Summing up some:
People fled as runaway slaves from a former home where their liberty was once defended securely with voluntary investments in a shared duty to defend the innocent victims from the guilty criminals through rule of law in the form of common law trial by jury.
People fled to America where the land was once densely populated by Indian tribes yet those Indian tribes had been wiped out by diseases and therefore America was more so a place where people could flee from tyranny and start a new life in a so called new world, so long as the remaining Indian tribes agreed to form voluntary mutual defense associations, or honorable, honest, true, treaties.
People in America federated with the English Monarchy as independent people who formed their own, federated, colonial governments until such time as the parent government began a criminal war of aggression upon the free people, the honest people, the productive people, the independent people, the trustworthy people, in America; all the while there were among the good people in America a number of criminals seeking to gain criminal control of government in America.
Stop here and revisit the words that confess the existence of a voluntary association between the good parts of the English government, which was common law due process in the form of trial by jury, whereby it is recognized as a fact that good people MUST defend their liberty (their ability to remain good) for that power to defend each other is necessary for free, independent, people, in free, independent states, and failure to do one's duty in defense of liberty will result in inevitable tyranny, inevitable despotism, at the hands of the criminals who take over governments.
The source used now for finding documented evidence exculpating the good people in America, along side the inculpatory evidence proving, by confession, the criminals among the good people, is the source known as Elliot's Debates Volume I.
Source:
Elliot s Debates Home Page U.S. Congressional Documents
Oct. 14, 1775
"On the same day, Congress unanimously resolved, "that the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage according to the course of that law."
What does that mean? Someone unable or unwilling to do anything at all in defense of the weakest among us may care nothing about the meaning of those words above, while someone knowing what due process means may see the meaning of those words in the official record in October of 1775 while the criminal British were perpetrating the beginning of a violent war of aggression so as to subjugate all people in America under absolute despotism.
Know what that means, and here is an example of the meaning of those words where those words confess the facts of common law trial by jury as the means by which good people remain good people and good people do not choose to become bad people even under the worst of circumstances such as a time and place when the largest criminal army on the planet is currently rioting in the blood of the innocent for fun and profit.
What does that mean, and an example helps if the question is asked honestly, honorably, sincerely, where the one asking for meaning concerning "inestimable privilege" afforded to everyone including the worst criminals among us.
Here is an example:
RESPUBLICA v. CARLISLE 1 U.S. 35 1778 Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center
People caught red handed, aiding, abetting, lending moral support to, and lending material support to the criminals among us are, in demonstrable fact, criminals among us, and rather than each of us, in turn, electing each of us, in turn, as judge, jury, and executioner on the spot, when we the people catch someone red handed handing posterity to organized criminals, for fun, for profit, for a piece of the action, or for a luxurious position within the criminal organization, we the people afford everyone their opportunity to defend themselves against any accusation, and the whole country passes judgment through their representatives chosen by lot (chosen randomly) in both a Grand Jury to legitimize the accusation, and in a Trial Jury if the people in the Grand Jury, representing the whole country of people, demand a trial based upon the facts known in their investigation of the accusation, and if the people in the Trial Jury, representing all the people in we the people, find the presumed to be innocent accused actually guilty as charged, and their judgment must be unanimous, as if the whole country of people agree that the one charged is in fact guilty, and the whole country then decides what is to be done as a penalty for the guilty criminal in that case, through those 12 people charged with that responsibility, which is government by consent of the people; which is expressly NOT government by dictates dictated by one dictator. There is more to that than what meets the eye at first blush; but there is the connection between rule of law confessed as our means of defense against criminals, and a competitive example of how rule of law is exemplified in difficult times and difficult places BECAUSE the enemies of liberty are past the gate, in your face, and rioting in the blood of the innocent, because they have enough investors investing in their crime spree.
The free people forming the free and independent states voluntarily agreeing to create and maintain (finance) a federal union confessed the meaning of federation. I have to get to work, to be continued...