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A PLAN 
 
 TO STOP THE PRESENT 
 
 AND 
 
 PREVENT FUTURE WARS. 
 
 BY ROB'T E. BEASLEY, 
 
 A CITIZEN OP BIO VISTA, CALIFORNIA. 
 
 CONTAINING A PROPOSED CONSTITUTION FOR THE GENERAL 
 
 GOVERNMENT OF THE SOVEREIGN STATES OF 
 
 NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. 
 
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 18G4. 
 
PROCLAMATION. 
 
 I, Robert E. Beasley, of the Twin House Rancho, Solano 
 County, California, issue this my Proclamation, number one, 
 that the present war, said by some to exist in the United States, 
 shall cease by limitation, on the 4th day of March, in the year 
 of our Lord, 1869, under penalty of my sovereign displeasure. 
 I issue it not as the servant of Mexico, China, Louis Napoleon, 
 or any other power, unless it may be that I am a servant of God, 
 (of which I have serious doubts for reasons that I may some 
 day make public), but as one of the many thousands of sover- 
 eign people of the sovereign State of California. As such I 
 issue it. ROBERT E. BESALEY. 
 
 PLAN. 
 
 I now respectfully suggest for the consideration of the Gov- 
 ernors of the several States concerned, as a means by which it 
 may be stopped at an earlier date : That each governor issue 
 writs of election at an early date, requiring all legal voters, 
 under penalty of one thousand dollars, to attend the polls and 
 vote that the war shall be vigorously prosecuted, or that it shall 
 stop. If the "prosecution of the war" shall have received the 
 greatest number of votes, then all persons so voting, and all 
 having failed to vote, shall be organized and placed in the army, 
 and compelled to assist in prosecuting the war. So shall they 
 fight with courage, and each according to his desire, as to the 
 side he may wish to fight for. 
 
 It is my opinion they would fight with such a will and "vim," 
 as to deter other nations from interfering in our domestic 
 quarrels. We cannot fight always. Too long a continuance of the 
 war may weaken us so that we will not be able to repel foreign 
 
invasion, and if so, farewell to free government for at least two 
 thousand years. 
 
 I cannot comprehend why Union men want Copperheads 
 "drafted" into the service. For instance, suppose Abraham 
 Lincoln, as a private citizen, should say to me, '! can take Gov- 
 ernor Andrews and whip or kill Governor Low and yourself." 
 1 should certainly accept the challenge, if I believed any great 
 good would result from it, particularly the vanquishing of my 
 foe, and in the meantime, if I should discover that Low would 
 rather that Lincoln and Andrews should whip, I would greatly 
 prefer fighting the tliree alone, rather than have Low help me 
 whip the two. 
 
 It is also my opinion that there are thousands of persons who 
 would vote that the war shall cease; but who if they are at the 
 polls, would like to take a hand in it, and if so, they should fight 
 on the same conditions as those who voted that the war should 
 be prosecuted. And, as a preventive of other w r ars, I do res- 
 pectfully submit for the consideration of the sovereign people of 
 the Sovereign States of North America, the following Constitu- 
 tion : 
 
 CONSTITUTION 
 
 OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE SOVEREIGN STATES OF NORTH AND 
 SOUTH AMERICA. 
 
 PREAMBLE. 
 
 We, the people of the sovereign States of North and South 
 America, in order to stop the efTusion of human blood, establish 
 Justice, insure Domestic Tranquility, provide for the common 
 Defense, promote the General Welfare, secure the blessings of 
 Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, and to prepare for a 
 better or worse world, as we may individually choose, do ordain, 
 adopt and establish this Constitution for the Sovereign States of 
 North and South America : 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 SEC. 1. All legislative power herein granted, shall be vested 
 in a Congress of the general Government of the sovereign States 
 of North and South America, which shall consist of a Senate 
 and House of Representatives. ^ 
 
SEC. 2. The House of Eeprcsentatives shall be composed of 
 two members from each State, chosen every second year by the 
 people of the several States, and it shall be the duty of the 
 people individually to vote for the two persons that they believe 
 to be the best in those States for the position. No person shall 
 be a representative who shall not have attained the age of twen- 
 ty-one years, and been five years a citizen of some one of the 
 States, Territories or Districts, composing the general Govern- 
 ment of the soverign States of North and South America, and 
 who shall not when elected be an inhabitant of the State or 
 Territory in which he shall be chosen. 
 
 Direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, 
 which may be included within the general Government of the 
 Sovereign States of North and South America, in proportion to 
 the amount of real and personal property of the several States, to 
 be ascertained from the assessor's returns of the several counties 
 of the several States. 
 
 When vacancies happen in the representation from any State, 
 the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to 
 fill such vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose 
 their Speaker, and other officers, and shall have the sole power 
 of impeachment. 
 
 SEC. 3. The Senate of the general Government shall be 
 composed of one Senator from each State, chosen by the people 
 thereof for six years, and each Senator shall have one vote, and 
 it shall be the duty of the people to vote for the person that 
 they individually believe to be the best man in the State for the 
 office of Senator. Immediately after they shall be assembled 
 in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as 
 equally as maybe, into three classes. The seats of the Senators 
 of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second 
 year, and of the second class at the expiration of the fourth 
 year, and the third class at the expiration of the sixth year. 
 And if vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, the exec- 
 utive authority of the State shall issue writs of election to 
 fill such vacancy. No person shall be a Senator who shall not 
 
have attained the age of twenty-five years, and b,en five years a 
 citizen of some one of the States composing the general Govern- 
 ment of said Sovereign States, and who shall not when elected, 
 be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. 
 
 The Vice President of the general Government of the sover- 
 eign States of North and South America, shall be President of 
 the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided. 
 
 The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a Presi- 
 dent pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when 
 he shall exercise the functions and fill the office of President of 
 the general Government. The Senate shall have the sole power 
 to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose they 
 shall be under oath or affirmation. When the President of the 
 general Government is tried, the Chief Justice of the Su- 
 preme Court of the general Government shall preside, and no 
 person shall be convicted without the concurrence of three- 
 fifths of the members present. Judgment in cases of 
 impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from 
 office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of 
 honor, trust or profit under the said general Government ; 
 but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and 
 subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according 
 to law. 
 
 SEC. 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections 
 for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each 
 State by the Legislature thereof. The Congress shall assemble 
 at least once in each year, and such meeting shall be on the 
 second Monday in February, unless they shall by law appoint a 
 different day. 
 
 SEC. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns 
 and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each 
 shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number 
 may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel 
 the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under 
 such penalties as each house may provide. Each house may 
 determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for 
 
disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, 
 expel a member. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceed- 
 ings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such 
 parts as may in their judgment require secrecy, and the yeas 
 and nays of the members of either house, on any question, 
 shall, at the desire of one-sixth of those present, be entered on 
 the journals. Neither house during the session of Congress 
 shall, without the consent of the othsr, adjourn for more than 
 two days, nor to any other place than that in which the two 
 houses shall be sitting. 
 
 SEC. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a 
 compensation of five dollars per day for their services, together 
 with their expenses in going to and returning from Congress, 
 to be paid out of the treasury of the general Government of the 
 sovereign States of North and South America. They shall in 
 all cases, except lying, treason, felony and breach of the peace, 
 be privileged from arrest during their attendance at session of 
 their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the 
 same. And for any speech or debate in either house they shall 
 not be questioned in any other place. 
 
 No Senator or Representative shall during the term of his 
 office, be appointed to any civil office under the general Govern- 
 ment, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof 
 shall have been increased during such time; and no person, 
 holding any office under the general Government, shall be a 
 member of either house during such continuance in office. 
 
 SEC. 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the 
 House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or con- 
 cur with amendments as in other bills. Every bill having 
 passed both houses shall, before it becomes effectual as a law, be 
 signed by the President of the general Government as a mark of 
 approval, otherwise he shall return it to the house in which it 
 originated, with his objections thereto ; said objections shall be 
 entered in full on their journal. The house shall then proceed to 
 reconsider it, and if two-thirds of that house agree to pass the 
 bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other 
 
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 house, by which it shall be likewise reconsidered, and if ap- 
 proved by two-thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But 
 in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by 
 yeas and nays and the names of the persons voting for and 
 against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house 
 respectively. Jf any bill shall not be returned by the President 
 within sixteen days, Sundays excepted, after it shall have been 
 presented him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he 
 had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment, prevent 
 its return, in w r hich case it shall not be a law. Every order, 
 resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate and 
 House of Representatives may be necesssary (except on a ques- 
 tion of adjournment), shall be presented to the President of the 
 general Government, and before the same shall take effect, shall 
 be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, may be re- 
 passed by two-thirds of the Senate and lower house, according 
 to the rules aud limitations prescribed in the case of a bill. 
 
 SEC. 8. Congress shall have power to levy and collect taxes, 
 duties, imposts, and excises, in all the States, Territories, dis- 
 tricts, and colonies of the general Government, to pay the debts, 
 and provide for the common defense and general welfare of all 
 the States, Territories, districts, and colonies composing the 
 general Government, but all duties, imposts and excises, shall be 
 uniform throughout the said general Government. To borrow 
 money on the credit of the general Government, to regulate 
 commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, 
 Territories, districts, and colonies, and Indian tribes. To estab- 
 lish an uniform system of naturalization, and uniform laws of 
 bankruptcy. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of 
 foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. To 
 provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and 
 current coin of the Government. To establish post offices and 
 post roads. To promote the progress of science and the useful 
 arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors, the 
 exclusive right to their respective productions and inventions. 
 To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court. To de- 
 
fine and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, 
 and offences against the laws of nations. To declare war, grant 
 letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning cap- 
 tures on land and water. To raise and support armies, but no 
 appropriation of money for that purpose, shall be for a longer 
 term than two years. To provide and maintain a navy. To 
 make rules for the government of the land and naval forces. To 
 provide for calling forth the militia into the regular army, to ex- 
 ecute laws of the general Government of the Sovereign States 
 of North and South America, suppress insurrections and repel 
 invasions. [There is no such thing as rebellion in a republican 
 or democratic government. The masses of the people never 
 rebel against good government, and they have a right to change 
 or alter their government when and as they please.] To pro- 
 vide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia, and for 
 governing such part of them as may be employed in the service 
 of the general Government of the Sovereign States of North 
 and South America, reserving to the States respectively the ap- 
 pointment of the officers, and the authority of training the 
 militia, according to the discipline prescribed by Congress. To 
 exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such 
 district, (not exceeding forty miles square), as may by cession of 
 particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the 
 seat of the general Government, and to exercise like authority 
 over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature 
 of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of 
 forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful build- 
 ings, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper 
 for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other 
 powers vested by this constitution in the government of the 
 General government of the Sovereign States of North and 
 South America, or in any department thereof, or any officer 
 thereof. 
 
 SEC. 9. A well regulated militia being necessary to the 
 security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear 
 arms shall not be infringed. 
 
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 No soldier shall, in the time of peace, be quartered in any 
 house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but 
 in a manner to be prescribed by law. The right of the people 
 to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against 
 unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no 
 warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath 
 or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be 
 searched, and the persons or things to be seized. No person 
 shall be held to answer for a capital offence, or otherwise infa- 
 mous crime, unless on the presentation or indictment of a grand 
 jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces or in the 
 militia, when in actual service, in time of war and public danger. 
 Nor shall any innocent person, having committed no crime, and 
 not charged with any crime, be arrested. Nor shall any person 
 be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of 
 life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a 
 witness against himself, nor to be deprived of life, liberty or 
 property without due process of law, nor shall private property 
 be taken for public use without just compensation. 
 
 SEC. 10. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall 
 not be suspended, unless when in case of invasion, the public 
 safety may require it, and then by no power but Congress. No 
 bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. No capi- 
 tation or other direct tax, shall be laid unless in proportion to 
 the amount of real and personal property, to be ascertained from 
 the assessor's returns of the different counties of the different 
 States. No tax or duty shall be laid on any articles exported 
 from any State. No preference shall be given by any regulation 
 of commerce or revenue, to the ports of one State over those 
 of another, nor shall vessels bound to or from one State, be 
 obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another. No money 
 shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appro- 
 priations made by law, and a regular statement and account of 
 the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be pub- 
 lished from time to time. In all criminal prosecutions the 
 accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy, impartial and public 
 
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 trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the 
 crime shall have been committed, (which district shall have been 
 previously ascertained by law), and to be informed of the na- 
 ture and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the wit- 
 nesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining 
 witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for 
 his defense. No title of nobility shall be granted by the general 
 Government, and no person holding any office of profit or "trust 
 under them shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of 
 any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, 
 from any king, prince or foreign State. No State shall enter 
 into any treaty, alliance or confederation, grant letters of marque 
 and reprisal, coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything 
 but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, pass any 
 bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obliga- 
 tion of contracts, or grant any title of nobility. 
 
 No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any 
 impost or duties on imports or exports, except what may be ab- 
 solutely necessary for executing its inspection laws ; and the net 
 produce of all duties and imposts laid by any State on imports 
 or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the general 
 Government, and all such laws shall be subject to the revision 
 and control of Congress. No State shall without the consent 
 of Congress, lay any duty on tonage, keep troops or ships of 
 war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with 
 another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war unless 
 actually invaded, or in. such imminent danger as will not admit 
 of delay. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 SEC. 1. The Executive power shall be vested in a President of 
 the General government of the Sovereign States of both 
 North and South America, he shall hold office during the 
 term of four years and shall not hold the office two terms in 
 succession, and together with the Vice President chosen for 
 the same term elected as follows : 
 
 The people of all the States, Territories and Districts, shall 
 
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 meet at their respective precincts on the second Thursday of 
 October, and vote for the person they individually believe to 
 be the best or as good a man as any citizen of the general 
 Government, regardless of what part of the general Govern- 
 ment of which he is a citizen ; the name and location of the 
 person voted for shall be distinctly written upon each ballot ; 
 the authorities shall make a distinct list of all persons voted 
 for and the number of votes for each, which list they shall 
 sign, certify and transmit sealed to the seat of government 
 of the general Government, directed to the President of the 
 Senate, and he shall in the presence of the Senate and lower 
 house, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be 
 counted. The person having the greatest number of votes 
 for President shall be declared so elected, and the person hav- 
 ing the next greatest number of votes for President, shall be 
 Vice President. If two or more persons receiving the greatest 
 number of votes receive an equal number of votes, the Senate 
 shall decide by ballot which of them shall be President, and if 
 there be but two, the other shall be Vice President, if more than 
 two, then the House of Representatives shall decide by ballot 
 which shall be Vice President. But no person constiutionally 
 ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible for Vice 
 President. JS T o person except a natural born citizen of some 
 one of the States or Territories or Districts of the Government 
 shall be eligible to the office of President, neither shall any 
 person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the 
 age of thirty years and been twenty-one years a citizen of 
 one of the States, Territories or Districts of the general Gov- 
 ernment. Upon determining the election as above, Congress 
 shall provide for the publication and thorough distribution of 
 a certified copy of the election returns for President. In 
 case of the removal of the President from office, or of his 
 death, resignation or inability to discharge the duties of his 
 office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President. And 
 Congress may by law provide for the removal, death, resigna- 
 tion or inability of both the President and Vice President, 
 
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 declaring what officer shall act as President, and he shall so 
 act accordingly until the disability be removed or the next 
 President elected. The President shall at stated times receive 
 for his services the compensation of forty thousand dollars a 
 year, and he shall not receive within that period any other 
 emolument from the Government. Before he enters on the 
 execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or 
 affirmation. 
 
 I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute 
 the office of President of the general Government of the 
 Sovereign States of North and South America, and will to the 
 best of my ability preserve, protect, obey and defend the Con- 
 stitution of the general Government of the sovereign States 
 of North and South America. 
 
 SEC. 2. The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the 
 the army and navy of the general Government of the Sover- 
 eign States of North and South America, and of the militia of 
 the several States when called into actual service of the gen- 
 eral Government ; he may require the opinion in writing, of 
 the principle officers in each of the Executive Departments 
 upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective 
 offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and par- 
 dons for offences against the general Government, except in 
 cases of lying, larceny and impeachment. He shall have 
 power by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to 
 make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present con- 
 cur, and he shall nominate and by and with the advice and 
 consent of the Senate shall appoint Ambassadors and other 
 public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, 
 and all other officers of the general Government of the Sov- 
 ereign States of North and South America, whose appoint- 
 ments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall 
 be established by law. But Congress may by law vest the 
 appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in 
 the President alone, in the courts of law or in the heads of de- 
 partments. The President shall have the power to fill up all 
 
vacancies that may happen during- the recess of the Senate by 
 granting; commissions which shall expire at the end of their 
 next session. 
 
 SEC. 3. He shall from time to time give Congress infor- 
 mation of the state of the Government, and recommend to 
 their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary 
 and expedient ; he may on extraordinary occasions convene 
 both houses, or either of them, arid in case of disagreement 
 between them with respect to the time of adjournment he may 
 adjourn them to such $ime as he shall think proper ; he shall 
 receive Ambassadors and other public ministers ; he shall take 
 care that the laws be faithfully executed and shall commis- 
 sion all the officers of the general Government. 
 
 SEC. 4. The President, Vice President and all civil officers 
 or servants of the general Government shall be removed from 
 office on impeachment for and conviction of lying, larceny 
 or other high crimes and misdemeanors. 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 SEC. 1. The judicial power of the Government shall be 
 vested in Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as 
 Congress may ordain and establish. The judges both of the 
 Supreme courts and all inferior courts shall hold their offices 
 during good behavior, and shall receive for their services a 
 salary to be fixed by law and not to be diminished during 
 their continuance in office. 
 
 SEC. 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law 
 and equity arising under this Constitution and the laws of 
 the general Government, and treaties, which shall be made 
 under their authority ; to all cases affecting Ambassadors and 
 other public Ministers and Consuls ; to all cases of admiralty 
 and maratimc jurisdiction ; to controversies in which the Gov- 
 ernment may be a party or between States, or between a State 
 and the citizens of another State, between citizens of different 
 States, between citizens of the same State claiming lands 
 under grants of different States, the general Government, 
 and between a State or its citizens and a foreign State or 
 
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 subject. In all cases affecting Ambassadors, Ministers and 
 Consuls, or where a State be a party the Supreme Court shall 
 have original jurisdiction, in all other cases before mentioned 
 it shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact 
 under such exceptions and regulations as Congress shall make. 
 The trials for all crimes except impeachment shall be by jury, 
 and held in the State where the crime was committed, if 
 committed in no State then in such place as Congress 
 by law shall direct. In all criminal prosecutions the accused 
 shall have a speedy, impartial and public trial as a right 
 by him to be enjoyed, said trial to be by an impartial 
 jury in the District where the crime was committed, said Dis- 
 trict being previously ascertained by law. He shall be in- 
 formed of the nature and cause of the accusation and be con- 
 fronted with the witnesses against him and be entitled to com- 
 pulsory process for obtaining his witnesses, and entitled to the 
 benefit of counsel in his defense. In suits at common law 
 where the thing in controversy exceeds in value five dollars, the 
 right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a 
 jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the Gov- 
 ernment, than according to the rules of common law. 
 
 SEC. 3. Treason against the general Government shall 
 consist only in levying war against it, adhereing to its ene- 
 mies or in giving them aid and comfort. Ko person shall be 
 convicted of treason, except on the evidence of two witnesses 
 to some overt act or by confession in open court. Congress 
 shall have the power to fix the punishment for treason, but no 
 attainder of treason shall work a corruption of blood, or for- 
 feiture except during the life of the person attaineditt^-^^j. 
 
 SEC. 4. Excessive bail shall riot be required nor excessive 
 fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted 
 (except as hereinafter prescribed.) Any officer or servant of 
 the general Government who shall steal or appropriate to his 
 own use any property or money belonging to Government to 
 the amount of five thousand dollars, shall on conviction be 
 sentenced by the Court to be imprisoned one day for each dollar 
 
stolen, together with such fine as the Court may see proper to 
 impose, which when collected shall be paid over to the treasurer 
 of the general Government, and by him placed to the credit 
 of the General Fund to be created by Congress, for the em- 
 bellishment and improvement of the National Cemetery to be 
 located in the lee side or end of the district that may be selec- 
 ted for the capital of the general Government. Any officer 
 stealing to the amount of ten thousand dollars shall be impris- 
 oned for life, with a fine as last above, to the same use. Any 
 officer so stealing in any amount over ten thousand dollars, 
 shall be hung with a rope by the neck till dead, and his pro- 
 perty shall be confiscated to the same General Fund as above if 
 he have neither wife nor children ; and no such person shall 
 be buried in the National Cemetery. 
 
 SEC. 5. The enumeration in this constitution of certain rights 
 shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by 
 the people. Powers not delegated to the general Govern- 
 ment nor prohibited to the States herein, are reserved to the 
 States respectively, or to the people. 
 
 The judicial power of the general Government shall not: 
 be holden to extend to suits in law or in equity commenced 
 or prosecuted against one of the States composing a part of 
 the general Government by citizens of another State, or by 
 citizens or subjects of any foreign State. 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 SEC. 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State 
 to the public acts, records and judicial proceeding of every 
 other State, and the Congress may by general laws prescribe 
 the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall 
 be proven and the effects thereof. BftPCTPf t L JbTttT^ 
 
 SEC. 2. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all 
 privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. A 
 criminal charged in any State with any crime, who flees from 
 said State into any other, shall, on demand of the Executive 
 of said State, be delivered up to the State claiming jurisdiction 
 of said charge. 
 
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 SEC. 3. No State or Nation has any right to interfere or 
 meddle with the domestic concerns of any other State or 
 Nation. Any State composing part and parcel of the gener- 
 al Government, having interfered as above, shall be expelled 
 from the general Government by a majority vote of Congress, 
 and shall not be re-admitted under any condition, for fifty 
 years after such expulsion, when she may be re-admitted on 
 such conditions and terms as Congress may direct. Any leg- 
 islature of any State, passing any law making it criminal or 
 improper for its citizens to ca^y out or assist in executing 
 any clause of this Constitution, or any constitutional law of 
 Congress, then the legislators composing said legislature, shall 
 be deemed nullifiers, and on conviction, shall be punished for 
 the same with the penalties of treason against the general 
 Government, unless said law shall have been presented to the 
 people and by them ratified by ballot, then the State shall be 
 expelled from the general Government, as in the last case, 
 and riot be again re-admitted for twenty-five years, then she 
 may return on such terms as Congress may dictate. Any State 
 entering into any treaty, alliance or confederation, granting 
 letter of marque or reprisal, coining money, emitting bills of 
 credit, making anything but gold and silver coin a tender in. 
 payment of debts, passing any bill of attainder, ex post facto 
 law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant 
 any title of nobility, may be expelled from the general Gov- 
 ernment by a vote of seven-eighths of Congress, and she may 
 be re-admitted on paying into the treasury of the general 
 Government $100,000, and removing the cause of expulsion. 
 Any State passing an ordinance of secession, shall forfeit all 
 claim to all territory belonging to the general Government, 
 the navy, and all other property belonging to the general Gov- 
 ernment, except such as may be within her State limits, and 
 shall pay her portion of all debts the general Government may 
 owe at the time, and she shall be put into peaceable possession of 
 all forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and all other property 
 belonging to the general Government, that are located within 
 her State limits. 
 
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 SEC. 4. Any State having been expelled, or having- with- 
 drawn, shall forfeit all claim to all property of the general 
 government, except all the property within her State limits, 
 which, with all dockyards, houses, forts and arsenals, shall be 
 delivered to her upon her paying her portion of the debt of 
 the general Government then owing. She shall, however, be 
 entitled to a credit, or delivery of her portion of any surplus 
 money in the general Government treasury. And in case of 
 her return, she shall receive no credit for the forts, arsenals, 
 dockyards, &c., in her limits* but they shall become the pro- 
 perty of the general Government, and she shall pay back to 
 the general Government the sum, if any, drawn therefrom at 
 the date of secession, nor shall she receive credit for the 
 amount of debt paid by her as her portion of the national 
 indebtedness. 
 
 SEC. 5. After war shall have ceased in the old world, and 
 they may not be able to provide for their servants or subjects, 
 the people of any State desiring to purchase them, may do so 
 by the consent of Congress, and all such white servants shall 
 become citizens of such State after a service of fifteen years, 
 and their heirs after such service shall be citizens of the gen- 
 eral Government, and vote for President, Senator, or Repre- 
 sentative, or fill either office if elected. 
 
 SEC. 6. No person held to service or labor in one State 
 under the laws thereof, escaping to another shall, in conse- 
 quence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from 
 such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of 
 the party to whom such labor or service may be due. No 
 property, held as property in one State, under the laws thereof, 
 getting into any other State, shall cease to be property because 
 of any law or regulation of that State, but shall be given up 
 to the owner. 
 
 SEC. 7. New States may be admitted by Congress, but no 
 new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of 
 any other State, nor be formed by the juncture of two or more 
 States, or parts thereof, without the consent of the Legisla- 
 tures of the States concerned, as well as Congress. 
 
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 Old States, and combinations of States, may be admitted 
 into the general Government. All their territory and navy 
 shall be turned over to the Government at such price as Con- 
 gress may think just. All her forts, dockyards, and like 
 property shall be delivered to the general Government 
 without price. 
 
 SEC. 8. Congress shall have power to dispose of and make 
 all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or 
 other property belonging to the general Government ; but 
 nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to the prejudice 
 of any claim of any State or combination of States. All 
 property shall be equally protected by law in all the Territo- 
 ries, districts, and colonies of the general Government. The 
 citizens of each and all States may move to and settle in any 
 territory belonging to the general Government, taking with 
 them any and everything that is property in the State from 
 which they moved and any and everything that is property in 
 any one of the States, shall be property in all the Territories. 
 When a Territory forms a State Government, she shall enumer- 
 ate what shall and what shall not be property in her State, and 
 any property so declared not to be held as property in the future 
 State, may be removed to where it properly belongs, within 
 two years from the ratification of the State Constitution. 
 No power within the geographical limits of the general Gov- 
 ernment, shall have the power to' decide what shall and what 
 shall not be property, except the States composing the said 
 general Government, and they only within their State limits. 
 
 SEC. 9. The general Government shall guarantee to every 
 State in the general Government, a republican form of gov- 
 ernment, and shall protect each of them against invasion, arid 
 on application of the legislature, against domestic violence. 
 At any time that the Government may need more troops than 
 the regular army, it shall be the duty of the President, (having 
 been authorized by Congress), to call on the governors of the 
 several States for their quota, and it shall be the duty of the 
 governors to call on the people to volunteer to fill such quota. 
 
If they fail, he shall order a draft to fill it, if it require all 
 the males and half the females in his State. 
 
 SEC. 10. Adopts what is generally known as the Monroe 
 Doctrine, and authorizes Congress, in case it shall be necessary 
 to use force to maintain it, to invite the co-operation of other 
 Governments. 
 
 SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of Congress to provide 
 against the extermination in any way of all the different 
 grades of the human family that are now among us. 
 
 SEC. 12. No State having a republican form of govern- 
 ment shall be refused admittance into the general Govern- 
 ment on the ground of their having or not having two or 
 more husbands to one wife, or vice versa, white or black 
 slavery, or any other rule or regulation of their own, which 
 does not conflict with this Constitution 
 
 Any State having white or black slavery, may abolish the 
 same. 
 
 Any State desiring to have white or black slavery, may have 
 it if they choose (the majority governing in all such cases.) 
 
 Any State may make all her people legal voters for State and 
 County officers, but none but white male citizens of the age of 
 twenty-one years and upwards, shall hold or vote for the office 
 of President, Senator, or Representative of the general Gov- 
 ernment of the Sovereign States of North and South America. 
 
 SEC. 13. When the general Government of the Sovereign 
 States of North and South America shall consist of forty States, 
 it shall be the duty of Congress to divide them into districts of 
 two, after which each district shall send one Senator, and each 
 State one Representative to Congress, and each Territory shall 
 send one Representative to Congress. 
 
 SEC. 14. Any State that may be expelled from the general 
 Government, shall take peaceable possession of all forts, maga- 
 zines, dockyards, and all like property within her State limits, 
 including all that may have been bought or built before and 
 after she became a member of the general Government, without 
 money and without price, and the same in case of the withdrawal 
 of any State. 
 
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 SEC. 15. The right of the general Government to issue 
 letters of marque and reprisal, and to call out the militia, shall 
 never be parted with on any pretext or condition whatever, and 
 we, the people, hereby prohibit all departments of the general 
 Government from doing so. 
 
 SEC. 16. After the year of the Lord, one thousand nine 
 hundred, all adjacent Islands may be admitted as States into the 
 general Government, but no State of Europe, "Asia,'* or 
 "Africa," shall be admitted previous to the year of our Lord, 
 two thousand. 
 
 SEC. 17. Lying being of much greater detriment to free 
 government than larceny, Congress may pass such laws, having 
 for their object the prevention of the servants of the general 
 Government from doing so. All civil and military officers and 
 soldiers shall be the servants of the people, within the geograph- 
 ical limits of the general Government. 
 
 SEC. 18. Any person being constitutionally elected, and 
 doubting his ability to perform the duties of President, may 
 decide who shall fill the position in his place, with the consent 
 of Congress. 
 
 SEC. 19. Any State may pass laws having for their object 
 the prevention of their State, County, and City servants from 
 lying, but no special law shall be passed prohibiting her citizens 
 from lying to each other, but any State may pass laws having 
 for their object the prevention of their citizens from meddling 
 with their neighbor's domestic concerns, and any State may pass 
 laws prohibiting their citizens from lying to their own or their 
 neighbor's dumb brutes, or unnecessarily abusing them in 
 any way. 
 
 SEC. 20. Adopts Ephesians, chapter fifth, verse twenty- 
 second, the same, sixth chapter, verses first to sixteenth Paul 
 to the Collosians, chapter fourth, first verse Saint Mark, chap- 
 ter twelfth, seventeenth verse, as admonitions to all people. 
 
 SEC. 21. No secret political party shall be tolerated in the 
 geographical limits of the general Government of the Sov- 
 ereign States of North and South America, and the Congress 
 may pass laws having for their object the prevention of any 
 
political or other party or individual from nominating- any 
 person for President, Senator, or Representative of the gen- 
 eral Government of the Sovereign States of North and Sontli 
 America, or any persons declaring themselves a candidate 
 for cither office. 
 
 SEC. 22. Congress shall make no law respecting an estab- 
 lishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, 
 or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the 
 right of the people, peaceably to assemble and to petition the 
 Government for redress of grievances. 
 
 SEC. 23. Adopts all laws of the United States not con- 
 trary to the spirit or letter of this Constitution, and the 
 same shall be the laws of the general Government of the 
 Sovereign States of North and South America, until they 
 shall have been repealed by Congress, or other laws passed to 
 supply their place. 
 
 SEC. 24. Immediately after the first election of President, 
 Senators, and Representatives, in accordance with this Con- 
 stitution, it shall be the duty of the Governors of the several 
 States to select and prepare a place for the first meeting of 
 Congress. On meeting, the Senate shall appoint a President 
 pro tempore and proceed to business. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 The Congress whenever two-thirds of both houses shall 
 deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Consti- 
 tution, or on the application of the Legislatures of two-thirds 
 of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing 
 amendments, which in either case shall be valid to all intents 
 and purposes as part of this Constitution, when ratified by 
 the Legislatures of five-sixths of the several States, or by 
 Conventions in five-sixths thereof, as the one or the other 
 mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress. 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 If before any State shall have ratified this Constitution any 
 five States of Central and South America shall meet in Con- 
 vention, they are hereby authorized to make any amendments 
 
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 that they think proper, or abolish the whole ; Provided, They 
 form and adopt a better Constitution. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 This Constitution and the laws of the general Government 
 of the Sovereign States of North and South America, which 
 shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties which 
 shall be made under the authority of the general Government 
 of the Sovereign States of North and South America, shall be 
 the supreme law of the land, and the Judges in every State 
 shall be bound thereby. 
 
 The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and 
 the members of the several State Legislatures, and all execu- 
 tive and judicial officers, both of the general Government of 
 the Sovereign States of North and South America and of the 
 several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to sup- 
 port this Constitution, but no religious test shall ever be re- 
 quired as a qualification to any office or public trust under 
 the general Government of the Sovereign States of North 
 and South America. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 The ratification of the Conventions of five States, shall be 
 sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution, between 
 the States so ratifying the same. 
 
 Done at the Twin House Ranch, Solano County, California, 
 September 12th, 1864. ROBERT E. BEASLEY. 
 
 ADDENDA. 
 
 Whatsoever God has made inferior, man cannot make 
 equal or superior. 
 
 All men are not equally free and equal, neither the angels 
 in Heaven or the demons in Hell, God the Father or God the 
 Son (See St. Mark, chap. 13 : verse 32). 
 
 To multiply and replenish is of God, the reverse is of the 
 Devil. 
 
 After this world and all the kingdoms of the earth shall 
 have been annexed to the general Government of the Sov- 
 ereign States of North and South America, any human being 
 
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 may live on any part of it and have all the comforts and lux- 
 uries of life that the world produces, by paying the cost of 
 the article where it grows or is made, and freight on the same, 
 together with a small commission to the merchant. 
 
 It is my individual opinion that this world may, by the 
 wisdom of man, be made to feed and clothe one thousand 
 human beings where there now exists but one single man, 
 and that what has been in this world may be again (See St. 
 Mark, chap. 6 : v. 39 44). I would suggest for the consid- 
 eration of the State authorities of the several States concerned 
 in the present war, said by some to exist in the United States, 
 the propriety of taking the census of their respective States, 
 male and female, as soon as the war is over, and passing laws 
 that will give every one a chance to have a husband or a wife. 
 I do hereby declare it to be my desire that no State that shall 
 ever have belonged to or composed part of the United States 
 of North America, shall ratify the foregoing Constitution 
 previous to the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred 
 and eighty-seven* The suggestion of any amendment to the 
 foregoing, by any gentleman or lady, will be thankfully re- 
 ceived and duly considered. I would respectfully suggest as 
 the most convenient and proper place for the permanent seat 
 of the general Government of the Sovereign States of North 
 and South America, somewhere within one or two hundred 
 miles of the " Isthmus of Panama." 
 
 I am fully persuaded in my own mind, principally from ob- 
 servation, that man knows less when he first arises in this 
 world than any of the brute creation, but may, if not too 
 much under the influence of sin and deception, deceit and 
 wickedness, reach a mental station that will enable him to 
 almost view the other and better world. To this end have I 
 cast all my labors, to elevate the minds of men by such a 
 standard as shall bring about such a change in the material 
 government of earthly kingdoms as shall influence all man- 
 kind for a glorious and happy future. 
 
 ROBERT E. BEASLEY.