10. The Spirit of Market Anarchy (Part 3.1): The U.S. Constitution Was Not "Founded in Secularism"

The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 3.1) The "Secular Origins" Myth vs. Laissez-Faire In Part 3, I take on the idea that the United States Constitution was an agent of "secularism" or of religious freedom and the disestablishment of churches throughout the United States. Not only is this idea ahistorical and incorrect, it is also an ethical doctrine of secular statism that serves the statist religion with an article of faith. Taking away that article of faith and getting to the root of the Constitution's ratification troubles much of the Progressive mindset. In Part 3, therefore, I provide an austrolibertarian class-conflict view of the historical milieu in which the Constitution was ratified, in which the Articles of Confederation was overthrown by a secret cabal, and in which northeastern states sought to socialize their Revolutionary War debts by inviting slaveholding states into the pool of collected taxes--under a new Federal tax machine--in order to lessen their own self-inflicted inflationary nightmare by preying upon the economic power of the southern slave plantations and conceding principles of liberty and freedom in order to reach that compromise over slavery and disestablishment. The Southern slaveholding states were notably absent of established churches, while the most indebted states--Massachusetts and Connecticut--who maintained powerful established churches and objected to slavery on principle, were willing to sacrifice individual rights for the maintenance of the establishment's status quo. In preparing a praxeological sketch of the era, I delve into an analysis of how the United States Constitution was ratified to serve government debt speculators at the cost of anti-state and pro-limited-government individualists (Anti-Federalists), and how the American State rose out of the Rothschild Formula. Far from being a libertarian document, the Constitution was explicitly a centralizing document that overthrew the more libertarian-minded Articles of Confederation. This is historical revisionism at its best and most subversive. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support