English history leading to the U.S. preamble

History view for the June 20 Event: How did the U.S. preamble emerge in this world? Part 1. Is it important for the individual citizen to know?

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Closing ACPOTUS’s March, 2019 discussions, Bob McBride, suggested that some participants never understood where the U.S. preamble’s propositions fit in the development of the USA’s republic, the world’s most promising political proposition. The brief statement is that the 1789-1793 U.S. legislature (Congress, acting for 14 states) erroneously re-established colonial-English traditions. The republic of 50 states and 6 territories seems now straining against the fact that colonial-English tradition does not grant the existence of We the People of the United States.



Exclusive societies and slavery were global forces bemusing humankind long before the colonization of this land began. See the 3800 year-old Code of Hammurabi. Spain and France colonized North America from 1520. In 1610, Great Britain started agricultural colonization on the eastern seaboard and dominated using the slave commodity marketed by African kings.



We’re told the American War for Independence put all that behind, but actual reality does not seem to agree. It seems colonial-British influences now harm 50 states and 6 territories. The U.S. preamble’s propositions have not been established let alone maintained. As a consequence, our children and grandchildren may face a future worse than our present chaos.



History view for the June 20 Event: How did the U.S. preamble emerge in this world? Part 2. Do the people of any states own historical bias toward colonial-British traditions?

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People in the 13 British colonies rebelled against British taxation and with France’s military help won independence. People located west of the Mississippi River and north of Florida mostly continued under Spanish, French, and English competitions long after the 1783 Treaty of Paris between England and the 13 eastern seaboard states. The 1774 Confederation of States survived only 5 more years. On June 21, 1788, 9 of the 13 globally free and independent states established the USA, leaving the remaining 4 states the option to join or remain globally free and independent. Eventually, continental territories joined the USA, bring the state count to 48. We the People of the United States hold both their respective states and the USA accountable under the U.S. preamble’s propositions. The people of the original nine We the People of the United States hold equity with the people of the other 41 states.



Continental territories that remained in Spanish, French, or other control were destined to increase the union of states to 48. Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona were admitted in 1907, 1912, and 1912, respectively. Oklahoma was part of the Louisiana Purchase from France. “The shared experiences of Oklahoma's people over time speak of optimism, innovation, perseverance, entrepreneurialism, common sense, collective courage, and simple decency. Those, not victimization, were the core values." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Oklahoma) “[New Mexico’s] residents and government suffered from a reputation for corruption and extreme traditionalism. Ethnically the state [is] divided among Native American, Hispanic and Anglo elements . . . from Texas.” Arizona had Spanish and Mexican periods. Other states, including the 38^th, Louisiana, a former French colony with several decades under Spanish rule, never had colonial-English bias.

People historically reflecting the states beyond the eastern seaboard did not emerge with strains of colonial-English bias and are therefore critical to an achievable better U.S. future. I’d like every American to feel “shared experience of Oklahoma’s people” stated above with one additional characteristic: awareness of civic integrity rather than victimization by the world’s history.



History view for the June 20 Event: How did the U.S. preamble emerge in this world? Part 3. Will We the People of the United States hold accountable both our respective states and the USA?

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After the political actions of the First Congress, 1789-1793, colonial-English traditions that could have been terminated under the U.S. preamble’s propositions were imposed and continue to dominate the people of all fifty states and six territories. The people have not been asleep, but We the People of the United States has not secured liberty to future citizens (posterity), for example, saddling them with $22 trillion USA debt.



Because of failure to secure responsible human liberty to selves and to posterity, as proposed by the U.S. preamble, past generations have left to our generation the privilege of establishing human equity under statutory law. The authors of the U.S. preamble envisioned responsible human liberty, which our generation can establish. I doubt one fellow citizen seated on the US Supreme Court agrees or even one U.S. legislator agrees, so the challenges are great.



Participants who appreciate this perspective may better comprehend the June 20 presentation, which focuses more on key specifics of how the U.S. preamble came into existence. Five men in 4 imaginative days out of 800 years of English tyranny (0.0014% of our dominant political history) gave the world a powerful political sentence. Louisiana came later and is a fitting state from which a U.S. Responsible Liberty Day each June 21 may emerge.



Come on June 20 to discuss four brief slides covering the fantastic emergence of 52 powerful words for a repressed culture of responsible human liberty. Understanding those slides will not require understanding this view of history. The rest of the June 20 discussion addresses the civic, civil, and legal propositions in the 52 word U.S. preamble.

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