Declaration of Independence Was 'Illegal,' Grounds for Treason, British Lawyers Say

Fox News ^ | 10/20/11

[Libloather]

Declaration of Independence Was 'Illegal,' Grounds for Treason, British Lawyers Say
Published October 20, 2011 | FoxNews.com

The Declaration of Independence was “illegal” and “treasonable,” according to a team of British lawyers, the BBC reports.

The assertion was made at a debate in Philadelphia between British and American lawyers over the legitimacy of the United States of America.

At the debate, pitting British barristers against American attorneys, lawyers for the former colonial power argued that America’s Declaration of Independence in 1776 “was not only illegal, but actually treasonable,” according to the BBC.

The lawyers representing the British team decided that the Americans had no legal grounds for secession. "[President Abraham] Lincoln made the case against secession and he was right."

[SoJoCo]

The lawyers representing the British team decided that the Americans had no legal grounds for secession. "[President Abraham] Lincoln made the case against secession and he was right."

What the colonists did was not secession, it was rebellion. And they never pretended otherwise. So major flaw in the argument right off the bat.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No burning of the White House!

The rest is ok.

[An.American.Expatriate]

I welcome your most esteemed instruction for us poor, backwards savages.

It's a joke mate ...

[An.American.Expatriate]

Actually, old bean, "-ize" is correct, "-ise" is French.

Is it not possible to just chuckle over an obvious joke?

[An.American.Expatriate]

Darlin' we invented them. So we get to name them. Deal with it.

Talk about not being aware of the world outside your boaders...

sheesh, what an uptight thread today - it is a JOKE!

[Leofl]

Do you need any further proof that lawyers should be banned from holding any office higher than local dog catcher?

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You hate dogs or what?

lol

[Grizzled Bear]

My response was intended as a joke, as well.

Don’t use “smarmy comments” if you can’t take “smarmy comments.”

[Figment]

Agree

[Figment]

Great point

[Free in Texas]

It’s only treason if you lose.

[Gumdrop]

You bet it was treason, which is why the Revolutionary War was fought and won by the Yankees.

[The_Reader_David]

Someone reposting this the day after Guy Fawkes Day (Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. . .), it seems an opportune time to observe as I have before that the English speaking peoples are an odd lot: we all let off fireworks in commemoration of acts of treason against the British Crown.

In the States we commemorate one which was successful, in Commonwealth realms, they commemorate one which was unsuccessful.

[The_Reader_David]

Ah, but the United Kingdom, which likewise recognizes Her Britannic Majesty Elizabeth II as Head of State did suffer a mortgage crisis.

Prince William will some day make a spendid monarch. However, the recent tampering with the line of succession should have included removing HRH Charles, who is an insufferable twit and will make a wretched monarch and a dreadful Head of the Commonwealth. (Quite frankly, Charles’s accession will give a great boost to republicanism in all of the Commonwealth realms.)

[SeaWolf]

George III saw it that way, hence the war. In the end it is always war that settles such issues, its the guy on the ground taking and holding the territory of the enemy that decides things.

[freedomfiter2]

They were only building on the foundation built by the progressives in the mid 1800s. It’s really kind of artificial to distinguish between these people. What ever generation, they have been pushing toward the same end goal.

[gman992]

Furthermore, you will spell “theater” as “theatre” and “saber” as “sabre”

[Verginius Rufus]

William the Bastard's invasion of England in 1066 was illegal--all of the regimes ruling England since the battle of Hastings have been illegitimate.

As Thomas Paine said in Common Sense, "A French bastard landing with an armed banditti, and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original."

[wazoo1031]

Um mm.....PING! ;-)

[UKrepublican]

haha! have these lawyers nothing better to do?

[Little Ray]

Perhaps we should discuss the legality of the UK's rotting prison hulks where tens of thousands of patriots died of exposure, disease and malnourishment?