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Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss how the Founders made the transition from subjects of the King of Britain to sovereign in their own nation. We also discuss how it wasn’t the Americans who broke away from the King, but the King who thrust independence on to us. These concepts are critical to understanding why We the People are in the driver’s seat in America.
Additional references can be found below:
- Two Treatises of Government – John Locke (1689)
- Declaration of Independence
- Apostle Paul refers to the principle of Allegiance and Protection
- “It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” —Second Virginia Convention March 20, 1775 Richmond, Virginia, St. John’s Church (Emphasis Added)
- “[King George III] has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.” — Declaration of Independence, paragraph 25. (Emphasis Added) – Declaration of Independence, Paragraph 24.
- “…all manner of [the American colonies’] trade and commerce is and shall be prohibited…” and that any ships found trading “…shall become forfeited to his Majesty, as if the same were the ships and effects of open enemies…” – American Prohibitory Act of 1775. 16 Geo. III, Chapter 5
- “It throws thirteen Colonies out of the Royal protection, levels all distinctions, and makes us independent in spite of our supplications and entreaties… It may be fortunate that the act of independency should come from the British Parliament rather than the American Congress.” — John Adams letter to General Horatio Gates. March 23, 1776. (Emphasis added.)
- “That the question was not whether, by a Declaration of Independence, we should make ourselves what we are not; but whether we declare a fact which already exists,” and “That as to the king, we had been bound to him by allegiance, but that this bond was now dissolved by his assent to the late Act of Parliament by which he declares us out of his protection.” — Thomas Jefferson. Notes of Proceedings in the Continental Congress. June 7, 1776. (Emphases added)
- “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” —Declaration of Independence, paragraph 2 (Emphasis added)