“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
– Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
I don’t think there is anything more manly or anything that gets me fired up like the above quote. I have pledged the same thing many nights to my best buddies by telling my best friend that I would give my life for him. But I have never actually gotten together with a dozen of my closest friends, wrote up a document saying that I pledge my life, my fortune (not that I have a fortune), and my honor to them. That’s pretty dang manly.
Then what makes the situation even more many and ballsy is that Thomas Jefferson and these men sent this document to the leader of one of the most powerful empires in history – King George. They were serious about what they believed in and were willing to back up what they wrote. That’s even more manly.
But the most manly part of it all was that they carried out their mission and defeated one of the most powerful empires in history with basically just militia they formed together last-minute, and won the Revolutionary war going on to write their own constitution and bill of rights. The reason the Bill of Rights is manly is because it showcases the most manly parts of being a man –
- Having rules
- Being disciplined
- Putting other people over yourself
Take for example amendment 1 of the Bill of Rights – “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” This is a clearly defined rule that has clearly defined boundaries that you can apply to your own life as a man. For example, if your girlfriend just broke up with you, it might be a good idea to set up some boundaries for yourself. You might want to make yourself a rule such as, “I will not call or text my ex for at least two weeks” or “I will not look at my ex’s social media page for at least five days.” These are at least clearly defined rules that will have results. Look at the first amendment and the results it has yielded. Because of this amendment James Madison and others decided to add to the Constitution, I can go downtown and pass a Buddhist temple, Mosque, and First Baptist Church of God all within five minutes of each other. ‘Merica.
Take amendment four for a second example – “The rights of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…” This took some legitimate discipline for James Madison and the rest of the writers to put this in. As a man in his position, it must have been tempting to leave that one out. As a man who works in government, he pretty much gave up his power through that amendment to search anybody’s house he wants, and I’m sure that might have been useful to him as some point in his life. He might have wanted to search a criminals house to see if they had commited a crime. Or he could have wanted to search a friend’s house – you know, the type of friend you let borrow one of your favorite t-shirts or a video game controller and never see it again? The point is is that he had one of the most many qualities there is and used it out of selflessness. You could try this if your girlfriend just broke up with you, and instill discipline in yourself to get over a breakup. It might be something as simple as “giving up” your right to eat ice cream while crying in the shower for a couple of days, and instead going to the gym and hitting a chest workout.
Take the last amendment for our last example of manliness – “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” This is a prime example of James Madison and the writers displaying manliness by putting other people’s wants and needs over their own. They could have left the tenth amendment out of the Bill of Rights, therefore giving the Federal government and themselves much more power,but they opted to create a check and balance system and give power to the state and local government as well as the people too. This almost was kind of a “self sacrifice” on their part in my opinion, and we see it displayed by manly men only. In all of the movies, the manly character decides to “sacrifice himself” at the end for the greater good, or the hot girl. Even in The Illiad, one of the most bad-a and manly men there ever was, Achilles of Troy, basically sacrifices himself to avenge his cousins death, so that Troy could be victorious. Jesus Christ is the best example of this, when he sacrifices himself for the sins of all mankind by suffering on a cross and dying, for everyone else but himself.
No one can say for sure why men like James Madison and Thomas Jefferson thought this way, and were so quick to sacrifice everything so that you and I could have the freedom today to practice what religion we want or not be forced to house soldiers. Maybe they were trying to emulate other people who were seen as heroes who had sacrificed before them. Maybe their parents instilled those values in them. Maybe they were born with a gene that made them that way. No one can say for sure.
But maybe we can say that standing up for a higher good and standing for something bigger than yourself can help you get over a breakup, or perhaps, make you more immune to breakups. Maybe if you stand for something such as protecting other people, then when something bad happens in your life like a breakup, it won’t seem like such as huge deal. Maybe having that to stand for will give you more of an identity and help you realize that a breakup really isn’t that big of a deal in the big picture. Maybe the founders stood for things like this because it made them more resilient in life, and better able to deal with hardships because they all knew they were living for something worth fighting for, and worth dying for.
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