Creating a Free Nation

The USA became the first free nation in 1776 after American colonists found it necessary to separate their godly natural powers from England’s power. Their equal power would build the United States of America based on the social contract theory developed by John Locke. Click. Locke’s theory has two components, society and government. So, the founders created the society first by preparing the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By July 12, 1776, the Dickinson Draft of the Articles of Confederation was presented. This confederation was defined by Ben Franklin as a perpetual Union. In 1781, the Second Continental Congress began to solve commerce problems among the States until 1788 when the Constitution created a new government. Since the people in Locke’s society must give some of their God given rights to their government, the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as its first ten amendments in 1791.

The first free nation in the world developed some very important questions. First, should the US trade, as free traders think, manufacture as Hamilton thought, or farm as Jefferson thought? Free traders won. Hamilton’s federal credit for manufactures lost, and Jefferson farming lost. Second, should the USA have slaves? Lincoln freed all slaves based on God’s given rights but had to create a civil war and was then assassinated. Third, should laissez-faire apply to all socioeconomic affairs? Laissez-faire won and Ben Franklin’s perpetual Union lost. Fourth, should the Supreme Court make social laws? The Supreme Court won and God lost. Fifth, should the US Congress make arbitrary laws? Congress won and God lost again. Sixth, should God and State be separated? Atheists won and believers in God lost.

The history of the USA shows that free traders, bankers, industrialists, judges, and politicians are winners whereas God, believers, and the ‘little people’ throughout the USA are the losers. Free traders and bankers make some US citizens rich and other people poor and make foreign people citizens of a third-world nation. Industrialists make people in other nations slave labor. Judges are making the USA a nation of atheists. And, politicians make US citizens ignorant. Under these conditions, the USA cannot live in the future because no long term national goals exist in the USA. The USA is not a free nation. Don't these winners realize that God did not create humans unequally. God created all men equal and this equality was recognized by the founders when the made the Declaration of Independence. Thus, there is good reasons to conclude that the creation of the first free nation in America failed.