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THE CHATTANOOGA DECLARATION
The Chattanooga Declaration was drafted and approved by delegates to the Second North American Secessionist Convention on 4 October 2007.
We, the delegates of the Secession movements represented at the Second North American Secessionist Convention, acknowledging our differences, yet agree on the following truths:
1. The deepest questions of human liberty and government facing our time go beyond right and left, and in fact have made the old right-left split meaningless and dead.
2. The privileges, monopolies, and powers that private corporations have won
from government threaten everyone’s health, prosperity, and liberty, and have
already killed American self-government by the people.
3. The power of corporations endangers liberty as much as government power,
especially when they are combined as in the American Empire.
4. Liberty can only survive if political power is returned from faraway and
self-interested centers to local communities and States.
5. The American Empire is no longer a nation or a republic, but has become a
tyrant aggressive abroad and despotic at home.
6. The States of the American union are and of right ought to be, free and
self-governing.
7. Without secession, liberty and self-government can never be sustained, and
diversity among human societies can never survive.
North American * Secession and Independence Movements
*Hawaii and Puerto Rico are obviously not part of North America, no offense intended
Active Secession Movements Around the World
One Nation Indivisible? A Study of Secession and the Constitution