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== Notes ==

* Retaliation against the imperial core in Venice
* League of Cambrai sought to rid Europe of 
* 1582 New Party - Young Venice led by [[Paolo Sarpi]] 
* Sarpi moved the center of Empire to Amsterdam, which would become the "Venice of the North" 
* Founded the Venice Company in London 
* Venice consolidated power in London via agents in James The First's Cabinet, such as Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon, and [[Robert Cecil]] (Secretary of State) in 1603. 
* Humanist Republicans who opposed empire in England were being politically repressed, so they fled to the Netherlands
* "An Admonition to Parliament" and "The People's Plea" were among the works this group published and secretly smuggled into England 
* "On Faith, Hope, and Love: Reason and Sense" pamphlet 
* [[John Robinson]] quote 
* Renaissance humanism versus Sarpi's "liberalism of slavery and usury" 
* King James retaliation against these renaissance defenders, he got the Dutch government to ban all unlicensed publishers 
* John Robinson's fellow partners in publishing were [[William Brewster]] and [[Thomas Brewer]]
* The hidden press was finally discovered and seized by authorities 
* William Brewster fled England on the [[Mayflower]]
* Formation of a body politic in true Republican fashion 
* Venice ignited religious strife in Europe 
* Years later, inspired by these thinkers, Benjamin Franklin who sought to build the first true Republic in direct contrast to the European empires

The video does not continue further, but more is said by the LaRouche people about how America's Republic has been slowly turned into an Empire from within, for which the LaRouche people typically blame the British; the City of London, etc.