would be. By removing the Thirteen Colonies from the existing trust infrastructure, and creating a new trust infrastructure, the relationship between the two trust infrastructures resolved to interactions within the physical environment where both existed. The only constraining trust that encompassed the two was the trust that derives from causality based on the understanding and application of physical laws. The consequences of policy within this trust infrastructure are potentially mortal interactions in which the fitter adversary prevails.

Bear in mind at this point that our goal is to establish a consistent model through which to understand the interactions among and within social structures. In dealing with the most profound aspects of such interactions, it might well go without saying that when push comes to shove, the interaction resolves to pure, physical conflict. Physical aggression and conflict is pretty much the natural environment within which organic species evolved. The purpose of social structures is to alter this natural environment in favor of social interactions that are ultimately beneficial to the group, not just the individual. Consider in the case of the emergence of the Thirteen Colonies, while both sides of the conflict would profess to be nations and military establishments of gentlemen, each possessing codes of civil conduct, once the interaction between entities reverted to pure physical conflict then the resulting war was conducted, as wars generally are, in an extreme fashion. In an absolute sense, one would be hard put to portray the fledgling colonies on a par militarily with the British Empire. However, when the specific environment was defined in which the conflict would play out, the new proved superior, or at least more resilient than the old within this environment. As we will consider in the next chapter, when one seeks to gauge the survival of the fittest it is necessary to determine the fittest on a case-by-case basis.

The pronouncement of the Declaration of Independence began a period of warfare and uncertainty that lasted a full 15 years before some semblance of stable trust and policy infrastructures were established within the former colonies through the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. In fact, the first significant policy infrastructure that was developed following the war, the Articles of Confederation, proved insufficient to bind the Thirteen Colonies into a viable social structure. It was not until the formulation of the trust infrastructure of the Constitution that stable seminal policy infrastructures were derived. From the Constitution, springs the trust infrastructure from which popular adherence to the policy infrastructure that it creates is established; a trust infrastructure that emanates, as the Declaration of Independence said it must, with government drawing its authority from the consent of the governed. This culmination in the Constitution represented more than a mere schism. It was a social mutation of the first order.

In the resulting United States, a central tenet of government is the separation of church and state. While this separation ostensibly guarantees the freedom of both church and state from the interference of the other, the Constitution establishes a hierarchy of policy control which guarantees the superiority of state over church. The very definition of church is the purview of the state. As Chief Justice Marshal noted in the Supreme Court opinion in the case of McCullock v. Maryland:

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