This is America's purpose:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Should these separate components of our purpose be ranked in importance, or are they all equally important?
Here is how they are currently prioritized:
- common defense
- domestic tranquility
- establish justice
- promote the general welfare
- secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
- form a more perfect union
The current emphasis (conventional wisdom) seems to be that the only priority in this "uniquely scary and dangerous" period of our history is for us to be safe and unified. And until we are, well, then, justice, liberty and the general welfare will just have to be put on the back burner. We aren't hungry enough or confident enough to have our full purpose on our plates at the same time. That would take more courage than we can currently muster.
My view is that all are equally important, and when we hold up specific components as more important than others, then we are failing to realize our great American purpose and we regress to a less perfect union. Progress requires that we truly stay "the land of the free, and the home of the brave."
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