The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution for the united states of America.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people.
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836)
This Declaration of Rights is declared to be a part of this
Constitution, and shall never be violated on any pretence whatever. And
in order to guard against the transgression of the high powers which we
have delegated, we declare that every thing in this bill of rights
contained, and every other right not hereby delegated, is reserved to
the People.
All political power is inherent in the People, and all free governments
are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit; and
they have at all times an inalienable right to alter their government in
such manner as they may think proper.
TEXAS CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS
That the general, great and essential principles
of liberty and free government may be recognized
and established, we declare:
Sec. 1. FREEDOM AND SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE. Texas is a free and independent
State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the
maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend
upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to
all the States.
Sec. 2. INHERENT POLITICAL POWER; REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT. All
political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are
founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith
of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican
form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all
times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in
such manner as they may think expedient.
The Texas Declaration of Independence
The Proposed New Texas Declaration of Independence
(November 7, 2012)
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and
property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and
for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far
from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and
inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers
for their oppression.
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they
have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the
whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without
their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of
sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which
every interest is disregarded but that of the army and International Bankers,
both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of
power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation
is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of
freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution
discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being
regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and
mercenary armies sent forth to force a new socialist government upon them at the
point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the
part of the government (Corporation), anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved
into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature,
the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of
the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political
affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right
towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to
abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to
rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare
and happiness.
Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the
public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is
therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the
hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political
connection with the Corporation A.K.A. UNITED STATES, and assuming an independent attitude
among the nations of the earth.
In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the American nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the
government (Corporation), who having overturned
the constitution of the country, now offers us the cruel alternative,
either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit
to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the
sword.
It has sacrificed our welfare to the state (Corporation), by which our
interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial
course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of government,
by a hostile majority, and this too,
notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms for the
establishment of a separate state government, and have, in accordance
with the provisions of the national constitution, presented to the
general Congress a republican constitution, which was, without just
cause, contemptuously rejected.
It threatens to incarcerate in a dungeon, for a long time, without trial our citizens,
for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure
the acceptance of our constitution, and the establishment of a state
government.
It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial
by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for
the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.
It has failed to establish any public system of education, although
possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and
although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are
educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil
liberty, or the capacity for self government.
It has suffered the military commandants and agents, stationed among us, to
exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon
the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military
superior to the civil power.
It has dissolved, the Constitution of the UNITED STATES, and is obliging our representatives to fly for their lives from the
seat of government, thus depriving us of the fundamental political right
of representation.
It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered
military detachments to seize and carry them into the Interior without
trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of the laws
and the constitution.
It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce, by commissioning
foreign desperadoes, and authorizing them to seize our vessels, and
convey the property of our citizens to far distant ports for
confiscation.
It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the
dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion,
calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries,
rather than the glory of the true and living God.
It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our
defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to
tyrannical governments.
It has invaded our country both by sea and by land, with intent to lay
waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large
mercenary army advancing, to carry on against us a war of extermination.
It has, through its emissaries, incited the merciless savage, of the Tank, Helicopter, Jet and Drone, and other Black Op's programs to massacre the inhabitants of our
defenseless frontiers.
It hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it since 1845, the
contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and
hath continually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt, and
tyrranical government.
These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of
Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.
We appealed to our American brethren for assistance. Our appeal has
been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response
has yet been heard from the Interior. We are, therefore, forced to the
melancholy conclusion, that the American people have acquiesced in the
destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military
government and Police State; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self
government.
The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation.
We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas,
in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the
necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our
political connection with the American nation has forever ended, and that
the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and
independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and
attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious
of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit
the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of
nations.
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Now that the Nov 6, 2012 Election is complete, The American people have acquiesced in the
destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military
government and Police State; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self
government.
A Man I know E-Mailed me and said,
"This
presidential election serves as a clear signal from the rest of the
Union to Texas - we do not care for your right of local self-government
and we do not share your values.
Tonight, the Union seceded from Texas.
While
the alternative candidate could not have alone saved the United States
from the looming economic disaster nor could he single-handedly have
repaired the damage to our liberties and the Constitution which is the
sole thread holding this union together, his opponent represented a
descent into the final destruction of the republican form of government
envisioned by the Founders of the United States and Texas.
With this, Texas cannot abide.
It is our duty to stand tall and become the example of what a free and independent people can be.
I
urge all Texans to stand with us as together as we follow the examples
of the heroes of 1836 and declare that Texas is and forever will be free
and independent."
God Bless Texas!!!!!!!
