife and man over himself in tact.
Perhaps God is cursing our nation because we have abdicated our responsibility in asserting our rights.
The only authority a righteous republic has is to write statute that reaffirms common law (revealed & natural law) principles. What's the deal? Why don't we learn these things?