The Seeds of Self-Destruction
Uncontrolled self-aggrandizement leads to injury, exploitation, anarchy and war. Governance should set restraints upon the scope of people's actions.

The Principle of Non-Injury
Good Governance assures every citizen protection from all forms of harm, exploitation and oppression by others.

Protection without Oppression.
Good Governance is limited to, and defined by its role of Protection.
Extension of power beyond that role becomes Oppression.


A Predatory Society:
Slaves, Serfs, and Industrial Poverty

The Evolution of Governance
Autocracy to Oligarchy - The Socialist Revolution - Democracy or Majocracy

Life After Democracy
Democracy, rule by majority, replaced by "Principocracy", rule by Principle.


The Search for Right Law
Liberty and the Principle of Non-Injury

Protection, Oppression, and Liberty
are a function of Government Intervention - How Much Government.

The Legislative Process
Representation - Legislative Review
- Quality, Productivity, Service


CONSTITUTION
Ideals of Constitutionalism
The Great Charter of 1215 - England after Magna Carta
Constitution in the New World
Constitutional Government - Constitution: the Supreme Law of the Land


ECONOMICS - a Plain Language Study Resource
Covers the basics, the mechanics and the challenges of our modern economic and monetary system.

The Principle of Non-Injury in Economics.
Value - Quality - Investment


Natural Resources and the Principle of Non-Injury
National Resources Plan - Townscape - Landpricing

Hillhome: Minimal Footprint, Minimal Energy
A City for the Future
Home on a Hillside - A Varied Hillscape - Parkland

Life in the Atrium
In from the Countryside - Entertainment - Support Services


If any man, any woman, acquires or is granted power over any other or others, this will – not may, but most certainly and surely will – lead to abuse, misuse, corruption and oppression.

The only Power that is competent and can be trusted to regulate the affairs of community and society is the Power of Principle, the Principle that in the pursuit of self-improvement and the exercise of liberty, no-one should injure or exploit others.

This Principle of Non-Injury is neutral and impersonal. It is a shield, protecting from injury, preventing injury.

Legislators hold no arbitrary or discretionary power. They are simply Interpreters, applying the Principle in terms of everyday events and actions. The process of Interpretation is clearly delineated and circumscribed. If there is Injury, there must be Protection. If there is no Injury, then there is neither cause nor justification for the interference of law and the exercise of its power.


Power:
Our Magnificent Obsession.


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