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Answer:It should be obvious that the study of civics
reflects one’s concept of the nature of man, but the
issue has been muddied in the most extraordinary
manner. Christian civic culture must uphold the dignity of man, of each man since each one is a child
of God our Father. And it should be ordered to the
common good. What could be more obvious?
Tranquillitas Ordinis
This Latin term refers to the ordering of society for the true peace and security of its members.
It is the goal of Christian civics that each member
of society be able to develop his gifts and use them
for the knowledge and worship of God and for the
service of those around him.
The doctrine of the Incarnation, that the Son
of God lived on earth as true God and true man
implies that the divine life – and therefore any
degree of personal holiness – can be lived on earth.
This truth impels believers to seek true goodness
in all they do. In the civitas, the community of
mankind beyond the family or nomadic tribe, relationships among men must be regulated in complex
ways, called government. Christian civic theory
developed the idea that government must protect
inalienable rights, rights that are from God: specifically the gift of life, the gift of true interior liberty,
and the right to pursue true happiness, which is
God’s will for us in the world. Note: in its origin,
the concept of the pursuit of happiness specifically disallowed the pursuit of license or of anything
contrary to God’s law and man’s true happiness.
For all the years in which Christian culture was
the foundation of civic thought, it was understood
that laws must be made to maximize the opportunity to enjoy these inalienable rights, and any law
which came to be understood as contrary to God’s
law was immediately null and void. Until the end of
the nineteenth century, any law that could be shown
to be unjust was thereby shown not to be law. It
didn’t need to be repealed to lose its force; it was
immediately out of force.
Lincoln said it well, when he emphasized
the value of a government “of the people, by the
people, and for the people”. Christian government
demands the same observation of law from all the
people; it is conducted with the participation of all
the people inasmuch as all are equally indwelt by the
Spirit of God; and it works in the service of all the
people who are equally the children of one Heavenly Father.
Legal positivism
Legal positivism is the name of the radical
reconstruction of the philosophy of law which took
over the legal profession in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, totally reversing the Christian philosophy of law. According to this view, the
law is simply what the words say. That is what we
have before us, and all else is mere speculation. It is
a consequence of radical philosophical concepts of
uncertainty that this refuge was taken – we cannot
know meanings or history; all we have is the words,
and they are the law.
Once again, we are faced with the effect of
denying the possibility of knowing truth and being
forced to base our lives on something smaller. If we
cannot know God, if the Church cannot teach us
the truth, if scripture can be endlessly reinterpreted
so that it does not effectively teach, if there is no
human certainty, then our laws cannot be ordered to
the “good.” They are just words, temporary agreements between fallible human beings, and their only
reasonable goal is order; therefore they must be
limited to the meaning of the words, not the “truthful” or “good” intent of the authors. Justice is not
a meaningful concept when philosophy is not based
on truth.
This change in the basic philosophy of law is
the reason for the constitutional changes of our
century; laws can change if the meanings or understandings of the words change, even to mean the
opposite of the original intent. This is not a problem that can be solved by a constitutional convention; it will require a philosophical reawakening, and,
undergirding that, a religious conversion because it
will require confidence in the search for truth
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