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To: Non-Sequitur
The colonies of the sovereign mother country. The colonies did not pretend to hold any sovereignty. The states had been recognized as sovereigns and equal partners to a compact.

Still, when the colonies asserted self-rule they claimed all within their jurisdiction.

But you are right about property rights being settled by the demands of the founding fathers being satisfied by the British in the Paris Peace Treaty. Speaking of the property which concerned them, Article 7 is germane.

Article 7: There shall be a firm and perpetual peace between his Brittanic Majesty and the said states, and between the subjects of the one and the citizens of the other, wherefore all hostilities both by sea and land shall from henceforth cease. All prisoners on both sides shall be set at liberty, and his Brittanic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any Negroes or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrisons, and fleets from the said United States, and from every post, place, and harbor within the same; leaving in all fortifications, the American artilery that may be therein; and shall also order and cause all archives, records, deeds, and papers belonging to any of the said states, or their citizens, which in the course of the war may have fallen into the hands of his officers, to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper states and persons to whom they belong.

The Founders, The Framers, The Fathers and The Daddies sure had a way with words to let you know what mattered and what they were thinking.

1,942 posted on 09/26/2004 12:37:44 AM PDT by nolu chan
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To: nolu chan
The Founders, The Framers, The Fathers and The Daddies sure had a way with words to let you know what mattered and what they were thinking.

I thought that we were discussing public property and now you're getting into privately owned property, which included slaves. I'm not sure why you, of all people, have a problem with it being mentioned in the Treaty of Paris but if you want to discuss it then fine. Where would you like to begin?

1,962 posted on 09/26/2004 3:42:10 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
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