One of the major hallmarks of the New Confederate Constitution is to provide a process by which communities can organize for secession and reassertion of the Confederate States. Many Southron activists have very noble aims, goals, and dreams concerning reassertion of the Confederacy. But they usually do not have a succinct mechanism by which INDIVIDUALS can organize to determine their own government. Often, they rest hope in currying the favor of their own state legislatures and governors, or perhaps taking them over.

But unfortunately, while this may have a chance of working in two or three states, it has no chance of success in most of North America. The state and provincial governments of North America have proven themselves to be as corrupt as the United States federal government, and are usually in conspiracy with it to force tyranny upon its citizens.

Relying upon the present system to somehow grant us independence is a rigged game which does not work to our favor. Rather, for a new government, a government based on local control and limited powers, we need a mechanism independent of any standing state and local governments.

Relying upon the 1861 Constitution to deliver us is also a bad strategy. The 1861 Constitution was crafted at a time when the legislators represented the will of the voters. Thus, secession from the Union was able to be legislatively effected. This is most certainy not the case today, with a federal terrorist system in place ready to pounce upon any legislature which dares vote secession from the Union, and with most legislators bought and paid for by special interests.

Thus, we need to craft a concept of federal government from scratch. And if we are to have a government, of the people, by the people, and for the people, then the crafting of that government must BEGIN with the people, not with the current standing governments. Thus was crafted the concept of secession by plebecites and county caucuses.

Yes, there is a clause in the NCC whereby the people of a state may vote in a general election for secession, and a provision whereby a single branch of the legislature may endorse the NCC. But we do not expect that these will be the primary routes by which the Confederacy becomes reality again.

How does secession work under the NCC

How the state secession process works is as simple as this. According to the New Confederate Constitution, a state may simultaneously secede from the United States and join the Confederate States by ratifying the New Confederate Constitution.

There is held in each county or parish, or other smaller administrative unit, an election. This election may be held by general plebecite, meaning that all eligible residents of the county are to be polled, or it may be held by county convention, meaning that all eligible residents show up at a series of conventions or caucuses.

One of the beauties of such a system is that the people themselves, and not current state election laws, are the determinant of the manner in which the election is held.

More specifically:

• 1. The organizing committee of each county may choose precisely how to hold their election. What may be an appropriate manner for one county may not be appropriate for another.
• 2. The electorate eligible to vote for secession is determined by the organizing committee holding the secession election. This is important, because the organizing committee may choose to include residents who are not allowed by law to vote, or may not be registered to vote in their state's elections, for whatever reasons they are not, be it that they are not U. S. citizens, not legally in the U.S., a convicted felon stripped of suffrage, a prisoner, a state sovereign, that they simply have never registered or do not want to register, or whatever the reason. Generally, an organizing committee will not seek to exclude registered voters.
• 3. The election does not have to be held in one day. It could take place in whatever amount of time is needed to effectively insure that all eligible residents of the county have a legitimate opportunity to vote their opinion.
• 4. The election does not have to be held in one manner. One county may choose a general plebecite, while others may choose a convention or a caucus. One county may choose one polling place, another may choose multiple polling places, and yet another may choose to use mail ballots and online balloting.
• 5. The elections in the various counties do not have to be held at the same time. This allows for better organization by the state's organizing committee, which can correct balloting problems which may have arisen in previous counties. It also provides for time to evaluate whether secession will succeed in a state, without going to the expense of polling every single state voter. It also allows for evaluating whether a state should seek to include or exclude a county from the Confederate States.
• 6. Identity needs may vary from county to county and community to community. While one community may need to strictly identify and confirm that its voters are eligible, another may not have the same need.

When does all of this carry the force of law?

The NCC states that a state, whether in current configuration, or a different configuration, when a majority of the applicant counties have approved secession and inclusion into the Confederate States. that that State shall be considered to have ratified the New Confederate Constitution. And when five such states have ratified, then the New Confederate Constitution shall have legal force, and that those states shall commence with the choosing of their legislators, Senators, members of the House of Representatives, and President. The NCC does NOT have legal force until five states have fulfilled this process. When this process has been fulfilled, the Confederate States will be a government, and it will guarantee a republican form of government to its member states, and all governments under it will be subject to its Constitution, and all laws not conforming to the NCC will be null and void.

What if certain communities within the Confederacy do not want to be part of it?

The Confederacy is not to be held together by force, but by the will of the people.

To guarantee that the New Confederate States of Amerca remains a free and sovereign republic, and not an Empire, whatever communities finding themselves within the boundaries of the Confederate States who do not wish to be, may secede from the Confederate States and the State in which they are located, via the very same process by which the state ratified the NCC, and that community shall not be subject to the laws of the Confederate States, nor shall it receive the protections and guarantees of the Confederate States.

What exactly will happen to all the various powers currently existing in a State which ratifies the NCC?

The U. S. federal government agencies which are lawful and constitutional under the NCC will become agencies of the Confederate States. Agencies which are NOT constitutionally provided for under the Confederate States will be disbanded. All assets of disbanded agencies, and all federal property, reverts to the seceding state, who will then auction most of it to individuals, except for 5% allowed to be retained as wilderness areas, and except for those properties whose last previous owner was an Indian tribe, the latter of which revert back to teh tribe that owned it.

What happens to state governments depends upon the manner and the language under which the state seceded. The citizens may have chosen to retain their governments intact, or they may have chosen to abolish them and craft new state governments under new constitutions. A state organizing committee should strive to have every plebecite or caucus vote on the identical process, so that the express will of the people has been expressed.

What if certain existing powers choose not to recognize the vote of the people to join the Confederate States?

Well, then there may very well be a situation which may have to be settled by force.

The NCC, once ratified, guarantees to every admitted state a republican form of government, and guarantees them security from invasion. Should the original nation attempt to hold hostage a member state, or a community within a member state, the Confederate States are compelled to defend the rights and freedoms of the people in that community. This responsibility to defend is also extended to communities which have attempted to hold a secession caucus, but have been prevented from doing so by occupation military or law enforcement: had this provision been in place in 1861, the Confederacy could have recognized Maryland as a Confederate State. This provision exists to prevent another Lincoln from seeking to thwart the Confederacy using brute force.

Why does not the NCC require a majority of state residents to approve it? Why a majority of counties?

Because the Confederate States of America is not a democracy and is not intended to be a democracy.

If the only manner of secession were by popular vote only, then the urban centers would be able to dictate to the less populous rural areas what they would be able to do. By requiring secession by counties, a state's rural citizens are allowed to secede regardless of the wishes of the urban centers. And then if the urban centers do not wish to secede, they may withdraw from the state. But they cannot prevent the rural, less populous counties, from seceding. Conversely, if the urban centers chose to secede, they could not compel rural counties to remain seceded against their will.

Communities have the right to self determination. Even small communities with not many people. The only way to guarantee the rights of those in the small communities for self determination is to use a majority of roughy equal geographic units, and the best unit to use in most states is the county.

Is there a national language of the Confederate States?

No. Individual states and member republics have the sole responsibility of choosing their official languages if they choose to do so. While it is expected that most of the Confederate States will use English in their common affairs, there is no obligation that they do so. There indeed could be potential states of the Confederacy which will speak French, or Spanish, or some other language as the primary language. Each state will decide this issue on its own.

What will the national currency be called, and what will it consist of?

The national currency does not necessarily have a definitive name. The last currency used by the Confederate States was called the Dollar. The New Confederacy may choose to continue this denomination, or choose a different name. Whatever the name of the currency, it is to be based in gold and silver coin, and any bank notes are to be redeemable in gold and silver. The power to mint gold and silver coin and banknotes redeemable in the same shall rest solely with the Congress.

How shall citizenship be determined in the Confederate States?

Citizenship, called "sovereign freemanship" in the new CSA, is determined by several factors. The first is by legal residence in a Confederate state as of the date January 1, 2000. The second is by heritage: in other words, if a person's ancestors were of the Confederate states, then that person may automatically become a Confederate sovereign freeman. Confederate sovereign freemanship is not automatic. It must specifically be asked for and sworn to.

Keep in mind that in addition to Confederate freemanship, individual states may craft their own rules for state freemanship, so that individuals who may not be Confederate freemen may be eligible to be a freeman of the State they reside in, depending on the rules of the state.

How is race going to be a factor in the New Confederacy?

All laws based on race will be unconstitutional in the New Confederacy. Such things as legally forced segregation, and denial of suffrage based on race, will be strictly forbidden. But also race based affirmative action and quotas for minorities and hate crimes statutes will also be unconstitutional.

Now the NCC has a provision concerning the Indian tribes. But this is not a racial distinction: rather, it is a process to address the fact that the United States and Canada hold the Indian nations in subjugation unto this day. Under the NCC, federal lands held as Indan reservations will revert to the sole and exclusive ownership of the tribes and become their private property. The tribes themselves are to determine who is and is not a member of them. There is also a provision by which the Indian tribes will be able to finally choose their own national destinies: whether to be free and independent peoples, or be parts of the Confederate States they reside in, or, if they are sizable enough, be member states of the Confederacy sending their own members of Congress.

Is the New Confederacy going to be a "Christian nation"?

Certainly the New Confederacy is going to be a society strongly influenced by Christian values and ethics. But there will be no official state religion within the New Confederacy. All people wll have the choice to choose, or not choose, which God they will or will not follow, and will be the determinant of their own religious beliefs.

"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues!" - Revelation 18:4

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