By Anna Von Reitz
The Articles of
Confederation were in place from 1781 to 1860 and functioned just fine.
The States of America
formed under the Articles of Confederation created a "Confederation"
that functioned in commercial venues and established their own businesses doing
business as, for example, The State of New York. These were commercial enterprises
called "confederated states". Today, we would call them subsidiaries
or maybe franchises.
Anyway, the were NOT
overcome or undermined by the Constitutions, much less "replaced" by
the Constitutions which is the drivel we were taught when I was in
school.
What ended the States
of America confederation was the schism we all know about, the Secession of the
Southern Members of that Confederation, however, even that is grossly
misrepresented by our "educational" system, because we are taught
that the key issue that drove the split was slavery.
As the Southern States
records prove, the actual cause of the problem was Parliament's investment in
Egyptian Cotton Plantations.
The British were
developing industrialized textile factories to produce among other things,
cotton cloth They were importing most of their cotton from the colonies and as
their own industrial capacity and demand for their products increased, the
demand for cotton and the price that the Southern Plantation owners could
charge for their cotton also increased, causing a situation like a mini-OPEC
cartel in the cotton market.
To get themselves out
of this bind, the Brits invested in starting new cotton plantations, most
notably in Egypt, but also in India, and running competition with the American
growers.
This in turn inspired
Northern States of States to get into the market for cloth production, as in
this country they could undersell British cotton cloth because they were
already here and didn't have to ship cotton all the way to Britain and then
ship the cloth all the way back.
When the Egyptian
cotton crops failed for a series of years in a row, the American producers saw
their chance to increase their prices again, but by that time, the Northern
industrialists that were depending on cheap Southern cotton prices for their
profit margins had an ax to grind, too, so they joined with the Brits against
the Southern Plantation cotton producers, and cynically used the growing
Abolitionist movement as the excuse for their mercenary concerns.
When the Southern
States of States who were members of the original Confederation complained and
tried to offer a compromise that would have continued to sell cheap cotton to
the Northern States of States and upped the price to the British to make up the
difference, British sympathizers refused, which then cast the Northern States
of States in the light of traitors to their own country.
By the time the schism
actually occurred, the Southern States of States were further inflamed by
Northern claims that they couldn't Secede from the Confederation, because it
had proposed to be a "perpetual Union"-- to which the South replied
that it was supposed to be a union of mutual interest, in which the States of
States supported each other in issues of commercial interest, not a union in
which some members benefited themselves at the expense of other members without
willingness to compromise.
So from all sides
considered, there were four major bones to pick --- (1) Cotton, cotton, and
cotton; (2) British Sympathizers in the North; (3) the right to secede and
leave behind business relationships that hadn't lived up to their promises; (4)
slavery ---- and the least of these, on both sides, was slavery.
Time has proven that
the Southern States of States were legally and lawfully correct in their
position, just as Jefferson Davis said, and indeed, proved that they were, but,
they were no match for the devious economic powers from Europe backing their
Northern brethren, and the Northern States of States though greedy enough, were
no match, either.
In the final analysis,
the Pontiffs of the Holy Roman Empire and the British Monarchs used this
in-house pissing match as an excuse to divide and conquer the members of the
original American Confederation. At the end of the hostilities, the Southern
States of States were ruinated and the Northern States of States were bankrupt,
leaving the Pope and the British Monarchs free to play their self-interested
commercial and banking games.
The Europeans and
their American cronies killed the one man with enough knowledge to thwart their
plans, demeaned and ridiculed Andrew Johnson, who effectively prevented the
worst of the predatory actions they intended to unleash here ---- and skated
on.
They allowed those
Americans in Congress who were basically loyal to this country to set up some
plans for reconstructing the States of America confederation, but at the end of
the day, they substituted British Territorial "States of States" for
the original American States of States as a "temporary emergency
measure" while our government was in "abeyance".
To the average
American the only visible change is that the new British Territorial
organizations were called by names styled like this: the State of Oregon, the
State of Michigan, the State of Florida..... and the original American
counterparts operated under names styled like this: The States of Oregon, The
State of Michigan, The State of Florida.
The only visible
difference, in other words, was the change from "The" to
"the". Most people never knew that any change occurred, and the
public wasn't told, either.
And the Reconstruction
lay dormant all these years, still waiting to be done, because nobody told the
Americans that it still needed to be done. Those who knew were too busy making
money by siphoning off the value of American money, labor, and natural
resources. Those who didn't know, were simply out of luck.
The bulk of The
Reconstruction Acts are still standing, fully intact. The Confederation of the
States of America has never been restored, and the actual States and People
competent to do the work of the Reconstruction were deliberately
mischaracterized so as to obstruct any efforts on their part to get the job
done.
Thanks to decades of
hard work by many, many Americans, all of this has been delved out and finally
and fully understood, so that we have been able to overcome the self-interested
obstruction of our erstwhile Trustees, to correct the "presumed"
change of our political status to that of British Territorial subjects, and to
call the actual States of the Union to assemble and take care of business ---
including the Reconstruction.
Go to: www.TheAmericanStatesAssembly.net and
make some happier history.
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The My Pillow guy uses Egyptian cotton. True.
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