wellspring/00-declaration-of-individual-sovereignty.md

The unanimous declaration of all rational individuals:

As the founders of the Forerunning republic said, "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Reason entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

We concur with those founders and follow their example by issuing this statement declaring our causes for separation:

Whereas it is an axiom that that existence exists; and that the act of grasping this implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness to perceive it; and moreover, whereas to be is to be something, of a definite nature and all existents are identities:

We who are gathered here hold this to be axiomatic and self-reaffirming: that Existence is Identity and Consciousness is Identification.

We hold that humankind are rational animals posessing the ability to think and produce the material values (i.e, private property) required for their own lives and flourishing by means of their mind which is their basic means of survival. The initiation of force severs the link between rational judgment and action by preventing human beings from acting on their own judgement and leaves the person's mind impotent; and thus is anti-human. The right to one's own life ultimately consists of the right of every person to apply their mind's judgement to the task of their own survival and the achievement of their own values, for their own sake. Each person has an inalienable right to their own life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of happiness.

We hold that securing these rights means to eliminate the initiation of force from human affairs; and that the sole role of a proper government is to secure these rights; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is implied by the right of rational creatures to their own lives, that they may alter or abolish such government, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to enforce this right to rational life to the end that they may pursue their happiness.

We lay these charges against {_hostile government/political status quo/ruling entity_}, that it has set itself up to be an enemy of the right of rational creatures to pursue their lives by reason, subjecting said rational creatures to a life lower than the rational -- to a life lower than human. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world:

{_Show cause by enumeration of facts_}

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the sovereign right of rational creatures to life qua rational being, embodied in the form of {_name your political entity_} in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the final jurisdiction of reason for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the Law of Identity and of our right to life, solemnly publish and declare, That {_name your political entity_} is, and by right ought to be, Free and Independent; that it is Absolved from all Allegiance to {_hostile entity_}, and that all political connection between them and the {hostile entity}, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that being Free and Independent, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the final jurisdiction of reason, we mutually stand together in this cause, staking our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.