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APPROVAL DRAFT
Bylaws of the
Southern National Congress Committee
Article One
Role and Purpose
of the Southern National Congress Committee
The Southern National Congress Committee serves as the organizing, convening, and support body for the establishment of a future Southern National Congress as a legitimate forum to speak with authority for the South and to advance the interests of the Southern people in matters cultural, social, economic, and political. The SNC Committee shall promote the concept and the need of the Congress among the Southern people, recruit and organize Delegations of the Southern States to the Congress, and convene the first Congress as soon as practicable. The Committee may also engage in any other lawful activity pertinent to the interests and well-being of the Southern people and nation.
Article Two
Membership and Organisation
Section One, Membership: The SNC Committee is composed of members from the following Southern States meeting in McDonough, Georgia in 2005 and 2006: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. Subsequent membership shall be open to all residents of these Southern States who are of good moral character, at least eighteen years of age, and who affirm: I believe that I have a duty to my home State. I believe that the Southern people are a distinct people. I believe in the right of voice, the right of preservation, and the right of recognition for the South and her people.
Section Two, Organization: The SNC Committee shall have a Chairman, Vice Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, Parliamentarian, and Director of Communications who will carry out the functions appropriate to those offices. The Committee shall have an Executive Council of seven members, to include the Chairman of the Committee, elected at plenary called meetings of the Committee by its Members, and who will manage and oversee the activities of the Committee. The Committee shall also appoint such subcommittees to handle necessary functions as it may from time to time deem advisable. Under the guidance of the Executive Council, the Chairman of the Committee will appoint Registrars in the represented States who in turn will be responsible for organizing their respective State Delegations to the initial Congress.
Section Four, Voting Via the Internet or E-mail: The wide geographic dispersion of the SNC Committee and the impracticality and cost of travel to a called plenary meeting of the Committee shall make it necessary on occasion to conduct routine business via the Internet and e-mail, as the Chairman or the Executive Council may determine. Motions or questions shall from time to time be put before Committee members via e-mail. In such instances a quorum of the Committee shall be deemed present. In such instances, motions or questions shall be deemed adopted upon a simple majority of affirmative e-mail responses received. If no responses are received, or no affirmative responses, the motion or question shall be deemed as having failed to be adopted.
Article Three
Organising and Certifying State Delegations
to the Southern National Congress
Section One, State Registrars: Acting under the authority of the SNC Committee’s Executive Council, the Chairman shall appoint a Registrar in each of the represented Southern States who will be responsible for recruiting and organising that State’s Delegation to the Congress. The Registrar will also be responsible for certifying the State Delegation to the initial Congress to the Executive Council of the Committee, and for certifying Delegations to future sessions of the Congress to the Board of Governors of the Southern National Congress.
Section Two, Eligibility: The eligibility requirements to become a Delegate to the Southern National Congress are the same as requirements for membership in the SNC Committee; to whit:
Candidates must be 18 years of age at the time of selection and legal residents of their State.
Candidates must be of good moral character. Normally, this will be demonstrated sufficiently by lack of a record of conviction of a mal in se crime in common law; namely murder, arson, rape, kidnapping, violent assault, robbery and theft. (See endnote for further explanation and guidance.)*
- Candidates must affirm the following: I believe that I have a duty to my home State. I believe that the Southern people are a distinct people. I believe in the right of voice, the right of preservation, and the right of recognition for the South and her people.
No candidate for Delegate shall be excluded from consideration on grounds of race, sex, creed, or physical disability.
Section Three, Organising State Delegations: In keeping with the SNC Committee’s commitment to State sovereignty, the Committee shall not prescribe to each State how its Delegation must be selected, except that the process must be fair and open, and that no pecuniary considerations may be permitted in the selection or election of a Delegate.
Section Four, Appointment of At-Large Delegates: With respect to the initial Congress only, the Executive Council, acting through the Chairman, may appoint up to two at-large Delegates from each represented State.
Section Five, Certification of State Delegations: One month prior to the date of convening the first Southern National Congress, each State Registrar will certify his State Delegation to the Executive Council of the SNC Committee by the following procedure: the Registrar shall submit a letter to the Executive Council through the Committee Chairman containing the names and contact information of each Delegate, attesting that each meets the eligibility requirements set forth in Article Three, Section Two; and affirming on his honour that the selection process was fair and open, that no candidate was excluded on grounds of race, sex, or creed, and that no pecuniary considerations were involved in the naming of any Delegate. On receipt of this letter, the Executive Council will deem that state’s Delegation as certified and enroll the Delegation.
Article Four
Intellectual Property
The SNC Committee shall retain ownership of the following intellectual property until such time as the Southern National Congress shall assume ownership. The Committee shall convey ownership to the Congress in its initial session upon a majority vote of the State Delegations to the Congress on an appropriate motion.
the trademark name “Southern National Congress,” registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office; and
the Internet domain names/URLs www.southernnationalcongress.org., .com, and .net and the access codes necessary to operate the SNC website.
Article Five
Supersession by the
Southern National Congress
and Dissolution
Section One. It is envisioned that when the first Southern National Congress convenes, it will supersede the SNC Committee and assume sovereignty over its internal organization and government, and over its external acts and pronouncements. The Committee will thereby have fulfilled its purpose and shall be subject to dissolution, if the Congress so wishes.
Section Two. The SNC Committee will deem itself superseded and dissolved upon a simple majority vote of the initial Congress on a motion so stating.
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ENDNOTE:
The Southern people have always championed law and order, yet today’s troubling circumstances require some radical re-thinking. Southerners, even those who espouse Southern patriotism and are not apologists for the Empire, are so confused over these issues that an explanatory note is in order. Today the United States, and the South as a conquered and occupied People, live under a centralized, unaccountable, and increasingly lawless and predatory Regime. “Law” is sold by a corrupt U.S. Congress to the highest bidder, and “order” is increasingly imposed via police misconduct by dishonest, politically ambitious prosecutors and corrupt or irresponsible judges. Indeed, this crisis in our law system strikes at the very heart of our traditional liberties and is one reason why the SNC is needed.
Today we are confronted with a vast and exploding profusion of so-called crimes that are mala prohibita; in essence, manufactured offenses against an overweening state – failure to comply with some “paper” requirement or administrative regulation -- as opposed to real crimes against individuals, which in common law are mala in se, “evil in themselves;” that is, inherently or self-evidently wrong. Consequently, we do not regard a conviction of just any crime as evidence of moral turpitude. Indeed, as the central state grows more and more tyrannical, the moral man or woman may be required to stand against it, and thus be subject to prosecution for offenses which in any true moral sense are not crimes.
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