anti-Federalists – The Burning Platform

America is Over But You Knew That Already

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And old lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

– Robert Burns

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, “Auld Lang Syne” literally translates to “Old Long Since” which could also be interpreted as “since long ago” or “for old times’ sake”. Certainly, there is a feeling of melancholy when the song is sung at the end of another year gone by. Maybe any sadness could be attributed to good times that are now gone or, perhaps, especially, regret at what might have been.

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“Toward An American Revolution”

Exposing the Constitution and Other Illusions

by Jerry Fresia

Fresia’s book provides additional insight into the Federalist Constitutional coup against the Articles of Confederation in the aftermath of Shay’s and the Whiskey Rebellions as discussed in our July 4, 2017 post, “America; A Short Story (ver 2.0)”.

Fresia leans radical left (Marxist class-based) but his historical review is equally supportive of a more libertarian (freedom-based) orientation.

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Marker Denoting the First Anti-Federalist Rebellion by American Patriots

Afraid to Reflect (excerpt)

Consider certain features of the lives of three men. The first was a very wealthy man. In l787, many considered him the richest man in

all the thirteen states. His will of l789 revealed that he owned 35,000 acres in Virginia and 1,119 acres in Maryland. He owned property in Washington valued (in 1799 dollars) at $19,132, in

Alexandria at $4,000, in Winchester at $400, and in Bath at $800. He also held $6,246 worth of U.S. securities, $10,666 worth of shares in the James River Company, $6,800 worth of stock in the Bank of Columbia, and $1,000 worth of stock in the Bank of Alexandria. His livestock was valued at $15,653. As early as 1773, he had enslaved 216 human beings who were not emancipated until after he and his wife had both died.

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America, a Short Story

The American Revolution and Its Aftermath

The American revolutionaries could be subdivided into two allied “factions”:

Faction 1: anti-monarchist patriots who valued and were willing to risk their lives for liberty and freedom consisting primarily of yeoman farmers, small crafts, tradesmen and entrepreneurs; and,

Faction 2: anti-monarchist elites consisting of larger mercantilists, financial elites, other members of the colonial ruling class and Masons who wished to secure the vast new continent as their fiefdom.

The liberty and freedom-loving Americans came to be known as the “Anti-Federalists”. The elites came to be known as the “Federalists”.