C E R T I F I E D  C O P Y
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE PARTY
(Party Charter)
JULY 4, 2000

Certified  May 12, 2001 by the Delegates to the National Convention of the Southern Independence Party

Ratified by Six States Confirmed on September 4, 2001, namely
the State SIPs of Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Virginia and Texas.

PREAMBLE

            We, the People of the Southern States, with each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a political compact between the Southern Independence Parties of the several States whose People are committed to Biblical Christian principals, limited government, State’s rights and free trade in the furtherance of the Asheville Declaration and in accordance with the will and well being of the Southern people, and invoking the favour and guidance of Almighty God, do hereby ordain and establish this constitution of the Southern Independence Party. .

 


PRELUDE

 

THE FEDERATION OF STATES INTRODUCING THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUTHERN  INDEPENDENCE  PARTY

 

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congress of the Southern Independence Party's State Delegates:

 

            Dennis Joyce, Executive Trustee of the Federation of States introduces a Constitution which has evolved after reviewing portions of the January 7, 2000 Constitution which had been prepared by the hard work of several dedicated Southerners and was finalized by them on December 15, 1999.  Notably contributing were George Kalas, Michael Hill,  Joel L. Watts,  Greg Kay, Thomas Rhyne Brown, Dr. Thomas Hiter, Ph.D., Charles Smith and several others of great importance who were supporting this effort behind the scenes and including Mike Crane who wrote much of the document.

 

            As this movement has grown and taken in members from many new States, growing pains have been experienced as would be expected.  Political organizations go through a natural metamorphism similar to organic cells as they grow and mature.  The needs and modes of operations also change, as they must, to meet the maturing challenges and yet must retain their initial seedling fundamentals and ideals.   Thus it has been in the Southern Independence Party and thus it shall continue.

 

            Foremost among these seedling ideals are the ideas of our freedoms and rights being protected by a Federation of neighbors and States of like mind thus offering each other a degree of liberty along with certain securities of person, family as well as other rights of Life, Liberty and the Freedom for the Pursuit of Happiness, the right of Contract and to Possess Property, Freedom of Religion, Expression, Speech and of the Press and of the right of the people to peacefully Assemble and to Petition the Government for the Redress of Grievances, the Freedom to Keep and Bear Arms including the right to establish State and Private Militias, and to end most of our international treaties, and to end the centralist federal control and policies over us and to free ourselves from federal personal income tax.

 

            To best secure the rights above mentioned, two main principles shown below are involved. The  identified opposition to these principles are shown as well which are involved in the eternal struggle for personal freedoms and local government.   We must hold to the principles of freedom in order to accomplish the main goal of the restoration of the free government of the Confederate States of America.  A free Confederate States government benefitting all southern people would become a standard to hold up to the people of the world.

 

1. “STATES’ RIGHTS AND INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY     vs        

                        Centralist Dictatorial Control from the Top Down by the New World Order.”

 

            2. “SECESSION AND INDEPENDENCE FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES      vs

                        Continued Occupation and Suppression by the United States.”

 

3.      “RESTORATION OF FREE AND SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENTS OF EACH OF               

THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA” CONSTITUTIONAL  CONVENTIONS

 

            To secure these rights, then, we, the undersigned, after the close of a Special Caucus of the elected Executive Committee of the Southern Party of Texas which was held in Bryan, Texas, met in the capacity of a Constitutional Convention on May 6, 2000 in order to review, incorporate and improve upon the January 7, 2000 Constitution in order to secure a more perfect Federation  Involved in this meeting were Dennis Joyce, Carol Edwards, John David Poole II, Vance J. Beaudreau and Robert Baker.

            Finally, after a draft of this Constitution was distributed and comments and suggestions were obtained, the present comprehensive Constitution was finalized, and after editing for clerical errors,  was unanimously approved and submitted to a larger Constitutional Convention of July 4, 2000 with such State leaders as were involved becoming Trustees of  a Trust Indenture called the  Federation of States and who received authority from the Trust Creator/Trustor for the management of the Trust Indenture and for the acceptance, adoption and protection of the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party.

 

            It was a primary purpose of this larger Constitutional Convention of July 4, 2000 to construct a contract (charter) in the form of a common law trust which would serve as the umbrella (national) organization for the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party.  It was a fundamental consideration of this Convention that a party Constitution would be likely to set the pattern for a later construction of a Constitution for a nation made up of a Federation of Free States and therefore much emphasis was placed on individual freedoms and the Sovereignty of the various States’ Parties while arranging for the loan of enough Sovereignty from these States’ Parties so that a cohesive and effective national Federation could be effected without too much erosion of authority and rights from the States’ Parties.  In other words, the constructed Constitution is designed to avoid unchecked top down centralist control leaving most of the control and authority at the State level and with the individual members of the party.  It was the secondary purpose of this July 4, 2000 Constitutional Convention to adopt the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party.

           

            The Trustees of this common law trust called Federation of States shall serve as a Board of Trustees for the management of the Trust Indenture and for the acceptance and protection of the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party.  This Board of Trustees is and shall be made up of State Chairman of the Southern Independence Party who shall oversee the functioning of the Trust for the purpose of providing a Federation of States of Southern Independence Parties and a limited government thereof  called “The Southern Independence Party.  But, it shall not be a purpose of the Federation of States to run or control the The Southern Independent Party which shall be run by the various State Parties belonging and pledging loyalty thereto.

 

            The Board of Trustees of The Federation of States shall hold a National Convention for the Southern Independence Party  in Birmingham, Alabama on July 28 and July 29, 2000 for introduction of the plan and the proposed Constitution for the Southern Independence Party.  The formal Adoption of this Constitution shall occur on May 11, 2001 by the Trustees (State Chairmen) of the Federation of States.   Certification of the Adopted Constitution by the Southern Independence Party Provisional Congress (two Delegates from each State Southern Independence Party for the Ratification process by the various State Southern Independence Parties’ Executive Committees or County Delegates who shall formally notify the Executive Director of the Federation of States of the ratification results.

 

                                                                        Respectfully submitted for the South,

                                                                        Board of Trustees of The Federation of States

                                                                        For the Southern Independence Party



CONTENTS

THE CONSTITUTION OF

THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE PARTY

 


PREAMBLE

 

PRELUDE

 

INDEX

 

ARTICLE I.   PRINCIPLES, GOALS, AND CODE OF CONDUCT

                     OF THE SOUTHERN  INDEPENDENCE PARTY

 

          SECTION 1:  Southern Independence Party Principles

 

          SECTION 2:  Southern Independence Party Goal

 

          SECTION 3:  Code of Conduct

 

ARTICLE II.   PARTY  LEGAL  ORGANIZATION

 

          SECTION 1:  Southern Independence Party Chartered in Oklahoma

 

          SECTION 2:  Chairman of the Southern Independence Party

 

          SECTION 3:  National Level Sergeant at Arms

 

          SECTION 4:  Congressional and Recall Sergeant at Arms

 

                  SECTION 5:  Oath of Office for the Party Chairman of the Southern

                            Independence Party     

 

          SECTION 6:  Federation of States

 

ARTICLE III.   NATIONAL   OPERATIONS

 

          SECTION 1:  Southern Independence Party Congress

 


          SECTION 2:  Southern Executive Branch (SEB)

 

          SECTION 3:  Oath of Office

 

          SECTION 4:  Eligibility for Congressional Voting

 

          SECTION 5:  Congressional Voting Procedures

 

          SECTION 6:  National Level Political Alliances

 

ARTICLE  IV.    FORMATION OF STATE PARTIES

 

          SECTION 1:  States to Organize Southern Independence Parties

 

          SECTION 2:  The Appointment of Provisional Chairmen

 

ARTICLE V.    STATE  SOUTHERN  PARTIES

 

          SECTION 1:  Sovereignty Clause

 

          SECTION 2:  Officers

 

          SECTION 3:  Endorsement of State Candidates and Platforms

 

          SECTION 4:  Membership.

 

ARTICLE  VI.   POWERS  LOANED TO THE NATIONAL  LEVEL

 

          SECTION 1:  Affiliation, Disaffiliation, Re-Affiliation of State Parties

 

          SECTION 2:   Minimum Annual National  Budget

 

          SECTION 3:   National  Funds

 

          SECTION 4:  General Platform

 

          SECTION 5:  Public Relations

 

ARTICLE VII.    LEGITIMACY  OF  AND  MEANS  TO  ENACT  BY-LAWS

 

          SECTION 1:  By-Laws


 

          SECTION 2:  Means to Enact

 

ARTICLE VIII.            ADOPTION,  CERTIFICATION,  RATIFICATION  AND

                            NOTIFICATION OF

                        THE  SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE PARTY CONSTITUTION

 

          SECTION 1:  Adoption and Certification

 

          SECTION 2:  Ratification

 

          SECTION 3:  Notification

 

ARTICLE  IX.   AMENDMENTS TO

                   THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE PARTY CONSTITUTION

 

          SECTION 1:  Submission and Certification

 

          SECTION 2:  Ratification

 

          SECTION 3:  Notification

 

ARTICLE  X.  RECALL  OF  NATIONAL  OFFICERS OF

                            THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE PARTY

 

          SECTION 1:  Bill of Notice of Recall Convention

 

          SECTION 2:  Recall

 

          SECTION 3:  Impeachment

 

          SECTION 4:  Prosecution for Civil Fraud and/or

                               Breach of Contract of Oath of Office or of Fiduciary Duty

 

          SECTION 4:  The Sergeant at Arms

 

ARTICLE  XI.  DEFINITIONS OF WORDS [To be prepared later]

 


ARTICLE  I.

 

PRINCIPLES, GOALS, AND CODE OF CONDUCT

OF THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE PARTY

 

SECTION 1:   Southern Independence Party Principles

 

Paragraph 1.  These  are  the  Principles of  the Southern Independence Party.

 

We, the officers and members of the Southern Independence Party, in accordance with the ideals of our Revolutionary and Confederate ancestors, dedicate ourselves to the following:

 

The Bill of Rights and the Spirit of the lawful Constitution of these united States of America, and the spirit of the lawful Constitution of the Confederate States of America, as established by our forefathers:

 

The right of each sovereign State to control its own internal affairs within the bounds directly expressed in the Constitution for these united States without interference from the federal government.

 

The sanctity of human life, from conception to natural death.

 

The right to be absolutely secure in person, papers, and property from government search, seizure, or other interference, within the expressed bounds of the Constitution for these united States.

 

The right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms and ammunition is absolute not requiring license, permit nor subject to any other governmental restrictions.  Individual citizens may keep and bear arms as may seem to them necessary for the defense of person, property or State from dangers or depredations either foreign or domestic.

 

The right of the individual to be free from confiscatory federal income tax  and fees.

 

The right of the sovereign States to be free of federal mandates on  issues internal to the several States.

 

The right to demand honesty and integrity in government shall be emphasized.  Funding of State or federal politicians, bureaucrats and/or governmental agencies by foreign governments or rulers shall be prohibited.  Likewise, the funding of such entities by corporations, labor unions or insurance and banking interests, foreign or domestic, shall also be prohibited.

 

The righteousness of the Cause of our Revolutionary and Confederate ancestors, in resisting tyranny and subsequent invasion, and the right to display their symbols when and where the people of the sovereign States see fit. Indeed, the rights of all races and cultures to cherish and respect their roots and heritage shall be upheld.         


                             

Art. I.

The right to worship Almighty God in the manner that the individual citizen sees fit, and to conduct that worship, with its associated symbols and ceremonies, when, where, and how it seems to them right, individually or as a group, while affording others a similar right.

 

The right to expect no interference with religious beliefs, symbols and practices by government so long as the rights of others are not being violated.

 

These rights, we the officers and members of the Southern Independence Party, do and will uphold with our hearts, minds, and bodies; and into the hands of the living God we place our lives, our liberty, and our honor, as individuals, as sovereign States, and as a nation, and we pray for His mercy, guidance, and strengthening power. Here we stand, and may God defend our rights and preserve our freedom.

 

SECTION 2: Southern Independence Party Goal

 

Paragraph 1. The Goal of the Southern Independence Party (SIP) is complete independence, liberty and freedom for the Southern People from these united States of America by having the legislatures of the various Southern States involved vote a Bill of Re-Affirmation of their Statehood in the Confederate States of America followed by Bills of Liberation and Termination of Occupation by the United States of America preceded in those States where still needed by legal political secession.

 

Paragraph 2.  We recognize that self-determination through democratic elections is in accordance with our principles of sovereignty.  We also recognize that the Confederate States of America never surrendered and thus has not legally ceased to exist, but is simply dormant awaiting Re-Affirmation of Statehood by the previous States belonging thereto and the provisional staffing of National offices and elections thereto.  We do not recognize the involuntary re-establishment of Statehood in the United States which was accomplished with military force applied by the occupying foreign army of the United States against the will of the people.  We do recognize the reality of the rule by force through these various Southern Satellite States created by the United States as mock State governments of the people of those States and we intend to abide peacefully in the State Election Laws therein. We have no designs of overthrowing the United States Government, but of simply regaining our independence as a Southern Nation.

 

Paragraph 3.    The Southern Independence Party shall endeavor to encourage its affiliated (federated) State Parties to run candidates for office for Governor and the Legislature of their State as well as other State and local offices they might choose to try to elect.

 

Paragraph 4.    The Southern Independence Party shall lay plans for the eventual candidacy of persons for office in a National Legislature (Senate and House of Representatives) and for a President of The Confederate States of America when eight (8) States shall have legally Re-affirmed their Statehood in the Confederate States of America who have already (in 1860-61) seceded from the United States.

 


 

Art. I.

 

Paragraph 5.    The Southern Independence Party shall establish committees to study plans that might be put into effect in the event of political Renewal of Statehood in the Confederate States of America for the establishment of good and peaceful international relations and economic ties with the United States, Mexico and other foreign nations with responsible disengagement from treaties and debts with proper arrangement for the satisfaction thereof, including the South’s portion of the national debt now existing so that the good people of the other states of the United States need not unfairly suffer as a result of our independence.

 

 

 

SECTION 3: Code of Conduct

 

Paragraph 1.  All Southern Independence Party officers shall at all times publicly conduct themselves as befits Southern ladies and gentlemen, as according to their signed oath of office and in accordance with the Constitution, By-Laws, committee rules, and the established Code of Conduct of the Southern Independence Party.

 

Paragraph 2. The Code of Conduct shall be given complete legitimacy by this Constitution and shall be recognized by both Houses of the Southern Independence Party Congress, the Southern Executive Branch and by the State Southern parties. The Code of Conduct and the By-Laws shall stand separate from the Constitution as supporting documents to this Constitution.

 

Paragraph 3.  Upon ratification of this Constitution, a committee shall be selected by the Southern Independence Party Congress from a list of names submitted by the several States to write a Code of Conduct. The Committee shall be limited to a total of five (5) committee members, selected from the several State parties , one (1) committee member selected from the Southern Independence Party Congress, and several advisors, the number of whom to be determined by the Committee Chairman, to serve in a non-voting capacity.

 

 

 

 


Art. II.

ARTICLE  II.   PARTY  LEGAL  ORGANIZATION

 

SECTION 1: Southern Independence Party Chartered by its Constitution held by the Federation of States Trust.

 

The Southern Independence Party is Chartered by the Trustees of the Federation of States domiciled in Atoka, Oklahoma, Confederate States of America under the control and occupation of the United States of America.

 

 

SECTION 2: Chairman of the Southern Independence Party

                   (Party  Chairman)

 

Paragraph 1.  The National Chairman of the Southern Independence Party shall be elected by a 51% majority vote of the Congress (joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives) of the Southern Independence Party meeting in a National Convention in Birmingham, Alabama on July 29, 2000 to serve a term of office of one (1) year and may be re-elected for a second term in succession.  The Chairman of the Southern Independence Party must be a registered voter who is a member of the Southern Independence Party who shall not participate in any other political party during the year of his term of office.

 

Paragraph 2. The National Chairman of the Southern Independence Party shall be the chief and legal executive officer of the party, but shall serve with limited authority.   The National Party Chairman of the Southern Independence Party shall not have authority over the normal operations and meetings of Congress except when the Chairman of the Southern Independence Party is presiding as Chair over a meeting or open convention of the entire Southern Independence Party in which case the Party Chairman shall preside and administer the convention under Robert’s rules of Order, 9th Edition.

                                                                                                                                   

Paragraph 3.  The National Chairman of the Southern Independence Party shall have overall administrative authority which shall normally be largely delegated to the Executive Director of the Southern Executive Branch (SEB), except for the presiding responsibilities as Chair to the entire Southern Independence Party and for those responsibilities involving solely legalities and reports in and for the various State PACs.

 

Paragraph 4.  During a vacancy of the office of Executive Director, the National Chairman of the Southern Independence Party shall function as the Temporary Executive Director of the SEB.  The Chairman of the Southern Independence Party also shall appoint persons to fill the various offices of the Southern Executive Branch (SEB) with the recommendations of the Executive Director.  The appointed persons, including the Executive Director, for the various offices of the SEB must have their appointments approved by a 51% majority vote of the Senate prior to serving on the SEB.

 

Paragraph 5.  The National Chairman of the Southern Independence Party (Party Chairman) shall be

sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court and shall sign an oath of office.   The Party Chairman

Art. II.

 

may not be removed by Congress except by Impeachment with a two thirds (2/3rds) vote as specified in Article X.

 

                                                                                                                  

SECTION 3:  National Level Sergeant at Arms

 

A National Sergeant at Arms shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Southern Independence Party who may be a paid professional security guard or law enforcement officer.  The National Sergeant at Arms shall maintain order according to the Code of Conduct and under the direction of the Chairman of the Southern Independence Party during any convention or meeting of the Southern Independence Party.

 

 

SECTION 4: Congressional and Recall Sergeant at Arms

 

The Sergeant at Arms of Congress (both one for the Senate and another for the House) shall cooperate with the National Sergeant of Arms and serve under his direction when he is present.  A recall Sergeant of Arms, however, shall temporarily preside as the security officer in charge during a recall procedure.

 

 

SECTION 5: Oath of Office for the Party Chairman of the Southern Independence Party

 

Paragraph 1. The following shall be the Oath of Office. It shall be signed and submitted according to the guidelines set forth in this Document shall be sworn to by the Party Chairman elect and administered by the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court.

 

I_                           have read, fully understand and ascribe to the officially stated goals and principles of the Southern Independence Party as outlined in this Constitution, and within the platform of the Southern Independence Party. 

 

By my signature, I hereby affirm and pledge to work to further the goals and platform of the Southern Independence Party. I realize that if I fail to uphold these principles or found to have willfully violated the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party or By-Laws thereof,  I may be impeached from my Southern Independence Party office and agree to immediately legally resign  as Chairman of the Southern Independence Party should that occur.

 

                                                                                                                                                

Chairman of the Southern Independence Party                          President of the Senate

 

                                                                                       

Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court

 

Art. II.

 

SECTION 6:  Federation  of  States

 

Paragraph 1.  The Federation of States is a separate organization which, by its nature, mission and composition, make it a fully affiliated partner of the Southern Independence Party and which was established on July 4, 2000 in Atoka, Oklahoma, as a common law trust composed of the federated State Chairmen (or Governors) of the Southern Independence Parties of the various States affiliated therewith.  Each such federated State Chairman (or Governor) shall have one vote on the Board of Trustees of the Federation of States and shall serve as a council of Chairmen or Governors or perhaps both initially and until all States have Governors who have federated therein.

 

Paragraph 2.  Only elected or provisional State Chairman (or later SIP elected Governors) are to be voting members. The various State Chairmen of such State Southern Parties are bound together under a written contract (Oath of honor) whereby they become Trustees or voting participants of such a council of Governors (State Chairmen). The coordinating value of such a council and the value as a think-tank group is obvious. Still, the agreements or plans made by such a council of Chairmen (Governors) is not binding upon the various State Parties until they assent thereto by vote of their respective State Party organizations or Legislatures in the case of Governors.

 

Paragraph 3.  These State Chairmen or Governors (Trustees of the Federation of States) shall elect an Executive Trustee called Chairman of the Federation of States to preside from time to time by simple majority vote.  In some ways the Federation shall function similar to councils of Governors currently existing for the Republican and for the Democratic Parties.

 

Paragraph 4.  The Federation of States shall serve as a Chartering organization not requiring a corporate charter nor the approval of the Federal Election Commission to charter States under the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party which will work to get local and State officials elected who support the goals of the Restoration of the Confederate States of America and the Liberation of our Southern States from Occupation by the United States.  The Chartering of certain States will be particularly helpful where their State law requires a large number of members to be enlisted first before being allowed to register as a political party.  As a Chartered organization, the people of those States can function legally up until they have grown large enough to registered with their State as a Political Party.  

Paragraph 5.  After (6 or 8) States establish initial SIP organizations which are ready to move forward the Federation of States shall convene in a national organizational convention to establish the national Southern Independence Party.

 

Paragraph 6.  Once the national SIP is established, the overseeing coordination of the various Chartered SIP States by the Federation of States becomes greatly diminished since most coordination as well as party administration shall be conducted by the national Southern Independence Party itself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art. II.

 

Paragraph 7.  Summary.   The Federation of States (Council of State Chairmen or Governors)

shall:

(1)  Serve as a State Chairmans’ or Governors’ think tank organization which will work to effect some coordination of effort among the States as well as to plan for a peaceful negotiated separation from the USA.  The Federation of States, as a separate organization, shall not be subject to the control of the national Southern Independence Party, but shall function in cooperation with the Southern Independence Party in a specifically limited way as defined in this Constitution of the Southern Independence Party.

 

(2)  Study and offer amendments proposals on the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party (SIP Constitution) as seems prudent to the various State Chairmen  which would be introduced in the Congress of the national Southern Independence Party for the amendment process.

 

(3)  Work to  introduce  the  Southern Independence Party (SIP) to the various unorganized Southern States and promote the SIP Constitution as an interim organizing multi-State document designed to not only provide order without centralization of control or sacrificing State’s rights and sovereignty to assist in the conversion of the occupied States to free States and later to Liberated States offering their allegiance to the Confederate States of America.  Of course, once the Confederate States of America is restored as a functioning government, an amended CSA Constitution of 1861 shall be presented to the States for Ratification according law.

 

(4)  Charter new Provisional (SIP) party officers in new developmental States prior to a State caucus election and provide advice and, if requested, some assistance in their efforts.

 


(5)   To assist and/or coordinate multi-State  rallies needed to promote the Political/Governmental, Cultural/Heritage and/or Religious Faith and Freedom Heritage efforts.

 

(6)  Hear and attempt to arbitrate complaints unofficially from other State SIP Chairmen or Governors concerning misunderstandings or wrongful acts by a particular State party and perhaps resolve the problems without going public with them and hopefully avoiding a split. 

 

(7)   Organizing Body.  Arrange for a National Convention to introduce the Southern Independence Party (SIP) to two delegates from each involved State in order to form the national Southern Independence Party once six (6) or more States are Chartered and ready.

 

(8)   Constitutional Court.  The Federation of States shall serve as the electing body who will elect from among their own members (State Chairmen or Governors) a panel, not to exceed nine judges for the Constitutional Court who shall then safeguard the SIP Constitution and have jurisdiction over constitutional definitions, questions and meanings within the Federation of States and the national Southern Independence Party.

 

Art. II.

 

            Such elected judges shall only serve as long as they are a State Governor (or SIP Chairman in the absence of a member Governor).

 

(9)   Transition.  The Federation of States shall serve as a coordinating and transitional planning body assisting the various Liberated or Seceding States and presents a provisional government during the interim between a general Liberation movement by nine (9) or more States and the formal Restoration of the Confederate States of America by their appointment of a Provisional President of the Confederacy and the formation of Provisional Representatives to the two Houses of Congress of the Confederate States of America.

 

(10)   Elections.  The Constitutional Court of the Federation of States shall serve as the coordinating body for the timing of State Elections to replace the national Provisional officers of the Confederate States of America.  The Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court shall provide the function of swearing in and signing oaths of contract for office by the elected officials of the CSA.

 

(11)   Confederate Security Council.  To serve as a Board of Advisors to the President of the Confederate States of America instead of an ambiguous and non-elected nor constitutionally mandated National Security Council.  In other words, the Council of State Governors would serve as the Board of Advisors to the President of the Confederacy.

 

(12)   Additional Check and Balance against Executive usurpation of authority.   To serve as an additional and new  group empowered to initiate Impeachment Proceedings against a President of the Confederacy or Judge on the CSA Supreme Court (in addition to the CSA House of Representatives as now provided).   Such Impeachment Proceedings would still have to be finalized by the CSA Senate.

 

 


Art. III.

ARTICLE III.

NATIONAL OPERATIONS

 

SECTION 1: SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE PARTY CONGRESS

 

Paragraph 1. Legislative Branch.  The legislative body of the Southern Independence Party will be the Southern Independence Party Congress, which shall be composed of two separate houses, a  Senate and a  House of Representatives. 

 

Paragraph 2.  There shall be a Senate made up of two Senators from each of the Federated and affiliated State Southern Independence Parties. Each State party will determine their method of selecting their representatives to the   National  Senate.

 

(1)  The Senate shall elect from among their members, a President of the Senate to preside over the  Senate for a term of one year with a 51% majority vote of the Senators.    Removal of the President of the Senate prior to the expiration of his term of office shall require a 2/3rds vote of the Senators.  The President of the Senate shall preside over meetings of the Senate under Robert’s rules of Order, 9th Edition.  The Senate shall approve appointment of a Secretary by the Senate President.

 

            (2) In addition to the joint sessions of the Congress, the Senate shall meet at least once a year alone and more often as required. Special meetings may be held by E-mail.

 

            (3) In the absence of the President of the Senate, the Chairman of the Southern Independence Party may preside or appoint a Senator as Temporary Chairman of the Senate.

 

            (4) Special meetings of the Senate may be called by the President of the Senate or by three Senators.

 

Paragraph 3. And, there shall be a House of Representatives, made up of elected  representatives called  Congressmen,  allowed for their State based upon population census.   (See the table shown below).  Or, in other words, eventually it shall be desirable that there be one Congressman authorized for each 100,000 voting  age citizens, more or less,  divided up into districts strictly drawn up only by the States in question and not tampered with by the Federation of States, nor by Constitutional Court Judges.  Only if State lines (borders) were being adjusted between States would this involve the Federation of States (Council of State Party Chairmen or State Governors or a mixture of both where a Federation Governor has not been elected).

 

(1) The House of Representatives shall elect from among their members a Speaker of the House who shall serve one year terms of office.  The Speaker of the House shall preside over meetings of the House of Representatives under Robert’s Rules of Order, 9th Edition and the term of the Speaker shall be one year.  In the Speaker’s absence or for a special meeting which the Speaker will not call, then by the request of three (3) States acting through their two


Art. III.

 

Congressmen for a total of at least six (6) Congressmen of the currently serving State Representatives to the Congress or by the Executive Director of the SEB if concurred in by three State Chairmen a special or emergency meeting may be held of the House of Representatives and, in the case of the absence of or lack of cooperation by the Speaker of the House, the States requesting the special or emergency meeting may elect a Temporary Chairman to conduct said meeting.  Such special meetings may be held by E-mail with procedures proscribed in the By-Laws of the House of Representatives.

 

(2) State Party organization shall proceed by first establishing a Provisional Chairman in a new State, which shall be accomplished by the Chairman of the Federation of States but whose appointment must b