No it didn't, and the Declaration was illegal until we won the Revolution.
The Constitution says the USA became independent in 1776.
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No it didn't, and the Declaration was illegal until we won the Revolution.
...backed up by the loud end end of the gun of course.
And if we had lost the war it really wouldn't have mattered what year it said.
The Constitution says the USA became independent in 1776.
The guns enforced the law, they did not make the law.
Here's the constitution, Penn. Please show us where it says the USA became independent in 1776.
Transcript of the Constitution of the United States - Official Text
pennmark said:The final line. It was signed in the year of the "Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth..."
The Constitution says the USA became independent in 1776.
The D of I was an act of Congress, signed into law by the President. It made the USA legally independent on July 4, 1776.
The final line. It was signed in the year of the "Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth..."
So the US actually became Independent in 1775 (1787-12= 1775)? So the DoI isn't a founding document at all (since it was a year too late) by your logic?
No, it was just a formal explanation of Lee Resolution.
Took some firepower to make that statement mean anything.
wow...you post just like someone else I know. He made that same argument and was also wrong.In order for a country to be ruled by law, its government must believe that the country was born legally. Because if the country was born illegally, and if the government respected the rule of law, then the lawful thing for that government to do would be to abdicate its power to the country's legitimate soveriegn.
Great Britain was no more the "legitimate sovereign" then we were.Because handing America back over to Great Britain would be unacceptable,
No more true now than when that other guy posted it. According to the Bible the Revolutionary War was a sin:it must be true that the USA was born of legal action. Since the legal authority cited were the "laws of Nature and of Nature's God", those laws must be legal to the US government.
or here:1Samuel 15: 23 said:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Dress it up how you will, cover it with however many platitudes or claiming to follow the "laws of Nature and of Nature's God" it still was rebelling and the Bible's not going to support it.Romans 13:1-7 said:1Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
having fire power sure helps when you make a law you want obeyed.America's firepower enforced this law, it did not make the law.
In order for a country to be ruled by law, its government must believe that the country was born legally.
In order for a country to be ruled by law, its government must believe that the country was born legally. Because if the country was born illegally, and if the government respected the rule of law, then the lawful thing for that government to do would be to abdicate its power to the country's legitimate soveriegn.
Because handing America back over to Great Britain would be unacceptable, it must be true that the USA was born of legal action.
Since the legal authority cited were the "laws of Nature and of Nature's God", those laws must be legal to the US government.
America's firepower enforced this law, it did not make the law.
Since the legal authority cited were the "laws of Nature and of Nature's God", those laws must be legal to the US government.