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January 25th, 2016 
Awake Goy This monumental land grab illustrated the power of politics, place and influence. John Adams even referred to the members of Commons in the British Parliament as part of the nobility. One prime reason that the colonies fought against the French in the French and Indian War was to protect their claims to the western lands. But most of the colonists had no actual legal claim to the land taken away from them, so they had to find some way persuade the common folks, malcontents and rioters to support a revolution, and form a revolutionary army willing to fight and die. The Continental Congress had no money and was down to working with promises. It promised the American people a new egalitarian society where all white men at the time could share in the wealth.
That promises of the Constitution today extends to all citizens regardless of race, religion, sex, ethnicity, or sexual preference, and bars the federal and state governments from supporting personal or corporate inequalities and immunities, and those promises may be found in Article One sections 9 and 10 of the Constitution forbidding the grant of any “Titles of Nobility”. In promoting the adoption of the Constitution of the United States of America, Alexander Hamilton named these Article One clauses the “Cornerstone of Republican Government“. He went on to observe that as long as “titles of nobility” were excluded, there could never be a serious danger that the government will be any other than that of the people. “Titles of Nobility” were terms familiar in the language of the times indicating social and economic superiority and political power.
We know they were clauses related directly to the revolution. While the Declaration of Independence written by a small committee, the Article of Confederation was proposed by committee members from all thirteen colonies formed at the same time and was written to join the colonies in the revolution and a new government, even if independence was not declared. In their original draft of the Articles of Confederation, prepared in June, 1776 by the hand of John Dickinson, confirmed by the equivocal notes of Joseph Bartlet, referred to the colonies as “colonies”, not as independent states. Dickinson opposed independence, though he supported the revolution and fought during the war. But he left the Continental Congress before the vote for independence. There is ample precedent for finding equality in these words.
The Nobility restrictions referred to equality. In the words of the early Constitutional Scholar, Joseph Story, born towards the end of the Revolution (1779) and a member of the Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845, that as perfect equality is the basis of all our institutions, state and national, the prohibition against the creation of any title of nobility seems proper, if not indispensable, to keep perpetually alive a just sense of this important truth.
These clauses are examined in far more detail in The Cornerstone Brief and Secrets of the Forgotten American Revolution. It is suggest that we now reexamine these words of social, political and economic equality as practical goals for our society required by our fundamental principles, and laws. Recognizing that we have far strayed from these principals, it is now time to face our inequities and start the tasks of a new reformation or revival.
References
All references can be found in The Cornerstone Brief and Secrets of he Forgotten American Revolution. Available on Amazon and CreateSpace eStore .
Source Article from https://www.popularresistance.org/a-legal-precedent-for-a-more-equitable-society/
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