Proposals for a Nation gone off by a Nephew of Ben Franklin

Homer, the first poet of antiquity, was also its most profound psychologist in the old sense and it is in the figure of Ajax, Telamonian Ajax, the Greater Ajax, Ajax of the tower shield and the long retreat, that Homer sketched his portrait of the conservative soul.  The Ajax who was outdone in battle by Achilles and bested by Odysseus in life, this Ajax was at heart a defender and this identity was both his limitation and his ultimate humiliation.  These blog entries are addressed to the contemporary Ajax, the conservative, the soldier of the slow defeat, whose prize in battle is to have less than what he started with and at a great expense.*

Let it be noted that in itself defense never leads to victory, it is only a temporary strategy; it does not earn honors and at best it can only safeguard those won by others.  Even the best outcome of a solely defensive stance is always negative.  Ultimately, its dynamic is bound to one thing:  loss.  Eventually, total loss.  Action will be our watchword then, regardless of success.  Where it does not succeed,  if the aims are good, the action will not be wasted and will force the side of statism and the status quo nunc to do the defending.  As far as the proposals within, you may find nothing appreciably novel, still it is always healthy to reiterate true things about our world.  Additionally, since it is bedrock with our view that contemporary power grabs by the federal government are certain to both succeed in the power and fail in the stated goals used to justify that power, that we will soon be left with a larger and worse government not larger and better, there will be a real opportunity, in fact necessity, to reestablish a more perfect liberty.  As bad as bad King John may have been, the upshot of his misrule was the Magna Carta.   Offered below is groundwork for a Magna Carta Nova when the reign of our King John ends.  In bad times, preparation is also the watchword.  

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footnote:  *Those interested as to whether Homer provided a portrait for what today are called liberals will not be disappointed.  It can be found in Thersites (Iliad, 2.211-77).