Emancipatio

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"EMANCIPATIO was an act by which the patria potestas was dissolved in the lifetime of the parent, and it was so called because it was in the form of a sale (mancipatio). By the Twelve Tables it was necessary that a son should be sold three times in order to be released from the paternal power, or to be sui juris. In the case of daughters and grandchildren, one sale was sufficient." Article by George Long, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College on pp455‑456 of William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.:

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"The patria potestas could not be dissolved immediately by manumissio, because the patria potestas must be viewed as an imperium, and not as a right of property like the power of a master over his slave. Now it was a fundamental principle that the patria potestas was extinguished by exercising once or thrice (as the case might be) the right which the pater familias possessed of selling or rather pledging his child. Conformably to this fundamental principle, the release of a child from the patria potestas was clothed with the form of a mancipatio, effected once or three times. The patria potestas was indeed dissolved, though the child was not yet free, but came into the condition of a nexus. Consequently a manumissio was necessarily connected with the mancipatio, in order that the proper object of the emancipatio might be attained. This manumissio must take place once or thrice, according to circumstances. In the case when the manumissio was not followed by a return into the patria potestas, the manumissio was attended with important consequences to the manumissor, which consequences ought to apply to the emancipating party. Accordingly, it was necessary to provide that the decisive manumission should be made by the emancipating party; and for that reason a remancipatio, which preceded the final manumissio, was a part of the form of emancipatio." (Unterholzner, Zeitschrift, vol. II p139; Von den formen der Manumissio per Vindictam und der Emancipatio).

“All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” - John Adams, 1820. See Real money, Federal Reserve, Capitalism


Two separate portions of a quote by Woodrow Wilson appear in The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People," published in 1913.[1]
"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom." page 185
"We are at the parting of the ways. We have, not one or two or three, but many, established and formidable monopolies in the United States. We have, not one or two, but many, fields of endeavor into which it is difficult, if not impossible, for the independent man to enter. We have restricted credit, we have restricted opportunity, we have controlled development, and we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world -- no longer a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men." page 201[2]

The timing of this quote from a social democrat and real white supremist and Marxist, advised by the Marxist Edward Mandell House who hated the constitution and capitalism leads to the question "Emancipation of what from whom?"

“All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” - John Adams, 1820. See Real money, Federal Reserve, Capitalism
  1. "The New Freedom" is a distillation of campaign speeches Wilson made while running for President in 1911.
  2. The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People," published in 1913 a distillation of campaign speeches by Woodrow Wilson made in 1911.