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The Multitudinous States of America
Has political polarity reached an apex this Independence Day? Or has America weathered storms like this before?
The framers of the U.S. Constitution were many things: Visionary leaders, statesmen, soldiers, orators, inventors, philosophers, even sages.
George Washington, improbably victorious general of the U.S. Revolutionary War, became that rarest of rare conquerers in this or any age when he passed up a kingship.
Maybe one in ten million could have done it; maybe one in 100 million.
Maybe you’re thinking you could have done it. Who wants to be a king? Ah, but what parent would pass up an opportunity to make his son a prince, his line a royal one? Think of the advantages.
After everything American revolutionaries like Washington sacrificed for the cause, who wouldn’t feel entitled to inherit the bounty of kingship?
Washington and his fellow soldiers weren’t just fighting under a death sentence with the odds against their “hopeless” cause of American independence. Had they failed and been taken alive, enemy combatants to the Crown like General George Washington would have faced a martyr’s gruesome death.
Slow torture, drawing, quartering; afterward, Washington’s head, and those of his fellow compatriots, would have seen a tour of…