The American Experiment What Your History Teacher Didn’t Tell You SAL MAYWEATHER Copyright Is Violence © 2022 Sal Mayweather No rights reserved. ISBN: 9798359274838 DEDICATION To the Abbeville Institute, for telling the truth. “We have been regarded as engaged in trying a great experiment, involving not merely the future fate and welfare of this Western continent, but the hopes and prospects of the whole human race. Is it possible for a Government to be permanently maintained without privileged classes, without a standing army, and without either hereditary or self-appointed rulers? Is the democratic principle of equal rights, general suffrage, and government by a majority capable of being carried into practical operation, and that, too, over a large extent of the country?” -NY Daily Tribune November 27, 1860 CONTENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART I: ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY Rethinking Solon Pericles & The Age of Empire Democracy’s Undoing PART II: ROMAN REPUBLICANISM Cicero, Rome & Republicanism Sulla: Rome’s First Dictator The First Triumvirate & The Rise of Caesar Other Republics PART III: THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT Liberty By Design Alexander Hamilton: The Germ of Statism Abraham Lincoln: American Sulla The Progressive Era & The Rise of The Cabal The World At War The Bush-Obama Police-Surveillance State PART IV: CONCLUSION How Government Grows Other Lessons What Can Be Done RECOMMENDED RESOURCES