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WHY A FEDERATION OF STATES?
By Dennis Joyce, Chairman of the Board of Chairmen
What is the Federation of States (FoS) and who belongs and controls it? The Federation of States
was organized on July 4, 2000 in Atoka, Oklahoma and is organized under the laws of contract as a common law contractual Trust. The only voting members therein are to be the various State Chairmen of the Southern Independence Party Chartered States and later, instead of Party Chairmen, the Governors of those Chartered States who are members of the and who have been elected by the Southern Independence Party of their respective States. The Federation of States is controlled by the Board or Council of these State Chairmen (or Governors) with each Chairman or Governor having one vote. These shall elect an Executive Trustee 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.
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 State can function legally up until they have grown large enough to registered with their State as a Political Party.
In summary, the Federation of States (Council of State Chairmen) shall:
1. Serve as a State Chairman’s 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.
2. Study and amend the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party (SIP Constitution) as seems prudent to the various State Chairmen.
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, the 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 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. Arrange for a National Convention to introduce the Southern Independence Party (SIP) to two delegates from each involved State in order to form the Southern Independence Party on a multi-state basis once six (6) or more States are Chartered and ready.
8. Serve as the electing body who will elect from among their own members (State Chairmen or Governors) a panel of 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 Southern Independence Party. 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. Later, the Federation of States shall serve as a coordinating 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. The Federation of States (Council of Governors) shall serve as the organizing body of National Confederate Elections to replace the Provisional officers of the Confederate States of America..
11. To serve as a Board of Advisors to the President of the CSA 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. To serve as an additional and new group empowered to initiate Impeachment Proceedings against a President 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.
Note The historical differences of the CSA in 1861 and today. (Then, most of the State elected officials actually represented the people in their states. Today, most of the higher officials in the various States are only elected if desired by Washington or the national committees of the Republican or Democratic Parties.) Then, infiltration and subversion was not developed to the degree that it is today. Also, there are far more governmental agents than before. Federalism is far more entrenched today than in 1861. Women and Blacks vote today, where they did not in 1861. However, the population of the South is a much greater percentage of the whole United States today than in 1861 and more particularly when considering the likely lack of support that the U.S. could expect from Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Mass., Conn., Rd. Island, New Hampshire and possibly Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Southern States also are now heavily industrialized, especially in Petrochemicals, than in 1861 when most industry was in the North.
Note: Ukranian and Georgian successes in gaining independence from Russia after the breakdown of the U.S.S.R.
THE FEDERATION OF STATES
December 18, 2000
An organization called the "Federation of States" was established on July 4, 2000 which is designed to serve the functions of an Executive Director. The Federation is organized as a common law trust. 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 requested to be bound together under a contract 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.After (6 or 8) States establish initial SIP organizations which are ready to move forward we shall convene in a national organizational convention to establish the Southern Independence Party. Once the SIP is established, the overseeing control by the Federation of States becomes greatly diminished to more of a think-tank coordinating organization and the repository of the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party.
At this time, there are no paid positions either in the Federation or any of the State affiliated Southern Independence Parties. Also, the treasuries of these parties and the Federation are very scant. We are new and growing fast. We are different in the sense that this is no game for political players to have fun with. The awesome reality of responsibility stares us in the face.
Also, we have already had the familiar attempt of wealthy individuals to control the organization. The original Southern Party fell under the control of a dictator who was financed by a wealthy "angel" which caused an early split. Meanwhile, serious efforts of infiltration have been underway to divert, neuter, or destroy the effort. We look closely at each other for the fruits we produce as being one of the best gauges of what a person really is and what they stand for. We know we shall always have various agents as members who are from State and Federal (U.S.) governments as well as paid agents of enemy Tax Exempt Foundations and organization such as Southern Poverty Law Center, for example. There is no way to prevent this, but we can usually spot such before too much time has elapsed by their fruits which they will eventually bear.
There are several Southern organizations which contribute to the movement in various ways. There is the League of the South (an educational club-type organization), there are various re-enactment groups who re-enact historical battles, there is the SCV which is an organization called the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of Confederate Veterans, the Southern Legal Resource Center, Black Confederate Soldier Foundation. There also are heritage organizations and historical societies and museums.
But, only in the last couple of years has there been any real effort to organize legal political parties throughout the South to run candidates for county and State offices and no Federal (U.S.) offices with the goal in mind of the eventual restoration of the Confederate States of America. This new movement has the very unique position for a political party in that we are attempting to organize a distinct cultural people, the people of the South and Southerners are a people and not a race. We are organizing a people with a distinct national origin, that of the Confederate States of America.
We are organizing a people who have a greater interest in Constitutional law than most other people in various northern States and, we are offering Liberation and Independence to an Occupied people who want their freedom and who are finally willing to take the legal and political steps to achieve these goals as their ancestors did in 1776 and again in 1861. The people of the South are very tired of the yolk of economic (IRS) slavery, political control, civil harassment, educational cultural cleansing, genocide against them for their national origin and even governmental interference with their religious beliefs and practices.
We are not now planning on organizing States which do not at least share some of the independent cultural heritage of the South such as California, Oregon or Washington State as part of the new Confederacy because of historical and cultural differences. We would, however, welcome individuals and/or groups as supporters of the Federation of States and put you on the Chairman’’s monthly report list for a donation of $50 or more.