HomeThe War of Independence
The usual propaganda says that the War of Independence was over taxation without representation but nothing could be further from the truth.
The true reasons for the War of Independence can be found in the Declaration of Resolves of the First Contenental Congress (1774), the Declaration for the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775) and the Declaration of Independence (1776). In fact, the reason for the War of Independence is the same reason that the Welsh Barons rose up in rebellion against King John and stuck a sword to this throat and forced him to sign the Magna Carta (1215).
"The Magna Carta is not a unilateral act emanating solely from the spontaneous will of the King, as the charters of the predecessors of John; neither is it a treaty for we cannot say it was concluded between two legimate and independent sovereignties; nor between two nations, nor is it a law. The Barons do not appear in it as subjects, for they were freed from their promise of fidelity, and the King, brought captive, placed before them, submitted to the conditions which the conquerors imposed upon him. Magna Carta is therefore a contract, but resembles a treaty concluded between two nations, in that one of the parties, in virtue of the law of war, can impose its will on the other. (Glasson, History of Law and Political, Civil, and Judicial Institutions of England, vol. 3 pp 51-52)" Perlman v Piche' and Attorney General of Canada, Intervenant, Re Habeus Corpus, 41 Dominion Law Reports 147, Quebec Superior Court
The Declaration of Resolves of the first Continental Congress (1774) says;
"Whereas,....the British Parliament has....established a Board of Commissioners with unconstitutional powers, and extended the jurisdiction of the Courts of Admiralty,.... for the trial of causes arising merely within the body of a county,....All which statutes are .....unconstitutional...."
The inhabitants of the english colonies in North America, by the immutable Laws of Nature,....have the following RIGHTS,
Resolved,...That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property: and they have never ceded to any foreign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent;
Resolved,....is a right of the people to,....excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects, in America, without their consent.
Resolved,...That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Resolved;....The several Acts of Geo. III. ch.15, and ch. 34.-5 Geo III. ch. 25-6 Geo ch. 52.-7 Geo III ch. 41. and ch. 46.-8 Geo III. ch. 22. which impose duties for the purpose of raising a revenue in America, extend the power of the Admiralty courts beyond their ancient limits, deprive the American subject of trial by jury, authorize the judges certificate to indemnify the prosecutor from damages, that he otherwise might be liable to, requiring oppresive security from a claimant of ships and goods seized, before he shall be allowed to defend his property, and are subversive of American rights."
The Declaration for the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775) says;
"....They have undertaken to give and grant our money without our consent, though we have exercised an exclusive right to dispose of our own property, statutes have been passed to extend the jurisdiction of the courts of admiralty and vice-admiralty beyond their ancient limits, for drpriving us of the accustomed and inestimable privilege of trial by jury, in cases affecting both life and property,....for exempting the "murderers" of colonists of legal trial, and in effect, from punishment, .....and thus to extort from us at the point of a bayonet, the unknown sums that should be sufficient to gratify, if able to gratify, ministerial rapacity, ...the prescribed tribute...to "declare them all, either by description or description, to be rebels and traitors, to supersede the course of the common law, and instead thereof to publish and order the use and exercise of the law martial."
"....We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery"
The Declaration of Independence (1776);
The Declaration of Independence (1776) is basically a list of grievances, and some of the more obvious greivances I have listed below;
"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,....but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government....
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power....
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:...
For protecting them by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit, on the Inhabitants of these States:...
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:...
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:...
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:...
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:...
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:..."
All of these are talking about martial law, in various ways, "pretended legislation", "pretended offenses", "Arbitrary government", "a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws", are all code words for martial law as further expanded upon under the section about "Color of law".
Financing
Both sides of The War of Independence was financed by the King of England.
"YIELDlNG AND PAYING yearly, to us, our heirs and Successors, for the same, the yearly Rent of Twenty Marks of Lawful money of England, at the Feast of All Saints, yearly, forever, The First payment thereof to begin and be made on the Feast of All Saints which shall be in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred Sixty and five; AND also, the fourth part of all Gold and Silver Ore which, with the limits aforesaid, shall, from time to time, happen to be found." The Carolina Charter, 1663
"And provided further, that nothing herein contained shall affect the titles or possessions of individuals holding or claiming under the laws heretofore in force, or grants heretofore made by the late King George II, or his predecessors, or the late lords proprietors, or any of them."
Declaration of Rights 1776, North Carolina Constitution
The Treaty of Peace signed at Versailles July 16, 1782, says;
ARTICLE 1
"It is agreed and certified that the sums advanced by His Majesty to the Congress of the United States under the title of a loan, in the years 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, and the present 1782, amount to the sum of eighteen million of livres, money of France, according to the following twenty-one receipts of the above-mentioned underwritten Minister of Congress, given in virtue of his full powers, to wit:
1. 28 February 1778 750,000
2. 19 May do 750,000
3. 3 August do 750,000
4. 1 November do 750,000
Total 3,000,000
5. 10 June 1779 250,000
6. 16 September do 250,000
7. 4 October do 250,000
8. 21 December do 250,000
Total 1,000,000
9. 29 February 1780 750,000
10. 23 May do 750,000
11. 21 June do 750,000
12. 5 October do 750,000
13. 27 November do 1,000,000
Total 4,000,000
14. 15 February 1781 750,000
15. 15 May do 750,000
16. 15 August do 750,000
17. 1 August do 1,000,000
18. 15 November do 750,000
Total 4,000,000
19. 10 April 1782 1,500,000
20. 1 July do 1,500,000
21. 5 of the same month 3,000,000
Total 6,000,000
Amounting in the whole to eighteen millions, viz 18, 000,000.
By which receipts the said Minister has promised, in the name of Congress and in behalf of the thirteen United States, to cause to be paid and reimbursed to the royal treasury of His Majesty, on the 1st of January, 1788, at the house of his Grand Banker at Paris, the said sum of eighteen millions, money of France, with interest at five per cent per annum."
Source: Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America.
Edited by Hunter Miller Volume 2 Documents 1-40 : 1776-1818 Washington : Government Printing Office, 1931.
And it continues to this day;
"....In Terrett v. Taylor, it was stated that the dissolution of the regal government, no more destroyed the rights of the church to possess and enjoy the property which belonged to it, than it did the right of any other corporation or individual to his or its own property. In the later case, the Chief Justice, in reference to the corporation of the college, observes that it is too clear to require the support of argument, that all contracts and rights respecting property remained unchanged by the revolution; and the same sentiment was enforce, more at length, by the other judge who noticed this point in the cause...."
The Society, &c., v. The Town of New Haven. Et Al. 8 Wheat. 464; 5 Cond. Rep. 489.
This set up the first bankruptcy.
This is the same scenario that brought about the Magna Carta, except that it took ONLY 2 years for the Welsh Barons to rise up in rebellion against the Tyrant King John.
In 1213 King John signed a treaty with the Vatican called Concessions to the Pope (1213).
Another name for Martial Law is Admiralty Maritime Law and another name is Canon Law, which originates with the Vatican.
Section 38 In future no official shall place a man on trial upon his own unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth of it.
They were using color of law to bring charges by officials only without witnesses.
Section 39 No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
"Lawful judgment of his peers" means a common law jury, and "law of the land" means by indictment and common law jury of his peers. Obviously they were doing it otherwise.
Section 40 To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.
They were selling justice and if you had money you could get off and if you didn't have money you were guilty.
Section 45 We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.
This is one of the things you see these days, where officials refuse to follow common law and arbitrarily proceed administratively.
