Post by Administrator on Sept 1, 2012 16:26:54 GMT -5
Consensus presupposes freedom, alternatives, volition and commitment. But the uniform imposition of a standing federal law denies to the greatest number the freedom to decide for themselves that whatever the consensus has judged to be wrong is for them wrong as well. Naturally, in the case of basic civil rights, whose protection ensures the survival of a society, uniformity of law is critical.
But unanimity is as unnatural to human beings as a uniformity is among them. And the suppression of diversity, as surely as dissent, engenders instability. Every effort ought to be made, therefore, to afford law abiding citizens, within limited, local political spheres, the opportunity to judge for themselves, through hands-on legislative learning, what is right and what is wrong.
So long as residents are educated and free to move elsewhere; so long as non-residents are granted the same civil rights afforded to residents; so long as laws within local precincts never hamper the freedoms of the rest of society; local political autonomy and self determination ought not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
But unanimity is as unnatural to human beings as a uniformity is among them. And the suppression of diversity, as surely as dissent, engenders instability. Every effort ought to be made, therefore, to afford law abiding citizens, within limited, local political spheres, the opportunity to judge for themselves, through hands-on legislative learning, what is right and what is wrong.
So long as residents are educated and free to move elsewhere; so long as non-residents are granted the same civil rights afforded to residents; so long as laws within local precincts never hamper the freedoms of the rest of society; local political autonomy and self determination ought not only be tolerated, but encouraged.