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How An Attempt to Maintain (not Abolish) Slave-Holding Was the Real Cause of Formation of the US in 1775

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by William Sumner Scott, JD

The motivation for the formation of the political and legal systems in the United States began with the decision by Lord Chief Justice John Holt that “as soon as a negro comes to England, he is free; one may be a villein in England, but not a slave. Smith v Gould 1705.

Queen Anne and her successors refused to enforce Smith and other anti-slavery decisions in the North American Colonies. The slave traders and owners there — who had received huge land grants –became the Colonies’ ruling class (“Ruling Class”). Some European economies and taxes to British Royalty also became dependent upon the sale of below-market-priced slave produced goods.

As the anti-slave movement was developing, the Ruling Class sent its member, Benjamin Franklin, to London to monitor the situation.  His first visit was on December 24, 1724.  After a year and a-half he returned to the Colonies to provide his opinion, that although the situation was currently under control, he should continue his trips to England to keep tabs on developments.

Franklin traveled to England in 1757 and returned in 1762 to again report that the anti-slave movement was still under control but was getting progressively stronger and he should continue his trips.

In 1764, Franklin was sent to not only England but also to other European countries to tell them of the growth of the anti-slave movement in England and the Colonies.

Then came the anti-slavery breakthrough case, in 1769.  James Somerset (also spelled Summersett), an enslaved African man purchased by Charles Stewart in Virginia in 1749, was taken to Boston around 1764 when Stewart became British Receiver General of Customs there. In November 1769, Stewart relocated to England for business and brought Somerset with him from Boston to serve as his valet in London.

Somerset escaped and Stewart had him hunted him down and put him under lock and key on a ship with intent to send him to the Caribbean for sale.  The anti-slave movement helped Somerset file a habeas corpus action for his freedom.  The British Court ruled that Somerset did not have to be returned to Stewart.  Somerset v Stewart (1772).

The Somerset case was cited in the Colonies as authority to grant habeas corpus (freedom) to slaves who had escaped and captured by law enforcement or bounty hunters, rather than returned to their owners.  This caused great consternation for King George III whose economy was dependent upon the sale of slave produced goods. It was the same for the Ruling Class then led by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other colonials.

In 1772, in response to Somerset, the Ruling Class directed Franklin to work with King George III’s  lawyers to develop a plan on how to prevent the Somerset ruling from becoming law in the Colonies.  They used the documents from the separation of the Netherlands from Spain to prepare a draft Declaration of Independence for use by the Colonies.

In furtherance of their plan, they staged an attack on an English ship in Boston Harbor. This is known as the “Boston Tea Party.”

Note: The documents used to form the United States in the 1770s began by adopting some words from The Netherlands’ Declaration of Independence from Spain, in 1581.

The Colonies formed their first Congress and elected their first President in 1774.  This election is not celebrated, in order to cover-up that the fact that Congress and a few subsequent Congresses and their Presidents were opposed to slavery.

By 1775, open hostilities had begun with the Battles of Lexington and Concord (April) and the Battle of Bunker Hill (June). These clashes were presented by King George III and the British government to their people that the Colonies were actively rebelling.

Benjamin Franklin returned to Philadelphia from London in 1775  after his efforts to negotiate reconciliation between the colonies and Britain failed.  He claimed to the Colonies that the King had rejected his diplomatic initiatives, and the escalating tensions were caused by the King and British government’s hardline stance.

On July 5, 1775, the Continental Congress adopted The Olive Branch Petition, endorsed by John Dickinson, to seek reconciliation with Britain and avoid full-scale war. It expressed loyalty to King George III and requested his intervention to address colonial grievances, hoping to restore peace.  However, the king, in keeping with his secret agreement with the Ruling Class, rejected that Petition and instead issued the Proclamation of Rebellion on August 23, 1775, declaring the colonies in “open and avowed rebellion.”

This rejection was communicated to the British people as evidence that the Colonies’ actions were treasonous.  And were communicated to the Colonists that King George III was a tyrant who was unwilling to negotiate.

Accordingly, the Somerset case never became law in the Colonies.

To the contrary, the U.S. Constitution written in 1787, explicitly said, in Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3 [the Fugitive Slave Clause]:

“No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.” [Changed in 1868 by 13th Amendment.]

Demonstrating no moral compass, Congress made this statutory in 1793 via Fugitive Slave Act, and in 1850 by a more stringent Act.

In Dred Scott v Sanford (1857) the US Supreme Court ruled that Scott, an enslaved person who was taken by his owner, Dr. John Emerson from Missouri (a slave state) to Illinois (a free state) and the Wisconsin Territory (a free territory pursuant to the Missouri Compromise), did not gain his freedom, as he had voluntarily returned to Missouri and served Dr. Emerson for four years. A court system with a moral compass would have never enforced slavery.

 

54 COMMENTS

  1. Then came the ‘incorporation’ of the District of Columbia’ in about 1871🙀
    Now we hear; that incorporated entity is broke and dissolved after the failed foreign invasions of 2016, 2020.
    Look up Derek Johnson, the law of war manual, military regulations and customs plus the executive orders setting up the continuity of government backing it by the US military.
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    • Interesting, I tried to cite this panel discussion but was censored and had to comment re: to skin a cat in the last article and have the brights take the hint as to what and where.
      I will try again due to the discussion after 220 mins on the ‘ Law of war manual’. And reference to section/ clause 11 that readers repeatedly apparently have ignored.
      Anyway there is a reference to clause 11.3 and a different practicality has been discussed for a few minutes.
      The question for our home LLB would be:
      WHO IS THE OCCUPIER? (After the 202” ‘invasion – of WDC🤷‍♂️) referring to ‘Q’drops the question arises.
      So try these hints as there is much hilarity on many topics including the Owen’s church bs.
      ‘ T and Q secret Mil op … at NIB.
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  2. Oh dear,
    My 247 is not there at 257.
    Hmm!
    I forgot to mention that prior to the LOWM, the question of who is the ‘occupier’ was discussed as being relevant to the BS Nuremberg trials farce.
    Mm LLB have fun, 5,00O words should do it.
    Start with Derek Johnson?🤪💁 and Joseph can give it a mark🤷‍♂️
    :01.

    • For other readers see a larger picture.
      Try actual on the street reports and serious knowledgeable pundits who are prepared to examine the big picture with Judy Byington situation update today at.
      Beforeitsnews.com – people powered news with factual updates from a serious of people such as:
      Juan O’Savin ( 107)
      Michael Jaco ex US seal and seeeyea!
      Ricardo Bosi ( ext lt col AUSTRALIA)
      Sorry for normies, too many facts to cover, if you cannot manage go to the ABC and get some tips for A horse race.
      Have a good day and best of luck.
      6__11

    • Sorry Sandra, just skipped.
      I suppose the usual armchair theories, but nothing on the ground AND DEVELOPING FACTS CLEARLY VISIBLE FOR REALISTS THAT WE HAVE TO FACE… NOW.
      Anyone base any developments on believing that ‘alleged Biden ‘inaugurated’ in jan 21 was the real Biden.?
      Only an idiot is distracted by bs but cannot admit it.
      So they are irrelevant,
      Other readers: STICK TO THE FACTS..
      Visiting readers, JUST LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE AND IGNORE THOSE WHO, either cannot cope with the evidence or just trying to sucker you.

  6. If anyone wants to consider Sandra’s knowledge and credibility, simply ask her if she believes that the jan 2021 alleged inauguration of a fake Biden was a hoax … OR NOT?
    F’n simple question🤪🤪🤪🤪💁💁🙀
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    • From the previous article: “How do we know a CREATOR exists: try and make life, the universe, and sub atomic energy particles.”
      I agree, only God has credibility.
      Anyone disagree?
      Try harder!

      • Oh Richard,
        I have a moment and state that I have tried and not bothering any further as it is a waste of time.
        Tell me if you know who, how or why an entity referred to as GOD came to exist, be bored and have a brain snap to create something and be amused for eternity…… from whence he apparently came.
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  8. Each morning I scroll the headlines at
    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com – stories
    There a few here that discouraged any visit to the news reports T WRH and BIN.
    Why, is a mystery to me as there is much to consider that is not mentioned by the mass media. That suggests who the mass media represent behind the scenes.
    So I have picked this report that affects ALL CITIZENS OF THE WORLD AND PRESUMED FREEDOM.
    Try at wrh:
    Nov 3 13.24
    ‘THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO DELETE THIS VIDEO’
    It is a link to X AND CITES A DISCUSSION WITH TUCKER CARLSON and ALEX JONES referring to the GLOBALIST PLANS TO ENSLAVE THE LOT OF YOU. (As if we did not realise—- excepting those who are complicit in hiding the realities and the dumb gullible lazy normies)
    Even those who wanted WRH (and BIN) banned.
    Please ignore those who apparently prefer that you do not know and access broad access to information to get a thirty thousand ft view.….. think of your children.
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  9. Way back in 1988 I got called a ‘conspiracy theorist’ for the first time. However, as time passed I found more and more people were waking up. – Crikey, the rate seems to be increasing and I wonder if it will become the norm. If it does, does that mean I will become a ‘normie’? – Just a passing thought.

    • Indeed, it will get crowded, so reserve a spot on a fence post away from the turtles having been knocked off and floundering in the mud.
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  11. Here’s a video about a former CIA spook talking about life on the edge. Been there, done that. I had the luxury/indoctrination of being a combat veteran before I got involved with the spooks. I figured out a lot of this stuff on the fly. Like, ‘on the job training’. – I’ve been ‘targeted’, your paranoia goes exponential. You try to keep it all under control, but it is HARD. I did some of the things he mentioned without knowing why I was doing them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRfet_ppTWI

  12. Mike King patriot underground is one of the best current exposures today – 3/11 that I have heard and exposing the intrigues and the bull tits soaked up by the normies.
    HiS bit ion ‘ HOW DARE YOU’ Greta is hilarious.
    After all with BILL GATES EXPOSING THE CLIMATE DRAMA HOAX WITH HIS 180’, turn she has now gone Palestinian💁🤪
    Just listen and see the game, pity no one listens to him despite my often references her.
    At BIN💁
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      • I dunno, Diane, it just doesn’t scan:

        There was Harrison Who made his pile
        When Abathscan won the Cup
        The old man with his hair as white as snow
        But few could ride beside him When his blood was fairly up
        He would go wherever horse and man could go.
        Banjo P

      • Dianne, FYI.
        DICK CHENEY UNMASKED BY CATHY O’Brien at rumormillnews.com – reading room.
        3/11 at 07:55:41.
        I could not be bothered, I know he was evil and killed at will.
        In about mid 2005 – 2O10 v a Jewish colleague said to me; “suppose the Jews did 911”.
        I simply retorted: “Is Dick Cheney a Jew”
        That shut him up permanently!
        If any one is in doubt about that Dick, just Search transport secretary MINETA IN THE BUNKER WITH CHENEY.
        A young many came in and said to the VP ‘INCOMING’
        Yes Ok.
        The young man came in again Mr VP INCOMING!
        Yes OK.
        Then the young man came in a a third time and reported; Mr VP, “incoming, do the orders still stand’.
        The VP whipped his head around and said: “OF COURSE THEY DO, HAVE YOU HEARD OTHERWISE’?
        Then something hit the office of naval intelligence bean counting room at the Pentagon and killed all but one lady….. forgotten her name.
        I saw a second video of Mineta’s account later to the first when he was asked about the above and he confirmed his account.
        I know someone who dealt with Cheney, other than Howard having a quiet chat at the back of a ferry near the harbour bridge (saw the overhead copter scene) and my friend said he met him and he appeared to be evil.
        If he was not Hanged in 2022,it should have been at least in 2017.
        Be interesting to hear Howard’s words on the death of his co………
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    • Bugger,
      Michael Baxter at real raw news reported at Real Raw News….. he was hanged (twice?) in January 2022.
      Seems that there was an electrical problem and the trap door did not open and Cheney claimed right of release, but that was declined and he was hanged again?🤷‍♂️⚖️💁
      Missing Joe can fix us up on that old report ?🤪🤪
      Seems that the story elsewhere is authentic ……. He shot his lawyer. The lawyer was a much more fortunate than hundreds of thousands Iraqis hiding all those weapons of mass destruction.
      Wonder how long it will be for Howard to join his mate Dick.
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  14. Thank you Dee and Mary
    From: Aishe Spark speaking for the Conglomerate.
    Yaka Gana

    PROJECT MILK CARTON
    THE AMERICAN CHILD
    Series Introduction
    THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
    NOV 05, 2025

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    “It is the paper trail of four centuries of law, labor, and control—all wrapped in the language of protection.”

    “Each part of this history reveals the same pattern:
    laws born from compassion, reshaped by power, and exploited through policy.”

    Current Relevancy
    “Because the story hasn’t ended—it’s simply changed form.”

    “Today, the federal and state child-welfare apparatus controls millions of families. It can remove a child without a warrant, close proceedings from public view, and distribute billions of dollars in contracts to private agencies. Yet the system insists it is guided by “the best interests of the child.” The truth is, that phrase—like so many before it—has always depended on who defines it, who enforces it, and who is paid to carry it out.”

    “If we are to reform child welfare, we must first understand its lineage—not as a system of care, but as a system of control refined over centuries.”

    “This project speaks not as an academic observer, but as a watchdog, a veteran, and a citizen who has seen what happens when institutions lose accountability. It stands on the side of the child—not the program, not the contractor, not the state.”

    The Child Protection Racket
    A book that documents the unwarranted, unlawful, often forced removal of children for profit, by alleged child protection agencies, condoned by secret “star chamber” style closed courts in Australia. The book is available in the US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, SE, JP, and CA
    The Child Protection Racket
    thechildprotectionracket.com/
    https://thechildprotectionracket.com

  15. A follow on from above: from Jeremiahbullfrogs Pad

    https://17sog.substack.com/p/the-mechanics-of-narrative-imposition?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=266zdu&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

    JEREMIAHBULLFROGS PAD
    The Mechanics of Narrative Imposition: How Hidden Stories in Media and Social Platforms Quietly Reshape Your Child’s Worldview
    What if the bedtime stories your child consumes aren’t from books—but from algorithms? What if a 15-second TikTok clip, a Netflix thumbnail, or a viral meme is quietly rewriting their understanding…
    THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
    NOV 05, 2025

  16. ahh Ned experiencing that censoring comments — they come and they go —

    https://au.sports.yahoo.com/melbourne-cup-rocked-by-devastating-news-as-fans-call-for-change-to-pathetic-farce-194727441.html

    Racing Victoria announced just hours before the great race that Athabascan wouldn’t be allowed to run due to what vets deemed was an increased risk of a cardiac episode.

    A last-minute vet check found him to have a cardiac arrhythmia, and the outsider was subsequently ruled out. ECG reports and blood test results of the John O’Shea and Tom Charlton-trained horse were sent to three independent experts, who decided it was too risky for Athabascan to take his place in the field.

    It’s believed Racing Victoria are reluctant to change the system because it means they would need to fork out the cash to upgrade every TAB machine around the country, which would be a logistical nightmare. The current TAB system only has 24 slots for horses, meaning emergencies wouldn’t be able to be included on betting forms. But punters have described it as “ludicrous” and “pathetic” because a number of horses would have only narrowly missed out on making the Melbourne Cup field, and should be allowed to come in late if another is scratched.

  17. Douglas Macgregor: Decline Out of Control – Ukraine and Venezuela Wars
    Douglas Macgregor is a retired Colonel and former senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Col. Macgregor argues that the war against Ukraine and the pending war against Venezuela reveal a strategic vacuum and decline
    Trying to maintain American hegemony at any cost.
    America the “microwave economy” with no long term strategies.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JffIjn8HbXE

    • Great interview, Macgregor gets it. Nothing is realistically going to happen until it collapses. – Get off the train, it is headed to a burned out bridge!

      Protect yourself, nobody else will…

  18. THIS IS FOR THE COMMENTARY RECORD FOR GUMSHOE.
    For years commentators have ignored or not discussed the valuable contribution TO MANY OF THE LAWS, HISTORY ETC THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE USA APPARENTLY HAVE IGNORED SIMPLY BY DESIGN, NOT EDUCATING THE STUDENTS. IGNORED. Well DEREK IS A MAN WHOSE WRITINGS CANNOT BE IGNORED FOR EVER.
    Therefore I put on record DERK JOHNSON, especially for Mary Maxwell LLB and US COMMENTATORS HERE AT GS. Fancy, the Americans have to be assisted by an Australian news site!🙀🙈
    At
    http://www.beforeitsnews.com – people powered news.
    “LIVE, DEREK JOHNSON WWG1WGA: TRUMP DRAINING [DC] SWAMP ………….and more’
    From at least about 8 mins for 10-15 to where he provides details of his books, web site and how to get and read his material.
    Notice: to all our university students paying university lecturers to be lecture on the law and/or the history behind the US to date, before you pay the bastards, research them and the syllabus that they are flogging.
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    • Look up this weeks Ben Fulford preview for the week.
      The short ‘ FAKE TRUMP’ tried to get money on his visit Asia via ‘Zionist’ interests.
      The ASIANS ARE NOT STUPID AND SENT HIM OFF WITH NOTHING.
      Perhaps they have a measuring tape?
      As with the the fake Biden that apparently has duped all the normies here.
      Our only hope is that the genuine ‘COMMANDER IN CHIEF’ is being counselled by the Generals in Cheyenne mountain controlled by the WHs. I
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  21. For those who watch the ABC et.al., I have no care.
    I remind the normies to realise that if you do not care, sit and wait then you will care when the shtf and you might wonder how the program has been to kick you up the dumb, till you realise that it will matter if you had can’t red, because you were to dumb to be warned to care.
    Again:
    Try http://www.beforeitsnews.com – people powered news to wake up those who could not give a care.
    Just scroll the articles, chose, do not be banned, less you do not care and are dammed to know sfa.
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  22. Pepe Escobar: BRICS Just Drew the Line — And Trump Is Pushing Back Hard!
    The Empire of chaos.
    The COG mindset never changes and acquisition of natural resources is the crux.
    Middle East,Ukraine,Venezuala and now Mali in the cross hairs.
    Former headchopper welcomed by the WH.The clown show continues.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3RlnVCtTS4

    • Taming the sound and fury of the Empire of Chaos
      Pepe Escobar
      November 5, 2025
      Are China-Russia – and a great deal of the Global Majority – really ready? Call it an auspicious vow.
      Close the door, put out the light
      You know they won’t be home tonight
      The snow falls hard and don’t you know
      The winds of Thor are blowing cold

      Led Zeppelin, No Quarter
      In a matter of less than a year, Russian scientific know-how came up with four bangers:

      1. Oreshnik: hypersonic missile, already tested in the Ukraine battleground.

      2. Burevestnik: Or “Stormbringer”, with that nice Deep Purple ring. Nuclear cruise missile with unlimited range.

      3. Poseidon: nuclear-powered torpedo, capable of loitering underwater, undetected, for unlimited time; then, at a command, strikes enemy coasts with a nuclear payload, provoking a radioactive tsunami. Largely exceeds the destructive power of the Sarmat, Russia’s largest ICBM.

      4. Khabarovsk: nuclear sub. Call him The Messenger of Doom: capable of delivering at least 6 Doomsday-enabling Poseidons.
      https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/11/05/taming-the-sound-and-fury-of-the-empire-of-chaos/

  27. Off topic but here is A UPDATE ON THE 3IAtlas alien ‘Tourists’passing bye.
    It needs its own article for discussion up here is the introduction.
    ‘BREAKING BOMBSHELL:: CIA/MOSSAD ARE – OFFICIALY-PUSHING THE ‘STORY’ THAT 3IIATLAS IS A
    GIGANTIC
    ALIEN
    SPACECRAFT
    CLOSING IN ON EARTH’
    Well, skeptics and supremist religious adherents, this could be fun for you🙀🤪🤪🙈
    For those who ignore being banned from some sources, be game.
    http//www.whatreallyhappened.com – stories.
    12:18 November 6 where the X video report is available or go to X.
    Also at rumormillnews.com – reading room.
    Now for the conspiracy theorists, is the Atlas real or part of the. Globalist ‘Project Bluebeam’ desperate scam?
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    • THERE SHOULD BE BE warning to the normies: if the two pushers are pushing their usual lies, then one would have to BE ON GUARD, because project Blue Beam has been in their play book since at least from the 1970’s. to scare all with a ‘ALIEN JNVASION’ and mandate their globalist freaks control system. Remember President Reagan observing that if the aliens come the earth will join to fight the intruders. ALL FALL IN, quick march to your domestic Gulags and all adore your new master/s and OBEY.
      Well that was the idea!
      BUT, what if our planetary tourists are going to raise human consciousness and we will be able to tell the globalists to go jump.
      BUT, either way, the normie supremists with their competing religious beliefs will be in a lather.
      🙈🙀🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪💁🤷‍♂️
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  28. Oh dear all that research and work I have presented over the last half hour with two comments, whilst logged has been kidnapped by those dam aliens and does not appear.
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        • Update on 3iATLAS TO THE two REFERENCES ABOVE.
          Well is it a psi-op?
          One opinion is that it is not a psi-op but a genuine approaching craft and the government is tempering it so S to not panic the normies – just yet.
          The policy could be wise if it is really genuine and flying ‘past’ round about 19th December because the poor normies will be jumping off bridges if they have to accept aliens.
          I can number some and a few here.🙈🙀🤪🤪
          So we wait and see and as I type I recall Trump saying we will have a great Christmas. Whatever that meant?
          If you want a source, ask Janine from about 40 mins at BIN💁🤷‍♂️🤪
          I know SWEET FANNY ADAMS (SFA)
          But I know some can know!
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      • I suppose we will now get references to the usual pundits.💁🙈
        Hope they are not bridge jumpers🙈🐵🙉🐒🐒🐒🐒
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