1. When it was learned that the Mayflower was landing in New England, and not at the
Hudson River, as specified in their patent, there was great dissension between the Separatists (Pilgrims) and the Strangers.
But it was agreed that the only way for the settlement to succeed was if everyone worked together, and that before they landed everyone had to sign a formal and binding agreement. Therefore they hammered out the Mayflower Compact, ....the very first basis for written law in the new world!
"In the name of God, Amen.
We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia;
do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."
A study in 2002 found that almost 10% of the population of America can trace their ancestry back to the Mayflower.
2. On November 11, 1921, the unknown soldier brought back from France was interred inside a three-level marble tomb. The Unknown Soldier of WWI buried at Arlington under the following:
HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD
The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt selected as his first Supreme Court Justice, the anti-Catholic former Ku Klux Klan member, Hugo Black.
Justice Black was the force behind the Everson v. Board of Education decision, which included The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state.'
One wonders how FDR and Justice Black would have viewed items #1 and #2 above.
Hudson River, as specified in their patent, there was great dissension between the Separatists (Pilgrims) and the Strangers.
But it was agreed that the only way for the settlement to succeed was if everyone worked together, and that before they landed everyone had to sign a formal and binding agreement. Therefore they hammered out the Mayflower Compact, ....the very first basis for written law in the new world!
"In the name of God, Amen.
We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, e&. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia;
do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620."
A study in 2002 found that almost 10% of the population of America can trace their ancestry back to the Mayflower.
2. On November 11, 1921, the unknown soldier brought back from France was interred inside a three-level marble tomb. The Unknown Soldier of WWI buried at Arlington under the following:
HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD
The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt selected as his first Supreme Court Justice, the anti-Catholic former Ku Klux Klan member, Hugo Black.
Justice Black was the force behind the Everson v. Board of Education decision, which included The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state.'
One wonders how FDR and Justice Black would have viewed items #1 and #2 above.
