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There is as many forms of Community Law as there are forms of Community.

We recommend a study of the different forms of law used by men to learn how they play in the roll of communities and how they may alter or even destroy a community or protect it from corruption.

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-== Sense of Community ==
-Because of man's inherent agrarian nature he may need a “Sense of Community”.
-* “Sense of community is a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members’ needs will be met through their commitment to be together (Dr David McMillan, 1976).
-In nature people are members of families and those families may form clans through marriage and communities through common interaction. The natural family as a unit may have a head or leader based on age and consanguinity.<Ref>Consanguinity ("blood relation", from the Latin consanguinitas) is the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that aspect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person.</Ref> The head of a family has been called an Elder. In the ancient Latin culture the the ‘power of the father’, patria potestas, was inherent in his personal 'power to command' his family, his imperium.<Ref>Imperium is a Latin word which, in a broad sense, translates roughly as 'power to command'. In ancient [[Rome]], different kinds of power or authority were distinguished by different terms. ''Imperium'' referred to the ability of an individual to command the military but originally the military was the militia of the people before the people began compromising their natural rights in social compacts.</Ref>
-The family was often compromised by social compacts of contracts transferring allegiance from the head of the family to the head of the community or state. The whole family and the natural liberty of the individuals within the family was compromised by these contracts which could be implied or executed.
-Congregations from the view of the Church, established by Christ, are free assemblies of families. The family is represented by the head of the natural family who is often the eldest member of that family still living identified as an Elder. Within the family there is a naturally imposed authority and allegiance upon the membership of the individual under the head of the family. There is also a hierarchy.
-To maintain the natural freedom of the individual when families are gathering together one must consider the dangers and pitfalls of obtaining a “Sense of Community”. While gathering in congregations certain priorities and principles should be considered to avoid an unhealthy infringement upon the individual liberty. One does not want to “belong” to a congregation because the act of “belonging” may reduce our natural liberty from an individual to a person.
-The Church only wants the individual to belong to a Christ and the Father of creation within the “natural family” and not compromise that sacred institution by granting authority or allegiance to the “fathers of the earth” whether they be civil or ecclesiastical.
-While we should have an egalitarian approach toe everyone that position must allow for individual growth and change. How does a congregation of recorded elders develop a “Sense of Community” and remain free?
-It has been suggested that there are  four factors  to the development of a “Sense of Community”:
-There is fundamental law principles found in [[Natural Law]]. All legal systems of law are created by contracts, covenants and constitutions which are agreements. While those agreements may be written up by a few people new members of the community created by those original agreements may add additional contracts that are ruled over by the body and its judicial system. The direction those new contracts take may alter the destination of society as a whole.
-“All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery!”<Ref> Jonathon Swift</Ref>
-If the Romans, from whom we take much of the principles upon which the present legal system relies, saw fit and necessary to use two separate and distinct words, one lex and the other jus, then why do we often use them interchangeably. It is in the distinction between these two words that much of our honest confusion lies.
-While, “The law (jus) is the rule of right; and whatever is contrary to the rule of right is an injury”,<Ref>Jus est norma recti; et quicquid est contra normam recti est injuria. 3 Bulstr.313.</Ref> we find that “human laws (lex, leges) are born, live, and die”.<Ref>Leges humanæ nascuntur, vivuntet moriuntur.</Ref> “That which bars those who have contracted will bar their successors also.”<Ref>Quod ipsis, qui cotraxerunt, abstat; et successoribus eorum obstabit. Di.50.17.29.</Ref> Therefore, “The contract makes the law”<Ref>5Legem enim contractus dat. 22 Wend. N.Y. 215,223.</Ref> for our children, as well as for ourselves.
-“We shall have world government whether or not we like it.
-The question is, whether world government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”<Ref>James Warburg to U.S. Senate, February 17, 1950.</Ref>
 There is as many forms of Community Law as there are forms of Community.
 We recommend a study of the different forms of law used by men to learn how they play in the roll of communities and how they may alter or even destroy a community or protect it from corruption.
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