Commercial Providence : The Secret Destiny of the American Empire

What is behind the success of America? Does America manifest its destiny by other means? Author Patrick Mendis explores unseen forces that have guided America to global dominance. He details how the creation of Madison's 'Universal Empire' through Hamilton's 'Federalism' realizes Jefferson's 'Empire of Liberty.' The author then unveils America's Masonic endgame of universal brotherhood: E Pluribus Unum. 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? Patrick Mendis ; Foreward By Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 229-276) And Index. "Commercial Providence takes the reader on an intellectural and reflective journey to understand the mindsets of the Founding Fathers through little-known linkages between the Pilgrims, Enlightenment philosophers, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, and the Federalists. Out of many points of historical curiosity, this book creates one vision of America's founding history. Mendis argues that the American experiment has, since the founding, been grounded in a universal concept of global unity through trade and commerce"--Taken from foreword