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I was reading Lever Action by L Neil Smith (also find it free here). I found this New Covenant. What a world it would be if everybody agreed to this. You can find a better formatted one at Smith’s website, and you can find some interesting some nice wall hanger versions here.

A New Covenant*

by L. Neil Smith

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:

_________________________________	_______________________________

signature		date		signature		date

_________________________________	_______________________________

name (please print)			name (please print)

SEND TO:

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Fort Collins, CO 80524

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confirmation of receipt.

*Excerpted 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.

e-mail L. Neil Smith: lneil@lneilsmith.org

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“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”

~ James Madison, Federalist 45

Recent debates over sweeping new federal laws have re-ignited old quarrels concerning the proper constitutional role of the federal government and the rights and reserved powers of the states. As a case-in-point, on February 1, 2007, the Montana State House of Representatives unanimously passed two bills condemning the federal REAL ID Act as an improper use of federal legislative power. Both bills were designed to exempt Montana from the Act; however, the bill introduced by Representative Diane Rice of Harrison, Montana, went a step further, stipulating that, “the legislature of the state of Montana hereby nullifies the REAL ID Act of 2005, as it would apply in this state”.

Read that again: “The legislature of the state of Montana hereby nullifies the REAL ID Act”. Nullifies. Hmmm, there’s a word we haven’t seen in awhile, and with good reason. You see, the word “nullify” like its conceptual kissing cousins “secession,” “states rights,” “delegated powers,” and sometimes even “Constitution” belongs to a special class of political four-letter words, so called for the reason that they are verboten in polite conversation amongst the political mainstream. In that parlance, they are akin to the type of words that self-conscious adults tend to spell-out in front of small children so as to avoid embarrassment, and are allowed to be spoken only in a historical context, and only when accompanied by an obviously derisive tone of voice.

For this reason it’s understandable that the use of this little three-syllable word “nullify” will make some people skittish. Like a hand-grenade, the word is small but loaded with explosive potential, enough even to cow some otherwise hardy and ruggedly individualistic Montanans. According to Missoulanews.com, Hal Harper, an advisor to Montana governor Brian Schweitzer, downplayed the significance of the word ‘nullify’ when commenting on Diane Rice’s bill, stating that it “is simply a synonym for ‘repeal’ and carries little significance beyond demanding that the federal government reverse its law.” Technically, what Harper says is true; the word “nullify” can be used as a synonym for “repeal,” although that is not its primary meaning, and its use in this context is rather dubious. To see what I mean, try using ‘repeals’ in place of ‘nullifies’ in the sentence that I quoted from Ms. Rice’s bill. When you do this, you get: “the legislature of the state of Montana hereby repeals the REAL ID Act of 2005.” Nope, I’m sorry, Hal, but this doesn’t work. Montana didn’t pass the REAL ID Act, so it can’t very well repeal it; and nowhere in Ms. Rice’s bill do I see any call for the federal government to “reverse its law”. The bill simply states that the REAL ID Act “is inimical to the security and well-being of the people of Montana, will cause unneeded expense and inconvenience to those people, and was adopted by the U.S. congress in violation of the principles of federalism contained in the 10th amendment to the U.S. constitution,” and that the state “nullifies” it “as it would apply in this state.”

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There has always been some coals of liberty smoldering under the surface, being smothered by the statists. Ron Paul’s campaign and the Campaign for Liberty was the stoking that those coals needed to become a flame.

Take a look at the trailer. This should be an inspiring movie.

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