The Basics of Freedom

By Dr. Ausar Heru Bey

The Basics of Freedom presents simple explanations of the fundamental principles that provide the foundational structure for the United States government. Breaking down each clause and paragraph, Dr. Bey explicates the natural rights that each citizen has to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and highlights the ideals pertaining to the responsibilities of the government to its citizens and the civic duties of the citizens to the government. The Basics of Freedom is the first in a a series currently being composed to aid “We the People” in sincerely re-establishing the ideals that are the building blocks of the United States—ideals long forgotten by many and neglected by others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781640272309

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The Basics

of Freedom

Dr. Ausar Heru Bey

Copyright © 2017 Dr. Ausar Heru Bey

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

New York, NY

First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc. 2017

ISBN 978-1-64027-229-3 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64027-230-9 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Preface

My intent was to create a curriculum for fellow constituents of the Moorish American population. In the process, I asked my queen, Starasia Erica N. Leon Bey, to read what I had already written. After reading the first, second, and third parts of the curriculum, she expressed excitement and suggested I should just write a book so I can reach more people than just the Moorish American attending a single venue. She reminded me how often I express the necessity for every member of this society to know their rights and duties to the republic that is the United States of America. So I had to add this initial paragraph to what has now become a whole different project. My goal is to convey an understanding of the law and civics to everyone. Therefore, I will attempt to simplify the principles and information as much as it is possible for me to do so. Hopefully, someone can convey the same truth even simpler without taking away from the truth and significance of the information. As I write this book, I constantly remind myself of a quote from Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist (among other titles): Take everything to its simplest form, but not simpler.

Chapter 1

The Nature of Law

Law is that which governs the land, air, and water in the metaphysical and physical realms of reality. People are born with certain aspects of self that are endowed upon them by the Creator (Nature). For example, one must breathe, sleep, eat, forage for food, travel, sow one’s seed to perpetuate one’s bloodline through one’s progeny, own property, and have freedom. Those intrinsic and integral aspects of self are your rights, and are natural law. In fact, so much so that nations create constitutions and societal laws to preserve and protect those natural laws. Governments do not create your rights. Governments are obliged to enforce laws to protect your natural rights. Now natural rights are inalienable or unalienable (Declaration of Independence). This means these natural rights are so much of a part of you that those natural rights can’t even be transferred away from you, unless you voluntarily surrender them. Keep in mind that laws derive from man and governments acknowledging these natural rights. Natural rights are what gave birth to laws that are constructed for the purpose of the operations of nations. People can’t deal with societal affairs or affairs between nations without the preservation of the aspects of life that allow us to be and prosper. Thus, laws are devised, adhered to, and enforced.

Just as natural and universal laws govern all events transpiring throughout the universe, laws must govern all events transpiring in the social realm of man (male and female). The law is precepts and principles regarded as tenets by any given segment or part of a construct, especially a social construct. The concept and practice of principles and precepts existing to create and maintain order or structure is seen in the metaphysical and physical realm and is observed at the core of a properly organized household. Even in one’s individual life, principles and precepts must be created and maintained to construct character and to increase the likelihood of being successful in one’s personal and public endeavors. There is no realm of existence where a form of law doesn’t exist.

Chapter 2

You Exist as Two Forms of Life

People exist as a biological entity consisting of flesh, blood, and bones. According to law, people also exist as status. Status according to the letter of the law means a person’s legal condition, whether personal or proprietary; the sum total of a person’s legal rights, duties, liabilities, and other legal relations, or any particular group of them separately considered, a person’s legal condition regarding personal rights but excluding proprietary relations, a person’s capacities and incapacities, as opposed to other elements of personal status, or a person’s legal condition insofar as it is imposed by the law without the person’s consent, as opposed to a condition the person has acquired by agreement (Black’s Law Dictionary, tenth edition). This pretty much means a status determines what you legally can and can’t do. Also, it is a determination of what legally you are and are not entitled to. Your status will determine how you are viewed and dealt with according to law.

Now, keep in mind after reading the above definition of status that a person has multiple classifications in law. For example, according to the letter of the law, an artificial person is defined as an entity, such as a corporation, created by law and given certain legal rights and duties of a human being; real or imaginary, who for the purpose of legal reasoning is treated more or less like a human being. An entity is a person for purposes of Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses but is not a citizen for purposes of the Privileges and Immunities Clauses in Article 4 sec. 2 and in the 14th Amendment (Black’s Law Dictionary, tenth edition). The enactment of fourteenth amendment was when the United States citizens were created into law (Constitution for the United States of America, fourteenth amendment). We’ve very easily deduced that your status can legally be that of artificial person and you are entitled to due process and equal protection; however, you are simultaneously classified not a citizen, and you aren’t entitled to all the immunities and privileges of a citizen. And a citizen is defined as someone who, by either birth or naturalization, is a member of a political community and being entitled to enjoy all its civil rights and protections; a member of the civil state, entitled to all privileges (Black’s Law Dictionary, tenth edition). It’s telling you in the letter of the law, as clear as fresh air, you can be referred to as a person while simultaneously not referred to as a human being or a citizen. This would make you dead according to the letter of law.

There is even a phrase for such a legal death: civiliter mortuus. The phrase civiliter mortuus is defined as a person civilly dead, deprived of civil rights (Black’s Law Dictionary, tenth edition). The law is clear about a person being able to live and die outside of being a flesh-and-blood human being. I strongly advise the reader to ask oneself, What is my lawful status? For all you know, you can be existing in this society without lawfully being regarded and dealt with as a human being, only being extended equal protection and due process without immunities and privileges.

Chapter 3

Contractual Snares

A contract is an instrument usually in the form of a document (paper and ink). A document is defined as something tangible on which words, symbols, or marks are recorded. Traditionally, of course, the term embraced any piece of paper with information on it. Today the term also embraces any information stored on a computer, electronic device, or any other medium. Documents