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Author Mendis, Patrick

Title Commercial Providence : the Secret Destiny of the American Empire
Published Lanham : University Press of America, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (318 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Praise For Commercial Providence; Praise For The Works of Patrick Mendis; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Dedication Page; Foreword; By Professor Stephen Joel Trachtenberg; Preface; Providence and Empire; 1: A Rendezvous with Destiny; Part I: The Birth of a New Nation; 2: E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One; 3: Freemasonry as a Catalyst and High Priest; 4: Worldviews of Colonists and Pilgrims; Part II: A Philosophic Commercial Empire; 5: Adam Smith on Founding America; 6: Hamiltonian Means to Jeffersonian Ends; 7: The Commerce Clause as the Force for Unity
Part III: Annuit Coeptis, Providence(god) Favors Our Undertaking8: The Pythagorean Potomac Delta; 9: The Anatomy of Commercial Providence; 10: The Mercurial Ruler and Sacred Constitution A venue; 11: Altar of Empire: The Virgoan Federal Triangle; Part IV: James Madison's Universal Empire; 12: Novus Ordo Seclorum and the New World Order; 13: Madison's Grand Strategy for a Universal Empire; Epilogue: God's Crucible Nation: Predestiny or Free Will?; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments; About the Author
Summary Author Patrick Mendis explores unseen forces that have guided America to global dominance. He details how the creation of Madison's 'Universal Empire' through Hamilton's 'Federalism' realizes Jefferson's 'Empire of Liberty.' The author then unveils America's Masonic endgame of universal brotherhood: E Pluribus Unum
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Subject Founding Fathers of the United States.
Freemasonry -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Providence and government of God.
Founding Fathers of the United States
Freemasonry -- Political aspects
Providence and government of God
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780761852452
076185245X