The Rise and Fall of the American Republic

By D. Jonathan Scott

Throughout our country's existence there have been those who didn't approve of our form of government. Those with other ideologies have tried to influence our governance since the beginning of our nation. Only one has succeeded on a grand scale: Throughout the twentieth century, and continuing today, a long-term plan to replace our Capitalist society has been in place and is incrementally growing stronger. By infiltrating every aspect of American interaction, as documented in the book, our enemy continues to garner more and more support of the people. You won't want to believe what you read. Many in Washington are happy about that, and most, not all public figures are reluctant to call it what it is. You need this info to decide for yourself. By promoting discontent where there was none, they have divided our nation by socioeconomics, race, ethnicity, religion, and politics. There are exaggerated issues of racism, the rich and the poor, business vs. the working class, climate change, entitlements vs. hard work, Socialism vs. Capitalism, and Conservatism vs. Liberalism. All these deceitful distractions are productive tools of our enemy that divert our attention from the master plan to fully install a new form of government that gives full control of our lives to the government. Most Americans, as well as most politicians, are too distracted by the minutiae mentioned above to see the big picture that this book details. There are no longer enough people who understand or are willing to defend the Constitution that enabled US to become the greatest nation in history while it was strictly interpreted. I fear it is too late to reverse the process now. URGENT UPDATE- email [e-mail] for a free Bonus Chapter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781644626603

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Chapter 1

The American Dream

Throughout the course of man’s existence, one group would try to get out from under the thumb of another group who felt that life would be easier if their will was imposed on everyone. But every group of people had their own idea of what was best for them. Anyone else’s ideal constituted a restriction on their way of life.

Emperor Constantine believed that each group could live peaceably within their own parameters if none of the groups were affected by another group’s lifestyle. So after he converted to Christianity, he synchronized the dates of new and old Christian celebrations with pagan celebrations so that the entire nation could celebrate their individual beliefs at the same time. Separate, but together. While this had little immediate effect on anyone, neither favorable nor undesirable, it did help to stabilize the productivity of the country’s economy.

England went the other way. The King wanted every group to conform themselves to the laws established by the national Church of England. This led to the oppression of all other groups and the hard decision by many to leave the country. Those people were called pilgrims.

The pilgrims chose to develop raw land in an isolated place that came to be called America so that they could freely live as they chose while allowing others to do the same.

While intentionally avoiding religious conflicts, governing committees were established to coordinate trade among the colonies and other countries. Militias were formed to discourage the possible temptation of others to dominate another colony and to keep the American Indians under control. A Federation was established to represent all the colonies in their dealings with other nations, including Mother England, and to provide an army to defend the colonies from possible foreign aggressors. Laws were not perfect and so had to be amended from time to time, but the principles were never discarded or ignored as they are today. It was evident, even before the Constitution, that in order for our free society to continue to exist, each person had to pull their own weight.

Laws were established to provide for the safety and freedom of all. Before the Revolutionary War, the laws to govern our new nation of America were determined best to be in line with the laws of our Creator that were universally beneficial to human coexistence, regardless of one’s religious beliefs, providing the harmony induced as a result of the freedoms that conforming to those laws enabled.

Religious doctrines were considered personal beliefs not to be interfered with by government. It was the primary reason the people left England. To paraphrase Sir William Blackstone, as he used the English Book of Law to write the guideline for American law: No law in this book [of English law] shall become American law unless it conforms to the laws of God. The laws of God proved to protect and preserve the existence of all forms of life as nature required. It was common sense that the more we lived in harmony with the laws of nature, the less likely we were to suffer failures in our individual lives, whether you believed in God or not.

Because science had not yet expanded sufficiently into the origins of life, Blackstone could only have sensed by observation that the laws of nature were in harmony with the laws of the entire universe which allowed all things to continue to exist. Suffering and failures were a natural result of failing to make decisions that went with the natural flow of existence. Because we are affected by the actions of others, laws were written to discourage poor decisions by those who would cause an unwarranted affect on those around them.

On an unrelated note: the original phrase in the Declaration of Independence was not Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It was Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property. Inasmuch as there was no law against slavery in many of the Colonies at that time, the writers were concerned that the term property would be interpreted as condoning the ownership of slaves, who were considered a type of property. So the document was given to a poet to rewrite what they knew would be an historic document, in a manner that would not be cause for criticism, but would, instead, produce a document of hope.

Man has always played games with words to justify their actions as good intentions while hiding their hypocrisy stemming from their human condition.

The concept of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness—which, for some, includes property as a means toward happiness—remains, although diminished by relativity, in order to keep it alive in the minds of the materialistic.

Early Americans were very different from most of today’s Americans. They were grateful for what they had and were willing to work hard to maintain or improve their lives. Their freedoms created their desire and their need to be self-reliant, inspiring them to make America the greatest nation on the planet. Families were close and loving; their communities reflected that love as neighbors helped neighbors during hardships. Their religious faith in biblical principles and commands (such as love your neighbor as yourself) brought appreciation, comfort, and hope to the receiver and joy to the giver.

As long as the people looked out for each other as an American family, there was no need for the government to interfere. The government took care of government business, and the people took care of their business.

Living with freedoms amidst a government with compatible principles and laws was the early Americans’ Dream. The American Dream has evolved over the centuries and is today heavily weighted by the accumulation of property, with less importance on freedoms and principles.

The reason people came to America was to worship their Creator as they believed proper and be masters of their own fate by getting out from under the thumb of government. While the words separation of Church and State are not in the Constitution, it is clear that the State was not given the authority to undermine the faith or dictate by law how the obligations of the faithful were to be carried out. Yet such has been done for the sake of power over the Church.

Today, the faith and beliefs of the early Americans has been compromised as the State has usurped the obligation of the nation’s majority religion, leaving the faithful to do their duty by proxy.

Chapter 2

Making America Great—the First Time

The sacrifices of the pilgrims and those who followed cannot be appreciated enough. It would be a shame if we allow their life experiences and the lessons we learned from them (or should have learned) to be in vain. Just look at our history.

After more than a month of exploration, the pilgrims finally disembarked from the Mayflower on December 21, 1620, and settled next to Plymouth Harbor in an area previously occupied by the Wampanoag tribe which was almost entirely wiped out by two plagues in 1614 and 1617. The near disappearance of the tribe from the site left their cornfields and cleared areas vacant for the pilgrims to occupy. The few remaining Wampanoag Indians were grateful to the pilgrims, and the representatives from other tribes who helped in the planting of the fields and enabled the tribe to thrive once again. The tribe and the pilgrims celebrated a bumper crop together in 1621 that we call the first Thanksgiving.

The Pilgrims, their children and grandchildren got along with the Indians just fine. However, the English, French, and Spanish had been exploring various parts of the New World’s west and south since 1513. For nearly two hundred years, the militaries of those nations would battle with each other to claim the land as their own. In 1804, the Louisiana Purchase expanded the nation westward, doubling the size of America. The pilgrims and their descendants peacefully coexisted with the Indians until the other nations’ militaries began recruiting the various tribes to join them in battles against Americans and other occupants. As a result, after the conflicts ended in 1815, there was much bitterness between the American citizens and the native American Indians. For the protection of the Indians and to establish peace for all, President James Monroe proposed, in 1824, moving all Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River to assure them that they could live in peace. This didn’t go over well with some tribes, so Indian uprisings continued for a while. Today we live peacefully with all the Indian tribes.

Prior to the Revolutionary War, progress was relatively slow compared to the years after the American government was formalized.

As late as 1789, nine out of ten people were still engaged in farming for food production. Industrial diversification had been slow and gradual. Once peace was accomplished and the nation’s independence was attained, our nation exploded in all other aspects: roads, including railroads and bridges (infrastructure),