April 21, 2025 • 49 mins
What's an American? In Part Two, we continue our journey by going way back to a series of English kings that helped set the stage for the creation of America. Along the way we speak to William Federer, author of Who is the King in America? and purveyor of AmericanMinute.com. We also speak to Stanley Renshon - author, psychoanalyst and professor of political science at City University of New York.
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For the past three months, we've been obsessed with a question.
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Vivic Ramaswami and Elon Musk both made long posts on
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Massive MAGA civil war that has taken place over the
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talking about removing.
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A big portion of regular people.
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We all know what an American is?
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What's an American? I thought. The more I thought about it,
the more I realized that the answer was not so simple.
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Red Pilled America. We're at part two of our series
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of episodes entitled What's an American. We're looking for the
answer to that question by taking a deep dive into
the meaning of American citizenship. So to pick up where
we left off. After months of research, we came to
the conclusion that the road to answering the question what's
an American inevitably leads through the topic of dual citizenship.
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We were stunned to learn that US senators and representatives
were legally allowed to be dual citizens with a foreign country,
and the kick is it is their little secret. There
is no law in place that requires our DC politicians
to divulge that piece of information. Currently, the only way
to really analyze whether our federal government has foreigners running
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it is to analyze dual citizenship eligibility for each DC politician.
We found that nearly fifty percent of Democrat US Senators
and over forty percent of Democrat US representatives were eligible
for dual citizenship. The number was shockingly high, and they
weren't alone. Nine percent of Republican U S senators and
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roughly eighteen percent of Republican US representatives were in the
same boat. The numbers were much lower, but not negligible,
and the issue doesn't just apply to our politicians. Professor
Stanley Renshawn found that in nineteen seventy, roughly nine point
six million foreign born people were in the United States.
According to Pew Research. Today that number has grown five
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times to roughly forty eight million, and some estimates put
that number much higher. But you don't just have to
be foreign born to be eligible for dual citizenship. A
Forbes report estimates that forty percent of Americans were eligible
for dual citizenship in Europe alone, and that's not even
taking into account places like Mexico, a country that allows
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dual citizenship and has also let its citizens flood into America.
A recent estimate by Immigrant invest claims that forty nine
percent of all countries allow dual citizenship, which opens the
eligibility to a much larger pool. But with all of
this data, you may ask, why does dual citizenship matter
when trying to define what an American is? Well, this
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is where Stanley Renshawn brings up a crucial point.
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Where the United States dual citizenship does make a difference
because of the nature of our country, the foundations on
which it's premise, and on which at rest.
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To understand why this issue of dual citizenship is at
the core of what it means to be American, we
need to go back way back to the dawn of
the sixteenth century, where a succession of European kings helps
at this stage for the creation of America.
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When Henry the Eighth inherited the British crown in fifteen
oh nine, England was in a remarkably stable position. His father,
Henry the Seventh, had ended the Wars of the Roses,
a brutal civil war, and spent his reign restoring order.
His son, Henry the Eighth, took control of the strong
monarchy in a relatively peaceful kingdom, But twenty five years
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into his reign, Henry the Eighth would start a bloody
struggle over the religious soul of the country, a struggle
that helps at the stage for the creation of America.
The same year Henry the Eighth took the crown, he
married his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. Both were raised
devout Catholics. Catherine set out to give Henry an heir,
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but her first five pregnancies were either miscarriages, stillborn, or
children that went full term but died shortly after birth.
Pregnancy number six took but it produced a daughter, Mary Tudor.
At the time of her birth, England had never had
a female ruling monarch In Henry's eyes, a female at
the helm would be politically unstable and invite either foreign
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threats or another civil war. So Catherine tried again for
a boy, but that pregnancy failed as well. King Henry
the eighth began to claim that marrying his brother's widow
was a sin. He cited Leviticus twenty twenty one.
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If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is
an unclean thing. They shall be childless, though they had
a daughter.
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Henry argued that not having a life of being son
was proof that marriage was cursed by God. Around fifteen
twenty five, Henry became infatuated with another woman, Anne Boleyn,
one of his wife's assistants. Anne refused to be his mistress,
holding out for marriage. So Henry came up with an idea.
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He'd ask the pope for an annulment from his wife.
But Henry's plan was doomed. His wife, Catherine was well connected.
Her nephew was the most powerful man in Europe, the
Holy Roman Emperor Charles the fifth. Charles pressured the pope
to deny the annulment. This political deadlock dragged on for years.
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When it became clear the Pope would never grant the annulment,
Henry decided to take a more drastic route. He'd piggyback
on a religious movement it had taken a hold of
you Europe and England. Martin Luther, a German theology professor
and Catholic monk, believed the Church had become corrupt. The
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Catholic Church was selling certificate that supposedly reduced time in purgatory.
Luther believed salvation came by faith alone, not by works
or buying forgiveness. He was appalled by this church practice,
so in fifteen seventeen, from the heart of the Holy
Roman Empire in Germany, Martin Luther wrote ninety five theses,
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a document that criticized the sale of certificates, the authority
of the pope, and what he saw as the corruption
of the Catholic Church. Thanks to the printing press, the
document spread across Europe like wildfire. The Protestant Reformation was born.
By the time the Pope denied King Henry Yate's annulment,
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this Protestant movement had taken root throughout Europe and England.
Henry knew this and made his move. He declared his
marriage with Catherine of Aragon invalid, and in fifteen thirty
three he married and Bolan. One year later, Henry the Eighth,
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a devout Catholic, broke with the Pope and the Catholic Church,
making the Church of England the ultimate spiritual institution of
his kingdom, with himself as its supreme governor. Henry seized
all Catholic monasteries, land and wealth, redistributing power and real
estate across England. Religious leaders that resisted the Church of
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England's authority were either jailed or executed. Some estimate Henry
the Eighth executed thousands over his thirty eight year reign,
but his new Queen and Bolan would also have problems
with miscarriages, giving birth to only one surviving child, Elizabeth
the First. Henry the Eighth would eventually have the queen
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executed for treason, an indication of the ruthlessness nature of
the time. His third wife, Jane Seymour, would finally give
the king a male heir at just nine years old.
Henry the eighth son, Edward six, inherited the throne in
fifteen forty seven. Edward was raised at a time when
Protestant ideas were gaining ground, especially through his tutors and advisors.
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His education emphasized scripture in English, not Latin like in
Catholic services. Edward was taught the theology of Protestant reformers
Martin Luther and John Calvin.
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As a result, he.
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Would come to criticize Catholic practices like Mass, saints and confession.
When he became King, Edward s introduced sweeping changes to
English church services. He replaced Latin Mass with Holy Communion
in English. He proclaimed the Book of Common Prayer the
official liturgy of the Church of England. It included a
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collection of prayers, liturgies, and services for exclusive use in
public worship, least many of the old Latin Catholic rituals
with simplified services in English, although some Catholic influences were
still retained. By fifteen fifty two, the Book was revised,
chipping away further at the Catholic traditions in the book.
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The Church of England services became even more Protestant, although
many still quietly held to older Catholic beliefs. Protestant reforms
had transformed much of.
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England's official religious practice.
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That is, until a devout Catholic Queen Mary, the First
took the throne in fifteen fifty three. She restored papal
authority and persecuted Protestants, burning over two hundred people at
the stake.
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A religious tug of.
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War was under way when her half sister Elizabeth I
next inherited the throne. She re established Protestant control over
the Church of England, but the new queen aimed for
a middle way a country that was Protestant in dat
yet retained many of the Catholic traditions. Elizabeth reinstated Catholic
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practices like elaborate rituals, robes.
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And hierarchical leadership.
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She revised the Book of Common Prayer, again, reintroducing some
Catholic styles into the book. For many Protestants who wanted
a clean break from the Catholic Church, it felt like
half way Reformation. The changes were cosmetic, not theological. But
in fifteen eighty six, Queen Elizabeth learned of a plot
to assassinate her and place her Catholic first cousin, once
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removed Mary, Queen of Scots, at the throne, a plot
Mary appeared to endorse in intercepted coded letters. After discovering
the plot in fifteen eighty seven, Queen Elizabeth had Mary executed,
an act that outraged Catholic Europe, especially Spain, which saw
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it as a brutal, heretical act. Many Catholics saw Mary
as the legitimate Queen of England, so her execution was
both politically and religiously incendiary. Spain used it as justification
for war to not only avenge Mary and depose Elizabeth,
but also restore Catholicism in England. In fifteen eighty eight,
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the Spanish Armada set sail for the Netherlands to pick
up Spanish troops to invade England, but while en route
through the English Channel, the Queen's ships attacked, eventually defeating
the Spanish Armada. The victory not only boosted the confidence
in Elizabeth's leadership, but also emboldened the country's Protestant identity.
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In sixteen oh three, Queen Elizabeth died without an heir.
The next in line was her first cousin twice removed,
who took the throne its King, James, the First of England.
But just as James came into power, beneath the ceilings
of England's got the cathedrals, a quiet rebellion was brewing.
A Protestant movement arose that wanted to pure by the
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Church of England of all remaining Catholic influences. They'd come
to be known as the Puritans. They didn't want to
eliminate the institution, they desired to change it from within.
But another radical faction of the Puritans wanted to go
one step further. They wanted out. They believed that the
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Church of England was too corrupt to be reformed. In
their eyes, a complete break from the Church of England
was the only way forward. They came to be known
as the Separatists. Attendance of the Church of England services
was mandatory, but the Separatists resisted, refusing to attend parish churches.
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They held underground services in barns, in forests, and in
back rooms.
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With shutters drawn.
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They rejected the Book of Common Prayer, and they baptized
their children and married not in the church but within
their own communities. King James caught wind of these practices
and in sixteen o five, or just one year into
his reign, he convened the Hampton Court Conference, ultimately to
hear grievances from the dissidents. At the conference, the Puritans
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proposed their reforms, less ritual and simpler worship. King James
listened quietly, but when the separatists demanded the removal of
bishops to be replaced by elected elders, King.
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James declared no bishop, no King.
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Meaning the bishops were inextricably connected to his power. King
James was a supreme governor of the church. Bishops were
appointed by him and played a key role in advising
the king, passing laws and preserving the power of the monarchy.
The bishops were directly linked to the king's authority. James
was a clever, well read man that was open to
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debating theology, but he was also politically astute. So when
the separatists declared that they didn't need bishops, and by extension,
didn't need the crown, James heard something more than theology.
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He heard sedition.
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The separatists were challenging the very foundation of royal authority,
and he wouldn't have it.
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His response became infamous.
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I will make them conform, or I will harry them out.
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Of the land.
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It was a turning point.
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Harry them out, not just remove them, but chase them,
squeeze them until their only options were submission, prison or exile.
It wasn't personal, it was structural. James believed that disunity
in the church led to chaos in the state. James
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moved to suppress the separatist He began strictly enforcing the
laws that made attendance of Church of England services mandatory.
Those that didn't attend were fined, imprisoned, or exiled. This
was the climate facing religious dissidents in King James's England,
and to a small group of separatists, the heavy hand
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of the king was just too much to bear. They
began looking for somewhere to flee, and in sixteen oh
eight they would make a move that would eventually shape
the early foundations of America.
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Hey, Fambam, we want to hear from you on what
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Like Eric from Tennessee, my parents immigrated here from Germany
in the nineteen sixties, America to them represented freedom. I
have often been asked and encouraged to get my dual citizenship,
but something about that feels disloyal. What's strange is the
older my parents get there now in their eighties, the
more they feel in affinity to go back to Germany.
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They're more liberal socially, and they strongly dislike Donald Trump.
I'm the opposite. Having been raised in the New York
State area in New Jersey, I've grown up with Trump
in the news and in the media. To me, he
represents all that is great about our country. He's an entrepreneur,
he values freedom, and he's added value to our nation. Yes,
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he's brash and sometimes can be very very arrogant and rude,
and sometimes I cringe watching and hearing him, but I
love him as well. That's what it is to be
an American. Although not perfect, we are extremely proud, entrepreneurial, brash,
and freedom loving to a fault. An American to me
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is someone who believes all things are possible, and someone
who will fight for that dream and fight alongside his
or her fellow patriots for that freedom. It's pretty amazing
that even with my German roots, of which I'm very proud.
My loyalty lies with America to the end.
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Welcome back to red pilled America. As England's King James
forced his subjects to conform to the Church of England,
a small group of Puritan separatists began looking for a
place to flee to. In the English village of Scruby,
a small group of separatists began secretly meeting in the
manner of a printer named William Brewster. A clergyman named
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John Robinson, who had become disillusioned with the Church of England,
joined Brewster along with a young man named William Bradford.
The group refused to conform to the Church of England
and longed to find a place where they could practice
their Protestant faith freely. The problem was that the same
mandatory religious adherents being brutally enforced in England was also
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being enforced by kings throughout most of Europe. For centuries,
the people of Europe knew no other political structure than
a monarch.
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The most common form of government is kings.
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That's William Feederer, author of Who Is the King in
America and purveyor of Americanminute dot com.
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Basically a king is a glorified gang leader. So the
default setting for human government is gangs, and a gang
with enough weapons we call a king. It's a hierarchical structure.
If you are friends with the gang leader, you are insider,
you're taking care of. You're more equal. If you're not
his friend, you are less equal. And if you're his enemy,
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you're dead or you're a slave. And as the centuries
go on, the kingdoms get bigger because with the latest
military advancements, kings can kill more people. So instead a
king killing able with a rock, they can kill with
the bronze weapon, iron weapon being long faalanth spirit the
Greek's head symmeter sore that the Muslims head gunpowder that
the Chinese invented weapon keeps improving. And every now and
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then you get a good king, and guess what he
wants to concentrate power so he can do good more efficiently.
But he doesn't live forever, and at some point he
hands on this concentrated power that some son or grandson
that's lousy and uses it oppressively.
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Throughout Europe in the early sixteen hundreds, not only were
kings the default government, but almost everywhere they were forcing
religious conformity.
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You go through Europe, and not only did king's rule
they wanted to control how you believed.
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But the English separatists heard of one place in Europe
that bucked the trend, and that was the Netherlands. By
sixteen oh seven, when the separatists were looking to leave England,
a new and peculiar country had arisen. It was called
the Dutch Republic, a federation of seven northern provinces of
the Netherlands that had done something almost unthinkable in the
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time they fired their king. A little over fifty years earlier,
Philip the Second of Spain, a devout Catholic, inherited both
the northern and southern provinces of the Netherlands from his father,
the Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Fifth. Though born in Spain,
Philip saw the Netherlands as a vital part of his empire.
It was strategic, wealthy, and indispensable. Catholicism dominated the southern
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but not the northern provinces. The Protestant Reformation had taken
root in the north. They had strong local traditions that
they wanted to retain, and their growing mercantile economy gave
them some power when Philip the Second inherited all seventeen
provinces of the Netherlands, the Dutch of the North viewed
Spanish control with suspicion. From the moment Philip took over
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in fifteen fifty five, tension simmered. He imposed heavy taxation
in the area during an economic recession, all while attempting
to root out Protestantism. The actions sent waves of unease
throughout the Netherlands. Philip's efforts to centralize power and enforced
Catholic orthodoxy clashed with the more religiously liberal spirit of
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the Dutch. In fifteen sixty six, like in England, the
tension exploded. Protestant mobs swept through Dutch cities, smashing Catholic
statues and images, and churches across the Netherlands. To Philip,
this wasn't just heresy, it was rebellion. His answer was
swift and severe. He dispatched the ruthless Duke Alba with
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thousands of Spanish troops to crush the decease ent. On
his arrival in the Netherlands, the Duke began executing hundreds
of suspected rebels. This only fueled the resistance. In fifteen
seventy two, a ragtag group of Dutch rebels seized the
town of Briel. The capture inspired towns across the northern
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provinces to revolt against the Spanish. The conflict escalated into
full scale war. By fifteen seventy nine, the northern rebel
provinces pledged a mutual defense against Spain, creating the foundation
of a new republic. Two years later, they signed a
radical document called the Act of Abjuration, what would come
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to be known as the Dutch Declaration of Independence. The
document condemned Spain's religious persecution, heavy taxation without consent, destruction
of liberties, and use of foreign armies in Dutch cities.
It declared that a ruler who fails to protect his
people's rights and instead oppresses them loses the right to rule.
The Act of abde Duration formerly declared seven of the
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Northern provinces free and sovereign from Spain, capable of selecting
their own rulers. The Dutch Republic was born. It was
the birth of a republic in the age of Empires.
Many historians cited as one of the earliest examples of
a political covenant, a deliberate agreement among equals to govern
themselves without a monarch. Philip quickly sent armies to crush
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the revolt and briefly recaptured key cities. However, the North
remained defiant the war and the Netherlands dragged on. The
Dutch Republic had become militarily strong and economically prosperous, while
Spain was being drained by wars on multiple fronts, but
neither side could defeat the other. The war had reached
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a stalemate, so in sixteen o seven Spain and the
Northern provinces began formal peace negotiations. Talks were held in
the Hague and both agreed to a cease fire. Negotiating
a truce was eminent. The development was monumental. The Dutch
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Republic was on the verge of being the only stable
place in Europe where no king ruled and no bishop
enforced conformity. As negotiations progressed in the Netherlands, the small
group of English separatists John Robinson, William Brewster, William Bradford
and others were under constant persecution by King James. His
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bishops would raid their homes and imprisoned several members of
their separatist congregation, so as the persecution escalated, they saw
the Netherlands as a potential oasis. This Dutch Republic was
a radical idea at the time, but it felt familiar
to the separatists through the religious conflicts of the sixteen hundreds.
To justify their authority, the kings throughout Europe referred to
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the biblical references from one thousand BC on King Saul,
King David, King Solomon, and thead like all gave the
kings a biblical authority to rule. As England's King James
the First began forcing conformity on dissidents, the separatists turned
to religious text looking for a way out. Again. William Federer,
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author of Who Is the King in America.
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They look back to the first four hundred years out
of Egypt before Israel God King Saul, And so this
four hundred year period from around fourteen hundred BC to
one thousand b C is the first time in world
history where you have millions of people in no king,
and it's called the Hebrew Republic.
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This Hebrew Republic was a decentralized theocracy. It had no
human king, no centralized bureaucracy, and no hereditary political rulers. Instead,
it was governed by a combination of divine law, local leadership,
and charismatic judges, all under the sovereignty of God. In
this Hebrew Republic, God was the true king, not man,
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and his divine law was the constitution.
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Their system worked because everybody was taught the law and
everybody was personally accountable to God to follow it. So
there's no king, there's no police, and you have an
opportunity to steal, and you're thinking of it, and then
you remember, oh, God's watching. He wants me to be fair.
He's going to hold me accountable in the future. Maybe
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I should hesitate stealing. And it creates a tiny thing
in your head called a conscience. If everybody believes this,
you can maintain order with no king. And it worked
for four centuries until the priests went woke.
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With the ceasefire in the Netherlands, the separatists saw the
Dutch Republic as a potential refuge, a place where no
worldly king enforced conformity, like the Hebrew Republic of the
Old Testament, and so the English separatists decided to make
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So in sixteen oh seven,
with the Dutch Republic in a ceasefire with Spain, William Brewster,
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John Robinson, William Bradford and other separatists all tried slipping
out of England under the cover of night, destined for
the Netherlands, but when they reached the seaport, some were
caught and briefly imprisoned. A year later they tried again,
and this time they made it out of the country.
They first landed in Amsterdam, but quickly found it chaotic.
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The city was divided by too many competing religious ideologies.
The English separatists looked for another neighboring town, to settle in,
and found one about thirty miles southwest of Amsterdam, in
a town named Leiden. Leiden was different. It was quiet
and more orderly. City officials there governed by council, not
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by the commands of a heavy handed king, and in
sixteen oh nine the Dutch Republic signed a twelve year
truce with Spain, a European nation. With religious freedom stabilized,
the separatists thought they'd found their home. They got jobs
in Leiden, brewing, weaving, teaching, They rented rooms, printed religious pamphlets, married, buried, baptized,
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and most importantly to them, they worshiped in peace. John
Robinson became their pastor. All seemed good in the world,
But then something odd happened. Their children began to speak Dutch,
not to speak it, but think in it and dream
in it. English became a second language. The younger generation,
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born into peace was not interested in exile. They wanted
to be Dutch. This worried the elder separatist. Their customs
were beginning to fade. The Dutch Republic gave them everything
they wanted, freedom of worship, freedom from persecution, self governance,
But that same freedom allowed their children to become something
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other than what they were. Adding to their cultural concern
was the growing threat of another war. The truce between
Spain and the Dutch Republic was set to expire in
sixteen twenty one, and some thought that Catholic Spain was
looking to bring the Netherlands back into their empire. Many
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of the separatists anticipated that their new home was on
the verge of erupting into conflict again.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
William Federer Spain's threatening to attack, and so they said,
we need a fleet.
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The Dutch Republic gave them a vision of what was possible.
So the congregation debated relocating to a far off land
to continue.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
This free living.
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They thought of going to Guyana because they heard of
the Perpetual Spring.
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The South American region of Guyana was being settled by
the Dutch, but Spain laid claim to the area and
had a reputation of slaughtering foreigners that settled in their territories.
So the English separatists decided against Guyana. That's when they
made a surprising decision. They turned back to the monarch
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they'd fled from to establish English colonies in North America.
King James the First chartered the Virginia Company of London.
The Virginia Company focused on creating a British colony in
the New World, in an area known as Jamestown. The
company had the right to grant land for settlement, governed
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colonial affairs under royal oversight, and profit from trade, agriculture.
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And natural resources.
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Established in sixteen oh seven, those living in the British
colony of Jamestown had to live under English law and
as such were technically required to submit to the King
and Church of England. But Jamestown was three thousand miles away.
The separatists thought perhaps they could settle on the edge
of the Virginia territory and practice their religion without anyone noticing.
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There was news of harsh winters and bloody conflict with
local natives, but the separatists must have felt it was
better odds in facing off with Spain and Guyana or
King James in England, so they turned to separatists still
in England to beg betweens in London to secure a
land patent from the Virginia A Company that would allow
them to settle in Jamestown legally. The intermediary secured the
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land patent and a small group of the Separatists began
planning logistics. They secured funding from English investors that were
looking to profit from trade in the New World. They
purchased a small ship in Holland called the Speedwell to
transport them from Holland to England, where they'd join a
larger ship called the Mayflower. The plan was for their
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speed Well to sail with the Mayflower from England to
the New World. Everything was set, but many Separatists decided
to stay back in Leiden. The New World was just that.
New Virginia was rugged and on the edge of the
known world. Even with fears of war with Spain, Leiden
was a known factor. It was still stable for the
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time being, and these Separatists didn't live in a time
where one could travel to a far off land and
if things didn't work out they could just easily return.
The voyage brutal and it typically costs more than a
family's entire net worth, so they had to borrow. The
Separatists got their voyage funded with the express goal of
delivering profits from trade in the New World to their financers.
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They couldn't just come back if things went bad. The
second they started the voyage they were in debt, sometimes
for years.
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By leaving for.
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America, they were leaving Europe behind forever. Many decided to
stay in Leiden with Pastor Robinson with hopes of making
the voyage at a later date, but a small subset
of the Separatists were willing to take the risk, about
sixty in total, some bringing their entire families. The group
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planned on leaving in early sixteen twenty to reach Virginia
in the warm of summer, but they were delayed several
months due to conflict with their financers. Finally, in July
sixteen twenty, from a port in Holland, they boarded the
Speedway and set sail for England. A few weeks later
they met the Mayflower that carried its own sixty passengers.
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These were complete strangers to the Separatists. Some, like the Separatists,
were Protestants looking for religious freedom, some were indentured servants
and hoping for economic opportunity, but all were leaving the
old world forever with the hopes of a new start.
With the Separatists aboard the Speedwell, including William Brewster and
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William Bradford, the two ships set sail for America, but
soon after leaving port, the speedwell sprung a leak. Both
ships returned to shore. They tried patching it up, and
then both ships set sail again, but again the speedwell
began to leak. They returned to land, this time to
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the Plymouth, England port. William Bradford suspected the captain sabotage
the ship to get out of his contractual obligation of
staying with the colony for a year while still getting paid. Nevertheless,
after a thorough investigation of the ship, the Speedwell was
declared unseaworthy, so the separatists had to make a tough
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decision either completely abandoned the trip or as many as
possible board the Mayflower and continue. They chose the latter.
The problem was that the Mayflower was not large. The
one hundred foot merchant ship was a cargo vessel. It
was built to carry a small crew and things like wool,
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not passengers. Aside from those already aboard, The Mayflower only
had room for forty of the separatists. So from the
port of Plymouth, England, the forty boarded the Mayflower bound
for Virginia, including Brewster and Bradford. These separatists would come
to be known as the Pilgrims, and in September sixteen,
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twenty one hundred and two passengers and about thirty crew
members set sail for the New World. Their goal was
to land somewhere near the mouth of the Hudson River,
within the charter of the Virginia Company. But after two
months of storms, sickness, and confusion, the ship came aground
hundreds of miles off course.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Again William Federer.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
They get blown off course in a storm, and they
land in Massachusetts, and they try sailing south, almost sink,
and the captain says it's too dangerous to sail. Everybody
has to get off the boat right here.
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The land was.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Rocky, the air was bitter, and their charter no longer
applied because they weren't in Virginia.
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And the Pilgrimer's like, we have a question, who's going
to be in charge. We were going to go to Virginia,
submit to the king's goverment. You're telling us we don't
have a king appointed person in our group.
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Where they landed in Cape Cod there was no government waiting,
no king's law, no colony, just trees, snow and natives.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
And so what they do something unique that we remember
them for forever.
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Before they even stepped off the ship, they drafted and
signed a document, the Mayflower Compact, agreeing to form a
civil body politic that would create just and equal laws
for the good of the colony. Of course, the Dutch
Republic showed them the possibilities, but it was the Hebrew
Republic of the Old Testament that was always their guiding light.
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They took this chance opportunity to build a community of
people bound by covenant to live under God's law with
mutual accountability and collective leadership. The Mayflower Compact was the
first framework of democratic self government in the New World.
It was not just a legal document, It was a
spiritual statement, a covenant, much like the covenants made by
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the Israelites. With God in their eyes. They were not
just starting a settlement, They were building a godly commonwealth.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
The word compact means covenant. It says we any presence
of God, covenant ourselves together into a cl body politic
to make just and equal laws. It shall be thought
most meat or necessary unto which we promise I'll due submission. Simple, revolutionary.
It was a polarity change in the flow of power.
On its planet Earth set a top down rule by kings.
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It's bottom up rule by weight. Just the one hundred
and two of us in this little boat, we're going
to covenant ourselves together. And so they take their church
covenant government and they make it their civil government.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
After weeks of scouting the area, in December sixteen twenty,
the passengers of the Mayflower chose the site of a
former Native American village to set up camp. To honor
their origin and maintain a symbolic link to their voyage.
They named their new home after the port they set
sail from, Plymouth, England. The Plymouth Colony was born, and
the area would come to be known as New England.
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The winter was harsh. There was no proper shelter. Many
had to live aboard the cramped damp ship. They suffered
from scurvy, pneumonia, and malnutrition. Roughly half died. Entire families
were wiped out. About half the male heads of household fell.
William Brewster and his family survived. William Bradford lived as well,
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his wife did not. Only four adult women survived. They
buried the dead at night to conceal how many had perished.
From the local Indians which were constantly watching and vastly
outnumbered them. But after the winner, the Plymouth Colony slowly
stabilized and began to grow. In March sixteen twenty one,
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the Pilgrims made contact with local Indians who had learned
some English from traders and fishermen along the coast before
the Pilgrims arrived. They taught the Pilgrims how to grow
corn fish and use local resources. By the fall of
sixteen twenty one, after their first successful harvest, the Pilgrims
held a three day feast with about ninety guests from
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the Wampapanoag Indian tribe. The event would come to be
known as the First Thanksgiving. As the Plymouth colony stabilized.
Back in England, King James's successor his son, King Charles
the First continued the crown's persecution of Puritans. As word
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of the established colonies made its way back to England,
many wanted out. In sixteen thirty eleven, ships carrying as
many as one thousand Puritans left for New England, kicking
off what would become known as the Great Puritan Migration.
Over the next decade and estimated twenty thousand Puritans migrated
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to New England. They joined Plymouth and opened new colonies
in Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, expanding
the New England territory and leaving the Old world behind forever.
And when they arrived, many built their local governments on
the model of the Mayflower Compact. Again William Feederer.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Sixteen thirty is called the Great Pure Migration. Twenty thousand
Puritans leave England and flood into New England. And you
have a situation where you have churches founding cities. So Providence,
Rhode Island, was founded by the first Baptist church in America. Hartford,
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Connecticut was founded by the first Congregationalist church in America.
You know, Exeter, New Hampshire. I mean, all these different
towns are founded by churches, and so everybody's involved in church,
and everybody's involved in the city government because it's the
church founding the city. There's like no non church members
tagging along to be lazy and let them run stuff.
And so they had one building in town called a
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meeting house. That's where the pastor would teach the Bible,
and that's where they would do their city.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Business or English and Welsh or it into Virginia, the Carolinas,
and Georgia. In the early seventeen hundreds, Protestants of Scottish
descent who had settled in Northern Ireland began migrating to
the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and the Appalachian backcountry. Around the same time,
Protestant Germans, ravaged by war and religious persecution, began turning
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to the New World as well, creating settlements like the
Germanic Colony in Virginia, where my first ancestors arrived. Some
Germans also settled in New York and Pennsylvania. French Huguenots,
fleeing Catholic persecution in France, settled in South Carolina, New York, Virginia,
and Massachusetts. And Protestants weren't the only that populated the colonies.
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Irish Catholics and prisoners of war were forcibly brought to
the colonies, some arriving as indentured servants working for four
to seven years to pay off passage. Many were brought
to Maryland, others to Virginia. It may be surprising to
learn that their Catholic warship was often banned in the
colonies which had anti Catholic laws and a land created
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to avoid religious persecution. Some Christian faiths were freer than others.
Then there were, of course Africans that arrived to the colonies.
Some freed, but most enslaved. Those enslaved were brought forcibly
via the Transatlantic slave trade, primarily from West and Central Africa.
They lived in the southern colonies of Virginia, the Carolinas,
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and Georgia, but were also present in the north. By
the time of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence
in seventeen seventy six, the American colonies had people from England, Scotland, Germany,
the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Spain, and Africa, and
estimated two point five million people from ethnically and culturally
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diverse nations were in the colonies at the founding of
the United States of America. Some estimates put the number
of native born Americans as high as ninety two percent
at the time, and almost all free citizens of this
new United States left behind their countries of origin forever.
Like the founding fathers literally put their necks on the
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line when they broke ties with their ancestral country. A
novel concept was born, a self governing country was built
of people from many different nations. And this is where
you can see that a nation of this kind can
be threatened by a world where dual citizenship is widely
accepted and even celebrated. So why is dual citizenship so
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important to answering the question what's an American? We put
that question to Professor Stanley Renshawn.
Speaker 6 (47:02):
When people came the United States from other countries, they
really were leaving their old lives behind. When you came here,
you were pretty much saying goodbye to your old country,
and that put a nimpetus on you to really start
to get acquainted with your new country in a way
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that's not necessarily true. Now that's the impact of globalization.
When you used to come here, it was for keeps.
Now you come here, you want to fly back home
for a weekend, you can do that home meeting your
home country, and they will be reaching out to you
because one of the things that's happened is that countries
of origin of dual citizens recognize that there's a gold
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road here of influence. Yes, you know, we'd love to
have more influence with you. Let me tell you what
our perspective is, and let us hope that you can
carry that through in your circles and will be represented
by your views on that. Whereas for most Americans, the
idea is that eventually dual citizenship, if you have it,
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will fade over time, and that you will adopt and
become an American with all the things that that means.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
Today, people residing in the US often have closer ties
to the country of their ancestors than they do with America.
How did this happen? How did this hyphenated American concept
become so prevalent in the country. Well, that's what we'll
be tackling next.
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
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For the past three months, we've been obsessed with a question.
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Vivic Ramaswami and Elon Musk both made long posts on
x on how their businesses rely on H one B workers.
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Massive MAGA civil war that has taken place over the
Christmas holidays. That began with the critique over H one
B visas.
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You just became a Republican three months ago, and you're
talking about removing.
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A big portion of regular people.
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Root and Stem Sam Hyde made a statement that would
eventually send us on our quest.
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We all know what an American is?
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What's an American? I thought. The more I thought about it,
the more I realized that the answer was not so simple.
I'm Patrick Carelci and.
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I'm Adriana Cortes, and this.
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Is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
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This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We're all about telling stories.
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Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
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The media mocks stories about everyday Americans at the Globalist Ignore.
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You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at part two of our series
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of episodes entitled What's an American. We're looking for the
answer to that question by taking a deep dive into
the meaning of American citizenship. So to pick up where
we left off. After months of research, we came to
the conclusion that the road to answering the question what's
an American inevitably leads through the topic of dual citizenship.
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We were stunned to learn that US senators and representatives
were legally allowed to be dual citizens with a foreign country,
and the kick is it is their little secret. There
is no law in place that requires our DC politicians
to divulge that piece of information. Currently, the only way
to really analyze whether our federal government has foreigners running
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it is to analyze dual citizenship eligibility for each DC politician.
We found that nearly fifty percent of Democrat US Senators
and over forty percent of Democrat US representatives were eligible
for dual citizenship. The number was shockingly high, and they
weren't alone. Nine percent of Republican U S senators and
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roughly eighteen percent of Republican US representatives were in the
same boat. The numbers were much lower, but not negligible,
and the issue doesn't just apply to our politicians. Professor
Stanley Renshawn found that in nineteen seventy, roughly nine point
six million foreign born people were in the United States.
According to Pew Research. Today that number has grown five
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times to roughly forty eight million, and some estimates put
that number much higher. But you don't just have to
be foreign born to be eligible for dual citizenship. A
Forbes report estimates that forty percent of Americans were eligible
for dual citizenship in Europe alone, and that's not even
taking into account places like Mexico, a country that allows
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dual citizenship and has also let its citizens flood into America.
A recent estimate by Immigrant invest claims that forty nine
percent of all countries allow dual citizenship, which opens the
eligibility to a much larger pool. But with all of
this data, you may ask, why does dual citizenship matter
when trying to define what an American is? Well, this
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is where Stanley Renshawn brings up a crucial point.
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Where the United States dual citizenship does make a difference
because of the nature of our country, the foundations on
which it's premise, and on which at rest.
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To understand why this issue of dual citizenship is at
the core of what it means to be American, we
need to go back way back to the dawn of
the sixteenth century, where a succession of European kings helps
at this stage for the creation of America.
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When Henry the Eighth inherited the British crown in fifteen
oh nine, England was in a remarkably stable position. His father,
Henry the Seventh, had ended the Wars of the Roses,
a brutal civil war, and spent his reign restoring order.
His son, Henry the Eighth, took control of the strong
monarchy in a relatively peaceful kingdom, But twenty five years
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into his reign, Henry the Eighth would start a bloody
struggle over the religious soul of the country, a struggle
that helps at the stage for the creation of America.
The same year Henry the Eighth took the crown, he
married his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. Both were raised
devout Catholics. Catherine set out to give Henry an heir,
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but her first five pregnancies were either miscarriages, stillborn, or
children that went full term but died shortly after birth.
Pregnancy number six took but it produced a daughter, Mary Tudor.
At the time of her birth, England had never had
a female ruling monarch In Henry's eyes, a female at
the helm would be politically unstable and invite either foreign
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threats or another civil war. So Catherine tried again for
a boy, but that pregnancy failed as well. King Henry
the eighth began to claim that marrying his brother's widow
was a sin. He cited Leviticus twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is
an unclean thing. They shall be childless, though they had
a daughter.
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Henry argued that not having a life of being son
was proof that marriage was cursed by God. Around fifteen
twenty five, Henry became infatuated with another woman, Anne Boleyn,
one of his wife's assistants. Anne refused to be his mistress,
holding out for marriage. So Henry came up with an idea.
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He'd ask the pope for an annulment from his wife.
But Henry's plan was doomed. His wife, Catherine was well connected.
Her nephew was the most powerful man in Europe, the
Holy Roman Emperor Charles the fifth. Charles pressured the pope
to deny the annulment. This political deadlock dragged on for years.
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When it became clear the Pope would never grant the annulment,
Henry decided to take a more drastic route. He'd piggyback
on a religious movement it had taken a hold of
you Europe and England. Martin Luther, a German theology professor
and Catholic monk, believed the Church had become corrupt. The
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Catholic Church was selling certificate that supposedly reduced time in purgatory.
Luther believed salvation came by faith alone, not by works
or buying forgiveness. He was appalled by this church practice,
so in fifteen seventeen, from the heart of the Holy
Roman Empire in Germany, Martin Luther wrote ninety five theses,
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a document that criticized the sale of certificates, the authority
of the pope, and what he saw as the corruption
of the Catholic Church. Thanks to the printing press, the
document spread across Europe like wildfire. The Protestant Reformation was born.
By the time the Pope denied King Henry Yate's annulment,
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this Protestant movement had taken root throughout Europe and England.
Henry knew this and made his move. He declared his
marriage with Catherine of Aragon invalid, and in fifteen thirty
three he married and Bolan. One year later, Henry the Eighth,
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a devout Catholic, broke with the Pope and the Catholic Church,
making the Church of England the ultimate spiritual institution of
his kingdom, with himself as its supreme governor. Henry seized
all Catholic monasteries, land and wealth, redistributing power and real
estate across England. Religious leaders that resisted the Church of
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England's authority were either jailed or executed. Some estimate Henry
the Eighth executed thousands over his thirty eight year reign,
but his new Queen and Bolan would also have problems
with miscarriages, giving birth to only one surviving child, Elizabeth
the First. Henry the Eighth would eventually have the queen
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executed for treason, an indication of the ruthlessness nature of
the time. His third wife, Jane Seymour, would finally give
the king a male heir at just nine years old.
Henry the eighth son, Edward six, inherited the throne in
fifteen forty seven. Edward was raised at a time when
Protestant ideas were gaining ground, especially through his tutors and advisors.
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His education emphasized scripture in English, not Latin like in
Catholic services. Edward was taught the theology of Protestant reformers
Martin Luther and John Calvin.
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As a result, he.
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Would come to criticize Catholic practices like Mass, saints and confession.
When he became King, Edward s introduced sweeping changes to
English church services. He replaced Latin Mass with Holy Communion
in English. He proclaimed the Book of Common Prayer the
official liturgy of the Church of England. It included a
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collection of prayers, liturgies, and services for exclusive use in
public worship, least many of the old Latin Catholic rituals
with simplified services in English, although some Catholic influences were
still retained. By fifteen fifty two, the Book was revised,
chipping away further at the Catholic traditions in the book.
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The Church of England services became even more Protestant, although
many still quietly held to older Catholic beliefs. Protestant reforms
had transformed much of.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
England's official religious practice.
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That is, until a devout Catholic Queen Mary, the First
took the throne in fifteen fifty three. She restored papal
authority and persecuted Protestants, burning over two hundred people at
the stake.
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A religious tug of.
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War was under way when her half sister Elizabeth I
next inherited the throne. She re established Protestant control over
the Church of England, but the new queen aimed for
a middle way a country that was Protestant in dat
yet retained many of the Catholic traditions. Elizabeth reinstated Catholic
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practices like elaborate rituals, robes.
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And hierarchical leadership.
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She revised the Book of Common Prayer, again, reintroducing some
Catholic styles into the book. For many Protestants who wanted
a clean break from the Catholic Church, it felt like
half way Reformation. The changes were cosmetic, not theological. But
in fifteen eighty six, Queen Elizabeth learned of a plot
to assassinate her and place her Catholic first cousin, once
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removed Mary, Queen of Scots, at the throne, a plot
Mary appeared to endorse in intercepted coded letters. After discovering
the plot in fifteen eighty seven, Queen Elizabeth had Mary executed,
an act that outraged Catholic Europe, especially Spain, which saw
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it as a brutal, heretical act. Many Catholics saw Mary
as the legitimate Queen of England, so her execution was
both politically and religiously incendiary. Spain used it as justification
for war to not only avenge Mary and depose Elizabeth,
but also restore Catholicism in England. In fifteen eighty eight,
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the Spanish Armada set sail for the Netherlands to pick
up Spanish troops to invade England, but while en route
through the English Channel, the Queen's ships attacked, eventually defeating
the Spanish Armada. The victory not only boosted the confidence
in Elizabeth's leadership, but also emboldened the country's Protestant identity.
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In sixteen oh three, Queen Elizabeth died without an heir.
The next in line was her first cousin twice removed,
who took the throne its King, James, the First of England.
But just as James came into power, beneath the ceilings
of England's got the cathedrals, a quiet rebellion was brewing.
A Protestant movement arose that wanted to pure by the
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Church of England of all remaining Catholic influences. They'd come
to be known as the Puritans. They didn't want to
eliminate the institution, they desired to change it from within.
But another radical faction of the Puritans wanted to go
one step further. They wanted out. They believed that the
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Church of England was too corrupt to be reformed. In
their eyes, a complete break from the Church of England
was the only way forward. They came to be known
as the Separatists. Attendance of the Church of England services
was mandatory, but the Separatists resisted, refusing to attend parish churches.
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They held underground services in barns, in forests, and in
back rooms.
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With shutters drawn.
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They rejected the Book of Common Prayer, and they baptized
their children and married not in the church but within
their own communities. King James caught wind of these practices
and in sixteen o five, or just one year into
his reign, he convened the Hampton Court Conference, ultimately to
hear grievances from the dissidents. At the conference, the Puritans
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proposed their reforms, less ritual and simpler worship. King James
listened quietly, but when the separatists demanded the removal of
bishops to be replaced by elected elders, King.
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James declared no bishop, no King.
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Meaning the bishops were inextricably connected to his power. King
James was a supreme governor of the church. Bishops were
appointed by him and played a key role in advising
the king, passing laws and preserving the power of the monarchy.
The bishops were directly linked to the king's authority. James
was a clever, well read man that was open to
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debating theology, but he was also politically astute. So when
the separatists declared that they didn't need bishops, and by extension,
didn't need the crown, James heard something more than theology.
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He heard sedition.
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The separatists were challenging the very foundation of royal authority,
and he wouldn't have it.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
His response became infamous.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I will make them conform, or I will harry them out.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Of the land.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
It was a turning point.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Harry them out, not just remove them, but chase them,
squeeze them until their only options were submission, prison or exile.
It wasn't personal, it was structural. James believed that disunity
in the church led to chaos in the state. James
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moved to suppress the separatist He began strictly enforcing the
laws that made attendance of Church of England services mandatory.
Those that didn't attend were fined, imprisoned, or exiled. This
was the climate facing religious dissidents in King James's England,
and to a small group of separatists, the heavy hand
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of the king was just too much to bear. They
began looking for somewhere to flee, and in sixteen oh
eight they would make a move that would eventually shape
the early foundations of America.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
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Speaker 5 (17:33):
Like Eric from Tennessee, my parents immigrated here from Germany
in the nineteen sixties, America to them represented freedom. I
have often been asked and encouraged to get my dual citizenship,
but something about that feels disloyal. What's strange is the
older my parents get there now in their eighties, the
more they feel in affinity to go back to Germany.
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They're more liberal socially, and they strongly dislike Donald Trump.
I'm the opposite. Having been raised in the New York
State area in New Jersey, I've grown up with Trump
in the news and in the media. To me, he
represents all that is great about our country. He's an entrepreneur,
he values freedom, and he's added value to our nation. Yes,
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he's brash and sometimes can be very very arrogant and rude,
and sometimes I cringe watching and hearing him, but I
love him as well. That's what it is to be
an American. Although not perfect, we are extremely proud, entrepreneurial, brash,
and freedom loving to a fault. An American to me
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is someone who believes all things are possible, and someone
who will fight for that dream and fight alongside his
or her fellow patriots for that freedom. It's pretty amazing
that even with my German roots, of which I'm very proud.
My loyalty lies with America to the end.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Welcome back to red pilled America. As England's King James
forced his subjects to conform to the Church of England,
a small group of Puritan separatists began looking for a
place to flee to. In the English village of Scruby,
a small group of separatists began secretly meeting in the
manner of a printer named William Brewster. A clergyman named
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John Robinson, who had become disillusioned with the Church of England,
joined Brewster along with a young man named William Bradford.
The group refused to conform to the Church of England
and longed to find a place where they could practice
their Protestant faith freely. The problem was that the same
mandatory religious adherents being brutally enforced in England was also
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being enforced by kings throughout most of Europe. For centuries,
the people of Europe knew no other political structure than
a monarch.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
The most common form of government is kings.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's William Feederer, author of Who Is the King in
America and purveyor of Americanminute dot com.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Basically a king is a glorified gang leader. So the
default setting for human government is gangs, and a gang
with enough weapons we call a king. It's a hierarchical structure.
If you are friends with the gang leader, you are insider,
you're taking care of. You're more equal. If you're not
his friend, you are less equal. And if you're his enemy,
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you're dead or you're a slave. And as the centuries
go on, the kingdoms get bigger because with the latest
military advancements, kings can kill more people. So instead a
king killing able with a rock, they can kill with
the bronze weapon, iron weapon being long faalanth spirit the
Greek's head symmeter sore that the Muslims head gunpowder that
the Chinese invented weapon keeps improving. And every now and
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then you get a good king, and guess what he
wants to concentrate power so he can do good more efficiently.
But he doesn't live forever, and at some point he
hands on this concentrated power that some son or grandson
that's lousy and uses it oppressively.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Throughout Europe in the early sixteen hundreds, not only were
kings the default government, but almost everywhere they were forcing
religious conformity.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
You go through Europe, and not only did king's rule
they wanted to control how you believed.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
But the English separatists heard of one place in Europe
that bucked the trend, and that was the Netherlands. By
sixteen oh seven, when the separatists were looking to leave England,
a new and peculiar country had arisen. It was called
the Dutch Republic, a federation of seven northern provinces of
the Netherlands that had done something almost unthinkable in the
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time they fired their king. A little over fifty years earlier,
Philip the Second of Spain, a devout Catholic, inherited both
the northern and southern provinces of the Netherlands from his father,
the Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Fifth. Though born in Spain,
Philip saw the Netherlands as a vital part of his empire.
It was strategic, wealthy, and indispensable. Catholicism dominated the southern
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but not the northern provinces. The Protestant Reformation had taken
root in the north. They had strong local traditions that
they wanted to retain, and their growing mercantile economy gave
them some power when Philip the Second inherited all seventeen
provinces of the Netherlands, the Dutch of the North viewed
Spanish control with suspicion. From the moment Philip took over
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in fifteen fifty five, tension simmered. He imposed heavy taxation
in the area during an economic recession, all while attempting
to root out Protestantism. The actions sent waves of unease
throughout the Netherlands. Philip's efforts to centralize power and enforced
Catholic orthodoxy clashed with the more religiously liberal spirit of
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the Dutch. In fifteen sixty six, like in England, the
tension exploded. Protestant mobs swept through Dutch cities, smashing Catholic
statues and images, and churches across the Netherlands. To Philip,
this wasn't just heresy, it was rebellion. His answer was
swift and severe. He dispatched the ruthless Duke Alba with
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thousands of Spanish troops to crush the decease ent. On
his arrival in the Netherlands, the Duke began executing hundreds
of suspected rebels. This only fueled the resistance. In fifteen
seventy two, a ragtag group of Dutch rebels seized the
town of Briel. The capture inspired towns across the northern
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provinces to revolt against the Spanish. The conflict escalated into
full scale war. By fifteen seventy nine, the northern rebel
provinces pledged a mutual defense against Spain, creating the foundation
of a new republic. Two years later, they signed a
radical document called the Act of Abjuration, what would come
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to be known as the Dutch Declaration of Independence. The
document condemned Spain's religious persecution, heavy taxation without consent, destruction
of liberties, and use of foreign armies in Dutch cities.
It declared that a ruler who fails to protect his
people's rights and instead oppresses them loses the right to rule.
The Act of abde Duration formerly declared seven of the
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Northern provinces free and sovereign from Spain, capable of selecting
their own rulers. The Dutch Republic was born. It was
the birth of a republic in the age of Empires.
Many historians cited as one of the earliest examples of
a political covenant, a deliberate agreement among equals to govern
themselves without a monarch. Philip quickly sent armies to crush
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the revolt and briefly recaptured key cities. However, the North
remained defiant the war and the Netherlands dragged on. The
Dutch Republic had become militarily strong and economically prosperous, while
Spain was being drained by wars on multiple fronts, but
neither side could defeat the other. The war had reached
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a stalemate, so in sixteen o seven Spain and the
Northern provinces began formal peace negotiations. Talks were held in
the Hague and both agreed to a cease fire. Negotiating
a truce was eminent. The development was monumental. The Dutch
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Republic was on the verge of being the only stable
place in Europe where no king ruled and no bishop
enforced conformity. As negotiations progressed in the Netherlands, the small
group of English separatists John Robinson, William Brewster, William Bradford
and others were under constant persecution by King James. His
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bishops would raid their homes and imprisoned several members of
their separatist congregation, so as the persecution escalated, they saw
the Netherlands as a potential oasis. This Dutch Republic was
a radical idea at the time, but it felt familiar
to the separatists through the religious conflicts of the sixteen hundreds.
To justify their authority, the kings throughout Europe referred to
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the biblical references from one thousand BC on King Saul,
King David, King Solomon, and thead like all gave the
kings a biblical authority to rule. As England's King James
the First began forcing conformity on dissidents, the separatists turned
to religious text looking for a way out. Again. William Federer,
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author of Who Is the King in America.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
They look back to the first four hundred years out
of Egypt before Israel God King Saul, And so this
four hundred year period from around fourteen hundred BC to
one thousand b C is the first time in world
history where you have millions of people in no king,
and it's called the Hebrew Republic.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
This Hebrew Republic was a decentralized theocracy. It had no
human king, no centralized bureaucracy, and no hereditary political rulers. Instead,
it was governed by a combination of divine law, local leadership,
and charismatic judges, all under the sovereignty of God. In
this Hebrew Republic, God was the true king, not man,
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and his divine law was the constitution.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Their system worked because everybody was taught the law and
everybody was personally accountable to God to follow it. So
there's no king, there's no police, and you have an
opportunity to steal, and you're thinking of it, and then
you remember, oh, God's watching. He wants me to be fair.
He's going to hold me accountable in the future. Maybe
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I should hesitate stealing. And it creates a tiny thing
in your head called a conscience. If everybody believes this,
you can maintain order with no king. And it worked
for four centuries until the priests went woke.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
With the ceasefire in the Netherlands, the separatists saw the
Dutch Republic as a potential refuge, a place where no
worldly king enforced conformity, like the Hebrew Republic of the
Old Testament, and so the English separatists decided to make
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So in sixteen oh seven,
with the Dutch Republic in a ceasefire with Spain, William Brewster,
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John Robinson, William Bradford and other separatists all tried slipping
out of England under the cover of night, destined for
the Netherlands, but when they reached the seaport, some were
caught and briefly imprisoned. A year later they tried again,
and this time they made it out of the country.
They first landed in Amsterdam, but quickly found it chaotic.
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The city was divided by too many competing religious ideologies.
The English separatists looked for another neighboring town, to settle in,
and found one about thirty miles southwest of Amsterdam, in
a town named Leiden. Leiden was different. It was quiet
and more orderly. City officials there governed by council, not
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by the commands of a heavy handed king, and in
sixteen oh nine the Dutch Republic signed a twelve year
truce with Spain, a European nation. With religious freedom stabilized,
the separatists thought they'd found their home. They got jobs
in Leiden, brewing, weaving, teaching, They rented rooms, printed religious pamphlets, married, buried, baptized,
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and most importantly to them, they worshiped in peace. John
Robinson became their pastor. All seemed good in the world,
But then something odd happened. Their children began to speak Dutch,
not to speak it, but think in it and dream
in it. English became a second language. The younger generation,
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born into peace was not interested in exile. They wanted
to be Dutch. This worried the elder separatist. Their customs
were beginning to fade. The Dutch Republic gave them everything
they wanted, freedom of worship, freedom from persecution, self governance,
But that same freedom allowed their children to become something
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other than what they were. Adding to their cultural concern
was the growing threat of another war. The truce between
Spain and the Dutch Republic was set to expire in
sixteen twenty one, and some thought that Catholic Spain was
looking to bring the Netherlands back into their empire. Many
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of the separatists anticipated that their new home was on
the verge of erupting into conflict again.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
William Federer Spain's threatening to attack, and so they said,
we need a fleet.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
The Dutch Republic gave them a vision of what was possible.
So the congregation debated relocating to a far off land
to continue.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
This free living.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
They thought of going to Guyana because they heard of
the Perpetual Spring.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
The South American region of Guyana was being settled by
the Dutch, but Spain laid claim to the area and
had a reputation of slaughtering foreigners that settled in their territories.
So the English separatists decided against Guyana. That's when they
made a surprising decision. They turned back to the monarch
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they'd fled from to establish English colonies in North America.
King James the First chartered the Virginia Company of London.
The Virginia Company focused on creating a British colony in
the New World, in an area known as Jamestown. The
company had the right to grant land for settlement, governed
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colonial affairs under royal oversight, and profit from trade, agriculture.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
And natural resources.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Established in sixteen oh seven, those living in the British
colony of Jamestown had to live under English law and
as such were technically required to submit to the King
and Church of England. But Jamestown was three thousand miles away.
The separatists thought perhaps they could settle on the edge
of the Virginia territory and practice their religion without anyone noticing.
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There was news of harsh winters and bloody conflict with
local natives, but the separatists must have felt it was
better odds in facing off with Spain and Guyana or
King James in England, so they turned to separatists still
in England to beg betweens in London to secure a
land patent from the Virginia A Company that would allow
them to settle in Jamestown legally. The intermediary secured the
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land patent and a small group of the Separatists began
planning logistics. They secured funding from English investors that were
looking to profit from trade in the New World. They
purchased a small ship in Holland called the Speedwell to
transport them from Holland to England, where they'd join a
larger ship called the Mayflower. The plan was for their
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speed Well to sail with the Mayflower from England to
the New World. Everything was set, but many Separatists decided
to stay back in Leiden. The New World was just that.
New Virginia was rugged and on the edge of the
known world. Even with fears of war with Spain, Leiden
was a known factor. It was still stable for the
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time being, and these Separatists didn't live in a time
where one could travel to a far off land and
if things didn't work out they could just easily return.
The voyage brutal and it typically costs more than a
family's entire net worth, so they had to borrow. The
Separatists got their voyage funded with the express goal of
delivering profits from trade in the New World to their financers.
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They couldn't just come back if things went bad. The
second they started the voyage they were in debt, sometimes
for years.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
By leaving for.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
America, they were leaving Europe behind forever. Many decided to
stay in Leiden with Pastor Robinson with hopes of making
the voyage at a later date, but a small subset
of the Separatists were willing to take the risk, about
sixty in total, some bringing their entire families. The group
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planned on leaving in early sixteen twenty to reach Virginia
in the warm of summer, but they were delayed several
months due to conflict with their financers. Finally, in July
sixteen twenty, from a port in Holland, they boarded the
Speedway and set sail for England. A few weeks later
they met the Mayflower that carried its own sixty passengers.
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These were complete strangers to the Separatists. Some, like the Separatists,
were Protestants looking for religious freedom, some were indentured servants
and hoping for economic opportunity, but all were leaving the
old world forever with the hopes of a new start.
With the Separatists aboard the Speedwell, including William Brewster and
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William Bradford, the two ships set sail for America, but
soon after leaving port, the speedwell sprung a leak. Both
ships returned to shore. They tried patching it up, and
then both ships set sail again, but again the speedwell
began to leak. They returned to land, this time to
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the Plymouth, England port. William Bradford suspected the captain sabotage
the ship to get out of his contractual obligation of
staying with the colony for a year while still getting paid. Nevertheless,
after a thorough investigation of the ship, the Speedwell was
declared unseaworthy, so the separatists had to make a tough
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decision either completely abandoned the trip or as many as
possible board the Mayflower and continue. They chose the latter.
The problem was that the Mayflower was not large. The
one hundred foot merchant ship was a cargo vessel. It
was built to carry a small crew and things like wool,
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not passengers. Aside from those already aboard, The Mayflower only
had room for forty of the separatists. So from the
port of Plymouth, England, the forty boarded the Mayflower bound
for Virginia, including Brewster and Bradford. These separatists would come
to be known as the Pilgrims, and in September sixteen,
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twenty one hundred and two passengers and about thirty crew
members set sail for the New World. Their goal was
to land somewhere near the mouth of the Hudson River,
within the charter of the Virginia Company. But after two
months of storms, sickness, and confusion, the ship came aground
hundreds of miles off course.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Again William Federer.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
They get blown off course in a storm, and they
land in Massachusetts, and they try sailing south, almost sink,
and the captain says it's too dangerous to sail. Everybody
has to get off the boat right here.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
The land was.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Rocky, the air was bitter, and their charter no longer
applied because they weren't in Virginia.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
And the Pilgrimer's like, we have a question, who's going
to be in charge. We were going to go to Virginia,
submit to the king's goverment. You're telling us we don't
have a king appointed person in our group.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Where they landed in Cape Cod there was no government waiting,
no king's law, no colony, just trees, snow and natives.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
And so what they do something unique that we remember
them for forever.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Before they even stepped off the ship, they drafted and
signed a document, the Mayflower Compact, agreeing to form a
civil body politic that would create just and equal laws
for the good of the colony. Of course, the Dutch
Republic showed them the possibilities, but it was the Hebrew
Republic of the Old Testament that was always their guiding light.
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They took this chance opportunity to build a community of
people bound by covenant to live under God's law with
mutual accountability and collective leadership. The Mayflower Compact was the
first framework of democratic self government in the New World.
It was not just a legal document, It was a
spiritual statement, a covenant, much like the covenants made by
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the Israelites. With God in their eyes. They were not
just starting a settlement, They were building a godly commonwealth.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
The word compact means covenant. It says we any presence
of God, covenant ourselves together into a cl body politic
to make just and equal laws. It shall be thought
most meat or necessary unto which we promise I'll due submission. Simple, revolutionary.
It was a polarity change in the flow of power.
On its planet Earth set a top down rule by kings.
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It's bottom up rule by weight. Just the one hundred
and two of us in this little boat, we're going
to covenant ourselves together. And so they take their church
covenant government and they make it their civil government.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
After weeks of scouting the area, in December sixteen twenty,
the passengers of the Mayflower chose the site of a
former Native American village to set up camp. To honor
their origin and maintain a symbolic link to their voyage.
They named their new home after the port they set
sail from, Plymouth, England. The Plymouth Colony was born, and
the area would come to be known as New England.
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The winter was harsh. There was no proper shelter. Many
had to live aboard the cramped damp ship. They suffered
from scurvy, pneumonia, and malnutrition. Roughly half died. Entire families
were wiped out. About half the male heads of household fell.
William Brewster and his family survived. William Bradford lived as well,
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his wife did not. Only four adult women survived. They
buried the dead at night to conceal how many had perished.
From the local Indians which were constantly watching and vastly
outnumbered them. But after the winner, the Plymouth Colony slowly
stabilized and began to grow. In March sixteen twenty one,
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the Pilgrims made contact with local Indians who had learned
some English from traders and fishermen along the coast before
the Pilgrims arrived. They taught the Pilgrims how to grow
corn fish and use local resources. By the fall of
sixteen twenty one, after their first successful harvest, the Pilgrims
held a three day feast with about ninety guests from
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the Wampapanoag Indian tribe. The event would come to be
known as the First Thanksgiving. As the Plymouth colony stabilized.
Back in England, King James's successor his son, King Charles
the First continued the crown's persecution of Puritans. As word
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of the established colonies made its way back to England,
many wanted out. In sixteen thirty eleven, ships carrying as
many as one thousand Puritans left for New England, kicking
off what would become known as the Great Puritan Migration.
Over the next decade and estimated twenty thousand Puritans migrated
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to New England. They joined Plymouth and opened new colonies
in Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, expanding
the New England territory and leaving the Old world behind forever.
And when they arrived, many built their local governments on
the model of the Mayflower Compact. Again William Feederer.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Sixteen thirty is called the Great Pure Migration. Twenty thousand
Puritans leave England and flood into New England. And you
have a situation where you have churches founding cities. So Providence,
Rhode Island, was founded by the first Baptist church in America. Hartford,
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Connecticut was founded by the first Congregationalist church in America.
You know, Exeter, New Hampshire. I mean, all these different
towns are founded by churches, and so everybody's involved in church,
and everybody's involved in the city government because it's the
church founding the city. There's like no non church members
tagging along to be lazy and let them run stuff.
And so they had one building in town called a
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meeting house. That's where the pastor would teach the Bible,
and that's where they would do their city.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Business or English and Welsh or it into Virginia, the Carolinas,
and Georgia. In the early seventeen hundreds, Protestants of Scottish
descent who had settled in Northern Ireland began migrating to
the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and the Appalachian backcountry. Around the same time,
Protestant Germans, ravaged by war and religious persecution, began turning
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to the New World as well, creating settlements like the
Germanic Colony in Virginia, where my first ancestors arrived. Some
Germans also settled in New York and Pennsylvania. French Huguenots,
fleeing Catholic persecution in France, settled in South Carolina, New York, Virginia,
and Massachusetts. And Protestants weren't the only that populated the colonies.
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Irish Catholics and prisoners of war were forcibly brought to
the colonies, some arriving as indentured servants working for four
to seven years to pay off passage. Many were brought
to Maryland, others to Virginia. It may be surprising to
learn that their Catholic warship was often banned in the
colonies which had anti Catholic laws and a land created
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to avoid religious persecution. Some Christian faiths were freer than others.
Then there were, of course Africans that arrived to the colonies.
Some freed, but most enslaved. Those enslaved were brought forcibly
via the Transatlantic slave trade, primarily from West and Central Africa.
They lived in the southern colonies of Virginia, the Carolinas,
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and Georgia, but were also present in the north. By
the time of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence
in seventeen seventy six, the American colonies had people from England, Scotland, Germany,
the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Spain, and Africa, and
estimated two point five million people from ethnically and culturally
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diverse nations were in the colonies at the founding of
the United States of America. Some estimates put the number
of native born Americans as high as ninety two percent
at the time, and almost all free citizens of this
new United States left behind their countries of origin forever.
Like the founding fathers literally put their necks on the
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line when they broke ties with their ancestral country. A
novel concept was born, a self governing country was built
of people from many different nations. And this is where
you can see that a nation of this kind can
be threatened by a world where dual citizenship is widely
accepted and even celebrated. So why is dual citizenship so
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important to answering the question what's an American? We put
that question to Professor Stanley Renshawn.
Speaker 6 (47:02):
When people came the United States from other countries, they
really were leaving their old lives behind. When you came here,
you were pretty much saying goodbye to your old country,
and that put a nimpetus on you to really start
to get acquainted with your new country in a way
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that's not necessarily true. Now that's the impact of globalization.
When you used to come here, it was for keeps.
Now you come here, you want to fly back home
for a weekend, you can do that home meeting your
home country, and they will be reaching out to you
because one of the things that's happened is that countries
of origin of dual citizens recognize that there's a gold
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road here of influence. Yes, you know, we'd love to
have more influence with you. Let me tell you what
our perspective is, and let us hope that you can
carry that through in your circles and will be represented
by your views on that. Whereas for most Americans, the
idea is that eventually dual citizenship, if you have it,
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will fade over time, and that you will adopt and
become an American with all the things that that means.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
Today, people residing in the US often have closer ties
to the country of their ancestors than they do with America.
How did this happen? How did this hyphenated American concept
become so prevalent in the country. Well, that's what we'll
be tackling next.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
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