A NEW COVENANT

 A NEW COVENANT*

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED Witnesses to the Lesson of History - that no Form of

political Governance may be relied upon to secure the individual Rights

of Life, Liberty, or Property - now therefore establish and provide

certain fundamental Precepts measuring our Conduct toward one another,

and toward others:

Individual Sovereignty

FIRST, that we shall henceforward recognize each individual to be the

exclusive Proprietor of his or her own Existence and of all products of

that Existence, holding no Obligation binding among Individuals excepting

those to which they voluntarily and explicitly consent;

Freedom from Coercion

SECOND, that under no Circumstances shall we acknowledge any Liberty to

initiate Force against another Person, and shall instead defend the

inalienable Right of Individuals to resist Coercion employing whatever

Means prove necessary in their Judgement;

Association and Secession

THIRD, that we shall hold inviolable those Relationships among

Individuals which are totally voluntary, but conversely, any Relationship

not thus mutually agreeable shall be considered empty and invalid;

Individuality of Rights

FOURTH, that we shall regard Rights to be neither collective nor additive

in Character - two individuals shall have no more Rights than one, nor

shall two million nor two thousand million - nor shall any Group possess

Rights in Excess of those belonging to its individual members;

Equality of Liberty

FIFTH, that we shall maintain these Principles without Respect to any

person's Race, Nationality, Gender, sexual Preference, Age, or System of

Beliefs, and hold that any Entity or Association, however constituted,

acting to contravene them by initiation of Force - or Threat of same -

shall have forfeited its Right to exist;

Supersedure

UPON UNANIMOUS CONSENT of the Members or Inhabitants of any Association

or Territory, we further stipulate that this Agreement shall supercede

all existing governmental Documents or Usages then pertinent, that such

Constitutions, Charters, Acts, Laws, Statutes, Regulations, or Ordinances

contradictory or destructive to the Ends which it expresses shall be null

and void, and that this Covenant, being the Property of its Author and

Signatories, shall not be Subject to Interpretation excepting insofar as

it shall please them.

SIGNATORY:                             WITNESS:

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*Exercepted from Chapter XVII of THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE by L. Neil

Smith, Del Rey Books (a division of Random House), New York, 1985, as

amended by unanimous consent, October, 1986.