Nature of the American System

by R. J. Rushdoony,
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FORMAT: Paperback and Books

SIZE: 210 pages

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CONTAINS: Paperback book

LANGUAGE: English

TOPICS: American History, Government, Justice, Liberty, Statism, The Constitution,

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PUBLISHER: Chalcedon/Ross House Books

Behind the writing of history is a philosophy of history, and behind that philosophy of history are certain pre-theoretical and essentially religious presuppositions. There is no such thing as brute factuality, but rather only interpreted factuality. The historian's report is always the report of a perspective, a context, a framework; man is not, like God, beyond time and circumstance, condition and place. Man is neither a prime mover nor a prime viewer, but, to deny to man the status of a first cause and a first view is by no means to deny the validity or function of secondary causes and secondary viewers.

The writing of history is always in terms of a framework, a philosophical and ultimately religious conceptual structure in the mind of the historian. To the orthodox Christian, the shabby incarnations of the reigning historiographies are both absurd and offensive. They are idols, and he is forbidden to bow down to them and must indeed wage war against them. A Christian historiography and a Christian revisionism are thus for him moral imperatives.

For Christian revisionism, there is thus an incarnation that stands as the central point in history, Jesus Christ, and, this incarnation was without confusion of the eternal and the temporal, the divine and the human. This requires a denial of any coming, continuing, or possible incarnation in any historical order or institution. The divinization of church, state, school, or any other institution, or its absorption into the incarnation, is thus a sign of paganism.

These essays are studies in Christian revisionism. There purpose is to call attention those aspects of American history currently neglected.

Originally published in 1965, these essays were a continuation of the author's previous work, This Independent Republic.

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