TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mendis, Patrick
TI  - Commercial providence: the secret destiny of the American empire
SN  - 9780761852438
U1  - 320.83 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - University Press of America
KW  - Providence and government of God
KW  - Founding Fathers of the United States
KW  - Freemasonry--Political aspects
N1  - Foreword / Stephen Joel Trachtenberg --
Preface --
Providence and empire. A rendezvous with destiny --
Part I. The birth of a nation --
E pluribus unum : out of many, one ; Freemasonry as a catalyst and high priest ; Worldviews of colonists and pilgrims --
Part II. A philosophic commercial empire --
Adam Smith on founding America ; Hamiltonian means to Jeffersonian ends ; The Commerce Clause as the force for unity --
Part III. Annuit coeptis, providence (God) favors our undertakings --
The Pythagorean Potomac delta ; The anatomy of commercial providence ; The mercurial ruler and sacred Constitution Avenue ; Altar of empire : the Virgoan federal triangle --
Part IV. James Madison's universal empire --
Novus ordo seclorum and the new world order ; Madison's grand strategy for a universal empire --
Epilogue --
God's crucible nation : predestiny or free will?
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