Countries and laws are created for the privileged. It has been thus throughout history. The legacy of America is that of the Norman conquest. William le betard conquerant was not interested in England, except as a tax farm
Here is a sample. We do not own property, we merely hold title to it in fee simple (the word fee is the cue, it is …
Countries and laws are created for the privileged. It has been thus throughout history. The legacy of America is that of the Norman conquest. William le betard conquerant was not interested in England, except as a tax farm
Here is a sample. We do not own property, we merely hold title to it in fee simple (the word fee is the cue, it is feudal). The practice evolved from Edward I and the 1st Baron's rebellion. The sovereign held all land in allodium (the right of conquest), and allowed loyal lieutenants, styled as barons, dukes, etc, to hold fief (an estate held in fueudal service). Depending on how he felt that day, or who had most ingratiated himself with the sovereign. A feudal lord (baron) might find himself dispossessed and his fiefdom awarded to another.
Edwards concession was the creation of the fee simple, one could hold title to the fief as though they owned it and even sell it or pass it on to heirs, so long as they pledged and maintained loyalty to the sovereign by paying taxes, contributing men and arms to his service, and obeying the laws of the sovereign. But only the sovereign had allodial land rights.
This concept remains today, the sovereign is no longer a person, but the amorphous county, which bands together to form a state a discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County
The American revolution was fomented and started by wealthy, merchants in the north and planters in the south, each with their own motivation. The planters motive was to be the nobility of America, with titles,privileges and such, they had enough wealth to afford the prices demanded by the monopoly of the East India Company. Trade with England was their source of income.
The American constitution was written ,as we all know, by the ruling class of landed, white men, who set up the government specifically to protect and provide for maintenance of their power, and even the non governmental social instruments like the press and pulpit depended on their support and approval, thus did their bidding.
Very little has changed in that regard when the first adventurers and indentured servants set foot on that bit of swamp that became known as Jamestown, and 1620 when a group of 102 Putirans, of which 32 were religious fanatics known as Brownists, and who called themselves saints,and we call pilgrims (32 in number), halted thir trip to the Hudson River,to replenish their spply of beer by stopping at Massachussets bay.
The Virginia Company of London, built an economy based on free labor, indentured servitude and after 1654 slavery. While the New England weather and climate did not support a plantation economy, and Crown laws did not permit home grown industry,, it eventually developed an economy based on lumber and ship building with income derived from exports to Britain and Europe. And in the north the merchant class became the power structure, and the merchant class was of course, landed white men.
Nothing has changed,not really. In England and Europe, the owners, the ruling class, were visible,they road in carriages, wore feathers in their hats, dressed in ridiculous non functional clothes. Today they are invisible living in gated communities or on barely accessible spits of land like Martha's Vineyard, the Hamptons, islands and mountain refuges.
We don't call them lords, your grace, dukes or duchess, and they have cleverly commonized (did I just coin a word) the words sir or madam, so as to hide their privilege. They are virtually invisible because we don't confer them with titles, bow and curtsy, in fact they are occasionally lionized by their magazines, media, movies, television and even elected to high office. Very seldom to the House of Representatives, except to get their feet wet and as an apprentice, most often to the house of lords (the senate) and the presidency. 12 of our Presidents were scions of the First Families of Virginia, and then there is Donald Trump. Occasionally you will have an upstart, an anomaly, like Lincoln and Obama,who is not rooted in America's aristocracy,but who would not exist (hold office) were he not to display fealty to the real powers that be.
Trump was not an exception, though he held forth an image of being a populist, his very status as a member of the ruling class, and his known, by the real powers, as a corrupt, perverted, grifter meant that he would not come though on his promises and that it was all a con. The PTB, the American nobility knew, it was and is the suckers, motivated by press and pulpit in a culture war, that were conned. Conned or willingly deceived?
But they still control the country, not only through the bestowment of monetary gifts, like donations, but through the tremendous influence they wield in press, pulpit and a relatively new creation, non profit institutions like universities, think tanks and purpose driven public corporations.
Countries and laws are created for the privileged. It has been thus throughout history. The legacy of America is that of the Norman conquest. William le betard conquerant was not interested in England, except as a tax farm
Here is a sample. We do not own property, we merely hold title to it in fee simple (the word fee is the cue, it is feudal). The practice evolved from Edward I and the 1st Baron's rebellion. The sovereign held all land in allodium (the right of conquest), and allowed loyal lieutenants, styled as barons, dukes, etc, to hold fief (an estate held in fueudal service). Depending on how he felt that day, or who had most ingratiated himself with the sovereign. A feudal lord (baron) might find himself dispossessed and his fiefdom awarded to another.
Edwards concession was the creation of the fee simple, one could hold title to the fief as though they owned it and even sell it or pass it on to heirs, so long as they pledged and maintained loyalty to the sovereign by paying taxes, contributing men and arms to his service, and obeying the laws of the sovereign. But only the sovereign had allodial land rights.
This concept remains today, the sovereign is no longer a person, but the amorphous county, which bands together to form a state a discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County
The American revolution was fomented and started by wealthy, merchants in the north and planters in the south, each with their own motivation. The planters motive was to be the nobility of America, with titles,privileges and such, they had enough wealth to afford the prices demanded by the monopoly of the East India Company. Trade with England was their source of income.
The American constitution was written ,as we all know, by the ruling class of landed, white men, who set up the government specifically to protect and provide for maintenance of their power, and even the non governmental social instruments like the press and pulpit depended on their support and approval, thus did their bidding.
Very little has changed in that regard when the first adventurers and indentured servants set foot on that bit of swamp that became known as Jamestown, and 1620 when a group of 102 Putirans, of which 32 were religious fanatics known as Brownists, and who called themselves saints,and we call pilgrims (32 in number), halted thir trip to the Hudson River,to replenish their spply of beer by stopping at Massachussets bay.
The Virginia Company of London, built an economy based on free labor, indentured servitude and after 1654 slavery. While the New England weather and climate did not support a plantation economy, and Crown laws did not permit home grown industry,, it eventually developed an economy based on lumber and ship building with income derived from exports to Britain and Europe. And in the north the merchant class became the power structure, and the merchant class was of course, landed white men.
Nothing has changed,not really. In England and Europe, the owners, the ruling class, were visible,they road in carriages, wore feathers in their hats, dressed in ridiculous non functional clothes. Today they are invisible living in gated communities or on barely accessible spits of land like Martha's Vineyard, the Hamptons, islands and mountain refuges.
We don't call them lords, your grace, dukes or duchess, and they have cleverly commonized (did I just coin a word) the words sir or madam, so as to hide their privilege. They are virtually invisible because we don't confer them with titles, bow and curtsy, in fact they are occasionally lionized by their magazines, media, movies, television and even elected to high office. Very seldom to the House of Representatives, except to get their feet wet and as an apprentice, most often to the house of lords (the senate) and the presidency. 12 of our Presidents were scions of the First Families of Virginia, and then there is Donald Trump. Occasionally you will have an upstart, an anomaly, like Lincoln and Obama,who is not rooted in America's aristocracy,but who would not exist (hold office) were he not to display fealty to the real powers that be.
Trump was not an exception, though he held forth an image of being a populist, his very status as a member of the ruling class, and his known, by the real powers, as a corrupt, perverted, grifter meant that he would not come though on his promises and that it was all a con. The PTB, the American nobility knew, it was and is the suckers, motivated by press and pulpit in a culture war, that were conned. Conned or willingly deceived?
But they still control the country, not only through the bestowment of monetary gifts, like donations, but through the tremendous influence they wield in press, pulpit and a relatively new creation, non profit institutions like universities, think tanks and purpose driven public corporations.