The first constitutions

[Michael Joseph]

We should wander past the Fed Act of 1913 to explore how MJ thinks a moment. Listen to what Dr. Dale LIVINGSTON, Esquire says about the Judiciary Act of 1789. By 1790 we find that the districts, through the District became responsible for the debts of the US government. The District is of course a municipal corporation like I showed you - formally since 1871 - city of Washington, District of Columbia.


Regards,

David Merrill.

First off, thank you for the compliment. Considering the coefficients of friction the angle and the motion .....Wake up.....ROFL...

I give credit to the Ever Living and I would just like to point out that a District is an overlay of the Territory.

Have you ever wondered why the Maps exist? Do you suppose it is so that you can find our way from point to point? Consider now a Map is the Result of a Survey. And the Map just drives the nail in this discourse. The Map is the "appearance" of the Land [Form of Matter]. But my five year old can tell you the Map is NOT the Land [Form of Matter]

Sometimes Notary Publics are used to lend Credence - Faith to a record. And the word groupings may say something like "such and such APPEARED before me". How do you like that?

Remember the Survey that was performed the day you were Born - a Record was created based on a Survey of the Child and said Record was Registered into an Asset Registry. And years later, a living soul - clearly using a certain Name - a Registered Name - "Appears".

The Living Soul is without this construct - the "Appears" goes to the Record = Legal Name = Cestui Que Trust. Appears is an EVENT. And said Event implies Trust [verb now].

Gathering the loose ends - Just as a living soul is NOT a Name or Trust or Record - a Map based on Survey is NOT the Land. The Map - try not to get too upset - REPRESENTS - Claims or Rights.

Do you suppose that some have more Rights to the Land than you? Have you "staked your claim"?

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Do you suppose that Unequal things should mix? Do you not see the Trust? Actually more than one. I have found when i "stack" trusts - most men and women go to sleep in the 2nd Level of Trusteeship. And Perhaps some Trusts provide Specific Services....


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Do you really think a Trust needs Ratification? A trust exists due to the actions or non-action of living souls. Lets say the United States was Settled and noone- ever benefited Under it. Does that nullify the Trust? - Absolutely NOT. If men and women take benefits from Under the Trust - by and thru - access easements constructed - sort of like a Legal Name - does that Nullify the Trust? Absolutely NOT it validates the Trust. As the Trust exists for the benefit of a particular Sub-set; yet, others may benefit from the generosity of said sub-set - in case of United States - "ourselves and our Posterity". A fancy way to say - The Creators today and our children tomorrow.

The Creators pledged to themselves to Create a new Trust for the benefit of another. The Trust was created first - United States. Then the United States did a thing for the "United States of America" and now the other 50 States by Agreement. Why could the United States do this thing for those now 51 Dependent States?

Because those who Created the United States took on ALL of the Liability of "The United States of America" - which is the Style of the original 13.

http://www.usconstitution.net/articles.html#Article1

Article I. The Stile of this Confederacy shall be "The United States of America."

Article XII. All bills of credit emitted, monies borrowed, and debts contracted by, or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the united States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said united States, and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.

And the people did not utter one Peep in protest. Yet, just as the one People of the United States exercised their right of exile away from the King - so the United States recognizes that others may want out from under its shadow.

Therefore the United States stands as Surety for the debts and therefore takes the liability and therefore is Independent.

Now, I can hear the gainsayers.....Read Art II. Those States long ago waived that status. By Silence. You say no, right? When is the Last time Georgia, or South Carolina or Texas ever entered into an International Treaty? I'll wait.

No, the United States was settled and then, by and thru the men who occupied [yes it was commercial] it, the United States did a thing for others - and therefore the United States is Domestic Sovereign over all Under its Shadow.

The Constitution was the issue of the men and women occupying the United States Trust. There were only a few. Said Constitution was the manner in which the other Trusts would do business Under the United States Trust.

The Constitution was "of" or said another way "from" the United States and said Constitution was made "For" the "United States of America.

Therefore if you stop to consider - the State is the greatest asset protection plan ever invented. And it is much more than that - it is a means for which - Great wealth may be accumulated and stored - because it is fed by many tributaries that flow into it. it is also a means to Oversee and Manage Assets. Yes, there are many people who are just downright ignorant and they need to be guided. Why, because they refuse to take full responsibility for themselves and they "willingly" remain ignorant.

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You say "willingly" ignorant. Well lets take a look at Scripture. How many have studied Scripture? How many have studied Geology? Taken the time to consider mechanisms of light in regard to the heavenly bodies?

2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

That was not Noah's Flood friend. I shall go no further.

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Yet, I am in no way degrading the men who settled the United States. These men disagreed with the King of England and wanted out from under his thumb. Therefore LAWFULLY they exercised their right of exile - now called self determination - and made a new thing; whereby they themselves and their issue - Posterity - might benefit and others may receive benefit and blessings as well. Yet THEIR constitution FOR their STATES, held in Trust, Remember the Trustee is with the Legal Title - is INTERNAL to their State.

Just like the Registered Record based on the Survey that effects the CESTUI QUE TRUST - LEGAL M. NAME is internal to their Trust. Why?

1. United States, as Trustee holds 51 States [estate]
2. The Registered Record - COLB is made from within the 51 States

Will you pick up the Record Name and Use it? You can.

There are other existing trusts; yet, this simplistic model shows the nature of Trust Stacking and why if you make a claim from Legal Name status it will be 12(b)6 [ed]. How you gonna make a claim using a Trust Creation against the Trust. Talk about Double minded. Yet, notice the patience of the system dealing with the ignorant. The Administrators could haul you in for Trespass. Yet, according to Scripture - forgive my trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

I don't know the recipe, I'm just sayin'.....

[Joshua Scott]

ah, self determination. The idea of creating a thing for me to use, in order to abolish presumption of trespass. PUBLIC NOTICE of this thing so that other may be aware not to trespass on me.

Thanks for mapping that out.. heh, the irony of making a reality of such a blue print.

[David Merrill]

I would like to prescribe a trip to your local movie theater to view Adjustment Bureau. You snapped a position into place for me to describe better the Bigger Picture about the Patroons Michael Joseph. Thank you. To do that I am grabbing a post from Religion - My Take:

That is food for thought. I want to pick up more about Dr. Dale LIVINGSTON soon in relation to my own Patroon heritage. While listening to his first 35 minutes I was busy Googling and came across some amazing facts of history. The VAN PELT milestone sets in the Brooklyn Historical Society; but you have to take in the setting and context fully. I hope to explain it fully so that you all can grasp what I am saying.

We also want to look at the Charter:



Look there at Article VI on the right column. That describes the enjoyment of the lands and a perpetual inheritance. Somebody mentioned that the Levites owned land... incorrect. The Levites got no lands in the priesthood package, they got the cities. The cities only own land necessary to run the city - like this Facilities Operations photo. Start here to get a better look at the initial 77 METRO operations:

1Ch 6:55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.

I am going to get pragmatic in the next few posts on this thread. I was looking for the proper location in the Lesson Plan and I think MJ found it for me. I am descended from an original Patroon who had a large stone wall on his Manhattan estate - namesake for Wall Street, so I hear; Teunis Jansen Laenen VAN PELT and there is some heritage passed through a codified anointing ceremony. For now though, I am throwing something out there that strongly suggests a dimension, somewhat like what we find depicted in a network of doors, shortcuts - Re: Adjustment Bureau. The Center, honest to God of the Golden Rectangle is the municipal operations in the linked aerial photo above:

The custodians of the best record of the territorial Colorado Republic are at the NW Corner - the Masons. They have a library and museum there. They have some extraordinary treasures, [letter] that would be in national archives like the Smithsonean Institute except they have been expressly given to the Masons, by masons. The one that I think MJ may relate to well is this one - the Priest Breastplate:

Whether there is anything to the Knights Templar connection and French Bloodline of Jesus Christ or not, this historical tracing can be found up there on Mesa Hill overlooking the City of Colorado Springs/METRO. Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3. [Buying the 1995 perspective of the authors is erroneous in my opinion. I think it best to consider Michael BAIGENT's, Senior Editor of Freemasonry Today take found in the latter half of Holy Blood, Holy Grail that the Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion is a forgery. That means that the document existed before Victor E. MARSDEN translated it to frame the Jews. The original authors were likely an early rendition of Dan BROWN's Priory of Sion. The "Jews" have been substituted in - forgery.]

That is probably for a thread itself. I have gobs more documentation and evidence to support some extraordinary renditions of mental models based in history and fact. The main focus I hope though is that Fibb Spiral Golden Rectangle of Monuments on a topographic map. That is reality there. Those squiggly lines represent hills and valleys that mean good hiking boots and mountain bike technique - reality. I am leading up to quoting MJ's post and interleaving this into my next post.

I want to conclude this one by saying I have no more God-given unalienable rights than any of you reading this material just because I am related to an original Patroon of NYC - GUILLIANI's Capital City of the World. Out on the proverbial limb though, I will say that this ancestry and other items about my family tree have led me to an understanding of American History that interleaves nicely with what MJ and Dr. Dale LIVINGSTON, Esquire in the audio snippet above are saying about trust. I think even an attempt to see things my way will be edifying, or at least entertaining.



Regards,

David Merrill.

[Michael Joseph]

i just saw the movie and loved it. Laughing out loud because right at the moment as i am typing this broadcast an Apache Helocopter is flying overhead...shaking the house....it is most likely just a coincidence. However, humorous in light of the fact that I just finished watching that movie and started typing this response.

Yehovah be blessed for ever and ever. And the Zadok do not inherit lands they inherit God. As Zadok stayed with David and did not go to Serpent Rock in participation with Adoniyah and Abiathar, the False Prophet, backed by Joab, the Military Commander.

Yet to the disciplined ones - out of Nathan not Solomon. Turning the key of David.

I loved this movie. Thank you. I shall not sell my inheritance for a bowl of soup. I shall contend as Ya'ocob.

[inserted by Michael Joseph]

1:25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adoniyah.

[there are two Jesus' - Adoni-yah - can be translated "Lord Yah"; yet this one is a Fake - I don't see anyone flying away on a big bird, i see David, taking care of business]

1:26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he [Adoniyah] not called.

For I, michael joseph will gladly be left behind working in the field waiting. Psalm 37: 7,20,34,40

13:9 But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be [brow] beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them. [Adoniyah and his ilk]

13:10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations.

13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit.

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In the end Love was the power over intellect.

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I am not sure exactly what door was opened for you David Merrill, but I look forward to your next post. Again, thanks.

Shalom,
mj


P.S. Did you notice "she" came walking thru a door and the EVENT opened doors of numerous possibilities.

[David Merrill]

It is a difficult movie to discuss without ruining. Think Love is substituted for Responsibility and you will get my point about self-governance. I plan to relate this to Resulting Trust in a few posts yet but find it difficult to get around how subscribing every thought to Jesus CHRIST (title - annointed - Messiah), meaning complete relenquishing of free agency, for the Elect is the only key to getting off a prescribed Plan. Throwing it all away is the only way to gain it all.

Ten years ago I took responsibility for all the debt. Sure! - dismiss it as that Crazy Planet Merrill. All I am saying is that is what I signed my name to - the agreement between me and the Bank and Fund, there it is published in black and white. When they fell into dishonor (thirty days) I awoke wondering what form Judgment would take - September 11th, 2001. You can look at the dates for yourself. I am not lying about the events I am telling you of and you will recall that the Stock Market shut down for the proverbial three days. [Funny how I was doing some carpentry work and Air Force One, carrying President BUSH came in on an irregular flight path - banking to show the Presidential Seal plain as day... (Colorado Springs). I mean so close I could inspect the tread on the landing gear too.] That Stock Market Door, we will walk past it for now, but remember where it is, okay?

They (Mattathias Yohannan of the DAMON family) made the choice to throw it all away and instead the potential for having everything became very real. So we open up a few shortcuts.

Enter the door at about 1670 with the Red Tree - the Rosenbaum - carrying seventy souls to New Utrecht - Manhattan Island under the banner of the Dutch East Indies Trading Company,



...move quickly on to the next door and find yourself in front of the Van Pelt "Manor" in c. 1790 where Master Mason George WASHINTON greets the village children waiting until last for young Peter VAN PELT to put his hand on his head - in a style of Samuel (Saul) and Nathan (David) to offer a word that would stick with him like an annointing:

At last, after many anxious scannings of the road, they saw him riding toward the little school-house, and the children lined up and waited until he approached. Litte Peter VAN PELT was on the end of the line, and he was the last boy to whom George Washington spoke; and to little Peter he looked very tall, as he came near to him and
laid his hand on Peter's head.

"Be a good boy, my son," said Washington, "and you will be a good man."

Little Peter VAN PELT probably remembered this admonition, but how far it shaped his life's course is not known. He did grow up to be a good and a great man, entering the ministry and achieving fame throughout the county. When Washington died, Peter VAN PELT delivered a sermon...

Like I showed you, the milestone is kept safely in the Brooklyn Historical Society with a small collection of WASHINGTON memoribalia. One consideration is that the photo behind the milestone preserves its original biblical intent as a monument.

Another consideration is the preservation of that monument - Van Pelt "Manor" - is not a manor at all.

However, author Harold D. Eberlein states: "there never was a duly and legally constituted Van Pelt Manor and this appellation has no defense whatever on any historic grounds.

Historically speaking then, my ancestors never relenquished the original charter for British fealty! Manorial law is British and the Van Pelt Estate is still under the original Dutch East Indies Trading Company charter. You might think maybe so but the door opens on modern-day Milestone Park in Brooklyn, where the stone building was finally torn down after a fire in the 1950's.




People may not get concerned with why Milestone Park is named so, maybe they do. Something that I am sure few people consider is that the historical story is standing on a separated portion of physical land! There is a fifteen foot-wide easement.

Then again, that door may only work right from Planet Merrill!

[Michael Joseph]

It is a difficult movie to discuss without ruining. Think Love is substituted for Responsibility and you will get my point about self-governance. I plan to relate this to Resulting Trust in a few posts yet but find it difficult to get around how subscribing every thought to Jesus CHRIST (title - annointed - Messiah), meaning complete relenquishing of free agency, for the Elect is the only key to getting off a prescribed Plan. Throwing it all away is the only way to gain it all.

Exactly, Yehoshua = Yehovah Saves <==> Deut. 6:4

Therefore, Yehoshua, in my opinion is the Presence of Yehovah = Trustee. Yehovah, as both Creator, Settlor and First Trustee is Yehoshua.

Therefore the claim is private beneficiary Under The Word of God = Yehoshua = Yehovah Saves.

The Lions with there mouth closed - sitting before - Dan-i-el = God is my Judge.

Remember the Resgistered Owner upon a particular Registry is with the claim of the "estate" of a particular State = estate. And the Trustee oversees the estate. The Registered Owner may be siezed in fee simple from within the estate. Yet the estate is bounded by surveyed boundaries and claims.

Yet, God holds EVERYTHING. There is a Registry - Book of the Lamb/Life. There is a Trustee - Yehoshua. There are those written in the book. This is Divine Trust. I now refer the reader to Psalm 37: 7,20,34 and 40.

But we are not to trespass upon our brother.

[Treefarmer]

Sure! - dismiss it as that Crazy Planet Merrill.!

LOL!
That was hilarious.
I needed a little bit of dark twisted humor from the murky underground to remind me of what's out there, past the treeline where the pavement starts.
Thank you David for going where I would never dare go, so I can experience vicariously.

[David Merrill]

LOL!
That was hilarious.
I needed a little bit of dark twisted humor from the murky underground to remind me of what's out there, past the treeline where the pavement starts.
Thank you David for going where I would never dare go, so I can experience vicariously.

After a while that place numbs you. However I believe that Demosthenes will never cease to be disturbing. She has media connections, and is considered an expert on the Sovereignty Movement. However she has no credentials in law enforcement, investigation and is under no supervision. She befriends people on the Internet in order to stab them in the back.

I have waded through a lot of that infantile behavior for a few priceless tidbits. It was all worth it.

[David Merrill]

Exactly, Yehoshua = Yehovah Saves <==> Deut. 6:4

Therefore, Yehoshua, in my opinion is the Presence of Yehovah = Trustee. Yehovah, as both Creator, Settlor and First Trustee is Yehoshua.

Therefore the claim is private beneficiary Under The Word of God = Yehoshua = Yehovah Saves.

The Lions with there mouth closed - sitting before - Dan-i-el = God is my Judge.

Remember the Resgistered Owner upon a particular Registry is with the claim of the "estate" of a particular State = estate. And the Trustee oversees the estate. The Registered Owner may be siezed in fee simple from within the estate. Yet the estate is bounded by surveyed boundaries and claims.

Yet, God holds EVERYTHING. There is a Registry - Book of the Lamb/Life. There is a Trustee - Yehoshua. There are those written in the book. This is Divine Trust. I now refer the reader to Psalm 37: 7,20,34 and 40.

But we are not to trespass upon our brother.

Read the header on the Bill of Exchange.





Like I was saying on another thread... High Priest of the DEITI. [Dutch East Indies Trading Industry.] Or maybe, as you put it - trustee of the original estate. It is difficult to deny when there it is on paper. I sure did not know it when I wrote it, that somebody would be explaining it to me ten years later. But if you look at the date then you see that the Stock Market was shut down for the proverbial three days upon Judgment 30-Days following the Order.



I recall at the county clerk's office, one morning walking in for some business and finding the Proof of Service on the already computer screen.

Nobody was in yet so it must have been an inquiry from Washington, or somebody on the east coast - two hours later. Cecilia, my clerk there seemed a bit rattled that I showed up to see that and she always treated me like maybe I was CIA after that.

You speak of capital integration. The two heads become one again. No more dichotomy of character. People know their names. That is when somebody can establish relationships that remain the same over time and surviving the flurry of words of art.

The two heads represent the Tribe of Dan - with two homesteads - one of them up north on Mount Hermon. Judges chapter 18. [Same linguistics. Same Name. Same old accusation - commercial warfare of genocide [CIVIL DEATH included] and temple desecration.] The etymology though, that seems to clench it. The fire in the belly is the indictment. It is like poison to the dichotomy - the truth is. [That sherri topaz has a unique pentagram cut.] -Integrating the Cube Sum Number Locks into the Equation.


Regards,

David Merrill.

[Frederick Burrell]

Third time reading this thread, and its finally sinking in. I guess I'm just slow.lol. Great posts by all. FB

[David Merrill]

Third time reading this thread, and its finally sinking in. I guess I'm just slow.lol. Great posts by all. FB

Thanks!! From All I presume.

Interestingly I just posted a related thought.

[David Merrill]

The essence of the political religion - Constitutional Republic - is that oaths of office are fungible fidelity bonds.


David Merrill.

[Darkcrusade]

The Foundation of America

The following are excerpts from The Compact, Charter, and Laws of The Colony of New Plymouth and The Articles of Confederation of The United Colonies of New England, begun in 1620. They are from a book published in 1836 for the state of Massachusetts.



The Great Patent of New England

Charter of The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America, signed November 3rd, 1620, eight days before The Mayflower Compact.

JAMES, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, & c.

To all whom these presents shall come, greeting:--Whereas, upon the humble petition of divers of our well disposed subjects, that intended to make several plantations in the parts of America, between the degrees of thirtyfour and fortyfive, We, according to our princely inclination, favoring much their worthy disposition. in hope thereby to advance the enlargement of the christian religion, to the glory of God Almighty, as also by that means to stretch out the bounds of our dominions, and to replenish those deserts with people, governed by laws and magistrates.......

And forasmuch as we have been certainlygiven to understand, by divers of our good subjects, that have, for these many years past, frequented those coasts and territories between the degrees of forty and fortyeight, that there is no other the subjects of any christian king or state, by any authority from their sovereign lords or princes, actually in possession of any of the said lands or precincts, whereby any right, claim, interest, or title, may, might, or ought, by that means accrue, belong, or appertain unto them, or any of them.

And also, for that we have been further given certain to know, that within these late years, there hath, by God's visitation, reigned a wonderful plague, together with many horrible slaughters and murders, committed amongst the savages and British people there heretofore inhabiting, in a manner to the utter destruction, devastation, and depopulation of that whole territory, so as there is not left, for many leagues together, in a manner, any that do claim or challange any kind of interest therein, nor any superior lord or sovereign, to make claim thereunto, whereby we, in our judgment, are persuaded and satisfied, that the appointed time is come in which Almighty God, in his great goodness and bounty towards us, and our people, hath thought fit and determined, that those large and goodly territories, deserted as it were by their natural inhabitants, should be possessed and enjoyed by such of our subjects and people, as heretofore have, and hereafter shall, by his mercy and favor, and by his powerful arm, be directed and conducted thither; in the contemplation and serious consideration whereof, we have thought it fit, according to our kingly duty, so much as in us lieth, to second and follow God's sacred will, rendering reverend thanks to his Divine Majesty, for his gracious favor in laying open and revealing the same unto us, before any other christian prince or state; by which means, without offence, and, as we trust, to his glory, we may with boldness go on to the settling of so hopeful a work, which tendeth to the reducing and conversion of such savages as remain wandering in desolation and distress, to civil society and christian religion, to the enlargement of our own dominions, and the advancement of the fortunes of such of our subjects as shall willingly interest themselves in the said employment, to whom we cannot but give singular commendation for their so worthy intention and enterprise.

We, therefore, of our special grace, mere motion, and certain knowledge, by the advice of the lords and others of our privy council, have, for us, our heirs, and successors, granted, ordained, and established, and, in and by these presents, do, for us, our heirs, and successors, grant, ordain, and establish, that all that circuit, continent, precincts, and limits, in America, lying and being in breadth from forty degrees of northerly latitude, and in length by all the breadth aforesaid, thoughout the main land, from sea to sea, with all the seas, rivers, islands, creeks, inlets, ports, and havens, within the degrees, precincts, and limits of the said latitude and longitude, shall be the limits, and bounds, and precincts of the second colony.

And to the end that the said territories may forever hereafter be more particularly and certainly known and distinguished, our will and pleasure is, that the same shall, from henceforth, be nominated, termed, and called by the name of New England, in America, and by that name of New England, in America, the said circuit, precinct, limit, continent, islands, and places in America aforesaid, we do, by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, name, call, erect, found, and establish, and by that name to have continuance forever.

And lastly, because the principal effect which we can desire, or expect of this action, is the conversion of, and reduction of the people in those parts, unto the true worship of God and christian religion, in which respect we would be loath that any person should be permitted to pass, that we suspected to effect the superstition of the church of Rome, we do hereby declare, that it is our will and pleasure, that none be permitted to pass in any voyage, from time to time to be made into the said country, but such as shall first have taken the oath of supremacy; for which purpose, we do, by these presents, give full power and authority to the president of the said council, to tender and exhibit the said oath to all such persons as shall, at any time, be sent and employed in the said voyage.

Articles of Confederation

between the Plantations under the Government of the Massachusetts, the Plantations under the Government of New-Plymouth, the Plantations under the Government of Connecticut and the Government of New Haven with the Plantations in Combination therewith,

signed August 29th, 1643

Whereas wee all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and ayme namely to advance the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospell in puritie with peace. And whereas in our settleinge (by a wise Providence of God) we are further dispersed upon the Sea Coasts and Rivers then was first intended, so that we can not according to our desire with convenience in one Government and Jurisdiction: And whereas we live encompassed people of several Nations and strange languages which hereafter may prove injurious to us, or our posteritie. And forasmuch as the Natives have formally committed sondry insolences and outrages upon several Plantations of the English and have of late combined themselves against us. And seeing by reason of those sad Distractions in England which they have heard of, and by which they know we are hindered by that humble way of seeking advice, or by reaping those comfortable fruits of protection which at other times we may well expect. We therefore do conceive it our bounden Dutye without delay to enter into a present Consotiation amongst ourselves for mutuall help and strength to all our future concernements: That as in Nation and religion so to other Respects we bee and continue one according to the tenor and true meaneing of the ensuing Articles: Wherefore it is fully agreed and conlcuded by and betweene the parties or Jurisdiceons about named and they joyntly and severally doe by these presents agree and conclude That they all bee and henceforth bee called by the Name of The United Colonies of New-England.

The signers of the Articles were:

John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts,
Tho. Dudley, Geo. Fenwick, Thomas Gregson, Theoph. Eaton, Edwa. Hopkins.

Twenty-nine years later, on September 5th, 1672, they created:

Articles of Confederation between the Plantations under the Government of Massachusetts;
The Plantations under the Government of New Plymouth;

and the Plantations under the Government of Connecticut.

The Articles opened with:

"Whereas wee all came into these partes of America with one and the same end and aime, viz. To advance the kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ; and to Injoy the Liberties of the Gospell in puritie with peace; And whereas in our settleing by a wise providence of God wee are further dispersed upon the sea coasts and Rivers then was first intended; soe that wee cannot according to our desire with conveniencye comunicate in one Government and Jurisdiction; and whereas wee are compassed with people of severall nations and strange languages; which hereafter may prove injurious to us and our posteritie and forasmuch as the natives have formerly commited sundry insolencyes and outrages upon severall Plantations of the English; and have several times combined themselves against us; and seeing by reason of our distance from England (our deare native Countrey) wee are hindred both from that humble way of seeking advice and reaping those comfortable fruites of protection which wee might otherwise well expect; wee therefore accoumpt it our duty as well as saftey To enter into a condeaderation for mutuall healp and succor in all our future concernments; that as in nation and religion; soe in other respects; wee be and continue one; according to the tenure and true meaning of the Insueing articles;"
There followed thereafter several articles to define the nature of the relationship between the English colonies and the document was then signed by sixteen men. In all subsequent official business conducted thereafter, the Christian character of the Colonies was clear and could not be mistaken in its intent.

This was true not only in the articles of confederation between the various colonies, but also in their court documents.

[motla68]

Great post! Darkcrusade.
If one can read in between the lines here the Republic has always been there for us to choose and much like these club of men had signed on to a compact with each other for the glory of God we can do the same by our actions, NOT by legal construct, but by merely expressing intent, by building the equity up in the Treasury for the Glory of God, we give all just as in the story of bible where the old woman gave all she had and much like her being indemnified and taken care of for basic life, liberty and happiness we can do the same if we stop having love for the money. It seems that this is what Lincoln was protecting more then anything else, protecting the Republic from the bankers and that leads on to the rumors of who shot lincoln.
In summary we are not doing it because we have trust in mammon, but expressing trust for the Glory of God.

Darkcrusade, checkout the attachment and see if that treatise expands upon the thoughts of your post some as I attempted to do here.

deconstructing_the_declaration.doc

Peace be upon you.

[David Merrill]

This interesting book just came to my attention.

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00853809&id=p6rHoG10peIC&pg=PP7&lpg=PP7&dq=%22deduced+from+the+political+history+and+condition%22#v=onepage&q&f=false

Thank you Trust Guy!!