Radical Consultation

The Charter of Real Nations
Conference Draft approved by Radcon Planning Group on 5th August 2006

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 shown, 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.

Such has been the patient sufferance of many suppressed peoples; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

To that end we solemnly declare our right and our full intention to establish our own government of our own people exercising all the powers pertaining to an independent, free and democratic nation.

To that end we also declare our right to make such treaties as we deem right. And in the spirit of liberty and democracy we hereby announce our intention to seek membership of the League of Real Nations with the clearly declared support of at least two thirds of the people we represent for both the Charter of Real Nations and for any terms that might be attached to the approval of our application.

We seek full acknowledgement of our rightful status in no spirit of animosity or revenge of our oppressors. We aim to live in peace, friendship and harmony with all nations everywhere and to make our own special contribution to the adventure of civilisation.

We therefore acknowledge the origin of the foregoing in the historic Declaration of Independence of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and hereby declare at the meeting of THE THIRD RADICAL CONSULTATION in September 2006 in Swindon that The League be established with the following purpose:

1. To defend the political, economic, geographic and cultural integrity of its members especially against the expansionist tendencies of larger nations and federations of larger states.
2. To support human scale groupings such as ethnic groups and bioregions in their struggle for autonomous independence by providing such financial support and diplomatic status as such peoples may need to establish a viable government in exile.
3. To achieve the maximum degree of non-centralised political and economic operation within its own frontiers by the empowerment of village communities whether urban or rural.
4. To reduce global war dangers by refusing to participate in any military, political or economic alliance with bigger nations.
5. To promote the principle of the human scale.
6. To promote the concept of dual nationality so people dwelling in a homeland will bear passports to homeland and nation state.
7. To promote the concept of dual internationality to enable homelands, nations or states to be a member both of the League of Real Nations and of the United Nations Organisation.