Gov. 1A-5: Family and sovereignty

 Write a 500-word essay on this topic. Describe family government in terms of the five institutional characteristics: sovereignty, hierarchy (authority), law, sanctions, and succession. Offer an opinion on what the source of the family's sovereignty is.

Review, Lesson 8: separate Jurisdictions

• 1 Corinthians 6
• the state is an inferior jurisdiction
• the church must grow in social authority
• the church must not compromise its authority by merging with the state
• the church should accomplish this by practicing jurisdiction
• Conclusions:
• Governments have separate jurisdictions
• These Jurisdictions have separate courts
• The state is not the sole jurisdiction

Family jurisdiction

• Families are established by judicially binding vows
1. These vows establish mutual responsibilities
2. these vows extend to minor children
3. The vows establish a government with all the rights of a government
• A government has these characteristics
1. Sovereignty
2. Hierarchy
3. Laws
4. Sanctions
5. Succession
• A government possesses the right to exclude
1. The husband and the wife are exclusively bonded
2. the husband is sovereign
3. the family has a patriarchal structure of authority
4. The children are under parental authority
5. Law is defined by parents
6. Parents impose sanctions
7. The sons succeed their father
• A government has immunity from invasion
1. the state did not create the family
• Marriage is a contract between husband and wife before God
2. The state, therefore, has no rights in the contract or its products
• children are products of the family union, property of parents
3. The state does not establish ethics
4. The state does not impose sanctions
5. The State has no right to control children or parents
• therefore it must not
• It does
• this constitutes a moral violation
• Education is never morally neutral
1. Requires truth and falsehood
• there must be standards of truth and falsehood
• teachers must impose these standards
• therefore they favor the order they impose
2. Fair and unfair
• what is fair to the child?
• someone has to make this decision
• nobody but the parent has the property right to make a decision apart from God
• the state is Godless
• therefore the state violates property rights
3. Right and Wrong
• There have to be standards of right and wrong
• the students have to be taught how to evaluate events to be truly educated
• nobody but the parents have the right to impose those ideas on the children
4. Success and failure
• there are valid and invalid indicators of success
• someone must determine these subjectively
• the stage has no right to determine questions of value for others and impose it on them
• therefore they violate the parent's rights by doing so
5. Hope and Futility
• The state chooses not to discriminate in this regard, preferring universal positive sanction
• this is harmful to the student for the above reasons
• it also encourages a lack of direction and value
• this is a form of sabotage to the student
• a perversion of hope for political gain
• Motives
• Parents: Adults to inherit, prosper, and carry on the legacy
• State: Adult children to pay taxes and defend it's power loyally
• God: Faithful citizens in working families
• Church: Faithful believers and strong families to support it
• Self: A strong family to support you and a useful education
• Parents: Adulty children who advance
• State: Adult children who obey
• Parents: Adults who can think to avoid harmful schemes
• State: Servants who believe in propaganda
• Parents: Adults who create wealth
• State: Adult children who contribute wealth
• Parents: The legacy of values
• State: Values useful to the state
• Parents: Methods valuable and useful to them
• State: Methods valuable to the bureaucracy
• Parents: Results judged by their standards for evaluation
• State: results judged by the bureaucracy for uniformity
• He who pays the piper calls the tune
• Parents pay for the tune they like best
• The state wants to pay in order to call the tune
• Parents hire and fire according to their values
• The state hires and fires according to its values

Family Government

• The present is the extension of the past
• not an extension of superstitious ritual
• A moral and confessional extension
• Moral improvement is possible
• The Future is more important than the past or present
• Economic improvement is possible

Conclusions

• A family is a legitimate government
• The family is not an agency of the state
• The family has the right to exclude the state
• Parents have sovereignty over children
• Children inherent, not the state
• this is the natural order
• This represents a serious conflict between the state of man and the fundamental molecule of culture