The Forgotten Capitols of the United States and Colonies

March 29, 2009

Dear friends,

Historian Stanley Klos has done marvelous work to bring out important truths about the founding of the USA. Amongst the things he shows are

- the Articles of Association in 1774 was only an alliance between the colonies, who were by then not yet states, much less a country.

- the colonies declared in unison their independence from Great Britain on July 2, 1776. The delegates then had to rush home to form consititutions for their states during the same summer.

- In addition to not yet being a country, the colonials had a problem that summer, the declaration of independence was not a consitution and therefore not a basis for a federal government. In June 17776 they formed a committee to draft a constitution and an agrement to unite them.

- A draft of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union is sent out to the states in 1777, but the delegates made an error. They required all 13 states to ratify it. This took a long time and it was only after Maryland ratified it in 1781 that it could take effect and the USA came into being as a nation.

http://www.roi.us/books.htm

See video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOhhJx_wC3c & feature=player_embedded

The SAMVA USA chart (Perpetual Union), with 20° Cancer rising, is based on the moment when the state of Maryland ratified the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union on February 2, 1781 in Annapolis MD. Using Philadelphia, PA as Capitol the time 16:58:33 is consistent with this rising degree.

Best wishes,

Thor