The Founding Fathers Null and Voided the Declaration of Independence

The United States has a history, language and cultural tie to the United Kingdom; this is common knowledge. But there's information that managed to escape public awareness. The Revolutionary War taught in school describes a war ending in a favorable peace treaty. Our forefathers secured fishing rights in waters adjacent to Newfoundland and other unsettled lands in British North America. We also secured land as far as the Mississippi River.

From that point, we continue as a separate entity from the United Kingdom. Reading the peace treaty our forefathers signed with the King; and seeing things from our Founding Father's perspectives, we see a different history from the one taught in school today. Our ties to the United Kingdom go beyond history, language and culture; we're also tied to them similar to the way Canada, Australia and New Zealand are.

To understand the treaty better, look at this from our forefather's perspectives.

King James the First charted the Virginia Company to establish colonies in Virginia. The Massachusetts Bay Company established colonies in Massachusetts. Both companies were granted land that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the westernmost reach of English North America.

The King granted these companies the right to colonize the Americas.

Each state, or province, was a corporation. As corporations, they ran independently of interference from the state. Just as companies have their own rules, and ran their own affairs, these colonies ran independently from England. Each colony had a legislature that passed laws that affected it; a crown appointed governor approved or disapproved these laws.

Great Britain found itself in a stronger position relative to its colonies after the French and Indian War. Partly from the need to pay for the war, and partly from their desire to change the way they administered their colonies, the British Parliament exerted itself.

The Stamp Act, redistricting to make the Ohio River Valley a part of Canada, and other British Parliamentary intrusions into colonial affairs violated that agreement. Since the colonies, as independent corporations, ran independently, they ran their own affairs. In other words, Parliament can't levy taxes on the colonists. But colonial legislatures can. Parliament can't pass laws that affect colonial life; this was the colonial legislature's job.

Our founding fathers protested those violations; dumping tea into the harbor was one way to show disagreement. They protested Parliament's trying to regulate our economy; they protested Parliament's trying to pass laws our legislatures should've been passing. The founding fathers wanted Parliament to know that they were stepping on the colonial legislature's toes.

These events lead to the Revolutionary War. Our founding fathers wanted to show the world their justifications for breaking their ties with England. The King violated his end of the bargain; thus the Declaration of Independence represented our forefathers explaining why they were walking away from the contract. The complaints and differences listed in the Declaration of Independence constituted what our founding fathers felt was a breach of contract. Since the King violated that contract, the colonists argued that it was null and void. With the contract broken, we were an independent country.

The Treaty of Paris of 1783 ended the Revolutionary War. It was a treaty between the King of England, and the United States, that put both parties back to where they were before our forefathers declared independence.

The peace treaty shows that the United States, and King George the Third, didn't agree to settle their differences, or to negotiate them away; they agreed to forget their differences. They agreed to restore the relationship they had before our forefathers voiced their first disagreement with England. In layman's terms, both agreed to the status quo prior to the Revolutionary War. By agreeing to the status quo, our forefathers null and voided the Declaration of Independence.

The King didn't grant the United States its independence, he acknowledged it. He acknowledged something the colonies always had. When he acknowledged the United State's independence, he did so in terms of the state, rather than the people. He didn't excuse U.S. citizens from being his subjects. The peace treaty codified the agreement that the colonies originally had with the King.

This is one reason to why the new nation included territory that stretched to the Mississippi River; rather than just the Appalachian Mountains and the Eastern Seaboard. This was based on the original agreement. The King gave the original corporations, in charge of establishing colonies, territory that stretched from the Eastern Seaboard to edge of British territory. At the time of the peace treaty, this was the Mississippi River.

In the end, our founding fathers got their way. They continued to run their own affairs. Even before the Revolutionary War, there was a movement to bring the colonies under one colonial administrative government. Had there been no Revolutionary War, we would still be a "United States." The British Parliament would've established the U.S. via something like a "United States Act."