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Christianity is the answer to your question
The battle was lost in late August 1776.
Gatekeeping is increasing more and more. The idea of gatekeeping is that the gatekeeper is the person who disseminates the news towards people, such as news agencies or paper companies or similar things. Since you have companies owning more and more news agencies at the same time, they basically can control what all the different news services will say, which means that anything that would not be considered to be valid news would be prevented from reaching people.
This case cemented the power of the Federal Government by stating that it had the authority to create National Banks and furthermore it denied the right of the states to tax a federal business. This ability allowed for the Federal Government to create additional agencies in the states that could not be directly taxed by the states themselves.