Segment 1: Preamble
Centuries ago, our precursors brought forth into this world, a new era, conceived
in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all human beings are created
equal. And yet today, the entire world is engaged in the greatest of all civil wars.
It is an economic, political, and social war, testing whether our nations, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure under the stresses of this.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for all people
of Earth to resolve the bands which have coupled them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal position to which
the laws entitle them, an honest respect tops the opinions of all humankind which
requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to unification. We
hold these truths to be self-evident: That all humans are created equal; that they
are endowed with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted
among humanity, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government,
laying it’s foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such
form, as to them, it shall be seen most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Jurisprudence indeed will dictate, that governments long established should not
be changed for light and transient cases. Accordingly, all experience has shown,
that humankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, clearly shows a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide
new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the
people of Earth, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter
their systems of government. The history of the present systems under which
we are ruled, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation all having in direct
object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over those people, and those
nations.
You can stand no place on Earth without standing on the great battle-field
of this, the greatest of all civil wars. We here highly resolve, that this world, shall
have a new birth of freedom, that this new world government of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. We, the people of the
Earth, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the
following charter for the United Earth Confederacy, under the supports, practices,
and logic of the political and economic system named Resolutionism.
Ad Pax Per Adversae --To Peace, Despite Adversity
in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all human beings are created
equal. And yet today, the entire world is engaged in the greatest of all civil wars.
It is an economic, political, and social war, testing whether our nations, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure under the stresses of this.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for all people
of Earth to resolve the bands which have coupled them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal position to which
the laws entitle them, an honest respect tops the opinions of all humankind which
requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to unification. We
hold these truths to be self-evident: That all humans are created equal; that they
are endowed with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted
among humanity, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government,
laying it’s foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such
form, as to them, it shall be seen most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Jurisprudence indeed will dictate, that governments long established should not
be changed for light and transient cases. Accordingly, all experience has shown,
that humankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, clearly shows a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide
new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the
people of Earth, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter
their systems of government. The history of the present systems under which
we are ruled, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation all having in direct
object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over those people, and those
nations.
You can stand no place on Earth without standing on the great battle-field
of this, the greatest of all civil wars. We here highly resolve, that this world, shall
have a new birth of freedom, that this new world government of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. We, the people of the
Earth, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the
following charter for the United Earth Confederacy, under the supports, practices,
and logic of the political and economic system named Resolutionism.
Ad Pax Per Adversae --To Peace, Despite Adversity