This book can serve as an important reference guide to political reporters, historians, students, elected and non-elected officials, political campaigners, game shows and trivia buffs while at the same time offer a historical profile of presidential first with fascinating tidbits and major events during the presidency of each president (first to forty-third) is in chronological order.

• The only vice president to serve two-full terms as President.[Jefferson]
• First sitting congressman to be elected president.[Garfield]
• First sitting senator to be elected president. [Harding]
• First president to die in office.[Harrison] • First/only bachelor president.[Buchanan]
• First president to have blacks in the White House.[Lincoln]
• First to have telephone installed the White House.[Hayes]
• First/only president to be married in the White House.[Cleveland]
• First to install electricity in the White House.[Ben Harrison]
• First to create a war room in the White House, with maps.[ McKinley]
• First president to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.[Teddy Roosevelt]
• First president to introduce income tax.[Wilson] • First/only president to be born on the Fourth of July.[Coolidge]
• The first/only president to be elected four times.[F. D. Roosevelt]
• The last president that was not a college graduate.[Truman]
• First president to travel in a nuclear-powered submarine.[Eisenhower]
• First/only Roman Catholic president.[Kennedy] • The first president to visit all fifty states.[Nixon]
• The longest living president.[Ford] (93 years and 165 days)
• The first president that was born in a hospital.[Carter]
• Who was the oldest president when inaugurated. [Reagan]
• First son of a president to be reelected.[G.W. Bush]
• The first and only African American president. [Obama]

This book can serve as an important reference guide to political reporters, historians, students, elected and non-elected officials, political campaigners, game shows and trivia buffs while at the same time offer a historical profile of presidential first with fascinating tidbits and major events during the presidency of each president (first to forty-third) is in chronological order.

• The only vice president to serve two-full terms as President.[Jefferson]
• First sitting congressman to be elected president.[Garfield]
• First sitting senator to be elected president. [Harding]
• First president to die in office.[Harrison] • First/only bachelor president.[Buchanan]
• First president to have blacks in the White House.[Lincoln]
• First to have telephone installed the White House.[Hayes]
• First/only president to be married in the White House.[Cleveland]
• First to install electricity in the White House.[Ben Harrison]
• First to create a war room in the White House, with maps.[ McKinley]
• First president to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.[Teddy Roosevelt]
• First president to introduce income tax.[Wilson] • First/only president to be born on the Fourth of July.[Coolidge]
• The first/only president to be elected four times.[F. D. Roosevelt]
• The last president that was not a college graduate.[Truman]
• First president to travel in a nuclear-powered submarine.[Eisenhower]
• First/only Roman Catholic president.[Kennedy] • The first president to visit all fifty states.[Nixon]
• The longest living president.[Ford] (93 years and 165 days)
• The first president that was born in a hospital.[Carter]
• Who was the oldest president when inaugurated. [Reagan]
• First son of a president to be reelected.[G.W. Bush]
• The first and only African American president. [Obama]

Far too many lives of America’s Veterans are dramatically affectedand altered by the unforgiving body of law makers and theirlegislative agenda’s.Too many of the people that make the laws of this land, have neverserved in its Armed Forces and the true patriots are faced with feelingsof betrayal and disbelief in our leaders.All soldiers, military veterans, and especially all Americans shouldscream clear, loud, and hard to every elected official and make theirvoices be heard. America cannot have its soldiers to go out and fightthese War’s without just, reasonable and sufficient recompense.

As an Army Officer who served with complete HONOR to protectAmerica. I took an oath to protect this nation against all enemiesforeign and domestic.
I, as all veterans who served won’t forget those who gave the ultimatesacrifice. I will not let this Nation forget or abandon them or abandonus. The Issues presented are not from one state or one person. Theyare issues before written as legislation. And I AM INTENT in discussingeven the smaller details of each issue. Some things take more timethan others.
My views can be very critical!

Far too many lives of America’s Veterans are dramatically affected and altered by the unforgiving body of law makers and theirlegislative agenda’s.Too many of the people that make the laws of this land, have never served in its Armed Forces and the true patriots are faced with feelingsof betrayal and disbelief in our leaders.All soldiers, military veterans, and especially all Americans should scream clear, loud, and hard to every elected official and make theirvoices be heard. America cannot have its soldiers to go out and fight these War’s without just, reasonable and sufficient recompense.As an Army Officer who served with complete HONOR to protect America. I took an oath to protect this nation against all enemiesforeign and domestic.I, as all veterans who served, won’t forget those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. I will not let this Nation forget or abandon them or abandon us. The Issues presented are not from one state or one person. They are issues before written as legislation. And I AM INTENT in discussingeven the smaller details of each issue. Some things take more time than others.My views can be very critical!

Far too many lives of America’s Veterans are dramatically affectedand altered by the unforgiving body of law makers and theirlegislative agenda’s.Too many of the people that make the laws of this land, have neverserved in its Armed Forces and the true patriots are faced with feelingsof betrayal and disbelief in our leaders.All soldiers, military veterans, and especially all Americans shouldscream clear, loud, and hard to every elected official and make theirvoices be heard. America cannot have its soldiers to go out and fightthese War’s without just, reasonable and sufficient recompense.

As an Army Officer who served with complete HONOR to protectAmerica. I took an oath to protect this nation against all enemiesforeign and domestic.
I, as all veterans who served won’t forget those who gave the ultimatesacrifice. I will not let this Nation forget or abandon them or abandonus. The Issues presented are not from one state or one person. Theyare issues before written as legislation. And I AM INTENT in discussingeven the smaller details of each issue. Some things take more timethan others.
My views can be very critical!

Far too many lives of America’s Veterans are dramatically affected and altered by the unforgiving body of law makers and theirlegislative agenda’s.Too many of the people that make the laws of this land, have never served in its Armed Forces and the true patriots are faced with feelingsof betrayal and disbelief in our leaders.All soldiers, military veterans, and especially all Americans should scream clear, loud, and hard to every elected official and make theirvoices be heard. America cannot have its soldiers to go out and fight these War’s without just, reasonable and sufficient recompense.As an Army Officer who served with complete HONOR to protect America. I took an oath to protect this nation against all enemiesforeign and domestic.I, as all veterans who served, won’t forget those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. I will not let this Nation forget or abandon them or abandon us. The Issues presented are not from one state or one person. They are issues before written as legislation. And I AM INTENT in discussingeven the smaller details of each issue. Some things take more time than others.My views can be very critical!

This book, The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility – Volume One begins to unravel some of the most obvious, perplexing, embarrassing and enduring problems and contradictions of American history and sociology, viz., – how could the American revolution that started with the most ringing and most inspiring Declarations of human equality in world history end up establishing the most vicious, exploitative society the world ever knew – Black chattel slavery and only ten percent “white” enfranchisement, etc. Further, how could men of such great wisdom and intellect like George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and others who were Enlightenment scholars and clearly knew that slavery was despicable and evil, because they had variously experienced white servitude and slavery themselves, collude to establish and institutionalize the horrible system of Negro chattel slavery in America; and also disenfranchised over 90 percent of people of their own race – actions that racism could not explain. The structural/institutional slavery system they established, and the resultant consequent racism hobbles America today as it did in the past, and forced Eric Holder, the Attorney General to declare that, “America is a nation of cowards, when it comes to race discussions.” Thus, this book starts with serious critical discussions of race in America and reveals what no textbook has ever done, viz., – that most early American “whites” and Blacks were slaves – an uncomfortable fact that would shock most Americans because it contradicts the orthodoxy or the “dominant narrative” that only Blacks were brought here in chains. Further, the book also shows the year Black slavery started – something almost, all textbooks got wrong. It also shows who, was the fi rst Black slave in America – something no textbook ever mentions. It also shows when and how racism started in America and many other very sensitive and embarrassing but necessary issues that America avoids but must be frankly discussed for America to move forward. This book therefore shatters the two dominant themes of America’s history and sociology that Blacks were brought into America in chains as slaves while whites came to America in search of freedom, as Obama famously told us in his race speech. Thus, the crowning lesson of this book, in addition to discussing some critical policy issues like education, health care, etc., is that it discovers the centripetal force of the American society that eluded contemporary Americans because American bosses have laboriously concealed the facts from the public – the scary but clearly healthy uniting fact that most Americans are united by their common ancestry, their universal history and experience of servitude, bond-indentures and slavery. Nothing is more universal, more common and more shared in American history and sociology than the fact that most of our ancestors, black and white, were servants, bond-indentures and slaves who were dominated and super-exploited by few overlords. Colonial America was the preferred dumping ground for British, outcasts, rejects, criminals, masterless class, vagabonds, bond-indentures, slaves, etc., until 1776 when Australia replaced America as the British dump for its rejects and surplus citizens. Thus, that America was a nation founded by British rejects and losers is inherently more rational than the prevailing orthodoxy or the Obama theory of America’s founders that they were great honorable men “who journeyed across the ocean” for freedom because of the obvious reason that good, powerful achieving citizens do not normally emigrate to new uncharted lands.

This book, The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility – Volume One begins to unravel some of the most obvious, perplexing, embarrassing and enduring problems and contradictions of American history and sociology, viz., – how could the American revolution that started with the most ringing and most inspiring Declarations of human equality in world history end up establishing the most vicious, exploitative society the world ever knew – Black chattel slavery and only ten percent “white” enfranchisement, etc. Further, how could men of such great wisdom and intellect like George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and others who were Enlightenment scholars and clearly knew that slavery was despicable and evil, because they had variously experienced white servitude and slavery themselves, collude to establish and institutionalize the horrible system of Negro chattel slavery in America; and also disenfranchised over 90 percent of people of their own race – actions that racism could not explain. The structural/institutional slavery system they established, and the resultant consequent racism hobbles America today as it did in the past, and forced Eric Holder, the Attorney General to declare that, “America is a nation of cowards, when it comes to race discussions.” Thus, this book starts with serious critical discussions of race in America and reveals what no textbook has ever done, viz., – that most early American “whites” and Blacks were slaves – an uncomfortable fact that would shock most Americans because it contradicts the orthodoxy or the “dominant narrative” that only Blacks were brought here in chains. Further, the book also shows the year Black slavery started – something almost, all textbooks got wrong. It also shows who, was the fi rst Black slave in America – something no textbook ever mentions. It also shows when and how racism started in America and many other very sensitive and embarrassing but necessary issues that America avoids but must be frankly discussed for America to move forward. This book therefore shatters the two dominant themes of America’s history and sociology that Blacks were brought into America in chains as slaves while whites came to America in search of freedom, as Harvard educated President Obama famously told us in his race speech. Thus, the crowning lesson of this book, in addition to discussing some critical policy issues like education, health care, etc., is that it discovers the centripetal force of the American society that eluded contemporary Americans because American bosses have laboriously concealed the facts from the public – the scary but clearly healthy uniting fact that most Americans are united by their common ancestry, their universal history and experience of servitude, bond-indentures and slavery. Nothing is more universal, more common and more shared in American history and sociology than the fact that most of our ancestors, black and white, were servants, bond-indentures and slaves who were dominated and super-exploited by few overlords. Colonial America was the preferred dumping ground for British, outcasts, rejects, criminals, masterless class, vagabonds, bond-indentures, slaves, etc., until 1776 when Australia replaced America as the British dump for its rejects and surplus citizens. Thus, that America was a nation founded by British rejects and losers is inherently more rational than the prevailing orthodoxy or the Obama theory of America’s founders that they were great honorable men “who journeyed across the ocean” for freedom because of the obvious reason that good, powerful achieving citizens do not normally emigrate to new uncharted lands.

This book, The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility – Volume One begins to unravel some of the most obvious, perplexing, embarrassing and enduring problems and contradictions of American history and sociology, viz., – how could the American revolution that started with the most ringing and most inspiring Declarations of human equality in world history end up establishing the most vicious, exploitative society the world ever knew – Black chattel slavery and only ten percent “white” enfranchisement, etc. Further, how could men of such great wisdom and intellect like George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and others who were Enlightenment scholars and clearly knew that slavery was despicable and evil, because they had variously experienced white servitude and slavery themselves, collude to establish and institutionalize the horrible system of Negro chattel slavery in America; and also disenfranchised over 90 percent of people of their own race – actions that racism could not explain. The structural/institutional slavery system they established, and the resultant consequent racism hobbles America today as it did in the past, and forced Eric Holder, the Attorney General to declare that, “America is a nation of cowards, when it comes to race discussions.” Thus, this book starts with serious critical discussions of race in America and reveals what no textbook has ever done, viz., – that most early American “whites” and Blacks were slaves – an uncomfortable fact that would shock most Americans because it contradicts the orthodoxy or the “dominant narrative” that only Blacks were brought here in chains. Further, the book also shows the year Black slavery started – something almost, all textbooks got wrong. It also shows who, was the fi rst Black slave in America – something no textbook ever mentions. It also shows when and how racism started in America and many other very sensitive and embarrassing but necessary issues that America avoids but must be frankly discussed for America to move forward. This book therefore shatters the two dominant themes of America’s history and sociology that Blacks were brought into America in chains as slaves while whites came to America in search of freedom, as Obama famously told us in his race speech. Thus, the crowning lesson of this book, in addition to discussing some critical policy issues like education, health care, etc., is that it discovers the centripetal force of the American society that eluded contemporary Americans because American bosses have laboriously concealed the facts from the public – the scary but clearly healthy uniting fact that most Americans are united by their common ancestry, their universal history and experience of servitude, bond-indentures and slavery. Nothing is more universal, more common and more shared in American history and sociology than the fact that most of our ancestors, black and white, were servants, bond-indentures and slaves who were dominated and super-exploited by few overlords. Colonial America was the preferred dumping ground for British, outcasts, rejects, criminals, masterless class, vagabonds, bond-indentures, slaves, etc., until 1776 when Australia replaced America as the British dump for its rejects and surplus citizens. Thus, that America was a nation founded by British rejects and losers is inherently more rational than the prevailing orthodoxy or the Obama theory of America’s founders that they were great honorable men “who journeyed across the ocean” for freedom because of the obvious reason that good, powerful achieving citizens do not normally emigrate to new uncharted lands.

This book, The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility – Volume One begins to unravel some of the most obvious, perplexing, embarrassing and enduring problems and contradictions of American history and sociology, viz., – how could the American revolution that started with the most ringing and most inspiring Declarations of human equality in world history end up establishing the most vicious, exploitative society the world ever knew – Black chattel slavery and only ten percent “white” enfranchisement, etc. Further, how could men of such great wisdom and intellect like George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and others who were Enlightenment scholars and clearly knew that slavery was despicable and evil, because they had variously experienced white servitude and slavery themselves, collude to establish and institutionalize the horrible system of Negro chattel slavery in America; and also disenfranchised over 90 percent of people of their own race – actions that racism could not explain. The structural/institutional slavery system they established, and the resultant consequent racism hobbles America today as it did in the past, and forced Eric Holder, the Attorney General to declare that, “America is a nation of cowards, when it comes to race discussions.” Thus, this book starts with serious critical discussions of race in America and reveals what no textbook has ever done, viz., – that most early American “whites” and Blacks were slaves – an uncomfortable fact that would shock most Americans because it contradicts the orthodoxy or the “dominant narrative” that only Blacks were brought here in chains. Further, the book also shows the year Black slavery started – something almost, all textbooks got wrong. It also shows who, was the fi rst Black slave in America – something no textbook ever mentions. It also shows when and how racism started in America and many other very sensitive and embarrassing but necessary issues that America avoids but must be frankly discussed for America to move forward. This book therefore shatters the two dominant themes of America’s history and sociology that Blacks were brought into America in chains as slaves while whites came to America in search of freedom, as Harvard educated President Obama famously told us in his race speech. Thus, the crowning lesson of this book, in addition to discussing some critical policy issues like education, health care, etc., is that it discovers the centripetal force of the American society that eluded contemporary Americans because American bosses have laboriously concealed the facts from the public – the scary but clearly healthy uniting fact that most Americans are united by their common ancestry, their universal history and experience of servitude, bond-indentures and slavery. Nothing is more universal, more common and more shared in American history and sociology than the fact that most of our ancestors, black and white, were servants, bond-indentures and slaves who were dominated and super-exploited by few overlords. Colonial America was the preferred dumping ground for British, outcasts, rejects, criminals, masterless class, vagabonds, bond-indentures, slaves, etc., until 1776 when Australia replaced America as the British dump for its rejects and surplus citizens. Thus, that America was a nation founded by British rejects and losers is inherently more rational than the prevailing orthodoxy or the Obama theory of America’s founders that they were great honorable men “who journeyed across the ocean” for freedom because of the obvious reason that good, powerful achieving citizens do not normally emigrate to new uncharted lands.

This book is directed towards all law-abiding people of the western world, particularly teachers and students. It shares the horrific experiences of its author who has been forced to deal with U.S. government investigative and intelligence entities as they perpetrated an amalgamation of ruses in an attempt to harm him, personally, for initiation of EEO complaints and for the filing of a civil suit exposing the perpetrators as is his constitutional right.

The civil suit went all the way to the Supreme Court by “Writ of Certiorari, see EEOC: The Real Deal—Case No. 00-1437. CA-99-1400-A. And ruses initiated by government perpetrator are appropriately qualified in this book as being the end result of “dolt logic” and “mental masturbators” pursuing old south habits from the yesteryears. The activity in this regard is defined in its salacious detail in this book so as to better expose the “bottom line” of how ruses are initiated and who is engaged to assist the perpetrators in their propagation.

The book also shares a chilling event involving “Hit Men” in addition to ruses that caused innocent unwitting third parties to view the author in the most negative light that a ruse concoction can muster—in the government’s attempt to get this black guy. The story also covers actions that law-abiding innocents can undertake to expose those propagating ruses and how to arrange their activities so as to best mitigate government attempts to entrap you in a ruse of no merit in: Air Ports; Class Rooms; Restaurants; Parking lots; Elevators; Officer Clubs etc. The proper response to government ruse perpetrators operating under a false color of authority is: “KMA” [Kiss the part of my anatomy where no sun can shine, the polite response]

In that the author is an unwitting victim of the perfidy of government in this regard, he takes on the biblical persona of “David” to represent the people’s interest in a people’s battle against the “Goliath” of Government who ignore the protections promised by the fourth and fourteenth amendments in order to achieve their hidden agendas of no lawful merit thus no constitutional authority. All “law-abiding” citizens have an interest in this battle if they want to ensure the protections of their constitutional and civil rights are not abridged by unwarranted acts of government against unwitting innocent citizens.

This book is directed towards all law-abiding people of the western world, particularly teachers and students. It shares the horrific experiences of its author who has been forced to deal with U.S. government investigative and intelligence entities as they perpetrated an amalgamation of ruses in an attempt to harm him, personally, for initiation of EEO complaints and for the filing of a civil suit exposing the perpetrators as is his constitutional right.

The civil suit went all the way to the Supreme Court by “Writ of Certiorari, see EEOC: The Real Deal—Case No. 00-1437. CA-99-1400-A. And ruses initiated by government perpetrator are appropriately qualified in this book as being the end result of “dolt logic” and “mental masturbators” pursuing old south habits from the yesteryears. The activity in this regard is defined in its salacious detail in this book so as to better expose the “bottom line” of how ruses are initiated and who is engaged to assist the perpetrators in their propagation.

The book also shares a chilling event involving “Hit Men” in addition to ruses that caused innocent unwitting third parties to view the author in the most negative light that a ruse concoction can muster—in the government’s attempt to get this black guy. The story also covers actions that law-abiding innocents can undertake to expose those propagating ruses and how to arrange their activities so as to best mitigate government attempts to entrap you in a ruse of no merit in: Air Ports; Class Rooms; Restaurants; Parking lots; Elevators; Officer Clubs etc. The proper response to government ruse perpetrators operating under a false color of authority is: “KMA” [Kiss the part of my anatomy where no sun can shine, the polite response]

In that the author is an unwitting victim of the perfidy of government in this regard, he takes on the biblical persona of “David” to represent the people’s interest in a people’s battle against the “Goliath” of Government who ignore the protections promised by the fourth and fourteenth amendments in order to achieve their hidden agendas of no lawful merit thus no constitutional authority. All “law-abiding” citizens have an interest in this battle if they want to ensure the protections of their constitutional and civil rights are not abridged by unwarranted acts of government against unwitting innocent citizens.

This book is directed towards all law-abiding people of the western world, particularly teachers and students. It shares the horrific experiences of its author who has been forced to deal with U.S. government investigative and intelligence entities as they perpetrated an amalgamation of ruses in an attempt to harm him, personally, for initiation of EEO complaints and for the filing of a civil suit exposing the perpetrators as is his constitutional right.

The civil suit went all the way to the Supreme Court by “Writ of Certiorari, see EEOC: The Real Deal—Case No. 00-1437. CA-99-1400-A. And ruses initiated by government perpetrator are appropriately qualified in this book as being the end result of “dolt logic” and “mental masturbators” pursuing old south habits from the yesteryears. The activity in this regard is defined in its salacious detail in this book so as to better expose the “bottom line” of how ruses are initiated and who is engaged to assist the perpetrators in their propagation.

The book also shares a chilling event involving “Hit Men” in addition to ruses that caused innocent unwitting third parties to view the author in the most negative light that a ruse concoction can muster—in the government’s attempt to get this black guy. The story also covers actions that law-abiding innocents can undertake to expose those propagating ruses and how to arrange their activities so as to best mitigate government attempts to entrap you in a ruse of no merit in: Air Ports; Class Rooms; Restaurants; Parking lots; Elevators; Officer Clubs etc. The proper response to government ruse perpetrators operating under a false color of authority is: “KMA” [Kiss the part of my anatomy where no sun can shine, the polite response]

In that the author is an unwitting victim of the perfidy of government in this regard, he takes on the biblical persona of “David” to represent the people’s interest in a people’s battle against the “Goliath” of Government who ignore the protections promised by the fourth and fourteenth amendments in order to achieve their hidden agendas of no lawful merit thus no constitutional authority. All “law-abiding” citizens have an interest in this battle if they want to ensure the protections of their constitutional and civil rights are not abridged by unwarranted acts of government against unwitting innocent citizens.

Not unlike other states, Vermont’s quality of life, political independence, and sustainability are threatened by Corporate America, the U.S. government, the war on terrorism, homeland security, American imperialism, and globalization. This is a call for Vermont to reclaim its soul – to return to its rightful status as an independent republic as it once was between 1777 and 1791. In so doing, Vermont can provide a kinder, gentler, more communitarian metaphor for a nation obsessed with money, power, size, speed, greed, and fear of terrorism. Long live the Second Republic of Vermont.

Reviews

“Vermont Manifesto is a serious examination of our God given right of self governance and that right’s implication for secession. Dr. Naylor has made a persuasive case of the identical response to today’s “train of abuses” that lead the Founders to secede from King George’s tyranny.”
--Walter E. Williams John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University

“In 1991 the Soviet Union was peacefully dissolved by the secession of 15 states. It had become simply too large and centralized. So has the American Union. Thoughtful people from every side of the political spectrum are beginning to realize that the only check to the tyranny, insecurity, and spirit numbing mass culture that continued centralization would bring is to seriously consider breaking the American empire up into alternative unions and/or smaller polities. Professor Naylor is part of this debate, and has made a compelling case that little Vermont would be better off out of the Union than in it.”
--Donald W. Livingston Professor of Philosophy, Emory University

“I must assure you of my pleasure in, and approval of, your views on the Second Vermont Republic. The assertion by Vermonters of a sensible foreign policy is wonderfully to the good. You have my agreement and my admiration.”

--John Kenneth Galbraith Retired Harvard Economist

“In the idea of the three American states’ ultimate independence, whether separately or in union, I see nothing fanciful, and nothing towards the realization of which the efforts of enlightened people might not be usefully directed. It is, to my mind, neither fanciful nor unjustified for us to hold in mind at this time the whole problem of the future development of the relationship with the northern parts of this country and their immediate Canadian neighbors.”

--George F. Kennan Former Ambassador to Russia and Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

“Thomas Naylor makes a powerful case for an independent Vermont. I think folks may soon be ready to consider the kind of wise and humane radicalism he recommends.”

--Bill Kauffman Author of Dispatches from The Muckdog Gazette

“There are very few radical thinkers. Thomas Naylor is one of the most courageous of these. Distinguished, deeply moral, genius wild man.”

--Carolyn Chute Author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Merry Men and Snow Man

“Tom Naylor makes a serious case for an independent Vermont, a Second Vermont Republic that could immediately enter the world of nations and thereby begin the peaceful, democratic, and indeed moral process of disuniting the United States.”

--Frank Bryan University of Vermont Professor and Author of Real Democracy

“From the standpoint of puppeteers and their subversive papiermâché, the Vermont Second Republic sounds like a very good idea to fight the megalomania of the globalizers.”

--Peter Schumann Founder, Bread & Puppet Theater

Not unlike other states, Vermont’s quality of life, political independence, and sustainability are threatened by Corporate America, the U.S. government, the war on terrorism, homeland security, American imperialism, and globalization. This is a call for Vermont to reclaim its soul – to return to its rightful status as an independent republic as it once was between 1777 and 1791. In so doing, Vermont can provide a kinder, gentler, more communitarian metaphor for a nation obsessed with money, power, size, speed, greed, and fear of terrorism. Long live the Second Republic of Vermont.

Reviews

“Vermont Manifesto is a serious examination of our God given right of self governance and that right’s implication for secession. Dr. Naylor has made a persuasive case of the identical response to today’s “train of abuses” that lead the Founders to secede from King George’s tyranny.”
--Walter E. Williams John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University

“In 1991 the Soviet Union was peacefully dissolved by the secession of 15 states. It had become simply too large and centralized. So has the American Union. Thoughtful people from every side of the political spectrum are beginning to realize that the only check to the tyranny, insecurity, and spirit numbing mass culture that continued centralization would bring is to seriously consider breaking the American empire up into alternative unions and/or smaller polities. Professor Naylor is part of this debate, and has made a compelling case that little Vermont would be better off out of the Union than in it.”
--Donald W. Livingston Professor of Philosophy, Emory University

“I must assure you of my pleasure in, and approval of, your views on the Second Vermont Republic. The assertion by Vermonters of a sensible foreign policy is wonderfully to the good. You have my agreement and my admiration.”

--John Kenneth Galbraith Retired Harvard Economist

“In the idea of the three American states’ ultimate independence, whether separately or in union, I see nothing fanciful, and nothing towards the realization of which the efforts of enlightened people might not be usefully directed. It is, to my mind, neither fanciful nor unjustified for us to hold in mind at this time the whole problem of the future development of the relationship with the northern parts of this country and their immediate Canadian neighbors.”

--George F. Kennan Former Ambassador to Russia and Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

“Thomas Naylor makes a powerful case for an independent Vermont. I think folks may soon be ready to consider the kind of wise and humane radicalism he recommends.”

--Bill Kauffman Author of Dispatches from The Muckdog Gazette

“There are very few radical thinkers. Thomas Naylor is one of the most courageous of these. Distinguished, deeply moral, genius wild man.”

--Carolyn Chute Author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Merry Men and Snow Man

“Tom Naylor makes a serious case for an independent Vermont, a Second Vermont Republic that could immediately enter the world of nations and thereby begin the peaceful, democratic, and indeed moral process of disuniting the United States.”

--Frank Bryan University of Vermont Professor and Author of Real Democracy

“From the standpoint of puppeteers and their subversive papiermâché, the Vermont Second Republic sounds like a very good idea to fight the megalomania of the globalizers.”

--Peter Schumann Founder, Bread & Puppet Theater