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AN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STATES AS INDEPENDENT REPUBLICS

by John Sutherland, ©2010

The original thirteen colonies had expanded west to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. The colonies of MA, CT, VA and GA covered much more territory then than they do today.




(Aug. 9, 2010) — America started out as thirteen unfunded yet chartered British colonies, went along for many years in a relatively benign condition of neglect by Britain, developed their own methods of survival, and managed to thrive and prosper in the New World quite well – all without British assistance. As the American colonies thrived, however, Britain started to look at them differently, and sought increasing control over them. The maturing colonies, however, consistently rejected what they perceived as unrepresented interference and taxation by Britain, and through their Declaration of Independence and open military conflict with Britain, sought for themselves to become free and independent of Britain. The colonists were working toward the freedom and independence of statehood. Early definitions defined the statehood clearly – A State was a sovereign political entity, not simply a territory of a government.

The open military hostilities that occurred between British soldiers and the American Colonists on Lexington Green and at Concord Bridge on April 19, 1775, started the American Revolution, sometimes referred to as the War for Independence. Legal separation between the British American colonies and King George III and Britain was formalized with the colonist’s Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, which declared the former British colonies as new sovereign states in America.

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.â€

State Sovereignty, and the United States Constitution are the only two barriers between us becoming exactly what the former Soviet Union was - A DICTATORSHIP!