The Constitution of Freedom Haven (Draft Version 0.19 10/07/2018. More at: FreedomHaven.org ) goo.gl/6prK68 goo.gl/NQJLdE goo.gl/qt1jkn PREAMBLE ---- We the individual People, in order to secure the right to defend ourselves, to limit the size and scope of GOVERNMENT, and to secure the Blessings of LIBERTY to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for Freedom Haven. We recognize that: * FREEDOM is an essential ingredient for individuals to achieve their greatest potential. We hold to the Philosophy of LIBERTY as a means to improve upon the LIFE that we have. * The initiation of FORCE is immoral and harmful. * Any GOVERNMENT, or any system of FORCE/COMPULSION/COERCION, will naturally try to grow in size and scope over time. We oppose this. This Constitution is established for the purpose of preserving the highest degree of FREEDOM possible for each Individual while preserving the Individual’s right to self-defense. It is also meant to be chains to limit GOVERNMENT. ARTICLE I: DEFINITIONS ---- These definitions are written in logical order, not in order of importance. Understanding all of these definitions is essential to understanding the intention of this Constitution. * FORCE (or COMPULSION/COERCION) is defined as threatening someone else's LIFE, FREEDOM, and/or PROPERTY. * FREEDOM (or LIBERTY) is defined as living LIFE with the least amount of FORCE (or threat of force) used against you as possible. - GOVERNMENT cannot create FREEDOM – it can only preserve, protect, restore, or destroy it. - FREEDOM is a God-given natural right, and exists in the absence of any GOVERNMENT. - FREEDOM is the ability to use your LIFE and PROPERTY the way you want to, as long as it does not take away from someone else's FREEDOM to do the same with their LIFE and PROPERTY. FREEDOM is what you are naturally able to do in the absence of someone threatening to MURDER you, KIDNAP you, or steal and/or destroy your PROPERTY. * LIFE means sentient human LIFE. This is any human (with human DNA) that has their own unique brain activity. - A human body that does not have any brain activity for a documents extended period of time (aka: “brain dead” or “vegetative state”) is the PROPERTY of their legal guardians. * PROPERTY (or Tangible PROPERTY) is anything that you can touch which can be owned. - You cannot own another sentient human being. You (and only you) own your body while you are alive. - The only items GOVERNMENT recognizes as PROPERTY are tangible PROPERTY. - Control over intangible (or “virtual”) items (which you cannot touch), such as information, perceived value, ideas, processes, etc, are not God-given natural rights. People may choose to keep their intangible items concealed from others or secure them within their rights of their own tangible PROPERTY, but it is not a God-given natural right to control intangible items using FORCE on others. You are not justified in using FORCE to control what happens with intangible items once they have left the control of your tangible PROPERTY. - Tangible property shall exist as either LAND (non-portable property) or PORTABLE property. - LAND Ownership: > Multiple public decentralized databases should be kept by the people of who owns which lands in Freedom Haven with clear boundaries defined so that conflicts can be avoided. > Where two or more individuals assert a claim to the same property, the right of the claimant able to assert the best claim is to be respected (The criteria by which the best claim is determined shall include: the time at which the claim was first publicly asserted; the use to which the claimants have put the property (the greater use, the greater the claim);). > Lands shall extend above to the height of the space occupied by the tallest owned solid structure, and below to beyond the depth needed to maintain a stable foundation of all structures on the land. > No person, or group of people, may own all of the PROPERTY surrounding someone else’s PROPERTY without allowing them (and their portable possessions) instant reasonable access to enter or exit their PROPERTY at that person’s own will and timing. - Any PROPERTY that people own and can give legal consent regarding may be voluntarily exchanged between consenting individuals, but they bear the legal burden of showing proof that such a voluntary transfer took place. - Violation of mutually voluntarily consented contracts involving property can be seen as theft of that property and therefor may sometimes justify the use of FORCE to (by anyone the PROPERTY owner authorizes) to ensure all PROPERTY ends up with its legal owner, according to the contract. - A property owner may evict anyone on that person’s property for any reason at any time, but a realistic amount of time must be allowed to reasonably vacate the premises. If evicting someone violates a contract involving promised residence on that property, then appropriate restoration of monetary and/or tangible property loses (excluding any intangible or emotional damages) should be provided to the evicted individual. * MURDER is ending sentient human LIFE without consent, unless it is needed for self-defense. * KIDNAPPING is taking away FREEDOM (without consent, unless it is needed for self-defense), which includes (but is not limited to) the following examples if no consent is given: - restraining (which includes rape), - imprisoning, - blocking access to enter or exit PROPERTY (that you have authority or permission to enter), - providing addictive recreational drugs or other addictive substances. * THEFT is taking, destroying, or damaging PROPERTY without consent (unless it is needed for self-defense). * Defensive FORCE (or Self-Defense): is using FORCE only to defend your LIFE from a MURDERER, your PROPERTY from a thief/invader/arsonist/etc., or your FREEDOM from a KIDNAPPER. * GOVERNMENT is any person, or group of persons, using FORCE, regardless of whether the use was justified or not. To the people of Freedom Haven, GOVERNMENT and FORCE are synonymous. Anyone using FORCE is GOVERNMENT, and GOVERNMENT only exists when FORCE (or the threat of FORCE) is present. * EXTRADITION is capturing an individual and sending them to a foreign GOVERNMENT to answer for crimes against that foreign GOVERNMENT that are not also crimes against the laws of Freedom Haven. ARTICLE II: RIGHTS ---- There are no rights but those that exist for all people. No third party can take away an individual’s rights. All rights are based on the truth of self-ownership. * LIFE, FREEDOM and PROPERTY - Each individual person has the right to maintain and control his or her own LIFE, FREEDOM, and Personal PROPERTY. * DEFENSIVE FORCE - FORCE is only sometimes justified to defend someone’s LIFE, FREEDOM, and/or PROPERTY. - Since GOVERNMENTS naturally grow over time, this Constitution forbids that growth, so that the least amount of FORCE needed is used (to defend LIFE, FREEDOM, and/or PROPERTY) and the greatest amount of FREEDOM is preserved. - All people are permitted to arm themselves with whatever weapons they believe is needed to defend themselves and others, with the exception of nuclear and biological weapons. Private PROPERTY owners are permitted to further restrict weapons within their boundaries for the safety of their PROPERTY. - All PROPERTY owners have the right to expel anyone on their PROPERTY, or deny access to their PROPERTY, for any reason they wish. Individuals may disagree with the reason the PROPERTY owner gives or may think the reason is invalid, but this does not justify violating another person’s PROPERTY. It is suggested that contracts regarding leasing of property should cover what happens if the property owner expels someone from their property before the lease is up. * WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE GOVERNMENT - Neither the GOVERNMENT of Freedom Haven nor any organization has any rights except for those rights which exist for each individual person. - The GOVERNMENT may not use FORCE, except the minimum needed to stop MURDER, KIDNAPPING, or THEFT (as defined here). Any individual has the right to defend LIFE, FREEDOM, or PROPERTY (as defined above), but when such FORCE is used, that individual (or group of individuals) is (in that moment) part of the GOVERNMENT and is subject to the limitations contained within this Constitution. * ESTABLISHMENT OF STATES The boundaries of a privately owned land constitutes a STATE. Each LAND PROPERTY owner may have his or her own specific laws for their STATE for implementing this Constitution within their LAND PROPERTY boundaries, with the following conditions: - All people should have reasonable access to the documented laws that exist within a LAND PROPERTY with reasonable advance warnings of law changes. - Each individual who legally enters another person’s LAND PROPERTY should be notified of the laws they will be required to comply with within the boundary of that property. This suggests brevity of the laws. - If individuals cause any damage to another individual’s PROPERTY, owners may also establish reasonable ways for people on their LAND PROPERTY to fully repay any damages. The same may also be explored for loss of FREEDOM or loss of LIFE. - GOVERNMENT or voluntary non-GOVERNMENT mediation may be used to resolve issues between PROPERTY owners, but this needs to be done in an orderly, publicly-understood and publicly-accessible process. * CONSENT Consent must be recorded in a way that it can be proven to the world that consent was indeed given. If individuals are accused of using FORCE, they shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty, but consent is assumed not to have been given unless it can be proven. If individuals are shown to have used FORCE, they must prove their self-defense justification or else be in violation of the limitation on FORCE. Consent cannot be given to certain subject areas until after a certain age: - LIFE: You can give consent regarding your LIFE at age 21 (agree to assisted suicide, etc). You can defend your LIFE at any age. - FREEDOM: You can give consent to give up your FREEDOM/LIBERTY by using addictive substances, or trade your own slavery in exchange for products or services (indentured servitude or debt), etc. at age 18, on condition that an end-date is specified in the contract. (Overcoming addictions acquired will be an individual responsibility.) - PROPERTY: You can give consent regarding PROPERTY (minus your own body) at age 8 (your legal guardian can provide the consent until that age). You can provide consent regarding your body at age 18. - Consent can be legally granted to another (like "power of attorney") if the person wishes, after that person is old enough to legally give that consent themselves. In all things, consent is required to be documented in a way that would hold up as evidence in court if needed. Consent can only provided by the individual unless consent was given for a time to another through a “power of attorney” type of contract with sufficient witnesses and proof to hold up in court. Consent cannot be determined by the vote of the majority. * NO TAXATION. NO RIGHTS TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES. - Taxation is THEFT and is forbidden – the GOVERNMENT may not steal to fund its efforts. - No GOVERNMENT services are a right. If individuals want a service, but do not want to pay for it, they will have to find someone who is willing to offer that service for free. If no one volunteers to do the service for free, then the service does not have to be offered. Individual people bear the ultimate responsibility to defend their own LIVES, FREEDOM, and PROPERTY. For example: Individual’s may choose to pay for their own security. - An individual’s right to self-defense shall not be taken away unless that individual can be proven to be initiating FORCE against others. For example: A shooter shots an innocent person and people nearby take the shooter's gun away and detain the shooter. - Each individual has the responsibility to be vigilant in order to protect his or her FREEDOMS, PROPERTY, and LIFE. Each individual is encouraged to document each instance of tyranny, so that FORCE is not used beyond self-defense. - Only the PROPERTY owner may impose fees for physical access to their PROPERTY. No external GOVERNMENT, group, or individual, may impose any such fees or tariffs. * PRIVACY - GOVERNMENT shall not have any rights to privacy. GOVERNMENT must provide timely public visibility into all actions it performs. - Individuals may choose to implement privacy, but not at the cost of another individual’s rights to his or her own LIFE, FREEDOM, or PROPERTY. Privacy is best achieved by having control over your own PROPERTY. * INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS TRUMP ANY VOTE OF THE MAJORITY - The vote of the majority shall never take away the rights of the individual, as listed above. * NO EXTRADITION There will be no EXTRADITION from Freedom Haven. - The GOVERNMENTS of foreign nations which seek individuals, currently in Freedom Haven, who broke those foreign nation’s laws, may choose to arrest them in their respective nations, but they should not come to Freedom Haven seeking to arrest those people in Freedom Haven, neither should they expect Freedom Haven to EXTRADITE said individuals, unless the individuals have committed crimes worthy of banishment from Freedom Haven according to the laws of that property owner in Freedom Haven. - Representatives of those foreign nations are welcome to visit the private properties of Freedom Haven, with the consent of the property owners, as long as they abide by the laws of the respective properties of Freedom Haven and do not threaten another individual’s LIFE, FREEDOM, or PROPERTY. No individual, including the representatives of other nations, in Freedom Haven is given special rights that are not also available to all individuals. Representatives of other nations will be required to abide by laws in accordance with this Constitution of Freedom Haven, just like everyone else. - Foreign nations may choose to prosecute members of Freedom Haven for laws that individual has broken on the property they reside, in accordance with those laws. Courts should be wary of evidence provided by foreign country’s since those countries may have an incentive to frame the innocent with falsified evidence, so that they can circumvent the “no extradition” restriction. * LIMITATION - Any use of FORCE or GOVERNMENT action not justified in this Constitution is forbidden and is in violation of individual rights. - Any laws/regulations/executive-orders/etc passed in Freedom Haven that are in conflict with this Constitution are considered null and void and shall not be recognized by Freedom Haven’s courts, security forces (police, army, etc), or residents. ARTICLE III: BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES ---- Freedom Haven claims all of the various “internal waters”, “territorial waters”, and “exclusive economic zone” areas that exist for sovereign nations. Any person and their property is welcome inside these boundaries on condition on their adherence to this Constitution. Any private property may also become an extension of Freedom Haven, as a “State”, upon their covenanting to uphold this Constitution and the Freedom of the people. Any property that is not willing to follow this Constitution is not welcome within any of the above mentioned boundaries of Freedom Haven.