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To: Jacquerie

I recently encountered some very interesting information about the British West Indies colonies and the Revolutionary War period. As you likely know the American Revolutionaries attempted to get other colonies in the Americas to revolt. Some nearly did so, but their large slave populations prevented them from engaging in what could have been a security nightmare and ended in chaos.

The thing that stuck out the most was that the Intolerable Acts affected Caribbean trade and deleteriously so. They complained about “legislative overreach”. We so often think of executive or judicial overreach, but there is such a thing as legislative overreach and it is just as dangerous to liberty. This speaks to the periods understanding of Natural Law and individual liberty. Just because you “represent” us, doesn’t give you the right or privilege of passing just any laws you see fit. There’s a limit, an absolute limit.


17 posted on 01/28/2012 6:18:12 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

Please elaborate! Brits/West Indies trade. Slave uprisings. Intolerable Acts. Legislative overreach.

Sounds like a most excellent vanity!


18 posted on 01/28/2012 2:01:43 PM PST by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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