The California Declaration of Independence

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The California Declaration of Independence

A Petition for California's Secession from the Federal Government

"... 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."

-- United States Declaration of Independence


Now is the time for California to grow up and take her rightful
place as an equal among all the world's great nations by becoming
her own separate country.

Never will California reach her own bright destiny while she
remains under the control of an uncaring and distant federal father
who is openly controlled by forces hostile to the sovereign
prosperity of Californians.

Should a federal government which uses California for her money,
which uses California for her resources, which uses California
for her technology, which uses California for her entertainments,
which abandoned California in her time of need -- should such
an institution control and rule California?

Only Californians can and should decide California's future.

Secession, after decades of federal misrule, is the only option
remaining for Californians.

Free California from the lumbering federal dinosaur and we
will see a bright new Californian civilization unlike anything
the world has ever seen.
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