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Bill: Second Declaration of Independence
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Liberal Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2701
Description[?]:
| As the faithful and lawful government of these lands, the lands of the people of Lodamun, we the elected legislature hereby declare full and immediate independence. Let it be resolved that: 1) All treaties, agreements, or resolutions passed in the past that inhibit our independence are hereby declared null. 2) Lodamun retains all of its land, assets, and commodities. 3) Lodamun's military are hereby declared the Military of the citizens of Lodamun and controlled by Lodamun's faithfully elected officials. The following declaration is made: 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 Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That 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 new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are 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 evinces 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. We, therefore, the Representatives of Lodamun, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these States, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Republics are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent Republics, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to Likatonian Government, and that all political connection between them and the State of Likatonia, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent Republics, 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 protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. Signed, The Elected Representatives of the People of Lodamun |
Proposals
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 67 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain |
Total Seats: 33 |
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