MONDAY, 30 AUGUST 2021
A personal manifesto on political beliefs should begin with your view on three concepts:
1. The Individual
2. The Community
3. The State
Without consulting a search engine or a dictionary, I’d say the State is an organised effort by adults within a geographic area with historical and other ties to manage common interests. These interests include infrastructure, education, international relations, military defence, and the drafting and enforcing of laws that represent the values of the community.
Community can be your neighbourhood, but also people who share a particular language, ethnicity, or religious belief.
And the Individual is a single child or adult.
Your personal political manifesto will need to pay attention to the relationships between Individuals, between the Individual and the Community, and the relationship between the Individual and the State, and relations between respective Communities and the State. It will also set out the rights of the Individual and duties of the Individual (if any) towards both the Community and the State, and the duties of the State towards Individuals and Communities.
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