Second North American
Secessionist Convention

3 & 4 October 2007

Some 70 delegates and observers from about two dozen secessionist organizations gathered in Chattanooga to organize, plan and discuss the strategy and tactics of North American secession. the League of the South co-hosted the event with the Middlebury Institute of New York.

The discussions culminated with the approval of the statement which follows.

THE CHATTANOOGA DECLARATION

The Chattanooga Declaration was drafted and approved by delegates to the Second North American Secessionist Convention on 4 October 2007.

We, the delegates of the Secession movements represented at the Second North American Secessionist Convention, acknowledging our differences, yet agree on the following truths:

1. The deepest questions of human liberty and government facing our time go beyond right and left, and in fact have made the old right-left split meaningless and dead.
2. The privileges, monopolies, and powers that private corporations have won from government threaten everyone's health, prosperity, and liberty, and have already killed American self-government by the people.
3. The power of corporations endangers liberty as much as government power, especially when they are combined as in the American Empire.
4. Liberty can only survive if political power is returned from faraway and self-interested centers to local communities and States.
5. The American Empire is no longer a nation or a republic, but has become a tyrant aggressive abroad and despotic at home.
6. The States of the American union are and of right ought to be, free and self-governing.
7. Without secession, liberty and self-government can never be sustained, and diversity among human societies can never survive.
 

LINKS
New York Times 18 October article --
          "A Vision of a Nation No Longer in the U.S."

Middlebury Institute Report on Secessionist Convention