Pros And Cons Of A Covenant

A covenant is an agreement between two or more people to do or refrain from some sort of action. Government is an exercise of authority and restraint toward a group of people and their actions for purpose of justice which is the punishment of people who violate liberty of others. Liberty is freedom of restraint from use of people’s unalienable rights which are according to the U.S. Constitution are laid out in the Bill of Rights. Early Americans covenanted together to create our government, a government supposedly for the people by the people. This was done to protect people from oppression and violation of their unalienable rights. People were promised freedom, justice, and liberty for all and it was declared that all men are created equal. Although this is a great ideal, unfortunately, this was never the case and still does not exist. The so called covenant between government and governed was broken before it even existed. All men were free to …show more content…
This largely comes from the idea that humans are inherently evil and need some sort of coercion to get them to do well. These laws are created by the few for the many and those creators believe their laws just however every law is going to be disagreeable to someone and when that group of someone’s get into power they will create laws that benefit themselves and thus harm someone else. Thus freedom, liberty and justice are all really fictions for they do not apply to all only the lawmakers at the time. Bastiat’s idea of liberty comes closest to an agreeable principle of liberty that is harm no one physically in there person, faculties, or property. If law was created specifically to protect ones person, faculties and property then law would be just. If we could covenant with government that liberty would reign then we would have a non-hypocritical government but as for now our government is