The Founding Principle of The United States Constitution, the British Constitution, Germanic, Roman, and Greek Law, and the Western Indo European People Is Simple:

“A Universal Militia, Reciprocally Insuring, by Force of Arms, Regardless of Cost, One Another’s, Self-Determination By Self Determined-Means, by Test Of  Sovereignty in Demonstrated Interest, and Reciprocity in Display, Word, and Deed,  in Exchange for Reciprocal Insurance of That Sovereignty in Demonstrated Interests and Reciprocity, in Display, Word, and Deed, Regardless Cost, Thereby Limiting All to Productive and Voluntary Cooperation in Markets in Association, Cooperation, Production, Reproduction, Commons, Polities, and War;  diverting the proceeds to the production of commons, creating the most rapid adaptation, innovation, and evolution possible by man, at the cost of constraining the reproduction of the unproductive, thereby Producing a Distributed Dictatorship of Individually Sovereign People and the Power to Deny Power To Any and All.”

And with this simple rule of sovereignty and reciprocity in display, word, and deed we have dragged mankind kicking and screaming out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, child mortality, early death, the chaos of nature, in a brief period of geologic peace, brief period of solar peace, and brief period of galactic peace. In just a few centuries in the ancient world, and a few in the modern.