A Dissident's Guide to the Constitution: Episode 1 by UK Column Live published on 2020-10-17T20:38:28Z How does government work? Who tells government where to stop? By popular request, and to meet the need of the times, Alex Thomson is joined by Mike Robinson and David Scott to brief dissidents on the Constitution. The podcast will be of interest to overseas listeners too but primarily explores the English and Scots Constitutions, the common law, and the British constitutional legacy. This is not a series of history lectures. After a few initial episodes on key concepts (constitution, common law, rights, democracy, the rule of law, the nation state), we aim to go through the last thousand years of constitutional development with an eye for what has been hidden (how we have been governed in the past), then to explore how the state fits together (how we are governed now), and finally what plans there are for our future. Genre News & Politics Comment by KMPageot Very interesting conversation, thank you! 2023-03-21T23:19:02Z Comment by This N That I really enjoyed this, it's restored my faith belief. Belief that we can win this battle against tyranny yet again. 2021-11-21T09:23:01Z Comment by RobinAMBate A 3 fold social order is the way for now and the coming future. Equality in the law, an economy that is for everyone, and freedom in the culture (science, health, education, the arts, religion. 2021-07-06T20:13:29Z Comment by Gary Tyme Here is one for you about legal behaviour: Bastiat says "each of us has a natural right to defend their person, their liberty, and their property. "The State is a "substitution of a common force for individual forces" to defend this right. The law becomes perverted when it is used to violate the rights of the individual, when it punishes one's right to defend themselves against a collective effort of others to legislatively enact laws which basically have the same effects as legal plunder. “ The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires the author to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it. ” 2021-04-01T08:22:02Z Comment by Gary Tyme It is difficult to limit power when they feel they have the "DIVINE" right to rule. Where did royal come from? Nowhere, as we all started as people that migrated out of Africa. So, whom determined these people to be "Divine" or Royal? Humans did... Hence, you cannot limit the power of "God", so you will never limit the power of the powerful because they believe they are divine. 2021-04-01T08:09:28Z Comment by Gary Tyme You will never codify a constitution because your starting premise ("God") is the very thing that we cannot decide on. So, to try to validate a constitution based on a personified ideal only becomes an attempt to validate a figurative premise. 2021-04-01T07:57:49Z Comment by Gary Tyme @user-929899038: Lol, a divine vision. What like Mohammed's divine congress with "God". All religions were CULTS and we accepted them as divine - which - only happened because of the passage of time. Religion... hahahahahahaha, pmsl, lmfao!!! 2021-04-01T07:50:24Z Comment by Gary Tyme 1 of 2: Are you kidding!! God is so many things to so many people and their definition is based on their selective cherry picking of the "word", this - in-and-of itself creates the confusion. "God" is a man-made concept, written by man, determined by man and perpetuated by man. Hence, we have constructed a hierarchy that permits those that feel they have the divine right to rule to use "God" as a axiomatic ideal that gives a rule of thumb to thrash the undecided. My question is: Would a guiding principle still retain its divinity in the absence of a "God"? Moreover, if the divinity of the words in religious text were (1) not only documented by humans, but also (2) the divinity of these words were decided to be divine by humans, then if one was to extract a guiding principle from the text - as an agreed principle that exhibits virtue (and divine) - and apply it to life would the principle not still retain its divinity despite the validation given to it i.e. a "God"? 2021-04-01T07:34:10Z Comment by AptInfinity nice1 #Respect 2020-12-09T17:32:45Z Comment by Yates Neil Fantastic! But I think you may need to get onto this with some urgency, if it is to be of any use to us all... 2020-11-02T23:12:40Z Comment by Jan Does anyone know how I can find the brilliant music that played after the guide when I listened last week ? 2020-11-01T08:26:49Z
