FT 16.13 - 1996 Will Commence Again Resolution1996 Will Commence Again Resolution
Whereas, Frémont offers the most freedom to it's residents;
Whereas, Frémont has been known to fully support and encourage it's residents to exercise their Constitutional right to keep and bear arms;
Whereas, Frémont has been known to fully support and encourage it's residents to exercise their right to free expression, particularly as that right allows the free consumption and appreciation of various media;
Whereas, Frémont, along with all of Atlasia, celebrates Independence Day on July 4th;Be it resolved, that the Commonwealth Government:
1. Encourages Frémonters to celebrate Independence Day by practicing target shooting on any extraterrestrial creatures that should attempt to conquer the Earth on that day, or the several days in July preceding it.
2. Encourages the use of sophisticated malware to disable alien spacecraft, especially when covertly planted in their mothership by a hotshot fighter pilot and a quirky satellite engineer -- an unlikely pairing, to be sure, but a lovable one.
3. Encourages Frémonters, if the need arises, to sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity, by flying a plane into the big pointy glowing thing on the bottom of the alien spaceship.
4. Encourages the appreciation of all cast members of 1990's blockbuster films, and does not support applying modern moral standards to their later career choices, particularly Will Smith's later roles in
After Earth (2013),
Collateral Beauty (2016), and
Bright (2017).
Sponsor: Ted Bessell (Fine Gayle—Labor, California)
FT 16.14 - 1865 Will Commence Again Resolution1865 Will Commence Again Resolution
Whereas, Fremont offers the most freedom to it's residents;
Whereas, Fremont has been known to fully support and encourage it's residents to exercise their Constitutional right to keep and bear arms;
Whereas, Fremont has been known to fully support and encourage it's residents to exercise their Constitutional right to free expression;
Whereas, Fremont, along with all of Atlasia, celebrates Independence Day on July 4th;
Be it resolved, that the Fremont Government:
1. Encourages Fremonters to celebrate Independence Day by practicing target shooting on disused statues of Confederate generals at designated locations.
2. Encourages the legal and safe use of low potency explosives in Independence Day celebrations.
3. Encourages Fremont residents to proudly display Atlasian, Fremont, state, and/or minority/Pride flags.
4. Encourages Fremont residents to safely burn or otherwise desecrate pro-Confederate, racist, or anti-LGBTQ paraphernalia and/or literature.
Sponsor: Oregon Blue Dog (Sinn Frémont—Labor, Oregon)
FT 16.15 - Spirit of '76 ResolutionA RESOLUTION
to renew our revolutionary heritage
Section 1 (Title)
i. The title of this act shall be, the "Spirit of '76 Resolution."
Section 2 (Preamble)
i. WHEREAS, on the fourth day of July 1776, a declaration was adopted by the Second Continental Congress including, among other things, the following, to wit:
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.
ii. WHEREAS, at the time of its ratification, and by every age and generation since, this sentiment was understood to be wholly inimical to the institution of slavery;
iii. WHEREAS, the author of the declaration arranged the original draft of that document to condemn that institution in terms powerful and explicit; but
iv. WHEREAS, by the intrigue of certain delegates representative of the Southern Slave Power, these expressions were removed;
v. WHEREAS, this original contradiction, between the stated principles and subversive acts of the state, is the source of the struggle for human liberty which has continued twelve score and four years;
Section 3 (Resolves)
i. WE, THEREFORE, the representatives of the commonwealth of Frémont, in parliament assembled, do solemnly publish and declare, that the following deleted passage of the Declaration of American Independence be ratified by these states, from this date retroactively.
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
ii. And wherefore may we achieve a more enlightened understanding of our history, and a general appreciation for the principles upon which the republican experiment is —and is not —maintained, without reference to modern revisionism which seeks to refute the moral sensibilities of the founding generation, in order to excuse their own disregard for the rights of their fellow citizens, we further urge that these resolves be published alongside the Declaration in commemoration of the anniversary of American independence, with note of their authorship and deletion.
Sponsor: Harry S Truman (Fianna Frémont—Labor, North Dakota)
Per Discord discussion, a majority of this body has agreed to suspend the rules and consider these resolutions in a combined thread, in Emergency Legislative Slot A. Discussion may commence.
