Editor Observe: This text was revealed every week after the Republican Social gathering Major debate
BY MIKE MAGEE
This night, the Republican Social gathering will sponsor their first Primary Debate. It is going to be historic in that includes the absence of their lead contender for the 2024 Presidential marketing campaign, a candidate who seems dedicated to the destruction of their very own political celebration
Occasions over the previous yr clearly have confirmed that we’re a “work in progress” at the same time as we stubbornly affirm our good intentions to create a society dedicated to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
With the Dobbs’ determination, our Supreme Courtroom has unleashed long-abandoned regressive state laws designed to strengthen selective patriarchy and undermine the soundness and confidence of America’s girls and households. Because of this, our nation’s well being professionals, and the sufferers they take care of, doubtlessly discover themselves “on the unsuitable aspect of the legislation.”
Three months in the past, our former President determined to ship a message to North Carolina Republican supporters claiming that he was engaged within the “closing battle” with “corrupt” forces, most particularly the “Deep State” that was “out to get him.” This is identical state that politically birthed Mark Meadows, former Congressman from the eleventh District of North Carolina, a place he resigned to change into Trump’s Chief of Employees on March 21, 2020. That finally landed him a place on the roster of 19 people indicted by District Lawyer Fani Willis on RICO charges for conspiracy and racketeering.
Trump and Meadow’s actions stand in stark distinction to the ethics and values I skilled within the UNC surgical procedure program in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1973 to 1978. Additionally they don’t mirror the requirements superior in North Carolina’s Okay-12 lesson plan, titled “The Rule of Law,” which begins with the Teddy Roosevelt quote, “No man is above the legislation, and no man is beneath it” from his 1903 State of the Union deal with.
The plan affirms that legislation is key to societal well being stating:
“The rule of legislation is principally an settlement that everybody will play by the principles. This permits us to take pleasure in a extra peaceable and protected existence. The rule of legislation additionally ensures the safety of sure rights for every of us. Ideally, the rule of legislation applies equally to everybody, which means you might be handled pretty and equally, underneath the identical algorithm, no matter who you might be.”
The curricular plan asks a query I’d love to listen to FOX information co-moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, ask this night.
“How do legal guidelines have an effect on every of us, and what capabilities do legal guidelines serve in our society?
In accordance with the NC curricular plan, listed below are the solutions the Okay-12 academics (and tonight’s FOX moderators) needs to be on the lookout for.
1.“Legal guidelines function requirements of conduct…
2. Legal guidelines keep order, guarantee predictability, and supply safety.
3. Many legal guidelines in America grant and shield explicit particular person rights and freedoms, guarantee equality, and advocate for the widespread good.
4. Legal guidelines assure sure advantages to residents (e.g., colleges, well being providers, and so on.)
5. Legal guidelines assign tasks to residents (e.g., paying taxes.)
6. Legal guidelines outline what duties the federal government will carry out and may restrict the facility of governmental officers.
7. Legal guidelines can facilitate completely different types of change (e.g., poisonous waste disposal, anti-discrimination, prohibition of spousal abuse, and so on.)
8. Legal guidelines are used to handle completely different types of battle, counting on courts, legal professionals, and judges for such.
9. Ideally, legal guidelines needs to be nicely designed to make sure justice; they need to be designed in order that the typical citizen can interpret, perceive, and thus observe them.”
Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and common contributor to THCB. He’s the writer of CODE BLUE: Inside the Medical Industrial Complex.
