Whereas Article 1 of the Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of North Carolina of 1776 states; " That all political power is vested in and derived from, the people only"; and

Whereas Article I, § 2 of the State Constitution, presently operating under the leadership of James B. Hunt, Jr., states; "Sovereignty of the people. All political power is vested in and derived from the people; all government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole."; and

Whereas the State of North Carolina presently operating under the leadership of Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., was founded and originated from a body of people consisting of militarily subjugated people and residents from all parts of our Nation, thereby permanently defining the State of North Carolina’s body politic; and

Whereas the State of North Carolina presently operating under the leadership of Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., did not originate from the free will of the Inhabitants of North-Carolina, nor was said Inhabitant’s Constitution changed or amended in any manner recognizable as lawful, or done for the purpose of representing the free will of the Inhabitants of North-Carolina; and

Whereas President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon and amnesty to the Inhabitants of North-Carolina, which included the restoration of all Rights, which include Political Rights, by Proclamation on the twenty-fifth day of December 1868; and

Whereas the Civil Government of the free Inhabitants of North-Carolina was surrendered "as without legality" to the occupying Military authority and, under military duress on the first day of July 1868 by Governor Jonathan Worth; and

Whereas said surrender fulfilled Article III of General Order Number 100 issued on the twenty-fourth day of April 1863, which states that Martial law over an area consists in the suspension of the Civil Government of said area by the occupying Military authority; and

Whereas Martial law is enforced over the current State of North Carolina by the President of the United States as Commander-in-chief of the Military through Executive Order; and

Whereas United States Senate Report 93-549 documents the exercise of Executive authority without reference to normal Constitutional guidelines, clearly demonstrating the exercise of unrestrained Executive Authority, which can only occur during times of declared emergency, to be the normal operation of the present Federal Government; and

Whereas the Flag of the United States as described and proscribed by positive law in Title 4, Chapter I, § 1 of the United States Code declares the flag to have 48 stars, yet shows the 50 star flag in common use today to be proscribed by the Authority of the President as Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy through Executive Order Number10,834, and proclaims where the President as Commander-in-chief has authority; and

Whereas Article I of General Order Number 100 issued on the twenty-fourth day of April 1863, states that the presence of a hostile Army proclaims its Martial Law and that no public warning to the inhabitants need be issued; and

Whereas the 50 star flag of the President, as Commander-in-chief of the Military, currently occupies space in all judicial, legislative, executive and, police offices and chambers, designating military jurisdiction and venue; and

Whereas usurpation of powers, both aggressive and passive denial of political rights, and the use of pretended declared emergencies for the purpose of subjugating a people are both oppressive and hostile; and

Whereas there is no publicly known, taught, or recognized emergencies in existence anywhere within the geographic boundaries of the United States of America or within the geographic boundaries of North-Carolina; and

Whereas the use of emergency powers in times of peace for the purpose of usurpation of powers or for the purpose of involuntary subjugation of a peaceful people is hostile, tyrannical, oppressive, and criminal; and powers promulgated under pretended emergencies ought not to be obeyed; and

Whereas the people have exclusively been given the sovereign Right of choosing the best form of government under which they live and, have the right and duty not to involuntarily live under a deceitful and oppressive form of government; and

Whereas the Constitution of the United States of America of 1791 was drafted and ratified by representatives of the free Inhabitants of the several states for the purpose of creating a government which would operate for the general welfare of the states consisting of body politics of free Inhabitants; and

Whereas the Federal Government remains unrestrained in its’ powers so long as there are no states comprised exclusively of free Inhabitants; and

Whereas said created government was given a duty to protect the governments of the free Inhabitants of the several states by both guaranteeing a republican form of government for the free Inhabitants, as proscribed by Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America and proscribing in Article III, Section 3 that "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against…" the several states; and

Whereas there is no authority for Congress to dictate the Republican forms of governments of the several states, for that would be contrary to the free will of the people and contrary to the rights of a free government; and

Whereas since there has been no state of free Inhabitants existing within the geographical boundaries of North-Carolina during the period of July 1^st, 1868 through December 1, 1997, there in fact has been no treason committed against the government of the free Inhabitants of North-Carolina; and

Whereas on the fourteenth day of August, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed a treaty titled the Atlantic Charter which states in Article III that "They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them."; and

Whereas the Inhabitants of North-Carolina, in the exercise of their political rights, and in the carrying out of their Duty to their heritage and their posterity did on the first day of December, 1997, re-establish through Declaration the lawful and authorized government suspended by military authority on the first day of July, 1868; and

Whereas a committee, on the first day of December, 1997, of said Inhabitants of North-Carolina did meet of Right; drafted, adopted, and ratified by oath and signature, through Declaration, the Re-establishment of North-Carolina; and

Whereas the Inhabitants of North-Carolina did of Right, of Duty, and of Necessity chose and elected the Civil Officers of the newly re-established Republican Government of the Inhabitants of North-Carolina; and

Whereas the representatives of the free Inhabitants of North-Carolina elected and chose the Seat of Government of the North-Carolina American Republic to be located at the city of Charlotte on the property, sized approximately 100 ft. x 100 ft. located northwest of the intersections and laying immediately adjacent to the streets of Sandhurst Drive and Margate Avenue; and

Whereas the identification of people through the use of universal Identifying numbers is fearful and potentially despotic and ought not be practiced; and

Whereas on December 1, 1997, I, John Charles., Ainsworth was nominated and through unanimous vote, elected to hold the Honorable Office of Governor of the government of the free Inhabitants of North-Carolina; and

Whereas the present fearful and oppressive political climate which faces any and all who wish to exercise their rightful freedoms in this nation, and because there is a responsibility to define terms in order for said terms to be understood, it was deemed necessary and prudent by the representatives of the free Inhabitants to not use the same name of the de-facto State nor the same title of the Chief Executive Officer; the North-Carolina, for the free Inhabitants of North-Carolina, is temporally re-named, of necessity, "North-Carolina American Republic" with its Chief Executive Officer being titled "Chief Magistrate"; and

Now, therefore, be it known that I, John Charles., Ainsworth, Chief Magistrate of the newly re-established North-Carolina American Republic, hereinafter North-Carolina, do by virtue of the Constitution of North-Carolina of 1776 and in the name of the People of North-Carolina , vested with the responsibility to restore peace and freedom to North-Carolina, do hereby proclaim and declare;

1. The lawful government of the free inhabitants of North-Carolina is hereby, of Right, declared re-established, upon the soil of North-Carolina and in operation, with all political and civil Rights restored to the free Inhabitants, of North-Carolina; and
2. North-Carolina is at peace with the federal United States government; and
3. The present government of the State of North Carolina operating under the leadership of James B. Hunt, Jr., is a valid government for all militarily subjugated people who freely and voluntarily participate in it; and
4. There being no publicly known emergency within the geographic boundaries of North-Carolina; the State of North Carolina and all of its agencies, operating under the authority of James B. Hunt Jr., is absolutely and forever divested of any authority over the free Inhabitants of North-Carolina; and
5. It is hereby declared unlawful and criminal to detain, to harass, to deny political Rights or to correspond in any provocative manner with any free Inhabitant of North-Carolina or free Inhabitant of any of the other several states while they are sojourning within the geographical boundaries of North-Carolina; and
6. There being no publicly known emergency within the geographic boundaries of the United States of America, and there being no request or authorization by the Chief Executive Officer of North-Carolina for Federal assistance, the government of the United States of America and any and all agencies operating under its authority are absolutely divested of any and all authority whatsoever over or upon the free Inhabitants or the soil of North-Carolina; and
7. So long as the political rights of the free Inhabitants are respected and the authority of the government of North-Carolina is recognized and, so long as the State of North Carolina and the federal United States government and their agencies honor and respect their fiduciary responsibility to their citizens and cease abusing them, they will be allowed the privilege of carrying on their functions for their citizens within the geographical boundaries of North-Carolina; and
8. The free Inhabitants of North-Carolina are abated of any and all requirements either perceived or real, of associating themselves with any Federal Identifying numbers; and
9. It is declared a criminal action to deprive a free Inhabitant of North-Carolina of any Right, benefit, or privilege, for failure to provide a Federal Identifying number; and
10. Any interference with the lawful re-establishment of the North-Carolina American Republic will be construed as a belligerent action and punishable; and
11. The free Inhabitants of North-Carolina being the possessors’ of their own political Rights are recognized as having the exclusive Right of protecting said Rights without interference.

In testimony whereof I have signed these presents with my hand and have caused the seal of the North-Carolina American Republic to be hereunto affixed.

Done in the city of Charlotte, the 2^nd day of June A.D. One thousand nine hundred ninety eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred twenty-third.