"How many people today under the age of 30 know the White House was burnt down by the British 36 years after we supposedly beat them in the war for independence?"
To me even thinking about this is a depressing reality. Nevertheless, you are absolutely correct. We know the ending of the American Revolution was a negotiated settlement, which I tend to think was the modern version of a 'cease fire' and allowed the British to replenish their treasury. I wonder how much of an issue the original 13th Amendment had with the War of 1812? Was the settlement that Benjamin Franklin negotiated realized not being favorable to what the British crown thought it was? Was there duplicity? Was part of the settlement that a Central bank be established? Why did Franklin say - "A republic, if you can keep it" after being approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created? The letters of Benjamin Franklin to the British MPs quote British papers of the 'Votes & parliamentary Speeches' that favored 'reconciliation' with the American colonists instead of surrender.
Whatever the dynamics were, I just can't get the thought out of my head that the original 13th Amendment was the lynch pin of this 1812 hostility. Why did the original 13th Amendment disappear soon after the War of 1812?
If one examines this, and considers how British lawyers were used as an influencing force in colonial America, along with its history, the original 13th Amendment undermined British control over America. A Central bank could not be effectively established without lawyers using 'barratry' and subverting the Republic. We see this with the struggle between founding fathers that wanted a Central bank and those opposing it. Plying the practice of lawyers opens barratry soon afterwards and it has a most subversive effect that no government can withstand. Lawyers who use barratry and the ancient art of rhetoric to obfuscate written laws seduce juries so they become polluted. Control over America was by making it dependent on fiat currency, which was the intent from the beginning. Instead of having costly British soldiers occupy the colonies, who colonists already proved their hatred, temerity and formidable fighting skills, why not rule from afar using lawyers who were more damaging to a government than any occupational force? There is far more to this than meets the eye, per se.
The American colonists called those who plied the practice of law 'Vermin'. This was one group of people they feared with reason--- a society you might say whose often insidious craft had claimed a multitude of victims, ever since the middle ages of Europe.
One group of people were hated and feared from Massachusetts Bay to Virginia. Our forefathers were baffled by them.
In 1641, Massachusetts Bay colony took a novel approach to the problem. The government attempted to starve those devils out of existence through economic exclusion. They were denied wages, and thereby it was hoped they would perish.
Four years later, Virginia followed the example of Massachusetts Bay, and for a while at least it seemed the dilemma had been relived. It had not. Somehow, the “Parasite” managed to survive, and the mere nearness of them made the colonists skin crawl.
In 1688 in Virginia the final solution: banishment. Exile. The “treacherous ones” were cast out of the colony. At last, after decades of enduring the psychological gloom, the sun came out, and the birds sang and all was right with the world. And the elation continued for a generation.
I’m not sure why the Virginians eventually allowed the outcasts to return, but they did. In 1680, after twenty-two years the despised ones were readmitted to the colony on the condition that they be subjected to the strictest surveillance. Like the Romans, the Virginians and the rest of the colonies failed to ride themselves of these 'Vermin' as well.
The American Bar is a subsidiary of the International Bar Association, which is headquartered in Britain. At least, the Romans tried to save their society. Today, we can see several striking examples of how the legal system has come undone.
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