Declaration of the People’s Natural Rights

By the Citizens of the United States

Preamble

When in the course of human events a people awaken to the erosion of their fundamental rights, and when the system of governance—borne of both major parties and consolidated power elites—fails to secure the liberties of honest citizens, it becomes necessary for the people to declare their principles, their grievances, and their demands. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all persons are created equal, endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, the free exercise of faith, the pursuit of truth, the protection of family, the right to dissent, to speak, to assemble, to petition, and to seek justice; and that when any governing system subverts these ends, it loses moral legitimacy, and the People must re-assert their sovereignty.

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” — Samuel Adams

A new era calls for a new guardian of citizen rights: the Council of Citizens, emanating from and accountable to the governed—replacing the failed stranglehold of political monopoly. We issue this Declaration fully aware of our times: Americans who stood at January 6, parents defending their children, election critics challenging corrupted systems, and faithful Christians resolute in conscience have been targeted under the guise of “law and order.” Their plight is our cause; their rights are our rights.

I. On the Nature of Rights

1. Every human being is endowed with natural rights—preceding government, transcending politics—which no majority, administrative apparatus, or corporate-state coalition may abridge.
2. These rights include:
   • Life: freedom from arbitrary deprivation; the dignity of self-defense.
   • Liberty: to speak, worship, assemble, dissent, and live under laws made with one’s consent.
   • Conscience & Faith: to practice religion without state-imposed ideology or sanction.
   • Parental Authority: to direct the upbringing, education, and moral formation of children, free from undue state interference.
   • Election Integrity: to scrutinize, audit, and contest results without being branded a “threat,” censored, de-platformed, or prosecuted for peaceful advocacy.
   • Equal Justice for Dissent: including those present on January 6, to be treated under equal law—not as political hostages.
   • Property & Due Process: no deprivation of life, liberty, or property without lawful cause, open justice, and fair hearing.
3. Governments are instituted to secure these rights, deriving just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever government becomes destructive of these ends—weaponizing law, manipulating elections, harassing parents, punishing dissent, privileging elites—it is the right and duty of the People to alter or abolish it and institute new safeguards for their future security.

“But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

II. On the Present Crisis of Targeted Americans

4. A long train of abuses and usurpations by both major parties and the administrative-industrial complex now besets our Republic:
   • J6 Hostages: Citizens connected to January 6, 2021, have been made examples in a spectacle of selective justice.
   • Parents: Federal targeting of parents and school-board critics followed the October 4, 2021 Garland memo—later shown via records to have been politically coordinated with the White House^[1][2].
   • Election Critics: Citizens who press for transparency face censorship, de-platforming, lawfare, and financial chokeholds—among them Mike Lindell, Rudy Giuliani, Tina Peters, and alternate electors^[3].
   • Arctic Frost: A sweeping federal probe that reached across Republican groups, lawmakers, and election critics, emblematic of enforcement turned political^[4].
   • Persecuted Christians: Faithful citizens and churches holding to traditional beliefs are pressured, regulated, and punished for conscience.
5. Systemic Breakdown: At the time of this drafting, the federal government has entered a record-setting shutdown, while the two-party system is locked in a Pyrrhic stalemate that harms citizens of both parties most. Congress, riddled with corruption and captured by special interests, has failed to represent its voters’ interests or provide meaningful redress.
6. Both parties and Congress have traded citizen sovereignty for political ambition, corporate collusion, administrative overreach, and the empowerment of a deep-state machinery. Representatives sworn to defend the Constitution have abandoned the legitimate interests, grievances, and rights of their own voters.

“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.” — Alexander Hamilton

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” — Thomas Jefferson

III. On Judicial Overreach, Lawfare, and the Duty of the Council of Citizens

8. The Founders built checks and balances because each branch tempts abuse. Today, lawfare—using courts, agencies, and prosecutorial discretion as political weapons—has become widespread. Judicial overreach, selective prosecutions, and venue-shopping now suppress dissent, silence critics, and terrorize citizens^[5].
9. The legislative and executive branches have failed to check judicial expansion, allowing parts of the judiciary and prosecutorial class to operate above the citizenry and beyond the consent of the governed.

“You seem…to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions – a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy… The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal… with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.” — Thomas Jefferson

10. The Council of Citizens therefore declares:
    • Make the judiciary meaningfully accountable; judges must not become unbridled masters of citizen rights.
    • Impose transparency and consequences for lawfare by prosecutors and agencies.
    • Monitor, expose, and resist lawfare tactics used against election critics, parents, faith communities, and peaceful dissenters.
    • Assert the original, peaceful, constitutional right of self-defense when the system betrays those it exists to serve.

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen: but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation… In all these cases the unwritten laws of necessity, of self-preservation, & of the public safety control the written laws of meum & tuum.” — Thomas Jefferson

IV. On the Call to Action

11. The targeting of (i) January 6 participants as political hostages, (ii) parents—the first educators of their children, (iii) election critics advocating transparency, and (iv) faithful Christians acting in conscience, are symptoms of systemic decline.
12. We resolve to assemble, petition, speak, vote, and act—through civic organization, public forums, ballot initiatives, oversight, and, where necessary, constitutional reform—until the Council of Citizens secures Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Truth, the protection of Family, and the dignity of every American.
13. We invoke the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God: governments exist by consent of the governed; when destructive of these ends, it is the Right—indeed the Obligation—of the People to institute new guards for their future security.

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.” — Thomas Jefferson

Let it be known that the federal government has grown in size, force, and presumption of authority egregiously beyond constitutional bounds, departing from the founders’ vision and the consent of the governed.

“The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

In Witness Whereof, we pledge our names, our voices, and our future.

Footnotes

1. America First Legal documentation on the political orchestration behind the October 4, 2021 Garland memo: AFL Press Release. ↩︎
2. Congressional/committee documentation on “school board” targeting: Interim Report (PDF). ↩︎
3. On election-lawfare and targeted election critics (e.g., Lindell, Giuliani, Tina Peters, alternate electors): Smartmatic Lawfare Overview; contextual pieces: In the Crosshairs, Gulag Echoes. ↩︎
4. On “Arctic Frost” and federal election-related sweeps: see congressional oversight materials and investigative reporting; contextual background in the above links. (If you have a preferred formal citation for Arctic Frost, insert it here.) ↩︎
5. On checking judicial overreach and resisting lawfare: The Legislative & Executive Must Check the Judicial Branch. ↩︎
6. On parents’ targeting and DOJ posture: PDJA: Urgent Call to Congress.
7. On broader justice themes and redress: Justice Is Owed—and It’s Past Due.