介绍的是这本书:《The Five Thousand Year Leap: Twenty-Eight Great Ideas That Are Changing the World - by W. Cleon Skousen》
说一下我的感想。对第一条原则就非常有感触,就是说:在落后国家,可能人们没有区分法律 Law 到底"是任意制定的?","还是人发现的?"
如果是任意制定的,人就不知道为什么法律必须得到遵守。就像如果人们不懂得F=MA不是牛顿制定的,而是他发现的。人就不知道要遵守这个定律(也是LAW),以为这是英国人搞的东西,我们中国人就偏不听那一套(以前真的有批相对论的)。虽然意识层面不说给它加个中国系数,但潜意识层面总觉得或许我可以突破其限制。搞个多快好省。同样的力气,多推点东西,M大一点;或者同样的力气同样的物件我推得更快,A值比别人高;或者同样的物件M和同样的加速度,我能省点力,F小一点。这其实都是潜意识里要修改自然法,要给公式加一个毛系数,或者球系数。F=mMA. m <1, 就多快好省了。如果Law都能被我们改了,那不但弯道能超车,直道也可以超车了。
First Principle: The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is Natural Law.
Second Principle: A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.
Third Principle: The most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders.
Fourth Principle: Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained.
Fifth Principle: All things were created by God, therefore upon Him all mankind are equally dependent, and to Him they are equally responsible.
Sixth Principle: All men are created equal.
Seventh Principle: The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.
Eighth Principle: Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
Ninth Principle: To protect man's rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law.
Tenth Principle: The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.
Eleventh Principle: The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical.
Twelfth Principle: The United States of America shall be a republic.
Thirteenth Principle: A constitution should be structured to permanently protect the people from the human frailties of their rulers.
Fourteenth Principle: Life and liberty are secure only so long as the right to property is secure.
Fifteenth Principle: The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations.
Sixteenth Principle: The government should be separated into three branches -- legislative, executive, and judicial.
Seventeenth Principle: A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power.
Eighteenth Principle: The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written constitution.
Nineteenth Principle: Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to government, all others being retained in the people.
Twentieth Principle: Efficiency and dispatch require government to operate according to the will of the majority, but constitutional provisions must be made to protect the rights of the minority.
Twenty-First Principle: Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom.
Twenty-Second Principle: A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
Twenty-Third Principle: A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.
Twenty-Fourth Principle: A free people will not survive unless they stay strong.
Twenty-Fifth Principle: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none."
Twenty-Sixth Principle: The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore, the government should foster and protect its integrity.
Twenty-Seventh Principle: The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as subjugation by conquest.
Twenty-Eighth Principle: The United States has a manifest destiny to be an example and a blessing to the entire human race.