When did America Change to a Democracy?
by Pastor Don Elmore
September 4, 2022
The following is a paragraph from my first sermon for the upcoming conference:
“After the war between the two nations, the Union versus the Confederate States of America (1861-1865), the United States was in so much debt that it became bankrupt and as a result became a corporation in 1871. `It is well settled that the ‘UNITED STATES’ has been a corporation, since it was:
- Incorporated on February 21, 1871 under the name “District of Columbia.”
- Reorganized June 11, 1878 as a bankrupt organization, and on
- June 5, 1933, as a de facto government; originally the ten square mile tract ceded by Maryland and Virginia and comprising Washington District of Columbia, plus the possessions, territories, forts, and arsenals.