It is comforting to think, as many people
think, that there is something called “Law” and that this lexicon of
eternal justice is time-proven and steadfast, but this is not true.
The law changes from place to place and from
time to time and object to object and “subject” as in the
“Queen’s subject” and the “matter” under consideration, as
in “people, persons, place or Thing, rock, turtle, or star.”
In the Western world, different types of laws
are arranged according to the Kingdoms of Creation and the Law of Species
established in the first book of the Bible, Genesis.
Here God the Creator separated heaven and
earth, land and sea, man from animal, dog from deer. And every newly
created “form,” light and dark, fact and idea, had by Nature its own
“law.” Icicles melt when it’s warm. The seasons
change. Men dream.
This magnificent “Ordered Whole”
was adopted by the early Church as the Supreme Pattern for all law, and the Ten
Commandments were accepted as a divine law among men.
This is reflected in the church’s
organization of its own laws into the types of laws relating to the church and
its ministers: ecclesiastical, ecumenical, and canonical.
The early organization of laws was
conceptualized in terms of the Kingdoms of Creation—so we have jurisdictions of
air, land, and sea. In addition, it was ordered according to the Kind –
the law for people is separate from the law for persons (officers), and the law
for persons is separate from the law for corporations.
Many people today who have rejected God (but
despite this come with descriptions of the concept of God, such as
“Source” and “ever-expanding morphogenic information
field”) also reject the Church’s organizational scheme for the
law. And they don’t like the Ten Commandments as a fundamental law for
humanity either.
This is what it is and is more than enough
for all the purposes under consideration in a few thousand years, but
nevertheless there are those who oppose the Ten Commandments and would rather
have the Ten Voluntary Guidelines for adherence.
The part about not testifying is a real
stumbling block for the Liars among us, and banning adultery is difficult for
all blackmailers and Libertine.
Nevertheless, the Ten
Commandments is the only enumerated code of law that regulates standards of
conduct among people who accept all three major Western religions—Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam. So that’s the only “legal standard”
that we all, generally speaking, have in common. That is why the Founding
Fathers agreed to adopt the Ten Commandments as the fundamental standard on
which all the law concerning men and lawful persons is based.
This is also why the sculptures of Moses
and/or the famous stone slabs once adorned (and in some places still adorn) our
vessels. At the end of the open hostilities that ended the so-called
American Civil War, a simple but profound change was made that changed the
shape of the laws practiced by the courts in this country.
The law of land and soil, which is the law of
living and lawful persons, has been secretly removed. The law of the sea,
both admiralty and naval, was replaced “for us” by our British
territorial federal subcontractors. For this one to fly, they had to redefine
our Proper Names as the names of British territorial officials living here
under the Residence Act, or the names of municipal franchise CORPORATIONs,
because neither the Admiralty nor the Maritime Law can refer to people as
people.
Their excuse and pretense to the rest of the
world was that our U.S. government had mysteriously “disappeared” and
was “presumed to be in the interregnum” – so in the meantime they,
our British territorial subcontractors, were moving in under temporary, urgent
proceedings , the basis of custody and “representation” of us.
Of course, they never breathed a word about
this pleasant arrangement to the American people.
