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 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.