July 4, 2005  ♥  Celebrate !!!

♥ Expanding The Traditions of Divinely Inspired Heritage

Great Seal of The United States Of America 

The Blessing of our Heritage,
Citizens - The United States Of America,
Example to All Nations & Peoples of The World


THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT

"During the nineteenth century, when the Pilgrims were elevated to preeminent positions in the pantheon of American heroes and heroines, the Mayflower Compact was celebrated as the foundation stone of the federal Constitution and much scholarly effort was expended to prove that the document was the acorn from which grew the mighty oak of the federal Constitution. Since it is a paper of great directness, simplicity, and brevity, it might be well to quote it virtually verbatim:

"In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James ... having undertaken, for the glorie of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honour of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly and mutaly in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness wherof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd the 11. of November.... Ano: Dom. 1620."

Happily for his own equanimity, the king remained quite oblivious to the existence of this insolent document which declared its purpose to be that of establishing "a civill body politick." He had far more important things on his mind. What is of primary concern to us about the Compact is the frame of mind, or kind of consciousness, that could conceive of such a statement. It is difficult to get ourselves into a frame of mind that will enable us to understand just how radical and unprecedented an event the drafting and signing of the Mayflower Compact was.

This is what was momentous about the Mayflower Compact; the fact that a handful of  people, most of them with little or no formal education, did not hesitate to perform one of the most mysterious, powerful, and dramatic acts known to the species, to "convenant and combine our selves togeather into a civill body politick." The nineteenth-century historians and their followers were in a sense quite right in being amazed and awed by an event that we today take for granted.

It was an act bold to the point of recklessness, and in demonstrating this strange capacity to form new human combinations--new communities--and establish government to guide and control them, it did indeed anticipate the federal Constitution. It was the acorn of the new consciousness oak."
--Above quotations are selected excerpts from The Constitution by Page Smith; William Morrow and Company,
Inc., New York,  © 1978. Recommended as an excellent reference relative to the founding of our Nation.

“WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.  And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
Preamble  -  Declaration of Independence  - United States Of America

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.  ..."   Preamble - Constitution of the United States of America

Tempering The Foundations

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."  President Abraham Lincoln, An address delivered November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the graveyard and monument at the site of the U. S. Civil War Battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Expanding Tradition - Recognizing The Source -
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