Publius Doc Rock

#OnePeople ratified the Constitution… Collectivism by assent: In defense of natural law. US Navy Veteran. Physician. Cycling 🚴

[Publius Doc Rock @chbstone2]

“The senses are not given us to furnish us with a complete knowledge of things, but to direct us in the affairs of life, and to point out to us those objects which are useful or hurtful; and it is by reflection that we discover the laws of nature and the attributes of the Deity.”

[Publius Doc Rock @chbstone2]

@d3bach Cicero’s De Officiis

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@d3bach Clearly not “Liberty first” as James Lindsay is wont to say

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@d3bach Happiness

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@d3bach Happiness

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@d3bach What is happiness?

Mentioned over and over by the Founders…

Must be important

Clearly not an individualistic / selfish type of happiness

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@irishpatriot91 Good book

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@TheAmRev 2/2

That strikes me as the more consequential development. How much responsibility do you think belongs to Calhoun and the constitutional theories that emerged from nullification?

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@TheAmRev 1/2

Fair response.

My own view is that the deeper lesson of the era is not how Lincoln responded, but how a generation came to believe that secession was a constitutional right at all.

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@TheAmRev 2/2

The Framers vested executive power in one president because emergencies require decisive action. Lincoln’s first constitutional duty was to preserve the Union, not supervise its peaceful dissolution.

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@TheAmRev 1/2

I understand the concern about precedent, but by April 1861 secession was already underway and federal property had been attacked.

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@markdtooley In other words:

According to the Founders:

Virtue first

Not “Liberty first!” As the individualist James Lindsay likes to say

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@bland3463 @AmericanReform_ 4/4

The American nation, in particular, is rooted in a constitutional inheritance and a common civic tradition, not in racial identity alone.

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@bland3463 @AmericanReform_ 3/4

Additionally, Pius XII is defending the integrity of nations, not reducing nations to race. A nation is a historical, cultural, political, and moral community. It is not merely a biological category.

[Michael Johns🇺🇸 @michaeljohns]

Week of June 8, 1776:

**In Philadelphia, Jefferson begins authoring the Declaration.

**In Connecticut, the general assembly votes in support of independence.

**In Sorel, Sullivan leads 5,000 troops out of Canada, ending the Continental Army's nine-month engagement in Quebec.

[The American Dissenter @TheAmRev]

This perfectly captures my position. One can deeply admire Southern courage, piety, martial tradition, and cultural heritage without accepting the Confederacy’s constitutional arguments for secession and disunion.

At the same time, rejecting those disunion theories does not obligate me to endorse Lincoln’s response to the crisis—nor the catastrophic loss of life and lasting division it produced. Genuine fidelity to the Constitution and our shared inheritance calls us to confront the failures on all sides, rather than defaulting to a victor’s narrative.

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The Founding Fathers saw happiness not as fleeting pleasure but as a lifelong quest inspired by classical thinkers like Cicero, Seneca, and Epictetus.

[KrisAnne Hall, LibertyAddict @RealKahall]

This post refers to the June 27, 2025, Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which granted a preliminary injunction regarding parental rights in schools.

This decision was made consistent with prior SCOTUS options.
The take away needs to be that PARENTS
Have become fundamentally ignorant old their rights and the rights of their children in a public school.

If Parents were educated the schools couldn’t be uninformed and couldn’t bully Christian parents into submitting their children to the indoctrination that is absolutely immoral and unconstitutional.

PARENTS PLEASE, if you will send your children to the government for education, get educated on your rights.

Email my law firm and we will send you, at no cost to you, a free brochure teaching you your Religious Liberty Rights in Public Schools.

Email- [email protected]
Subject Line- Religious Liberty Rights in Public Schools

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