America is illegal

A philosophical analysis Sometimes when historians and journalists are bored, they like to play what if games. Kind of like, "I wonder what would have happened if Napoleon had been successful. Or, what if Hitler had succeeded." Here we come to a small group of those engaged in looking back at America's founding documents. They call it a philosophical discussion.

In Philadelphia, American and British lawyers have debated the legality of America's founding documents. On Tuesday night, while Republican candidates in Nevada were debating such American issues as nuclear waste disposal and the immigration status of Mitt Romney's gardener, American and British lawyers in Philadelphia were taking on a far more fundamental topic. Namely, just what did Thomas Jefferson think he was doing? Some background: during the hot and sweltering summer of 1776, members of the second Continental Congress travelled to Philadelphia to discuss their frustration with royal rule. By 4 July, America's founding fathers approved a simple document penned by Jefferson that enumerated their grievances and announced themselves a sovereign nation. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote 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, and to provide new Guards for their future security” The Declaration of Independence Called the Declaration of Independence, it was a blow for freedom, a call to war, and the founding of a new empire. founding.

And to the amazement of many, this gathering of lawyer academics has come to the conclusion that America's secession from the rule of England was? Illegal. You don't say? I thought that issue was decided and settled about 236 years ago? The British king came to the conclusion that American independence was illegal and he immediately sued for damages by sending his army and navy to continue to force his edicts on the rebellious colonies. As it turns out, America prevailed in that conflict of ideologies and ultimately surpassed the greatness of it's former mortgage holders by creating the greatest nation on earth. So what say we play a game called reality and true history and forget about these what if games of what might have been had we had the availability of these scholarly minds to appeal to when the history was actually occurring. I say the Brits are just a bunch of sore losers and always have been