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70:12.1 The great [[struggle]] in the [[evolution]] of [[government]] has concerned the [[concentration]] of [[power]]. The [[universe]] [[administrators]] have [[learned]] from [[experience]] that the [[evolutionary]] peoples on the [[inhabited worlds]] are best regulated by the [[representative]] [[type]] of civil [[government]] when there is [[maintained]] proper [[balance]] of power between the well-[[co-ordinated]] [[executive]], [[legislative]], and [[judicial]] branches.
70:12.2 While [[primitive]] [[authority]] was based on [[strength]], [[physical]] power, the [[ideal]] [[government]] is the [[representative]] [[system]] wherein [[leadership]] is based on [[ability]], but in the days of [[barbarism]] there was entirely too much war to permit [[representative]] [[government]] to [[function]] [[effectively]]. In the long [[struggle]] between division of [[authority]] and [[unity]] of command, the [[dictator]] won. The early and diffuse [[powers]] of the [[primitive]] [[council]] of elders were [[gradually]] [[concentrated]] in the [[person]] of the [[absolute]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch monarch]. After the arrival of real [[kings]] the groups of [[elders]] persisted as quasi-[[legislative]]-[[judicial]] advisory bodies; later on, [[legislatures]] of [[co-ordinate]] [[status]] made their [[appearance]], and [[eventually]] supreme courts of [[adjudication]] were [[established]] separate from the [[legislatures]].
70:12.3 The [[king]] was the executor of the [[mores]], the [[original]] or unwritten law. Later he enforced the [[legislative]] enactments, the crystallization of [[public]] [[opinion]]. A popular assembly as an [[expression]] of [[public]] [[opinion]], though slow in appearing, marked a great [[social]] advance.
70:12.4 The early [[kings]] were greatly restricted by the [[mores]]—by [[tradition]] or [[public]] [[opinion]]. In recent times some [[Urantia]] nations have codified these [[mores]] into [[document]]ary bases for [[government]].
70:12.5 [[Urantia]] [[mortals]] are entitled to [[liberty]]; they should [[create]] their [[systems]] of [[government]]; they should adopt their [[constitutions]] or other charters of civil [[authority]] and [[administrative]] [[procedure]]. And having done this, they should select their most competent and [[worthy]] fellows as [[chief executive]]s. For [[representatives]] in the [[legislative]] branch they should elect only those who are qualified [[intellectually]] and [[morally]] to fulfill such [[sacred]] [[responsibilities]]. As [[judges]] of their high and supreme [[tribunals]] only those who are [[endowed]] with [[natural]] [[ability]] and who have been made wise by replete [[experience]] should be chosen.
70:12.6 If men would [[maintain]] their [[freedom]], they must, after having chosen their charter of [[liberty]], provide for its [[wise]], [[intelligent]], and fearless [[interpretation]] to the end that there may be prevented:
*1. Usurpation of unwarranted [[power]] by either the [[executive]] or [[legislative]] branches.
*2. Machinations of ignorant and [[superstitious]] agitators.
*3. Retardation of [[scientific]] [[progress]].
*4. Stalemate of the [[dominance]] of mediocrity.
*5. [[Domination]] by vicious minorities.
*6. [[Control]] by [[ambitious]] and clever would-be [[dictators]].
*7. Disastrous disruption of panics.
*8. Exploitation by the unscrupulous.
*9. [[Taxation]] [[enslavement]] of the [[citizenry]] by the [[state]].
*10. Failure of [[social]] and [[economic]] [[fairness]].
*11. [[Union]] of [[church]] and [[state]].
*12. Loss of [[personal]] [[liberty]].
70:12.7 These are the [[purposes]] and aims of [[constitutional]] [[tribunals]] acting as governors upon the engines of [[representative]] [[government]] on an [[evolutionary world]].
70:12.8 [[Mankind]]'s [[struggle]] to [[perfect]] [[government]] on [[Urantia]] has to do with perfecting [[channels]] of [[administration]], with [[adapting]] them to ever-changing current needs, with improving [[power]] [[distribution]] within [[government]], and then with selecting such [[administrative]] [[leaders]] as are truly [[wise]]. While there is a [[divine]] and [[ideal]] [[form]] of [[government]], such cannot be [[revealed]] but must be slowly and laboriously [[discovered]] by the [[men]] and [[women]] of each [[planet]] throughout the [[universes]] of [[time and space]].
70:12.9 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_70 Go to Paper 70]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government]]
70:12.1 The great [[struggle]] in the [[evolution]] of [[government]] has concerned the [[concentration]] of [[power]]. The [[universe]] [[administrators]] have [[learned]] from [[experience]] that the [[evolutionary]] peoples on the [[inhabited worlds]] are best regulated by the [[representative]] [[type]] of civil [[government]] when there is [[maintained]] proper [[balance]] of power between the well-[[co-ordinated]] [[executive]], [[legislative]], and [[judicial]] branches.
70:12.2 While [[primitive]] [[authority]] was based on [[strength]], [[physical]] power, the [[ideal]] [[government]] is the [[representative]] [[system]] wherein [[leadership]] is based on [[ability]], but in the days of [[barbarism]] there was entirely too much war to permit [[representative]] [[government]] to [[function]] [[effectively]]. In the long [[struggle]] between division of [[authority]] and [[unity]] of command, the [[dictator]] won. The early and diffuse [[powers]] of the [[primitive]] [[council]] of elders were [[gradually]] [[concentrated]] in the [[person]] of the [[absolute]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch monarch]. After the arrival of real [[kings]] the groups of [[elders]] persisted as quasi-[[legislative]]-[[judicial]] advisory bodies; later on, [[legislatures]] of [[co-ordinate]] [[status]] made their [[appearance]], and [[eventually]] supreme courts of [[adjudication]] were [[established]] separate from the [[legislatures]].
70:12.3 The [[king]] was the executor of the [[mores]], the [[original]] or unwritten law. Later he enforced the [[legislative]] enactments, the crystallization of [[public]] [[opinion]]. A popular assembly as an [[expression]] of [[public]] [[opinion]], though slow in appearing, marked a great [[social]] advance.
70:12.4 The early [[kings]] were greatly restricted by the [[mores]]—by [[tradition]] or [[public]] [[opinion]]. In recent times some [[Urantia]] nations have codified these [[mores]] into [[document]]ary bases for [[government]].
70:12.5 [[Urantia]] [[mortals]] are entitled to [[liberty]]; they should [[create]] their [[systems]] of [[government]]; they should adopt their [[constitutions]] or other charters of civil [[authority]] and [[administrative]] [[procedure]]. And having done this, they should select their most competent and [[worthy]] fellows as [[chief executive]]s. For [[representatives]] in the [[legislative]] branch they should elect only those who are qualified [[intellectually]] and [[morally]] to fulfill such [[sacred]] [[responsibilities]]. As [[judges]] of their high and supreme [[tribunals]] only those who are [[endowed]] with [[natural]] [[ability]] and who have been made wise by replete [[experience]] should be chosen.
70:12.6 If men would [[maintain]] their [[freedom]], they must, after having chosen their charter of [[liberty]], provide for its [[wise]], [[intelligent]], and fearless [[interpretation]] to the end that there may be prevented:
*1. Usurpation of unwarranted [[power]] by either the [[executive]] or [[legislative]] branches.
*2. Machinations of ignorant and [[superstitious]] agitators.
*3. Retardation of [[scientific]] [[progress]].
*4. Stalemate of the [[dominance]] of mediocrity.
*5. [[Domination]] by vicious minorities.
*6. [[Control]] by [[ambitious]] and clever would-be [[dictators]].
*7. Disastrous disruption of panics.
*8. Exploitation by the unscrupulous.
*9. [[Taxation]] [[enslavement]] of the [[citizenry]] by the [[state]].
*10. Failure of [[social]] and [[economic]] [[fairness]].
*11. [[Union]] of [[church]] and [[state]].
*12. Loss of [[personal]] [[liberty]].
70:12.7 These are the [[purposes]] and aims of [[constitutional]] [[tribunals]] acting as governors upon the engines of [[representative]] [[government]] on an [[evolutionary world]].
70:12.8 [[Mankind]]'s [[struggle]] to [[perfect]] [[government]] on [[Urantia]] has to do with perfecting [[channels]] of [[administration]], with [[adapting]] them to ever-changing current needs, with improving [[power]] [[distribution]] within [[government]], and then with selecting such [[administrative]] [[leaders]] as are truly [[wise]]. While there is a [[divine]] and [[ideal]] [[form]] of [[government]], such cannot be [[revealed]] but must be slowly and laboriously [[discovered]] by the [[men]] and [[women]] of each [[planet]] throughout the [[universes]] of [[time and space]].
70:12.9 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_70 Go to Paper 70]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government]]
