American Independence and English Common Law - Revision history

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-|HasArticleText="‘Government is a conditional compact between king and people. ...  A violation of the covenant by either party discharges the other from its obligation.’  ‘An Act [of Parliament] against the Constitution is void.’  In these thirty words Patrick Henry and James Otis denied the divine origin of the British kingship and the legislative supremacy of the British Parliament, and substituted therefor the Common Law and the eternal rights of man."  Thus starts Volume III of Edward Channing’s ‘A History of the United States’.  Spain, England, and France had established colonies on the Caribbean Islands and North and Central America for reasons of empire and commerce.  The colonists themselves had their own compelling reasons to face the hardship and long odds that were the daily life of creating civilization in a wilderness.  The motives and interests of the colonists and the governments and corporations that sent them were ever at odds, but as civilization and commerce emerged and matured in the New World, those conflicting interests could no longer be ignored.
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 The words of Americans Henry and Otis in 1760 foreshadowed the colonists reasons for secession from England.   Their desire to enjoy the same rights as those subjects living in England and the same liberties that were protected by English Common Law was at the core.  We can, therefore, legitimately trace the American movement for independence to the origins of England’s Common Law.  It transformed England from feudal anarchy to a constitutional society and set the expectations of those who settled America.  This Common Law represented to the English and their spin-offs, a guarantee of inalienable rights.  It was the legal recognition of such rights and it placed the rule of law above the rule of men.
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