The Fourth Turning is a time when changes occur, when issues are resolved and societal structures reorganized. What reorganizations might possibly happen to the United States government in our current Crisis period?

 

Some thoughts on public goods in the United States

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/04/public-goods-are-an-american-value-but-our-stock-is-declining/523899/?utm_source=SFFB

 

The John Locke entry on Wikipedia specifies that while he had made his consent of the governed concept known by the Glorious Revolution, nobody took it seriously at that time…but a century later, it was included in the Declaration of Independence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke#Ideas

 

Is it England or Great Britain, particularly between 1649 and 1792?

 

The Acts of Union in 1707 created the United Kingdom. Before that there were separate kingdoms of England and Scotland, even though they shared the same monarch (the Union of Crowns) starting with James I in 1603, which itself was due to the marriage in 1502 of James IV of Scotland to Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII.

 

BUT James I created the Union Jack, combining the crosses of St. Andrew and St. George in a flag that is still used today by the UK. Evidently it wasn’t in common use until the Interregnum, which is to say that in 1688 there was a shared monarch, using a common flag, but still not actually the same country.

 

(Makes me wonder if that might have affected the view of the colonists on the feasibility of creating a single nation from many states.)

 

James I styled himself (in the official meaning of the term) as King of Great Britain i.e. the entire island comprising England, Scotland, and Wales. James II, though, was evidently king of “England and Ireland” and separately James of Scotland

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/act-of-union-1707/overview/union-of-the-crowns/

 

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