DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND ORDINANCE dissolving the federal relations between the State of Kneed. Inc. and ROB-LOX. CO.
First. We, the people of the State of Kneed Incorporated, waiving any expression of opinion as to the abstract doctrine of secession, but asserting the right, as a free and independent people, to alter, reform, or abolish our form of government and company as we were but now become our own in such manner as we think proper, do ordain and declare that all the laws and ordinances by which the State of Kneed Incorporated became a member of ROB-LOX CO are hereby abrogated and annulled, and that all the rights, functions, and powers which by any of said laws and ordinances were conveyed to the Government of the ROB-LOX, and to absolve ourselves from all the obligations, restraints, and duties incurred thereto; and do hereby henceforth become a free, sovereign, and independent State.
Second. We furthermore declare and ordain that article 10, sections 1 and 2, of the constitution of ROB-LOX. CO, the State of Kneed. Inc., which requires members of the General Assembly and all officers, civil and military, to take an oath to support the Constitution of ROB-LOX. CO be, and the same are hereby, abrogated and annulled, and all parts of the constitution of the State of Kneed. Inc. making citizenship of ROB-LOX. CO a qualification for office and recognizing the Constitution of the ROB-LOX. CO. as the supreme law of this State are in like manner abrogated and annulled.
Third. We furthermore ordain and declare that all rights acquired and vested under Kneed. Inc., or under any laws of this State, are all in effect with new rights with this ordinance, shall remain in force and have the same effect as if this ordinance had not been passed.
Signed By: Mr. Vincent |ALT| |95% Of Kneed. Inc.| |Kneed. Inc. Allies| |