Proposed Constitution of the Second Republic of Texas

Before Texas secedes, I would like to propose a new constitution that provides more safeguards & protects the will of the people as well as asserting the sovereignty of the people. The new Republic of Texas would have privacy rights, Right to keep & bear arms, low taxes, less regulations, Laissez-Faire economics, ability to enforce immigration policies, more accountable public officials, liberal democracy such as recall, citizens veto, due process, better respect for the role of juries. With this proposed constitution, Texas will become the Lichtenstein of America.

Preamble
We the sovereign citizens of Texas hereby decree that we are an independent federal republic formed to  establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity--invoking divine favor and guidance--do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Federal Republic of Texas.

Government has no inherent rights or powers, neither implicit nor explicit. This Constitution assigns certain functions to the artificial entities called governments created by this Constitution and authorizes those artificial entities to take certain actions necessary to accomplish the assigned functions, but at no time shall a government demand service of its people, nor shall the supreme and sovereign right of the individual be infringed. All powers which the federal government shall have shall be enumerated in this Constitution, and there shall be no unenumerated powers.

Article I

Section I: Territory
The territory of the Federal Republic of Texas shall consist of any counties in the Republic of Texas as well as any cities, towns, or lands within any county(s) of Texas.

The Federal Republic of Texas shall be open to all counties in the state of Texas who by their regional convention, election, or plebecite, agree to ratify this Constitution.

Any county that was part of the U.S. State of Texas can automatically apply for admission into the Federal Republic of Texas through a majority of votes in either regional convention, election, or plebecite.

No jurisdiction can be admitted as a seperate county that has less than 40,000 freeman or has less than 1000 square miles; but this provision shall not apply to any county that was part of the U.S. State of Texas.

Section II: Sovereign Citizenship
The individual people are sovereign & are not subordinates of the state. Sovereign Citizenship shall consist of any legal resident of Texas & U.S. citizen as of November 16, 2012. Sovereign citizenship must be recognized as valid in any jurisdiction in the Federal Republic of Texas. Persons gaining sovereign citizenship must swear alligency to the Federal Republic of Texas. No person which has levied war against the Federal Republic of Texas shall be eligable for sovereign citizenship.

Section III: Ratification & Secession
Any county that has gained a majority of the popular vote or convention delegates shall be immediately admitted as ratifying this constitution of the Federal Republic of Texas.

Any county that has voted by popular vote or county convention to secede from this union, that county will no longer be bound by the laws of the Federal Republic of Texas.

If force of arms is used against any county to prevent any vote for ratifying this constitution or seceding from Texas, the Federal Republic of Texas shall vote to regard such a county as having ratified this constitution or successfully seceded until such an entity is free to determine its political fate.

Section IV: Properties of the United States
Any properties & agencies operating within the Federal Republic of Texas shall upon admission of said county shall be immedietly assumed by the Federal Republic of Texas, but the Federal Government shall not be liable for any debts or obligations of the United States of America.

Article II

Section I: Legislative powers

All legislative powers herein delegated shall be vested in a Congress of the Federal Republic of Texas, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section II: House of Representatives

1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States in a primary ballot regardless of party, and a secondary ballot between the two greatest votegetters regardless of party should no candidate receive a majority; and the electors in each State shall be sovereign freemen of the Federal Republic of Texas or of the single County, and have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature; but no person of foreign birth, not a sovereign citizen of the Federal Republic of Texas or of the single County, shall be allowed to vote for any officer, civil or political, State or Federal.
2. No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained the age of majority, and be a sovereign citizen of the Federal Republic of Texas or of the county(s) he represents, and who shall not when elected, be an inhabitant of that County in which he shall be chosen, and no person shall continually be a Representaitve for longer than three consecutive full terms.
3. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several Counties, which may be included within this Republic, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of sovereign citizens. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the Federal Republic of Texas, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct, and such enumeration shall be limited to the counting of the number of sovereign citizens and residents, and such enumeration shall be forbidden by any government for any other purpose. The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every 70,000, but each county with 25,000 or more sovereign citizens shall have one representative unless the county's population is less than 25,000 sovereign citizens in which the event shall be to merge a single representative with neighboring counties that don't exceed the ratio limit. At no time shall a County be entitled to a number of Representatives exceeding 150% of the number of Representatives allocated to the next lowest populous County. Additonal counties other than these granted entrance into the Federal Republic of Texas, and portions of Counties smaller than 75% of the current configuration admitted as Counties, shall enter with one Representative, and their representation shall be appropriately increased after the next decennial census.
4. When vacancies happen in the representation from any county the sherriff thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
5. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment; except that any judicial or other Federal officer, resident and acting solely within the limits of any County, may be impeached by a vote of two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature thereof.

 Section III. The Senate

1. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Texas shall be composed of two Senators from each County, chosen for six years, in a manner to be determined by the Legislature thereof, and each Senator shall have one vote.

    2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year; of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year; and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year; so that one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, another Senator shall be appointed by the Governor of the State to serve until such time as another Senator may be chosen in the manner regularly determined by the Legislature.

  3.No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained five years after the age of majority, and be a sovereign citizen of the Federal Republic of Texas or of the County he represents; and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the County for which he shall be chosen, nor shall any Senator be eligible to serve more than two consecutive full terms.
  4.The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Texas shall be president of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.
  5.The Senate shall choose their other officers; and also a president pro tempore in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the Federal Republic of Texas.
  6.The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the Federal Republic of Texas is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.
  7.Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit under the Federal Republic of Texas; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment according to law.

Section IV. Choosing and Assembling the Congress

1. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each County by the Council thereof, subject to the provisions of this Constitution; but the Congress may, at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the times and places of choosing Senators. All Representatives, and all Senators directly elected by the people, shall be chosen for their regular terms at a single and simultaneous General Election once every two years in the following manner: the candidates shall stand for election all at the same time, without regard to party, and if no candidate shall receive a majority of the vote, a secondary election between the two gretaest votegetters shall occur not more than 35 days after the original vote.
2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year; and such meeting shall be on the first Tueday after the first Monday in January, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day.

Section V. Operation of the Congress

1. A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide.
2. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of four-fifths of the whole number, expel a member. However, when a Senator or Rperesentative is so expelled, he shall be entitled to a re-election, or re-selection, within 60 days, under the same manner in which he became a Senator or Representative. And should either a Senator or a Representative having been expelled, be successful in their re-election, they may not be removed from office on the same charges.
3. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House, on any question, shall, at the desire of three or more of those present, be entered on the journal, excepting that no votes shall be conducted in secret or be kept in secret, and all votes on all matters shall be published.
4. Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
5. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the Federal Republic of Texas, but no Senator or Representative may vote to raise his own compensation for current or future terms, nor shall a Senator or Representative be immune from the laws by which their constituents must abide. They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the Federal Republic of Texas, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no person holding any office under the Federal Republic of Texas shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office. But Congress may, by law, grant to the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments a seat upon the floor of either House, with the privilege of discussing any measures appertaining to his department.
6. Judgment concerning the elections, returns, and qualifications of House members are to be made at the county or local level, in a manner which the the Council of the County the member serves shall designate, and if any candidate or member whose assumption of, or continuance in office, is in jeopardy, he shall be entitled to a speedy trial by a jury of his peers.

Section VI. Legislation

1. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; and shall require a two-thirds vote of each House to pass, but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as on other bills.
2. Every bill which shall have passed both Houses, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President of the Federal Republic of Texas; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House, it shall become a law. But in all such cases, the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within twelve days after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return; in which case it shall not be a law.
3. The President may approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation presented in the same bill. In such case he shall, in signing the bill, designate the appropriations disapproved; and shall return a copy of such appropriations, with his objections, to the House in which the bill shall have originated; and the same proceedings shall then be had as in case of other bills disapproved by the President.
4. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of both Houses may be necessary, except on a question of adjournment, shall be presented to the President of the Federal Republic of Texas; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him; or, being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of both Houses, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in case of a bill.

Section VIII. Powers of the Congress

The Congress shall have power:

1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises for revenue, necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defense, and carry on the exercise of these and only these Enumerated Powers; but no bounties shall be granted from the Treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry; and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the Federal Republic of Texas; but no taxes or other mandated payments shall be imposed upon or extracted from wages, or upon the income or property of individuals.
2. To borrow money on the credit of the Federal Republic of Texas.
3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several counties, but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and other aids to navigation upon the coasts, and the improvement of harbors and the removing of obstructions in river navigation; in all which cases such duties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses thereof.
4. To establish uniform laws of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the Federal Republic of Texas; but no law of Congress shall discharge any debt contracted before the passage of the same.
5. To coin and print money , regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures.
6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin and tender of the Confederate States.
7. To establish post offices and post routes; but the expenses of the Postal Service shall be paid out of its own revenues.
8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; except that no inventor may continue a copyright for longer than five years of an invention not in use.
9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.
10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.
12. To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.
13. To provide and maintain a navy, and an air force.
14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land, air and naval forces.
15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Federal Republic, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Federal Republic of Texas; reserving to the Counties and the People, respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.
17. To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such property as may become the seat of the Government of the Federal Republic of Texas; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Council of the County in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings, and
18. Establish a prison system at the expense of the county the offender came from; enforce the natural & unalienable rights of the sovereign citizens outlined in Article V.

ARTICLE III.

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Section I. The Executive Branch

1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the Federal Republic of Texas. He and the Vice President shall hold their offices for the term of six years; but the President shall not be eligible to succeed himself, unless he becomes President within a year of his election. The President and Vice President shall be elected as follows:
2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative or person holding an office of trust or profit under the Federal Republic of Texas shall be appointed an elector.
3. Electors committed to a given candidate for President and Vice President, must cast votes for those candidates, unless such candidates shall by written agreement discharge their commitment, in which case the electors are free to cast votes for whomever eligible person they will. But if the candidate for President has died, then electors shall be committed to vote for the candidate they are committed to for Vice President as President, and may cast votes for Vice President for whomever eligible person they will.
4. The electors shall meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of the Government of. the Federal Republic of Texas, directed to the President of the Senate, unless the President of the senate shall be one of the candidates, wherein his duties devolve upon the President pro tempore of the Senate; the President of the Senate, or President pro tempore if the President of the Senate shall be one of the candidates, shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President the votes shall be taken by States~the representation from each State having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the 20th Day of January next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in case of the death, or other constitutional disability of the President.
5. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then, from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice.
6. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the Confederate States.
7. The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the Confederate States.
8. No person except a natural-born sovereign citizen of the Federal Republic of Texas, or a sovereign citizen thereof at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, or a sovereign citizen thereof born in the United States prior to the 1st of January 2012, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained ten years over the age of majority, and, fourteen years after the adoption of this Constitution, been fourteen years a resident within the limits of the Federal Republic of Texas, as they may exist at the time of his election. Except that a person who is a sovereign citizen born at a location which subsequently becomes part of the Federal Republic of Texas is eligible to become President. But no person having engaged in war against the Confederate States shall be eligible to be President.
9. In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President; and the Congress may, by law, provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President; and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected, and such officer shall have to have been elected to his office.
10. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected; and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the Confederate States, or any of them.
11. Before he enters on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation:

    "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the Federal Republic of Texas, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution thereof."

Section II. Powers of the President

1. The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy, and Air Force of the Federal Republic of Texas, when called into the actual service of the Federal Republic of Texas; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices; and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the Federal Republic of Texas and the several Counties, except in cases of impeachment.
2. He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties; provided three-fourths of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, Cabinet Mebers except the Attorney General and all other officers of the Confederate States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. 
3. The principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, and all persons connected with the diplomatic service, may be removed from office at the pleasure of the President. All other civil officers of the Executive Departments may be removed at any time by the President, or other appointing power, when their services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect of duty; and when so removed, the removal shall be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor.
4. The President shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session; but no person rejected by the Senate shall be reappointed to the same office during their ensuing recess.
5. The President shall have the ability to issue a finding that a law, or portion thereof, be found not in conformance with the Constitution of the Confederate States, and to take appropriate enforcement action accordingly if necessary, but said finding shall be immediately subject to the review of the Supreme Court for final opinion..
6. The President shall have the power to dissolve an Executive Department, or any office in the Executive Department not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.

Section III. State of the Republic

1. The President shall, from time to time, give to the Congress information of the state of the Confederacy, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them; and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the Federal Republic of Texas.

Section IV. Impeachment

1. The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the Federal Republic of Texas, shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Section V. No Confidence

1. The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the Federal Republic of Texas, as well as the Congress, may be recalled from office in a Vote of No Confidence. A Vote of No Confidence is called with the concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, or with the concurrence of two-thirds of the votes of two-thirds of the Confederacy's State Legislatures meeting in a joint session of all houses of that State Legislature, or with the valid signature petitions of ten percent of the registered voters of two-thirds of the States. If in a Vote of No Confidence, a majority of voters shall vote to remove the officer, that officer shall be removed from office.And if a majority of voters shall vote to remove either House of Congress, then all members of that House of Congress shall be deemed removed from office, and the offices declared vacant.
2. Once a No Confidence Vote is successful upon either the President or Vice President, or both, or upon the Congress, there shall be held a special election in which the question of removal of the President, or Vice President, or both, or of one or both houses of Congress, shall be put to the People of the Confederate States, such election being held not less than sixty nor more than ninety days from the date of the No Confidence Vote.
3. The President and Vice President may be recalled through a Vote of No Confidence together as one ticket, or separately.
4. Should the President and Vice President both be removed through a Vote of No Confidence, or should the office of Vice President be vacant during the recall of the President, the Speaker of the House shall serve as President, or whomever shall be next in the order of succession, until the next nationwide regular General Election occuring more than 120 days after the People have voted to remove the President and Vice President. Except that this clause shall not apply if a new President and Vice President are already going to be elected at the next nationwide regular General Election. The persons elected as President and Vice President in this election shall serve full six year terms, and the replacement President shall be eligible.
5. Should either or both Houses of Congress be removed through a Vote of No Confidence, there shall be a special election held not less than sixty nor more than ninety days to fill the unexperied terms of the members of the House of Representatives, and the Governor of each state shall appoint a Senator to fill the unexpired term of removed Senators until the next regular General Election. In both cases, the representatives removed with a No Confidence Vote shall be ineligible.
6. A No Confidence Vote upon any other officer of the Federal Republic of Texas shall take place at the next regular General Election.

ARTICLE IV.

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Section I. The Supreme Court and Federal Courts

1. The judicial power of the Federal Republic of Texas shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish. All Judges, Justices of the Peace, Magistrates, and Justices of the Supreme Court, must be filled by election. No qualification, or public or private membership in any organization, shall be required of any judge of the Supreme Court or of the inferior courts.

Section II. Federal Judicial Powers

1. The judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Federal Republic of Texas, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the Confederate States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a county and soveregin citizen of another county, where the County is plaintiff; between sovereign citizens claiming lands under grants of different Counties; and between a County or the sovereign citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects; but no State shall be sued by a citizen or subject of any foreign state.
2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make. The Supreme Court shall be the sole court of appeal of an Executive Branch finding of non-constitutionality and of any executive order issued by the Executive Branch.
3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury.

Section III. Treason

1. Treason against the Federal Republic of Texas shall consist in levying war against the Counties and the People, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort, or in engaging in fraud or duress undermining a fair and free election, or in actively violating the rights of sovereign citizens under this Constitution. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted, and a person convicted of Treason may be punished by the death penalty, regardless of any other provision of this Constitution.

ARTICLE V.

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Section I. Limitations on Government

1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the Federal Republic of Texas , or any place subject to their jurisdiction, and no person shall be compelled to service in the armed forces or any other part of Government.
2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended.
3. No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of holding property, or law taxing the possession of property, shall be passed.
4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any of the Counties to another County, State, or Foreign Country.
6. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another.
7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time, all expenditures being public knowledge.
8. Congress shall appropriate no money from the Treasury except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses, taken by yeas and nays, unless it be asked and estimated for by some one of the heads of departments and submitted to Congress by the President; or for the purpose of paying its own expenses and contingencies; or for the payment of claims against the Federal Republic of Texas, the justice of which shall have been judicially declared by a tribunal for the investigation of claims against the Government, which it is hereby made the duty of Congress to establish.
9. All bills appropriating money shall specify in Federal currency the exact amount of each appropriation and the purposes for which it is made; and Congress shall grant no extra compensation to any public contractor, officer, agent, or servant, after such contract shall have been made or such service rendered.
10. No title of nobility shall be granted by the Federal Republic of Texas; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
11. The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national or state religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed, nor shall any government prohibit the free exercise of religion; Neither shall any government abridge the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances. A government shall never promote, control, tax, nor interfere with any religious or philosophical organization or activity, and shall neither restrict nor control the free flow of ideas using any present or future form or medium of expression.
12. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The right of the individual to keep and bear arms, ammunition, transportation, and weapons of war, for the purposes of defense of self, household, community, enterprise, State, Nation, or Republic, shall be sacrosanct, as shall the right to such defense, and no Government, corporation, artificial entity, or private individual shall infringe upon these rights, nor shall any Government regulate, tax, impede, prohibit, survey, or in any other manner interfere in the free possession, transport, import, export, sale, or keeping of arms, ammunition, transportation or devices or publications involved in maintaining these rights.
13. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
14. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, vehicles, papers, communications, data, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched or surveyed, and the persons or things to be seized or surveyed. Government shall not invade the privacy of any individual, nor survey him, without due process of law to which he is entitled to be informed.
15. No person shall be held to answer for a capital crime or felony, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb by any Government once tried under one Government; nor be compelled, in any criminal case, or in any potential criminal matter, to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation; and in all criminal trials a presumption of innocence of the accused shall attach, until a unanimous jury of not less than twelve persons shall convict the defendant, and no seizure of property not admitted as evidence shall occur, nor permanent forfeiture of property occur without the conviction of its owner.
16. No law shall be used to indict a defendant on the basis of his thoughts or his political or religious beliefs.
17. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel of his choosing for his defense, and to have his counsel compensated by the court, in an amount equivalent to the expenditures of the prosecution.
18. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact so tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the Confederacy, than according to the rules of common law.
19. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. No bail shall be required of a defendant for the purpose of defending himself against a charge.
20. Every law, or resolution having the force of law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
21. All political power is inherent in the People, and all Governments exist by the will of the people. The people of the Federal Republic of Texas, the several Counties, and any Government under them, retain the right of altering, reforming, or abolishing their Government in any manner they believe proper, at any time. Congress may not delegate that which is reserved to the People to any part of the Executive branch.
22. Every individual has the inherent right of liberty, which is the unrestrained exercise of free will, which shall never be infringed provided the exercise thereof does not violate the rights of any other individual.
23. Every individual's body, life, labor, ideas, thoughts, and possessions that the individual has lawfully created or acquired are that individual's property. Every individual has the inherent right of the ownership, non-coercive acquisition, and use of property.
24. All rights are retained by each individual and shall never be denied, infringed, or violated in any way except in the sole circumstance of conviction of a crime or tort by due process of law, and then only as directed in the particular case.
25. No Government shall grant monopolies or perpetuities nor in any way restrict or control the free flow of trade within or across the geographical boundaries of the Confederate States.
26. No Government shall craft any law favoring one class of adult sovereign freemen over another, nor provide for punishment under the law for crimes committed against one class of adult persons as opposed to another.
27. No person under the legal age of majority may be punished as an adult in criminal matters nor shall anyone who is of the age of majority be denied the same privilages & immunities as legal adults, nor shall penalties be based on anything other than the degree of the offense committed. This shall not apply to civil matters once the child has reach the age of majority, & no person who was not the legal age of majority at the time of the offense shall be eligable for adult punishment under criminal law.
28. When a person is under the legal age of majority, the parents or legal guardians of that child shall have the right to rear that child however the parent or guardian sees fit so long as such methods do not physically, mentally, psychologically, and/or sexually abuse the child or children involved. No parent or legal guardian shall be deprived by either the federal or county governments of their right to parent their child(ren) without due process of law, but children shall not be considered full property of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s).
29.  No juror shall be tried for any decision rendered while serving on a jury, and jurors shall be empowered to try both the facts and the law, and in a criminal matter before a jury, all arguments as to the law must be in the presence of the jury.

1. The right of the individual to medicate themself for illness, malady or health, as well as the right to refuse medication, shall not be infringed.
2. No citizen shall be limited in their right to travel within the jurisdiction of the Federal Republic of Texas, the several Counties, and its territories, and no jurisdiction shall license the right of the individual to travel upon any of its public roads and thoroughfares, nor shall a jurisdiction compel the license of the use of the individual's vehicles not used for commerce, nor shall any jurisdiction be empowered to demand proof of identity from any citizen without due process.
3. No artificial entity such as a corporation or a Government may be interpreted to have rights superior to the rights of individuals, nor is a Government madated under this Constitution to consider such artifical entity equal to an individual, and when the rights of individuals and the rights of artificial entities conflict, the rights of individuals shall be held to be superior to the rights of artificial entities.
4. No mark, computer chip, number, enumeration, or identity marker, nor any oath or vow of loyalty, shall be required to buy and sell within the Federal Republic of Texas.

Section II. Elections

1. All elections in all Governments under the Federal Republic of Texas, shall be conducted without regard to party, and shall consist of a primary election and a general election. In elections with single districts, the primary election shall consist of candidates listed on the ballot regardless of party, and if a candidate garner more than 50 percent of the vote, he shall be declared elected, but if no candidate garners 50 percent, the two top votegetters from the primary, regardless of party, shall be voted upon in a general election. In multiple candidate districts, a similar principle shall apply: if 50% of voters choose a given candidate, they shall be declared elected, and of any such candidates not being voted for by 50% of the voters, there shall be chosen two candidates times the number of such seats for a runoff, such candidates having recieved the greatest numbers of votes, except that any candidate having finished last shall be eliminated.
2. A County or lower jurisdiction may elect to implement a "None of these Candidates" provision in any election, in which case, if "None of the Candidates" garners the most votes, a new election is called, in which the candidates on the ballot in the current election are ineligible, and the office shall be vacant until filled by the new election. A County may implement a "None of these Candidates" provision for Electors for President of the Federal Republic of Texas, but must allow for the election of independent Electors at the same election should "None of these Candidates" receive the greatest number of votes.
3. All elections under the Federal Republic of Texas shall require a paper ballot, said ballots to be preserved for the entirety of the longest term of office voted upon.
4. No person shall be required to possess any degree of proficiency, any degree of law, any certificate of law enforcement training, or any membership in a bar association or any other organization, in order to stand for election for any office under the Federal Republic of Texas: all sovereign citizens shall be eligible for all offices, excepting for requirements based on a minimum age, or based on limitation of terms.
5. No official shall be empowered to craft, nor shall be eligible to vote concerning, district lines under which he shall have been elected to serve.
6. District lines organized after the decennial census shall be submitted to the voters at the next election in which the whole of the State, or the whole of the territory of the local Government elected body, shall vote, and if not approved by a majority of the voters voting, such district lines shall be invalid for the next election, and new district lines must be drawn, and the same body who drew the lines so rejected shall be ineligible to draw any new lines until another decennial census has occured.
7. No sovereign freeman of the Confederate States, or of a single State, shall be denied the right to vote because of gender, race, religious affiliations, national origin, previous conviction of or imprisonment for any crime, or any other cause if he is of a majority age in his State of residence, or if he is serving in the armed forces of the Confederate States, nor shall any person be compelled to pay a poll tax, show ownership of property, or possess any certificate of literacy, or possess state or national identification, in order to vote.
8. No sovereign freeman of the Confederate States, or of a single State, shall be restricted in his ability to speak openly about candidates, or publish opinion or factual information about them, for any election under the Federal Republic of Texas.
9. No filing period for any election under the Federal Republic of Texas  shall close earlier than 120 days prior to the scheduled election.
10. All bodies of Government under the Federal Republic of Texas must be headed either by a single elected Executive, or by an elected Board of Executives, or both, and no Chief Executive of any Government body on a State level or lower may be appointed.
11. All vacancies in any Government office under the Federal Republic of Texas must be filled by special or regular election.

Section III. Judicial and Law Enforcement Elections

1. In all Counties, the offices of Attorney General, District Attorney, County Attorney, and City or Township Attorneys, must be filled by election.
2. In all Counties, the offices of County Sheriff, Chief of Police, Commissioner of Police, and the Chief Executive of any State Police agency, must be filled by election.
3. In all Counties, all Judges, Justices of the Peace, Magistrates, and Justices of the Supreme Court, must be filled by election.
4. Every jurisdiction which shall prosecute individuals for crimes shall provide for a Grand Jury to be elected annually. All Grand Jurors must be elected, and no Grand Juror may succeed himself in office. Vacancies for Grand Jurors must be provided for by special elections.

Section IV. Treaties and Taxes

1. No County shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.
2. No County shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports, or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the Federal Republic of Texas; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of Congress.
3. No County shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty on tonnage, except on seagoing vessels, for the improvement of its rivers and harbors navigated by the said vessels; but such duties shall not conflict with any treaties of the Federal Republic of Texas with foreign nations; and any surplus revenue thus derived shall, after making such improvement, be paid into the common treasury. Nor shall any State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another County, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. But when any river divides or flows through two or more States they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof.
4. No County shall be compelled to enact any law by the Federal Republic of Texas, or by any foreign state or nation, or by any international body or tribunal, and any such laws passed under duress of any sort shall be considered null, void, and no officer of any jurisdiction shall attempt to enforce it.

Section V. Full Faith and Credit

1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each County to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other County; and the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.

Section VI. Travel and Extradition

1. The sovereign citizen of each County shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of sovereign citizens in the several Counties; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Republic, with their property; and the right of possesion of their property shall not be thereby impaired.
2. A person charged in any County with treason or a felony against the laws of such State, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another County, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the County from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
3. Government shall never infringe the right of the free movement of sovereign citizens within or across the geographical boundaries of the Federal Republic of Texas.

Section VII. Territorial Matters

1. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations concerning the property of the Federal Republic of Texas, including the lands thereof.
2. The Federal Republic of Texas, may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several Counties; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form Counties to be admitted into the Federal Republic of Texas.
3. The Federal Republic of Texas shall guarantee to every County that now is, or hereafter may become, a member of this Republic, a republican form of government and a common law judiciary; and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the Legislature or of the Executive when the Legislature is not in session, against domestic violence.