Libertarian 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 Circumstance 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 Judgment;
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
supersede 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:
signature___________________________date______________
name (please print)___________________________________
WITNESS:
signature___________________________date______________
name (please print)___________________________________
SEND TO: 111 E. Drake - Suite 7032 - Fort Collins - Colorado 80525 Please
enclose two dollars to cover processing and archiving. Add SASE for
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 copyright 1985 by L. Neil Smith
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