03385nam 2200613Ia 450 991080957700332120200520144314.097866139122511-283-59980-50-7618-5245-X(CKB)2670000000241809(EBL)1021939(OCoLC)855502230(SSID)ssj0000711126(PQKBManifestationID)12307434(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711126(PQKBWorkID)10682582(PQKB)10357055(MiAaPQ)EBC1021939(Au-PeEL)EBL1021939(CaPaEBR)ebr10602301(CaONFJC)MIL391225(EXLCZ)99267000000024180920100725d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCommercial providence[electronic resource] the secret destiny of the American empire /Patrick Mendis ; foreward by Stephen Joel TrachtenbergLanham, MD University Press of Americac20101 online resource (318 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7618-5243-3 0-7618-5244-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-276) and index.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 UnityPart 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 AuthorAuthor 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.Founding Fathers of the United StatesFreemasonryPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory18th centuryProvidence and government of GodFounding Fathers of the United States.FreemasonryPolitical aspectsHistoryProvidence and government of God.973.2Mendis Patrick1960-1103697MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809577003321Commercial providence4117934UNINA