Commercial Providence by Mendis Patrick;

Author:Mendis, Patrick;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UPA
Published: 2010-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

A Commercial Empire

In a global community of sovereign nations, America’s Manifest Destiny derives not from acquiring more lands, but by expanding and promoting trade as dictated in the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. The arcane images intentionally carved on stones and sculpturally embedded in these landmarks are purpose-driven esoteric ornaments in the commerce-like cathedral of sanctified Constitution Avenue. Borrowing language from the first president, Victorian novelist Charles Dickens wrote an epithet of “intentions” for George Washington’s “distances” in the Federal City that proved truly prophetic. With America’s exceptionalism, the nation has always endeavored to build “a territorial and commercial empire”48 for the United States; however, that exceptionalism radiates from Providence to build an Empire of Commerce—not necessarily an expansion of territory as understood in a traditional Manifest Destiny view.

Toward this end, Constitution Avenue is more symbolically expressive than the literal language of the U.S. Constitution. The distinguished British visitor further acknowledged that the planners of the city—Washington, L’Enfant, Ellicott, and Banneker—aimed for “greatness,” like that of the Roman Empire.49 That greatness started from trade with other nations. America’s Roman Empire then presents a direct mirror image of Jefferson’s Empire of Liberty through a blueprint of the Hamiltonian playbook for Jeffersonian ends.

In addition to the celebrated Constitution Avenue, the actual mechanism to implement the Jeffersonian “vision” and the Hamiltonian “mission” is subtly entrenched in the Federal Triangle. The Founding Fathers believed that a mantle of celestial protection for the commercial republic to achieve its permanent peace was fixed within the hovering Virgo constellation, which is locked in the triangulated sky by the stars Arcturus, Regulus, and Spica. The earthly replica of this celestial triangle is the seat of mystical power that intends for an invisible commercial empire to succeed globally as God’s crucible nation. The absence of obvious Hamiltonian symbolism in the nation’s capital stands in direct contrast to the omnipresence of the Founding Father’s influence on our day-to-day lives, resonating relentlessly beneath the radars of Jefferson’s inspiring idealism.

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