The USA & Its GOVT: (Revised & Corrected)

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U.S.A. AND ITS GOVT: FROM CONTINENTAL ASSOCIATION TO ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

 

 

Apropos an earlier message exchange in this Group during December 2004 on the matter of possible American national unity before 1776, here as a follow-up contribution is presented a brief look at the later historic results of efforts started with the FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS convened in Philadelphia on September 05, 1774 and its initiation of the chain of events leading up to the birth of the USA on July 2, 1776, which birth of the American nation’s sovereign states and their “limited” union prepared the way for the later constitutionally mandated birth of the U.S. Government on March 1, 1781, with the completion of the signing of the Articles of Confederation by the original 13 states, and so putting into effect the American nation-states’

first constitution.

For mundane astrology this writer bears in mind that there are two major birth charts for any nation: first and foremost is the one for the State, then that for the Government created constitutionally by that State. In the case of the American nation there are: (1) the chart for the birth of the sovereign body-politic; the generic STATE (in the form of a “limited” union of States, the USA): dated July 2, 1776, which during its first week of life comprised a pre-constitutional “limited” union of 12 newly sovereign states of the newly stiled UNITED STATES (then after July 9th 13 states) and (2) the chart for the birth of the UNITED STATES’ national GOVERNMENT under the constitutional terms of the Articles of Confederation, finally ratified on March 1, 1781.

 

(Indispensable Scholarship: For a classic work on the meanings and significance of the concepts: NATION, STATE and GOVERNMENT, one should refer to John W. Burgess, Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law at Columbia University, his THE FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (1933, reprinted 1992) presents exhaustive explanations by way of a scientific treatment, in terms of political science and constitutional law, of the substantive differentiation of a nation’s state(s) and a nation’s government.)

 

From the start of the proceedings of the First Continental Congress, opened on September 5, 1774, there soon followed the creation of the formally adopted and documented CONTINENTAL ASSOCIATION. Agreement to the adoption of the related resolution of this Association was reached shortly before 4:00 pm on October 18, 1774. Two days later, on October 20, 1774, the resulting authenticated document was signed by 12 of the 13 British American colonies (absent the colony of Georgia). From that date in 1774 the Continental Congress conducted itself under the “stile” of the UNITED COLONIES. Later on, the colony of Georgia joined the Continental Association, on September 13, 1775, at which time the membership of the Continental Association was then

“re-stiled” THE THIRTEEN UNITED COLONIES, to become in the following year, at first, twelve UNITED STATES on July 2, 1776, then thirteen UNITED STATES on July 9, 1776 when New York was duly constituted in convention a sovereign state and resolved to join the Union with the other twelve states of the already established UNITED STATES.

 

This birth of the USA was first accomplished when 12 of 13 colonies were each constitutionally authorized to direct its delegates in the Continental Congress to formally resolve by voting for sovereign independence and its declaration, thereby establishing, then and there that July 2nd day in Philadelphia, the identities of these once British American colonies as simply yet absolutely American sovereign states, newly independent of the state of Great Britain. Their new collective identity as the UNITED STATES, no longer the UNITED COLONIES, was marked at the moment of the Continental Congressional adoption of the relevant resolution initiating U.S. sovereignty, @ 4:48 pm (SAMVA rectification) on the late afternoon of July 2, 1776, the true birthday of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. From that moment on this historic date the on-going civil war between the governments of the American colonies and the colonial administration of the Government of Great Britain was then transformed to be a revolutionary war between the American states and George III’s State of Great Britain. On July 2nd, 1776 the break with the British State became reality; the civil war thenceforth a revolution.

 

(The first historic action of the then just days old “United States in General Congress Assembled” was that of the broadside proclamation of the Declaration of Independence, its text completed and dated on Thursday July 4th then published on Friday July 5th. This, the American nation’s first State Document: In its practical effect, the mundane equivalent of a birth certificate dated July 4th recording the accomplished sovereign birth of the USA of Tuesday July 2nd, and not as popularly misunderstood, a mystical document, “somehow” in and of

itself, occasioning a July 4th time moment of birth.)

 

These thirteen UNITED STATES later devised the Articles of Confederation (resulting from deliberations carried on between July 12, 1776 and November 15, 1777) which Articles were finally duly ratified by the thirteen states with the signatures of the delegates from Maryland, the last of the thirteen states to do so, on March 1, 1781 @ 12:00 noon in Philadelphia (N.B.: 12:00 noon being the time moment in the officially established record, an astrologically un-rectified time moment based on an official Continental Congressional document dated February 22, 1781, in which document the precise time of signing on March 1 was so stipulated and later complied with. The contents of this document demonstrate that the much referred to Grimes Chart for that date’s signing at the rectified

time of 3:19 pm is based on an unsubstantiated time moment, and so is proven to be fallacious by the facts contained in the official documentary record, in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Folio No.9.

 

FURTHER RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF THE FOREGOING SUMMARY CONTENTIONS REGARDING THE UNSUBSTANTIATED RECTIFICATION OF THE GRIMES CHART, CITING THE LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, AS WELL AS OTHER SUPPORTING REFERENCES, MAY BE FOUND IN THE EXTENDED COMMENT OF “JOHN T W B” AT ASTRODATABANK.COM, IN THE USA FEEDBACK SECTION, DATED NOVEMBER 16, 2004:

 

 

 

 

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