Postmillitant

original @atlassociety

“When the government knows everything about you, that’s tyranny, when you know everything about your government, that’s democracy.” — Cristian Terhes

Governments are defined by who is held to be transparent. The difference presupposes who owes whom an explanation and who is most likely to be hiding something.

A government which refuses to be questioned and insists on all the answers cannot and should not be trusted. Limited government is a Christian invention and when employed by grace through faith, it safeguards those in control from becoming tyrants and those under control from becoming tinder.

Where the people are given access to all the information, the representatives work for the citizens.; where the government is given access to all the information, the citizens become slaves of the State. Representative government is based on covenanted agreements. Federal comes from the Latin for foedus which means covenant, pact, or treaty. Federal governance is an arrangement of promises in which each party agrees to do something on behalf of the other. The representative agrees to act on behalf of the people at the mercy of the people as their elected head. The people agree to vest decision-making authority into the person they send to represent them. If the representative breaks faith with those they represent, the people are free to break out from under their headship. This is the premise behind the American War for Independence. The colonies grievance was that King George was not protecting them per their agreement. The consent of the governed was being abused by the absence of the governor in matters related to their safety, security, and prosperity. Thus, the colonists, confirming their heads abdication, set forth to elect new heads that would represent them faithfully.