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Originally Posted by Ron
It was the Crown that set up the Colonies.  |
I thought it was people who left the crown that set up the colonies. It was later that the "crown" saw the financial benefit of commandeering the political aspect of the colonies under the "authority" of the king. Were the pilgrims in the mayflower under jurisdiction of the king, or were they fleeing the tyranny of a diabolical monarchy? If they established their own "colony" free of tyranny, then the tyrant king presupposes authority that never was his to begin with, who are the real rebels? Wasn't the english parliament passing legislation with regard to the colonies without giving the constituents of the colonies a representative voice in parliament? It seems to me that the "crown" was overstepping his boundaries, and not the colonists. The "revolutionary" war was really a war of self defense (remember the boston massacre), rather than an uprising and rebellion. The colonists had fled english tyranny... the tyrant (like pharoah) attempted to subdue the people
ex post facto liberation. The colonist's fight was a fight to preserve their liberty, not gain it! imo...