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THE REPLIK The primary tool that the sovereign uses to create the conditions in which the people live is money creation. What the money is issued for and how the money supply is regulated are a major factor in orienting the activity of the people. When money is scarce and hard to come by, people are fearful and cautious, but when money is abundant, people are courageous and carefree. When the right amount of money is available for what the people agree would be good, then there is justice, peace, and prosperity. The united states of America Republick will only become truly sovereign when it is issuing its own currency. The currency is called the Replik and the Congress of the Republic is in the process of determining what the Replik is, how it will be issued, and how the money supply will be regulated. The history is very instructive. In Colonial times and right through the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, the question of what would serve as money was a hot topic of debate, both in conversation among people and in the courts, the assemblies of the Colonies, and the legislatures of the States. However, until the surreptitious establishment of the Federal Reserve, the Congress was continually dealing with the corrupting influence of the moneyed class and their banks. Benjamin Franklin attributed the War of Independence to the depression that resulted when the King and Parliament restricted the issuance of paper money to fund the legitimate interests of the American people. You can read about this here. Note that most people know very little of this because the powers that be do not want us to understand money and how it is issued. Paper money, ledger accounts, bank accounts in computer databases, and digital money are all fiat money. Fiat means by sovereign declaration, or law. Many people believe that fiat money, such as the Federal Reserve Notes we think of as money, is not backed by anything and therefore worthless. But the fact that we use this money all the time, and that it is the world's reserve currency, reveals the nature and value of money as an abstract social technology by agreement to facilitate the exchange of goods and services among people outside of one's extended family. In fact, if we use a commodity as a means of payment, as in bartering, we will have to invent a way to determine the unit of value to use to value the commodities in relationship to each other. The original money, the means of exchange that created civilization, were warehouse receipts. Since everyone had a good sense for the value of a shekel (bushel) of wheat, that served as the unit of value, and a receipt for a shekel of wheat from the Priest-Kings warehouse served as the means of exchange. Monetary historians have pointed out that money is a social convention issued by the sovereign as a matter of law or custom. Money creation is always an agreement, whether that agreement is explicit, tacit, deceptive, or imposed by law and military might. In our existing culture, money is currently issued, not as a public utility, but, through debt and usury, for those purposes that will be profitable to the banks and enrich the moneyed class, resulting in money being scarce, adversely affecting and even distorting our human nature and entire culture. The Replik is the name that the incipient united states of America has chosen for its currency. How it will be issued and the money supply regulated will evolve as we gain experience with being sovereign! Stay Tuned!

Rather than opposing the Corporate takeover of Massachusetts and America we are creating a republican government from the grassroots, ground up. The Jural Assembly is our basic form. Order the Book Freedom, Justice, Community HERE The purpose of The Massachusetts Republic is to create The Better World We Know In Our Hearts Is Possible; a free, peaceful, healthy, just, collaborative, sustainable/regenerative world where we all thrive. The Massachusetts Republic claims the promise of the Declaration of Independence and the Continental Congress. We are the people. We are building a Republic in which the people decide how we will create and maintain the society in which we choose to live. We desire to raise our children in a society in which we have the right and process to make our governance accountable to us. In order to do this, “We, the People” must mean all the people. We intend to listen to - so as to hear - every individual in our community. With everyone, we then intend to build a community of communities that is responsible to the communities it represents. The implementation of this bottom-up organizational structure is explained on this website. Start your exploration on the Seminar tab in the header and then explore the website by clicking on each of the topics below. Purpose , Vision, Mission Threefolding Our Culture needs to be FREE Our Governance needs to be JUST Our Economy needs to be COLLABORATIVE The Ward Republic Sociocracy; Dynamic Governance Community-Created Credit We, the People How do we assure that "We, the People" means all the people? Our Declaration of Interdependance Integration/Synergy

The purpose of The Massachusetts Republic is to create The Better World We Know In Our Hearts Is Possible; a free, peaceful, healthy, just, collaborative, sustainable/regenerative world where we all thrive. The Massachusetts Republic is creating a new cultural paradigm, The Better World We Know In Our Hearts Is Possible, based on an understanding of the problems of our existing culture and a vision of a new cultural paradigm based on the ideals of Freedom in the domain of Culture , Equality/Justice in the domain of Governance , and Cooperation/Collaboration in the domain of Economics , addressed below. ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************** The Problems of Our Existing Culture 1. Our current cultural paradigm distorts the three ideals of: - Freedom - in the domain of Culture - Equality/Justice - in the domain of Governance - Cooperation/Collaboration - in the domain of Economics as follows: Culture – Instead of our culture being free, it is unduly influenced by special interests, government influences, and whatever is profitable. Examples: - Scientific research and discovery and wholesome solutions are often curbed and thwarted if they in any way present a challenge to the big pharma-military-industrial complex and its ability to generate profits. (Examples: Alternative health solutions challenge the medical establishment and big pharma; alternative and free energy solutions challenge the fossil fuel industry; peaceful conflict resolution solutions challenge the military establishment; local, organic, and sustainable farming solutions challenge the industrialized agriculture and factory farming industry.) - Mainstream media is controlled by a multi billion-dollar franchise. - Our public education institutions are subject to conformity, compliance, and controls thus limiting the creative impulse and imaginative expression of our teachers and youth. - The existing debt-based monetary system controls us; it distorts and thwarts our human nature by compelling us to work to generate money as the priority instead of to necessarily meet the needs of our society and thereby fulfill our transcendent purpose. - The private banking system renders "we the people" debt and wage slaves through usury. Governance – Instead of a government of, by, and for "we the people" based on equality and justice, it is a corporatocracy, bought and controlled by multi-national corporations. Whoever has the money rules us. Economics – Instead of our economic system being cooperative and collaborative, it is based on competition and the profit motive. - The existing debt based monetary system results in economic inequality and the concentration of wealth, unsustainable growth and consumption, and environmental destruction. - A deceptive, corrupt, and usurious private banking system serves to benefit bank shareholders, usurps the public prerogative of issuing the money, and renders "we the people" debt and wage slaves. Informational Resources: https://www.justabundance.org and http://www.credittothepeople.org 2. The extent to which we as individuals and communities are unconscious and fragmented affects the extent to which our culture is unconscious and fragmented, as summarized above. The extent to which we as individuals and communities are conscious and integrated affects the extent to which our culture is conscious and integrated. As within, so without. We are at a choice point, to unconsciously devolve to our eventual extinction and that of many other species, or to consciously evolve and thrive. **************************************************************************************************************************************************************** A Vision of a New Culture, a New Paradigm The Massachusetts Republic is creating a new cultural paradigm based on the following ideals: 1. Threefold Social Order 2. Individual and Collective Integration *** 1. Threefold Social Order Based on Rudolf Steiner's threefold social order , we are properly aligning the three ideals of Freedom , Equality/Justice , and Cooperation/Collaboration with the three domains of Culture , Governance , and Economics as follows: A. Freedom - in the domain of Culture B. Equality/Justice - in the domain of Governance C. Cooperation/Collaboration - in the domain of Economics A. Freedom - Culture Our culture needs to be FREE. The following is what we mean by "free": - By free, we mean the freedom to pursue what inspires us, what we are naturally good at, and what we would find ourselves doing anyway if we were truly free, free from the demands of having to “earn” a living to pay for our living. - By free, we mean a society that honors and supports our efforts to achieve personal fulfillment and self-actualization. - By free, we mean a society that acknowledges the value of personal fulfillment to the community at large, and finds value in and funds our efforts. - By free, we mean we are taught by teachers who value us as individuals and want each of us to discover who we are and what we want to do with our lives. The Massachusetts Republic aims to create a culture that is based on freedom of expression, creativity, self-actualization, and personal fulfillment - all supported and funded by the community based on its collective wealth creation and values. The domain of Culture consists of the realms: - Science (the seeking of truth) - Art (the creation of beauty) - Education/Spirituality/Religion (the values and ideals of goodness out of which we live). Truth, Beauty, and Goodness are what we are all striving for in the new paradigm. B. Equality/Justice - Governance Our Governance needs to be JUST. We assure Equality and Justice through a dynamic system of self-governance of, by, and for the people within Common Good Communities and Jeffersonian Ward Republics based on a well-conceived organizational structure, operating system, and consent-based decision-making process among equal individuals, known as Dynamic Governance or Sociocracy, which is clear, efficient, transparent, scalable, and doable. See https://www.sociocracy.info/what-is-sociocracy/ and https://www.Sociocracyforall.org . In Common Good Communities and Jeffersonian Ward Republics, the people in communities or wards know one another and personally provide and perform the functions of governance to and for one another; governance of, by, and for the people. The people decide together what would be good and of value for the community and issue money to fund it. Governance encompasses the Legislative (Funding), Executive (Implementation), and Judicial (Justice) functions. The Community acting in the Legislative function decides what would be good and provides the appropriate funding. The Community acting in the Executive function selects the best people to implement what we agree would be good. The Community acting in the Judicial function evaluates the results and judges if it was good. The roles for all functions are selected based on who is determined to be the best persons to accomplish them. Non-violent communication (NVC) is an important communication tool in self-governance to help ensure harmonious relations. Resources: https://www.nonviolentcommunication.com and https://www.cnvc.org Restorative Justice is a transformational process for addressing and potentially redressing any grievances or harms. It involves the healing practices of atonement and forgiveness. Resource: http://restorativejustice.org C. Cooperation/Collaboration - Economics Our Economy needs to be COLLABORATIVE. We cooperatively and responsibly manage our resources and satisfy our material needs and desires by working together, voluntarily as inspired, to create everything that we the people need and desire. We distribute the profits equitably according to our sense of justice. We facilitate the exchange of goods and services by utilizing a community created credit system known as Common Good. See https://commongood.earth/ Economics encompasses Production (Nature), Distribution (Infrastructure), and Consumption (Needs). Production transforms nature into goods and services. Distribution involves a series of exchanges that benefit both parties (the seller and the buyer) to the exchange. And we consume to meet our needs and desires. The aim of production is consumption, i.e. satisfying the needs and desires of the people using the sustainable practices that our sense of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness lead us to implement. Production, Distribution, and Consumption is a result of the influence of the Culture and the Governance of the new paradigm. *** In sum , by using the available social technologies based on an understanding of our true nature as individual and social human beings, we can properly align the three ideals of Freedom , Justice , and Cooperation/Collaboration with the three realms of Culture , Governance , and Economics , namely Freedom in Culture, Equality/Rights/Justice in Governance , and Cooperation/Collaboration in Economics . The social technologies we have identified so far that can do this reliably are dynamic governance known as Sociocracy , Non-violent Communication and Restorative Justice , and a community created credit system known as Common Good . These social technologies will reliably establish healthy social structures and pathways for creating together The Better World We Know In Our Hearts Is Possible. *** More About The Threefold Social Order “Three folding” maintains the healthy relationship between the domains of Culture , Governance , and Economics , thus ensuring a harmonious relationship between the ideals of freedom , equality/justice , and collaboration/cooperation , which may otherwise be in conflict with each other. For example, equality and collaboration/cooperation in the domain of Culture could lead to mediocrity by, for example, preventing competition to sort out best placement, thwarting creativity, or creating a culture of conformity and compliance (in our educational system for example). Similarly, freedom in all matters could result in lawlessness, such as the social sanctioning of theft, breaching of contracts, the lack of appropriate rules and regulations (including financial and environmental), and an economic culture based on rampant consumerism and what is most profitable instead of based on cooperation and collaboration to satisfy expressed needs. It is clear by the summary of the problems of our existing culture described above as well as important to recognize that our current paradigm distorts the ideals of Freedom in the domain of Culture, Justice in the domain of Governance, and Cooperation/Collaboration in the domain of Economics. - Instead of our culture being free, it is unduly influenced by special interests, government influences and controls, and whatever is profitable, regardless of its effect on society or the environment. - Instead of a government of, by, and for “we, the people” based on our common sense of justice, it is bought and controlled by whoever has the money; special interests. - Instead of our economic system being cooperative and collaborative so as to responsibly manage our resources for the benefit of all, it is based on competition and the profit motive, which tends to externalize costs onto the society and the environment. An important example of what does distinguish the ideals of equality/justice in the domain of Governance and freedom in the domain of Culture is - Governance being the domain that ensures the freedom of beliefs, and Culture being the domain of the beliefs themselves. Our U.S Constitution addresses this in the “Establishment Clause” of the First Amendment , which is characterized as “the separation of church and state”. This does not preclude identifying the values, principles, morals, and ideals that appeal to our common sense of justice and goodness that unify us in the domain of Governance, for example the moral code of “do no harm". This is indeed consistent with the ideals of equality and justice in the domain of Governance. In sum, it is important to be conversant in the three potentially conflicting ideals of freedom, equality/justice, and cooperation/collaboration. While, as exemplified above, each ideal of freedom, equality/justice, and cooperation/collaboration belongs in the three domains of Culture, Governance, and Economics, our common sense of justice, which arises from our common humanity, is what will determine what would best serve the community. For example, we could determine whether it is best to be cooperating or competing, ensuring equality or creating privilege and achieving excellence, having freedom of choice or being subject to what ensures equality and equal access (such as with private or universal health care). The new paradigm of the better world gives us the opportunity to cultivate our sense of justice, address the injustices we see, and choose the best course of action based on what we agree would be good as well as just. Interestingly, the famous cry of the French Revolution: liberté, egalité, fraternité was a symptom of humanity’s unconscious longing for a threefold social organism later conceived by the famous philosopher and social reformer Rudolf Steiner. (See http://www.rudolfsteinerweb.com/Threefold_Social_Order.php ) 2. Individual Integration and Universal Synergy Ideally, individuals and community members know how to integrate themselves so as to foster universal synergy. For additional information on this important ideal, go to Integration/Synergy .

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The Hidden Sovereign - The Banking System The current banking model is based on banks being a private entity that benefits its owners and shareholders. The new banking model that the republic is creating is based on banking being a public utility that benefits the people. To render the existing banking model obsolete and create a new model, one must understand how both models work. When you go to the bank to deposit cash or you go to the bank to borrow money, and you do not accept the ready-made ideas that come to you from the culture, then you can discover the truth about banking. What we think is happening with money and banks is not what is actually happening. The deception is so profound and the consequences are so far reaching that it is difficult to comprehend. However, comprehending the role that the banking system plays in our society will liberate us to do money in such a way that we can manifest the better world we know in our hearts is possible. The culture says you deposit your money in the bank. But that is not true. The culture says you borrow money from the bank. But that is not true. So, if you don't deposit money in the bank and you don't borrow money from the bank, but your life is based on thinking that you do, what might your life be like if you understood how money, how banking, actually works and if we, the people, issued the money for what we agree would be good? How Banking Actually Works: Let us examine what happens when you bring five 100 dollar bills to the bank that someone paid you for goods or services. Those Five 100 dollar bills are Cash, Federal Reserve Notes. They are legal tender for all debts public and private; it says so on the bills. This is what you have to use to settle debts. This is what we think of as money: Money is cash backed by the law that makes it legal tender, what you have to use to make payments and what you have to accept in payment. Even if it is represented as just numbers in a bank's database, we think of it as cash, legal tender. To "deposit" the money in your bank account, you make out a "deposit slip". It has the bank's number on it and your bank account number on it. You hand the cash (five One Hundred Dollar bills) and deposit slip to the teller. See where she "deposits" the cash. In your bank account? Or in the cash drawer? Whose $500 in cash is it now? Whatever the bank put in your bank account, it is not your five $100 bills which are legal tender. If the $500 in cash is no longer yours, what did the bank put in your bank account that looks as though it is the same $500 you brought to the bank, but obviously isn't? There is only one possibility, and it is the possibility that we are very familiar with when it is our money but someone else decides what to do with it. It is called a loan. Now if I lend someone money, there are usually terms the borrower and I agree to, a legally binding contract. The fact that you don't remember signing a loan contract when you opened your bank account does not mean that you didn't sign such a contract. Of course you did, when you opened the bank account and didn't read the loan agreement. You signed a loan agreement in which the terms were that when you "deposit" money, you are making a demand loan to the bank. A demand loan is one in which the bank has to pay you when you demand it with a check, ATM withdrawal, or debit card swipe. If your "deposit" or demand loan is made to your savings account, the bank even pays you interest at a variable rate determined by the bank. The $500 in cash you lent to the bank based on the terms (demand loan) in your bank account agreement with the bank goes on the balance sheet of the bank as an asset of the bank, and the $500 "accounting entry" they put in your bank account goes on the balance sheet of the bank as a liability of the bank. Liability means what is owed. The bank owes you $500 in cash. The bank puts in your account their liability, what they owe you. What difference does this make? Why is this relevant? Why does it matter that the bank owes you your "deposit" or demand loan in your bank account? First: It looks like you deposited money in the bank since you can demand the bank repay you in cash (legal tender). But you did not make a cash deposit into your account at the bank, you made a demand loan to the bank on terms you did not understand. Second: The bank put in your account their liability, what they owe you, not cash. Third: The $500 of cash entered as an asset on the balance sheet of the bank is valuable to the bank. Fourth: When you borrow "money" from the bank, what does the bank lend? The cash in the bank made up of all our "deposits"? No. The bank issues credit based on your "promissory note"; your promise to pay "principal" plus interest on what the bank terms a "loan". The promissory note you sign when you "borrow money" from the bank is just like cash to the bank since it is based on your promise to pay money representing real value, plus interest! In other words, just as your cash deposit is valuable to the bank, so too is your promissory note. The promissory note is entered as an asset on the balance sheet of the bank. In other words, the bank "monetizes", as an accounting entry, your credit, your promise to pay; your signature when you "borrow money" from the bank. What the bank "owes" you based on what you thought you "borrowed" is entered as a liability on the balance sheet of the bank. Again, liability means what is owed. What do you actually receive when you "borrow money" from the bank? The bank does the same thing it does when you make a demand loan to the bank. It puts in your account their liability, what they owe you. You did not "borrow money" from the bank when you took out what you think of as a loan; you accepted what the bank owes you, its liability, as though it were valuable cash. Further, based on the banks accounting entry of their liability into your bank account, you now are obligated through your promissory note to make good on this accounting entry with real money, plus interest! Banking = accounting entries that benefit banks at borrowers' expense. Banking based on accounting entries is actually an acceptable form of record keeping and of managing the money supply. What is unacceptable is that instead of this being a public utility for the benefit of the people, it is a mechanism used to profit the banks. The classical definition of credit is the provision of money, goods, or services with the expectation of future payment. Bank Credit is currently based on monetizing, as an accounting entry, a borrower's credit, a borrower's promise to pay with money representing real value. This demonstrates that money is an accounting system. In reality, the borrower, the so-called debtor, is actually the creditor, the one providing the value. Bank credit - what the bank owes us - is how all the money, except coins, comes into circulation. What would your life be like if you could lend people what you owe them and charge interest? What did the banking system do to acquire this power to issue what you think of as legal tender cash but is simply credit based on an accounting entry? It may not be obvious at first, but the banking system must have created this culture in which you do not understand something so fundamental to our existence. If you doubt this, consider why the Congress genuflected to the banks when they needed to be bailed out? If Congress worked for the people, it would have bailed out the victims of the banking fraud and brought the criminal bankers to justice. How could banks be too big to fail? How could bankers be so powerful they can't be tried and convicted of financial crimes? Why did you not learn in school how banking really works? Why does the media not report on how banking really works? How is the whole profession of economics so controlled that in spite of the evidence, they think of banks as intermediaries, and money as a neutral factor?Finally, how could the banking system have so much money that they could create and maintain this system? The banking system is automatically transferring the wealth we all create together from the vast majority of people who pay more interest than they receive to the very small minority of people who receive more interest than they pay. For more on this, there is an excellent video called Money as Debt 2, Promises Unleashed . The consequence of money only being issued for what will be profitable to the owners of the banks is that we are all in debt to the banks and must do whatever is necessary to make the payments, no matter how detrimental to the individual, society, or the environment. The government is unfortunately subservient to the banking system, which controls the money, the primary tool of the sovereign. With money as an interest bearing debt that transfers the wealth from 'borrowers' to private banks, the owners of the banks become increasingly wealthy, giving them the power to shape society. There are numerous books about the monetary system, and among the best of them is Ellen Brown's "The Web of Debt" and Stephen Zarlenga's "The Lost Science of Money". Thomas Greco's book "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization" is the bible on mutual credit and credit clearing. Bernard Lietaer's book "The Future of Money" gives a good insight into complementary currencies, and Charles Eisenstein's book "Sacred Economics" heads us in the direction of a gift economy. The Corporate Deception is when we unwittingly act on behalf of the corporate entity (straw man) that was established by our unwitting consent when our parents registered our birth. We accept the consequences of all the contracts we sign without understanding what they really require, and we suffer the consequences because it all seems so reasonable. It seems reasonable because of our schooling and the ways in which we must earn our living. Our tendency as human beings to believe that other people are as altruistically motivated as we are leaves us susceptible to the machinations of the sociopathic corporations and the deceptive banking system which provides the money the oligarchs use to control the culture, the government, and the economy to benefit themselves at our expense. A book about this that is well worth reading is "They Own It All (Including You)" by Ronald McDonald & Robert Rowen, MD. Another book about the corporatism is "Meet Your Strawman" published by www.NationalLibertyAlliance.org There is a huge amount of history behind the corporate takeover of the United States and the world that needs to be understood. There are wonderful resources that can teach us our history, such as Carroll Quigleys book "Tragedy and Hope, A History of the World in Our Time" which is also a website: https://tragedyandhope.com/ The interview with John Taylor Gatto on that website is particularly worthwhile. The "Lost Science of Money" by Stephen Zarlenga describes our entire history from ancient times to the present from the point of view of money, who was issuing it, what it is issued for, and the cultural, social, and economic consequences. Issuing the currency is the most powerful tool the sovereign has to create the conditions in which the people live. The actual, not the ostensible, sovereign is hiding behind the corporate structure in the banking system. Apparently no one is responsible for issuing the money. This is the problem with corporations, they are limited in their liability, and the people who make the actual decisions are not liable for them. When psychologists point out that corporations are sociopathic, that is, without empathy, the problem with the corporation is apparent.

Our strategies are both ideas and practical initiatives. We are creating a new society based on “We the People” meaning all the people. We have formulated a Declaration of Interdependence, rather than Independence, because if we the people are to be sovereign, it will be a result of our ability to be interdependent. Further, this document reflects our grievances of and solutions for our society in the 21st century. We are using Jefferson's idea of the Ward Republic in order to create a context for the practical initiatives of Sociocracy for All and the Common Good Payment System. We are using Rudolf Steiner's ideas for a Threefold Social Order to create a context in which we are able to understand ourselves as social beings through the ideals of freedom, equality, and collaboration. We support each other in becoming increasingly honorable and integrated members of our Wards so that the communities we are establishing will have the understanding, protocols, and practices necessary for successful self-governance in a Republic. We are participating in the united states of America Republick.

Freedom , Justice , Community Jural Assembly Communities Create a Society that Benefits Everyone By John G Root Jr Order Here The book is available at Balboa Press, now, and at your local bookstore and as an eBook soon. If you want an autographed copy please email me at johngrootjr@gmail.com or send a letter with a check for $20 to Just Abundance, Inc. 32 East Street, Petersham, MA 01366 Thank you. INTRODUCTION The World We Know In Our Hearts This book aims to describe the essentials for creating the society that benefits everyone, the ideal world we can all describe to each other, the utopia we are taught is unrealistic, but which we envision as possible to create. The two questions that this book aims to answer are: “Why is the society that benefits everyone considered utopian, and therefore out of reach?” and “What kind of society would we create if it were entirely up to us - We, the People?” The answer to the first question: (“Why is the society that benefits everyone considered utopian, and therefore out of reach?”) is that we have a false understanding of the forces that are controlling society. The Official Story attributes the circumstances of our lives to human nature and our government. People are considered selfish, greedy, fearful, and irresponsible and must be controlled by our government; and democracy is considered the best form of government. The truth is, as we all know from our lived experience, if we can get the money to do what we desire to do, we can do it, but if we can’t get the money, we can’t do it. It thus becomes obvious that money is the controlling factor that orients society and directs human endeavor. The primary tool that the sovereign, the lawgiver, uses to create the conditions in which we live is money creation. Unfortunately, we do not know who the sovereign is, what the money is being issued for, and how money issuance orients society and directs our endeavors. We all have a visceral sense that the wealth discrepancy is not justified, that the billionaires have captured the government, and that the government serves primarily their interests, not ours. The answer to the second question (“What kind of society would we create if it were entirely up to us - We, the People?”) is that we would create the society that benefits everyone when We, the People, remember we are sovereign. When we remember we are sovereign, we will issue the money so that money is not the issue. The questions become: What would you like to dedicate your life to accomplishing? How much will it cost to develop your capacities to do that and inspire collaborators to work with you? How much capital will you and your collaborators require? When the answers to those questions are reasonable, you will issue the money you can be responsible for. The book aims to describe the philosophical ideas and the practical reasons why it is reasonable for each of us to issue the money we each need to capitalize each of our capacities. The premise of the book is that understanding our desire to be free, to live in a just society, and to belong to a community that relies on our freedom -voluntary initiatives- and sense of justice to provide everything that we need and desire, is the society that benefits everyone. The world we know in our hearts will surely manifest as we engage in a process of knowing ourselves and the nature of money. Chapter One of the book is about Money. If we are to issue money to create the society that benefits everyone, we will need to understand that money is an agreement to use a standard to measure value, and a device to facilitate transparent value-for-value trades. Money is a political power, the primary tool of the sovereign. The idea that we can acquire and accumulate enough money so our money can work for us distorts our understanding of our nature as human beings responsible for our social circumstances. When we properly understand the Nature of Money, it will allow us to create a just society, based on equity not equality. To make that clear: We do not accumulate a lot of clocks so we can have more time, and we know that some people are able to use their time much more productively than others. Chapter Two is about the Freedom of the individual. Freedom is based on self-knowledge - knowing what one is interested in, capable of doing, and how one will make the world a better place for oneself, one's family, one's community and society. Chapter Three is about the social compact and the administration of Justice by free, sovereign individuals which will ensure that the people have the social infrastructure they need to thrive. Chapter Four is about creating the kind of Community and economy which a free and sovereign people, living in a just society, will organize to provide for our needs and desires. Chapter Five concludes the book with suggestions for Creating the New Model. It describes a process that will manifest life-empowering communities in which the individuals are free, at liberty, to express the love that wells up from within and use their gifts to create as they see fit. The book is relatively short and will only take a few hours to read. In the printed book, an underlined word/phrase/number references an entry in that Chapter’s Endnotes. In the eBook, the underlined word or phrase is a hyperlink to the referenced Endnote. Each Endnote has the URL listed for the reference. On the Just Abundance.org website there are Appendixes with additional extensive references and examples of the supporting evidence necessary to give us a better understanding of ourselves, society, and our potential. As you read, please be aware that cognitive dissonance may arise as you realize the deceptions in the Official Story. The book intends to be a counter-force to the Official Story and to give a basis for us to tell each other another story: Our Story. Sharing Our Story begins the process of manifesting it.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Georgia Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton North Carolina William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Massachusetts John Hancock Maryland Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Pennsylvania Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean New York William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire Matthew Thornton Transcript of Northwest Ordinance (1787) An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio. Section 1. Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient. Sec 2. Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid, That the estates, both of resident and nonresident proprietors in the said territory, dying intestate, shall descent to, and be distributed among their children, and the descendants of a deceased child, in equal parts; the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them: And where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin in equal degree; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intestate shall have, in equal parts among them, their deceased parents' share; and there shall in no case be a distinction between kindred of the whole and half blood; saving, in all cases, to the widow of the intestate her third part of the real estate for life, and one third part of the personal estate; and this law relative to descents and dower, shall remain in full force until altered by the legislature of the district. And until the governor and judges shall adopt laws as hereinafter mentioned, estates in the said territory may be devised or bequeathed by wills in writing, signed and sealed by him or her in whom the estate may be (being of full age), and attested by three witnesses; and real estates may be conveyed by lease and release, or bargain and sale, signed, sealed and delivered by the person being of full age, in whom the estate may be, and attested by two witnesses, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts, and registers shall be appointed for that purpose; and personal property may be transferred by delivery; saving, however to the French and Canadian inhabitants, and other settlers of the Kaskaskies, St. Vincents and the neighboring villages who have heretofore professed themselves citizens of Virginia, their laws and customs now in force among them, relative to the descent and conveyance, of property. Sec. 3. Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be appointed from time to time by Congress, a governor, whose commission shall continue in force for the term of three years, unless sooner revoked by Congress; he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein in 1,000 acres of land, while in the exercise of his office. Sec. 4. There shall be appointed from time to time by Congress, a secretary, whose commission shall continue in force for four years unless sooner revoked; he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein in 500 acres of land, while in the exercise of his office. It shall be his duty to keep and preserve the acts and laws passed by the legislature, and the public records of the district, and the proceedings of the governor in his executive department, and transmit authentic copies of such acts and proceedings, every six months, to the Secretary of Congress: There shall also be appointed a court to consist of three judges, any two of whom to form a court, who shall have a common law jurisdiction, and reside in the district, and have each therein a freehold estate in 500 acres of land while in the exercise of their offices; and their commissions shall continue in force during good behavior. Sec. 5. The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the district, and report them to Congress from time to time: which laws shall be in force in the district until the organization of the General Assembly therein, unless disapproved of by Congress; but afterwards the Legislature shall have authority to alter them as they shall think fit. Sec. 6. The governor, for the time being, shall be commander in chief of the militia, appoint and commission all officers in the same below the rank of general officers; all general officers shall be appointed and commissioned by Congress. Sec. 7. Previous to the organization of the general assembly, the governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers in each county or township, as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same: After the general assembly shall be organized, the powers and duties of the magistrates and other civil officers shall be regulated and defined by the said assembly; but all magistrates and other civil officers not herein otherwise directed, shall during the continuance of this temporary government, be appointed by the governor. Sec. 8. For the prevention of crimes and injuries, the laws to be adopted or made shall have force in all parts of the district, and for the execution of process, criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof; and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require, to lay out the parts of the district in which the Indian titles shall have been extinguished, into counties and townships, subject, however, to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature. Sec. 9. So soon as there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants of full age in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the governor, they shall receive authority, with time and place, to elect a representative from their counties or townships to represent them in the general assembly: Provided, That, for every five hundred free male inhabitants, there shall be one representative, and so on progressively with the number of free male inhabitants shall the right of representation increase, until the number of representatives shall amount to twenty five; after which, the number and proportion of representatives shall be regulated by the legislature: Provided, That no person be eligible or qualified to act as a representative unless he shall have been a citizen of one of the United States three years, and be a resident in the district, or unless he shall have resided in the district three years; and, in either case, shall likewise hold in his own right, in fee simple, two hundred acres of land within the same; Provided, also, That a freehold in fifty acres of land in the district, having been a citizen of one of the states, and being resident in the district, or the like freehold and two years residence in the district, shall be necessary to qualify a man as an elector of a representative. Sec. 10. The representatives thus elected, shall serve for the term of two years; and, in case of the death of a representative, or removal from office, the governor shall issue a writ to the county or township for which he was a member, to elect another in his stead, to serve for the residue of the term. Sec. 11. The general assembly or legislature shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The Legislative Council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed by Congress; any three of whom to be a quorum: and the members of the Council shall be nominated and appointed in the following manner, to wit: As soon as representatives shall be elected, the Governor shall appoint a time and place for them to meet together; and, when met, they shall nominate ten persons, residents in the district, and each possessed of a freehold in five hundred acres of land, and return their names to Congress; five of whom Congress shall appoint and commission to serve as aforesaid; and, whenever a vacancy shall happen in the council, by death or removal from office, the house of representatives shall nominate two persons, qualified as aforesaid, for each vacancy, and return their names to Congress; one of whom congress shall appoint and commission for the residue of the term. And every five years, four months at least before the expiration of the time of service of the members of council, the said house shall nominate ten persons, qualified as aforesaid, and return their names to Congress; five of whom Congress shall appoint and commission to serve as members of the council five years, unless sooner removed. And the governor, legislative council, and house of representatives, shall have authority to make laws in all cases, for the good government of the district, not repugnant to the principles and articles in this ordinance established and declared. And all bills, having passed by a majority in the house, and by a majority in the council, shall be referred to the governor for his assent; but no bill, or legislative act whatever, shall be of any force without his assent. The governor shall have power to convene, prorogue, and dissolve the general assembly, when, in his opinion, it shall be expedient. Sec. 12. The governor, judges, legislative council, secretary, and such other officers as Congress shall appoint in the district, shall take an oath or affirmation of fidelity and of office; the governor before the president of congress, and all other officers before the Governor. As soon as a legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house assembled in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to Congress, who shall have a seat in Congress, with a right of debating but not voting during this temporary government. Sec. 13. And, for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory: to provide also for the establishment of States, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original States, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest: Sec. 14. It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said territory and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: Art. 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory. Art. 2. The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature; and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law. All persons shall be bailable, unless for capital offenses, where the proof shall be evident or the presumption great. All fines shall be moderate; and no cruel or unusual punishments shall be inflicted. No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land; and, should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same. And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made, or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud, previously formed. Art. 3. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity, shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them. Art. 4. The said territory, and the States which may be formed therein, shall forever remain a part of this Confederacy of the United States of America, subject to the Articles of Confederation, and to such alterations therein as shall be constitutionally made; and to all the acts and ordinances of the United States in Congress assembled, conformable thereto. The inhabitants and settlers in the said territory shall be subject to pay a part of the federal debts contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States; and the taxes for paying their proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the district or districts, or new States, as in the original States, within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled. The legislatures of those districts or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and, in no case, shall nonresident proprietors be taxed higher than residents. The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor. Art. 5. There shall be formed in the said territory, not less than three nor more than five States; and the boundaries of the States, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession, and consent to the same, shall become fixed and established as follows, to wit: The western State in the said territory, shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio, and Wabash Rivers; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and Post Vincents, due North, to the territorial line between the United States and Canada; and, by the said territorial line, to the Lake of the Woods and Mississippi. The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Post Vincents to the Ohio, by the Ohio, by a direct line, drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami, to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line. The eastern State shall be bounded by the last mentioned direct line, the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line: Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan. And, whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government: Provided, the constitution and government so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles; and, so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand. Art. 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid. Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid, That the resolutions of the 23rd of April, 1784, relative to the subject of this ordinance, be, and the same are hereby repealed and declared null and void. Done by the United States, in Congress assembled, the 13th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1787, and of their soveriegnty and independence the twelfth. Transcription courtesy of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union — 1777 To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names, send greeting. Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, did, on the 15th day of November, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America, agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of New-hampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia in the words following, viz. "Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New-hampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia". Article I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America." Article II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. Article III. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. Article IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any state, to any other state, of which the Owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition, duties or restriction shall be laid by any state, on the property of the united states, or either of them. If any Person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, — or other high misdemeanor in any state, shall flee from Justice, and be found in any of the united states, he shall, upon demand of the Governor or executive power, of the state from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence. Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these states to the records, acts and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other state. Article V. For the more convenient management of the general interests of the united states, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each state shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each state, to recal its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the Year. No state shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven Members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the united states, for which he, or another for his benefit receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind. Each state shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the states, and while they act as members of the committee of the states. In determining questions in the united states in Congress assembled, each state shall have one vote. Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any Court, or place out of Congress, and the members of congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace. Article VI. No state, without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility. No two or more states shall enter into any treaty, confederation or alliance whatever between them, without the consent of the united states in congress assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the same is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue. No state shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the united states in congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress, to the courts of France and Spain. No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any state, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the united states in congress assembled, for the defence of such state, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any state, in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgment of the united states, in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such state; but every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutered, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage. No state shall engage in any war without the consent of the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay till the united states in congress assembled can be consulted: nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the united states in congress assembled, shall determine otherwise. Article VII. When land-forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct, and all vacancies shall be filled up by the State which first made the appointment. Article VIII. All charges of war, and all other expences that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the united states in congress assembled, shall be def rayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any Person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states within the time agreed upon by the united states in congress assembled. Article IX. The united states in congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article — of sending and receiving ambassadors — entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities, whatsoever — of establishing rules for deciding in all cases, what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the united states shall be divided or appropriated — of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace — appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts. The united states in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following. Whenever the legislative or executive authority or lawful agent of any state in controversy with another shall present a petition to congress stating the matter in question and praying for a hearing, notice thereof shall be given by order of congress to the legislative or executive authority of the other state in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question: but if they cannot agree, congress shall name three persons out of each of the united states, and from the list of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen; and from that number not less than seven, nor more than nine names as congress shall direct, shall in the presence of congress be drawn out by lot, and the persons whose names shall be so drawn or any five of them, shall be commissioners or judges, to hear and finally determine the controversy, so always as a major part of the judges who shall hear the cause shall agree in the determination: and if either party shall neglect to attend at the day appointed, without showing reasons, which congress shall judge sufficient, or being present shall refuse to strike, the congress shall proceed to nominate three persons out of each state, and the secretary of congress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing; and the judgment and sentence of the court to be appointed, in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive; and if any of the parties shall refuse to submit to the authority of such court, or to appear or defend their claim or cause, the court shall nevertheless proceed to pronounce sentence, or judgment, which shall in like manner be final and decisive, the judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to congress, and lodged among the acts of congress for the security of the parties concerned: provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath to be administered by one of the judges of the supreme or superior court of the state, where the cause shall be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favour, affection or hope of reward:" provided also, that no state shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the united states. All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall on the petition of either party to the congress of the united states, be finally determined as near as may be in the same manner as is before prescribed for deciding disputes respecting territorial jurisdiction between different states. The united states in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states — fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the united states — regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the states, provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated — establishing or regulating post offices from one state to another, throughout all the united states, and exacting such postage on the papers passing thro' the same as may be requisite to defray the expences of the said office — appointing all officers of the land forces, in the service of the united states, excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the united states — making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The united states in congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of congress, to be denominated "A Committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each state; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the united states under their direction — to appoint one of their number to preside, provided that no person be allowed to serve in the office of president more than one year in any term of three years; to ascertain the necessary sums of money to be raised for the service of the united states, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expences to borrow money, or emit bills on the credit of the united states, transmitting every half year to the respective states an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted, — to build and equip a navy — to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such state; which requisition shall be binding, and thereupon the legislature of each state shall appoint the regimental officers, raise the men and cloth, arm and equip them in a soldier like manner, at the expence of the united states; and the officers and men so cloathed, armed and quipped shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the united states in congress assembled: But if the united states in congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances judge proper that any state should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered, cloathed, armed and equipped in the same manner as the quota of such state, unless the legislature of such sta te shall judge that such extra number cannot be safely spared out of the same, in which case they shall raise officer, cloath, arm and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared. And the officers and men so cloathed, armed and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the united states in congress assembled. The united states in congress assembled shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor regulate the value thereof, nor ascertain the sums and expences necessary for the defence and welfare of the united states, or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the united states, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war, to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same: nor shall a question on any other point, except for adjourning from day to day be determined, unless by the votes of a majority of the united states in congress assembled. The congress of the united states shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year, and to any place within the united states, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six Months, and shall publish the Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them, at his or their request shall be furnished with a transcript of the said Journal, except such parts as are above excepted, to lay before the legislatures of the several states. Article X. The committee of the states, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of congress, such of the powers of congress as the united states in congress assembled, by the consent of nine states, shall from time to time think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the said committee, for the exercise of which, by the articles of confederation, the voice of nine states in the congress of the united states assembled is requisite. Article XI. Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the united states, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states. Article XII. All bills of credit emitted, monies borrowed and debts contracted by, or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the united states, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the united states, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said united states, and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged. Article XIII. Every state shall abide by the determinations of the united states in congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the united states, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state. And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union. Know Ye that we the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that pur pose, do by these presents, in the name and in behalf of our respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm each and every of the said articles of confederation and perpetual union, and all and singular the matters and things therein contained: And we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the united states in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them. And that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in Congress. Done at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania the ninth day of July in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Seventy-eight, and in the third year of the independence of America. On the part of & behalf of the State of New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett John Wentworth. Junr; August 8th, 1778 On the part and behalf of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations: William Ellery Henry Marchant John Collins On the part and behalf of the State of New York: Jas Duane Fra: Lewis Wm Duer Gouvr Morris On the part and behalf of the State of Pennsylvania: Robert Morris Daniel Roberdeau Jon. Bayard Smith William Clingan Joseph Reed; 22d July, 1778 On the part and behalf of the State of Maryland: John Hanson; March 1, 1781 Daniel Carroll, do. On the part and behalf of the State of North Carolina: John Penn; July 21st, 1778 Corns Harnett Jno Williams On the part and behalf of the State of Georgia: Jno Walton; 24th July, 1778 Edwd Telfair Edwd Langworthy On the part of & behalf of the State of Massachusetts Bay: John Hancock Samuel Adams Elbridge Gerry Francis Dana James Lovell Samuel Holten On the part and behalf of the State of Connecticut: Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington Oliver Wolcott Titus Hosmer Andrew Adams On the Part and in Behalf of the State of New Jersey, November 26th, 1778: Jno Witherspoon Nathl Scudder On the part and behalf of the State of Delaware: Thos McKean; Febr 22d, 1779 John Dickinson; May 5th, 1779 Nicholas Van Dyke On the part and behalf of the State of Virginia: Richard Henry Lee John Banister Thomas Adams Jno Harvie Francis Lightfoot Lee On the part and behalf of the State of South Carolina: Henry Laurens William Henry Drayton Jno Mathews Richd Hutson Thos Heyward, junr.

The Responsibilities of the Jural Assembly Offices Self-governance is based on the Jural Assembly within nation-states which is made up of all of the adults who live in a neighborhood. It is the pool of people from which a Grand Jury or a petite Jury is called. The members of the Jural Assembly are individually and collectively responsible for the well being of their community. Each Jural Assembly shall select, or elect, qualified people for each of the roles necessary for a well regulated and harmonious community. The Jural Assembly encompasses the executive, legislative, and judicial functions. The legislative function has first and final authority. The initial roles are Leader/Delegate, Community Builder, Commissioner, Notary, Sheriff, and Scribe . Together they form the executive of the Jural Assembly, and they always seek the active consent of the people in all that they do. Leaders and Delegates represent the individual Nation-states in the national Congress. They are also the public face of their Republic form of self-governance. Leaders convene jural assemblies, which then select their Delegates. The Community Builders are the people who connect easily with people. They need to have a firm grasp of self-governance and money (such as the Replik, the Liberty Dollar, the Common Good Payment System, Time Banking, LETS, and whatever else their Jural Assembly may be adopting as their currency). Community Builders are primarily responsible for bringing new people and businesses into the self-governance structure. They will each have their own style and they each need to be supported so that they have what they need to get people excited about joining the jural assembly. The Commissioners are responsible for overseeing the financial affairs of their jural assembly. They are well respected and above reproach, experienced in handling money, and dedicated to the will of the people. The Commissioner is responsible for their jural assembly's treasury, for disbursing the funds from the common national treasury, for administering their jural assembly's or county’s monetary systems, and for selecting the people to carry out all the necessary functions of the treasury. The Notaries are responsible for administering justice in their jural assembly. They are not lawyers. They oversee the jury pool, the judges, and the courts. They make sure that maxims of law, natural law, and God's law are always in evidence in the administration of justice. They are particularly careful to assure that Grand Juries know how to issue presentments as well as indictments, and that petit juries understand the role of nullification The Sheriffs are constables, responsible for keeping the peace. The Sheriffs assume that any situation that arises can be managed peacefully and with dignity for all concerned. They cooperate with the Notaries and with the Jural Assembly and may deputize people to help them keep the peace. The Scribes are the historians of the Jural Assembly and of the people. Their primary responsibility is to accurately record and disseminate the decisions of the Jural Assembly and follow up on the agreements the members make. They are also responsible for recording property deeds and other vital records. The Jural Assembly is the ultimate authority for the people and will order its affairs as it sees fit. The Massachusetts Republic is recommending that all the Jural Assemblies conduct themselves sociocratically and attend workshops and the online courses offered by SociocracyForAll.org so that they will succeed in managing the affairs of the people with their active consent.

Individual Integration and Universal Synergy The world is as we dream it; our thoughts, intentions, and actions affect our experience of reality and the world at large. Our level of consciousness therefore plays a vital role in determining our dreams and creations. As within, so without. Either we create unconsciously by chance or consciously by choice. The question then is: What is the level of our consciousness? And what are we choosing to dream and create? The purpose of The Massachusetts Republic is to create The Better World We Know In Our Hearts Is Possible; a free, peaceful, healthy, just, collaborative, sustainable/regenerative world where we all thrive. The Massachusetts Republic is creating a new society, The Better World We Know In Our Hearts Is Possible, based on an understanding of the problems of our existing society and a vision of a new society based on the ideals of Rudolf Steiner's Threefold Social Order, addressed on the Threefolding page, and the ideals of Integration addressed here. The purpose of individual integration and universal synergy is to presence and foster conscious, integrated, intentional, and synergistic conduct and actions. Integration is based on an understanding that our state of being ; our consciousness, our awareness of the world within us and around us - is primary, and gives rise to conscious, integrated, intentional, and synergistic conduct and actions. Ideally, individuals and community members know how to integrate themselves, especially when experiencing fragmentation, which includes: - With the individual, the individual is aware of any competing drives within, namely one’s sub-selves, and brings them into consensus through eliciting and listening, the task of the “Transcendental I”. - Within the community, the community brings individual community members into consensus through eliciting and listening. - Transcending egoic patterns - Being “whole and complete” - Trusting and aligning with inner/higher guidance - Aligning with a higher purpose, vision, and mission “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” - Albert Einstein "If our inner work is great, our outer work will be great." - Meister Eckhart To foster integration, we espouse the following Understandings, Protocols, and Practices: The Gap The Golden Rule; All is One Communication Protocols General Practices The Gap The Gap represents the cognitive space between the percept (an object of perception) and the concept. It is the “choice point” between an event or reality that we experience (an event or reality, which is ultimately unknowable, that we observe and perceive through our senses and even memory), and our interpretation/understanding of and response to what we experience, which affects who we are, what we choose, and therefore what we create. We are responsible for our interpretations as creators. Understanding the Gap helps us take responsibility for our choices. It helps us choose our interpretations of our experience of reality and our responses to our interpretations (vs. allow ourselves to be dictated by our interpretations). This could include choosing to foster harmonious relations as we open up and listen to one another without undue bias. It could also include choosing our individual authority, our individual sovereignty (vs. accepting others’ authority and thereby not taking responsibility for our choices). In taking pause in the Gap, we can be present, and intentional with our choices (vs. at the effect of our circumstances). In resting in the Gap, we can be in "presence” as a state of being, allowing for an “evolutionary impulse” to inspire (in spirit) us into “awakened doing” (vs. "efforting"). (Eckhart Tolle) “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” - Viktor E. Frankl “What others do may be a stimulus of our feelings, but not the cause.” - Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD. “You get to choose how you focus. Therefore, you get to choose how you feel.” - Abraham-Hicks “Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." - Rumi “In the creation of our experience, controlled thought is everything …It is the highest form of prayer…Therefore, see only perfection, express only gratefulness, and imagine only what manifestation of perfection we choose next…In this formula is found tranquility, in this process, peace, in this awareness, joy.” - Neale Donald Walsch Resources: The Gap https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ph0iMCcUsaRHFmt52Srb9GqC5bBGnVE41_MnXz9phlE/edit The Work, by Byron Katie https://thework.com/instruction-the-work-byron-katie/ The Golden Rule; All is One - The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one would wish to be treated; “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” - The Golden Rule may be said to include the following characteristics: - The Common Law, which is generally recognized as: Do no harm, or Cause no harm, injury, nor loss. - Common courtesy, respect, and kindness - Honoring the similarities that unite us as well as the differences that individuate us - Appreciating one another for each other’s gifts - Genuinely recognizing and respecting the differences - which is a practical expression of justice; is relational, involves acknowledging others, the Gap, humility, awareness that we don't know what we don't know, accounting for well-reasoned arguments and objections, respecting valid boundaries, appreciating others’ beliefs and approaches, cultures, etc.; acknowledging that we are never one thing, agreeing to disagree, practicing NVC (non-violent communication) and active listening. (Note: Respect is distinct from allow.) Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_in_diversity - Having an appreciation for our profound interconnectedness; All is One (We are thy neighbor. Ubuntu: "I am because we are."; “I am because you are. You are because I am.”) The individual affects the community and the community affects the individual. “A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.” - Rudolf Steiner Resources for learning about and understanding ourselves and others to help become integrated and foster harmonious relations: The Enneagram https://www.enneagraminstitute.com Myers Briggs https://www.myersbriggs.org Kingdomality https://kingdomality.com and https://www.nd.gov/dhs/dvr/individual/modules/M7-Handout-Kingdomality-Types.pdf Communication Protocols Beginning with understanding the Gap (see above), and including the practices “non-violent communication” and “dynamic governance”, people learn to foster harmonious relations and effective decision-making. The following are valuable communication tools and resources: Compassionate/Non-violent communication (NVC) Resources: https://www.nonviolentcommunication.com , https://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/learn-nonviolent-communication/4-part- nvc/ https://www.cnvc.org Compassionate/Non-violent Communication (NVC) - Overview https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e7s3BZG10kxEpPgEuSyTbo6l9urINBhTkBWlI58_nZE/edit# "When we hear the other person’s feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.” - Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD. Dynamic Governance/Sociocracy (based on sharing in the round, equivalence, and consent) Resources: https://www.sociocracy.info and https://www.Sociocracyforall.org Emphasize eliciting vs. asserting. Use “I” statements (i.e., I feel, I see, I perceive, I interpret, I believe, etc.) Honor valid interrupts; (Not proceeding until each member is able to continue following the communication thread.) General Practices We believe integration includes: Living in connection, balance, and harmony with all life, all our relations, including the natural world, through "right relations" and "right livelihood". The Hopi Elders' Prophecy of June 8, 2000, "We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For", communicated the following: “You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered… Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden. It is time to speak your truth. Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for your leader. The time of the lonely wolf is over. Gather yourselves! …All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. ...We are the ones we’ve been waiting for." - Examples of additional practices: - An understanding of and connection to our “higher self”, the “Transcendental I” - An awareness/experience of our Oneness/Interconnectedness - Remembering we are love, and it is love that will set us free. Love unites. (Fear separates.) - Meditation to center ourselves and practice present moment awareness. - Individual and Collective “Presencing” which can inspire “awakened doing”. Resources: Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth https://shop.eckharttolle.com/products/a-new-earth-awakening-to-your-lifes-purpose/ Collective Presencing https://www.collectivepresencing.org/collective-presencing-the-new-paradigm-3-of-4/ - Abiding in the Awakened and Loving Heart Resources: Brahma Viharas https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/articles/the-four-faces-of-love-the-brahma- viharas/ Heartmath https://www.heartmath.com/about/ Insight Seminars https://www.insightseminars.org - Affirmations (Resource: https://www.louisehay.com/affirmations/ ) and Practicing Gratitude; (What we appreciate appreciates.) - Indigenous practices/Earth-centered spirituality (council process, medicine wheel, shamanic journeying, soul retrieval, sweat lodge, etc.), honoring traditions and protocols. - A primarily whole foods plant-based diet for the purpose of one’s health and well-being and the sustainability of the environment. - Holistic healing modalities *** Conclusion: Problems are evolutionary drivers. With consciousness and conscious choice, we as a humanity could render obsolete the negative orientation of our institutions and society by being part of and investing in collaborative solutions that have enduring value. We envision integrated individuals within synergistic communities in the form of Common Good Communities and Jeffersonian Ward Republics: - providing and performing the functions of governance to and for each other; governance of, by, and for the people; - deciding together what would be good and of value for the community; and - issuing money (the primary tool of the sovereign) to fund it. As individuals, we receive the money we need to live as our right to the equitable distribution of the wealth we all create together. And we have a right to the capital our capacities warrant so that we may: - pursue our transcendent purpose - bring our service and contribution to expression - make a meaningful difference in our communities and the world - create the conditions in which we want to live; The Better World We Know In Our Hearts Is Possible; a free, peaceful, healthy, just, collaborative, sustainable/regenerative world where we all thrive. This all requires a shift in consciousness, awareness, and understanding as well as the will to act in service to a high purpose and all that is possible in co-creating a new cultural paradigm, The Better World We Know In Our Hearts Is Possible! The world is as we dream it! Let’s dream a better dream! “The dream is everything. The way we live is determined by the way we dream.” – Maria Quischpe, from John Perkins’ The World Is As You Dream It “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi “Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” - Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead “When you dream alone, it is only a dream. When you dream together, it is the beginning of reality.” - Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We are here to be creators; We are here to infiltrate space with ideas and mansions of thought; We are here to make something of this life.” – Ramtha “In my dream, the angel shrugged and said if we fail this time it will be a failure of imagination and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.” - Brian Andreas The following are valuable resources: Ten Syllables https://www.tensyllables.org Sociocracy https://www.sociocracy.info and https://www.sociocracyforall.org Inner Bonding https://www.innerbonding.com/show-page/347/the-6-steps.html

Union Education calls are currently (May '25) on the first and third Thursdays of the month at 8:30 pm eastern on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/4133293200 Previously: Details are: 667-770-1297 code: 811378# *** Replay: 667-770-1318 code: 811378# Union Call Recordings: Recorded Union Calls The Massachusetts Republic is temporarily hosting the Union Documents here: https://www.massachusettsrepublic.org/union-documentation INVITATION TO A UNION OF WE, THE PEOPLE AT LARGE The purpose of a union of we, the people at large, is to revendicate the promise of the Declaration of Independence (without ambiguities). Guided by the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, we are divinely inspired to create life-empowering consent-based self-governing communities that assure liberty, justice, and abundance for all. The following questions may help you determine your interest in learning more, and joining us! Do I agree with the Declaration of Independence that we are endowed by our Creator with certain “unalienable Rights”, among these are “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”? Do I agree that primary functions of government include: securing, protecting, and defending our unalienable rights ensuring “do no harm” being lawful and ensuring justice? Do I agree that the existing government is not aligned with the intentions of freedom, equality, and justice established by the founders of the U.S.A. as implied? Do I agree that the existing model of government was perpetrated and perpetuated by fraud and that the existing course of human events needs to be dramatically changed? Do I agree that the first paragraph of the 1776 Declaration of Independence provides a remedy for the existing course of human events as follows? When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people (1) to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and (2) to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should (3) declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Do I agree that there is a need to create a new model for a better world? Do I agree with the following motto for creating a better world? “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - R. Buckminster Fuller Do I agree that we, the people at large, should be engaging in life-empowering self-governing communities based on our ongoing active consent? If you answered “yes” to the above questions, you may be interested in learning more. Union Education calls have been on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm eastern. Details are: 667-770-1297 code: 811378# *** Replay: 667-770-1318 code: 811378# Union Call Recordings: Recorded Union Calls The Massachusetts Republic is temporarily hosting the Union Documents here: https://www.massachusettsrepublic.org/union-documentation Feel free to forward this to those you believe would be interested. Declaration of Independence, a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum .) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original. In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [ now the International Banking Cartel and the BAR Association] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. [Here, in the original, are three pages of grievances. Among our grievances are the Federal Reserve System, the usurpation of Common Law by the UCC, the Deep State and the American Empire, debt and wage slavery, loss of basic rights, no redress of grievances, monopolies, the technocratic transhumanist totalitarian tiptoe -- basically, business as usual by the powers that be!] We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown [Banking Cartel], and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain [the powers that be], is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Signed by the delegates from the 13 Colonies assembled in the Continental Congress

ABOUT US On Friday, August 30, 2019, seven natural born residents on the land of Massachusetts took it upon themselves to occupy the positions needed to create a republic form of governance. We selected the best person for each of the positions of Commissioner, Notary, Scribe, Sheriff, and Community Builde r, which, together with the Delegates already selected, will be building the new republic form of governance for Massachusetts. Bradford Herrick, First Delegate to the united states of America Republick from the Massachusetts Republic John G Root Jr, Alternate Delegate to the united states of America Republick from the Massachusetts Republic Joe (Grok) Boyer, Second Alternate Delegate and Community Builder for the Massachusetts Republic William Spademan, Commissioner for the Massachusetts Republic. Laura Creedon, Notary for the Massachusetts Republic Margaret Arndt, Scribe for the Massachusetts Republic David Snieckus, Sheriff for the Massachusetts Republic We are now in the process of educating ourselves in and practicing self-governance, and recruiting others to create a sovereign state based on the Golden Rule.