Declaration of Secession
OF THE GRADONIAN NATION
At this moment, when the Government of the United States, which includes the Congress, President, Supreme Court and all the offices to each therein should scorn the principles and statutes laid out by their Founding Fathers, when the resources of diplomacy and pursuit of mending the aforementioned infringements fail, when the ideals of personal freedom be both ignored and even trampled upon by the apparati of state and commerce, when the dissatisfaction of the general populace with the aforementioned grievances should engender action of a violent course, we, the current representatives of the Gradonian People in a provisional government, in concordance with the Montevideo Convention of 1933, and realizing that the efforts of the American Government are detrimental to the peace and livelihood of the people, and ,still more, the efforts to affect this though a domestic means proved fruitless, do hereby make and declare this our Declaration of Secession.
We do this because of our belief that the rights of the people are relative and not absolute, the rights of the people are natural, and the rights of people to exist in congress with one another or separate from one another in a physical, cultural, economic, and political state by due course of consent are paramount.
We do recognize, that the rights of people are relative and not absolute. Therefore, the apparatus of government, and the State being a derivative thereof, should exist to define the borders between rights insofar as it does not violate those borders itself. In the case of Gitlow v. New York, it maintained that by the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution the protections of the Bill of Rights to those of the states. However, states have, regularly, placed restrictions on the rights of individuals or allowed for the violation of the borders of rights between individuals. In this, we find dissatisfaction and that secession to be the only course of action to avoid violent recourse or suffering under the aforementioned infringements.
We do recognize, that the rights of people are natural. They are derived from the Nature of three criteria: intelligence, self-awareness, and consciousness, or are derived from the virtue of Providence. In either case, the rights of the individual are those which are recognized and not created. Therefore, the apparatus of government, and the State being a derivative thereof, should exist to recognize and defend the rights of the governed. In the case of consumption, pursuit, and otherwise use of substance, the United States have regularly failed to recognize the rights of the people. In the course of not recognizing these rights, they have willingly or obliviously infringed them. In this, we find dissatisfaction and that secession to be the only course of action to avoid violent recourse or suffering under the aforementioned infringements.
We do recognize, the rights of people to exist in congress with one another or separate from one another in a physical, cultural, economic, and political state by due course of consent. In this a person or group may exist in union with another person or group without unjust coercion. Furthermore, a person or group may exclude themselves from a union with another person or group without unjust coercion. It is by this that we are set on this course to secede. That the Gradonian nation, as a union of individuals come together without coercion, do separate ourselves from the United States, as a union separating from another without unjust coercion.
We do also recognize, that the economic faculties of the Gradonian nation are not at such a state to operate independently of those constituting the United States. Therefore, the state of separation between the two nations exist only in the political realm until such a time where the faculties of Gradonia can support themselves.
We do also recognize, that the cultural bonds of Gradonians and Texans are far stronger than any dissatisfactions with the polity which should encompass the latter. Therefore, the state of separation between the Gradonian and Texan people exist only in the political realm forever and ever. In this Gradonians freely and willingly retain their identity as Texans.
Done this day the First of January, in the year of our Lord, Two-Thousand Eighteen.