[MamaTexan]

Good post!

Unfortunately, 90% of FReepers will show up to tell you how crazy you are.

The majority of Americans no longer understand the different types of law that we have in our country.

Probably because government has spent the last several generations trying to meld it all into one big lump o' law.

[Rurudyne]

Yes, for all the recent specials run about the American Revolution on the History Channel, you'd never imagine that one of the things the Founding Fathers were most worked up about wasn't taxation without representation BUT the effort by the Crown and Parliament to prevent the residents of newly organized colonies (i.e. Canada ... won with Colonial sacrifice BTW) from living under English Common Law.

The Founders were rightly concerned, just as they indicate in the DoI, that this was a prelude to doing the same within the older colonies.