The Right to Secede

Once the citizens have seceded, they have the right to form a new nation, or join a new nation, by the virtue of the application of Article 5 (d) (iii) of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965, which is the law of Australia by virtue of the application of Section 3, 6 and 7 of the Racial Discrimination Act, 1975 (Annexure J)

All the above laws, both domestic and international, are binding upon the former Officers of the defunct government by virtue of the application of Section 5 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (Annexure L)

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to the prejudice of your people in any of the premises, shall not be drawn hereafter into consequence or example; (2) and that your Majesty would also graciously pleased, for the further comfort and safety of your people, to declare your royal will and pleasure, That in the things aforesaid all your officers and ministers shall serve you according to the laws and statutes of this realm, as they tender the honour of your Majesty, and the prosperity of this kingdom.

[1688] I William and Mary Sess. II. (Bill of Rights) c. II.

An act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown: 

Whereas the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully, and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm, did upon the thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty eight, present unto their Majesties, then called and known by the names and stile of William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, being present in their proper persons, a certain declaration in writing, made by the said lords and commons, in the words fo1lowing; viz:.

Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges an ministers employed By him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws, and liberties of his kingdom.

1.

By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws. and the execution of laws. without consent of parliament.

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an oath administered unto them not warrantable by the laws or statutes of this realm, and have been constrained to become bound to make appearance and give attendance before your privy council and in other places, and others of them have been therefore imprisoned, confined, and sundry other ways molested and disquieted; (2) and divers other charges have been laid and levied upon your people in several counties by lords lieutenants, deputy lieutenants, commissioners for musters, justices of peace and others, by command or direction from your Majesty, or your privy council, against the laws and free customs of the realm.

3. And where also by the statute called, The great charter of the liberties of England, it is declared and enacted, That no freeman may be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold or 1iberties or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land.

4. And In the eight and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the Third it was declared and enacted by authority of parliament, that no man of what estate or condition that lie be, should be put out of his land or tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to death without being brought to answer by due process of law.

5. Nevertheless against the tenor of the said statutes, and other the good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided, divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause showed (2) and when for their deliverance they were brought before your justices by your Majesty's writs of habeas corpus, there to undergo and receive as the court should order, and their keepers command to certify the causes of their detainer, no cause was certified, but that they were detained by your Majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your privy council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the law.

6. And whereas of late great companies of soldiers and mariners have been dispersed into divers counties of the realm, and the inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and customs of thy realm, and to the great grievances and vexation of the people.

7. And whereas so by authority of parliament, in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it is declared and enacted, That no man should be forejudged of life or limb against the form of the great charter and the law of the land; (2) and by the said great charter and other the Laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the laws established In this your realm, either by the customs of

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compound for the forfeiture, are contrary to your Majesty's laws, which your Majesty’s declaration is truly consonant an agreeable to the ancient an fundamental laws of this your realm.

(2) And whereas your Majesty was further graciously pleased, expressly to command, that no suitor should presume to move your Majesty for matters of that nature; (3) yet nevertheless upon misinformations, and untrue pretences of public good, many such grants have been unduly obtained, and unlawfully put in execution, to the great grievance and inconvenience of your Majesty's subjects, contrary to the laws of this your realm, and contrary to your Majesty’s most royal and blessed intention to published as aforesaid.

(4) For avoiding whereof, and preventing of the like in time to come, may it please your excellent Majesty, at the humble suit of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons, in this present parliament assembled, that it may be declared and enacted; 

(5) and he it declared and enacted by authority of the present parliament, That all monopolies, and all commissions, grants, licences, charters and letters patents heretofore made or granted, or hereafter to be made or granted, to any person or persons, bodies politick or corporate whatsoever of or for the sole buying, selling, making, working or using of any thing within this realm, or the dominion of Wales,

(9) are altogether contrary to the laws of this realm. and so are and shall be utterly void and of none effect, and in no wise to be put in use or execution.

6. Provided also, and be it declared and enacted, That any declaration before mentioned shall not extend to any letters patents and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen years or under, hereafter to be made, of the sole working or making of any manner of new in manufactures within this realm, to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of making such letters patents and grants shall not use, so as also they be not contrary to the law, nor mischievous to the state, by raising prices of commodoties at home, or hurt of trade,

Whereas  by the great charter many times confirmed in Parliament, it is enacted, That no freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised of his freehold or liberties or free customs, or be outlawed or exi1ed or otherwise destroyed ,and that the King will not pass upon him, or condemn him; but  by lawful judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land: (2)  and  by another statute made in the fifth year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it is enacted, That no man shall be attached by any accusation, nor forejudged of life or limb, nor Iris lands, tenements, goods or chattels seized into the King's hands, against the form of the great charter and the law of the land : (3) and by another statute made in the live and twentieth year of the reign of the same King Edward the Third, it is accorded, assented and established, That none shall be taken by petition or suggestion made to the King, or to his council, unless it be by indictment or presentment of good and lawful people of the same neighbourhood where such deeds be done, in due manner, or by proceeds made by writ original at the common law, and that none be put out of his franchise or freehold, unless he be duly brought in to answer, and forejudged of the same by the course of the law, and if any thing be done against against the same, it shall be redressed and holden for none; (4) and by another statute made in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of the same King Edward the Third, it is amongst other things enacted, That no man of what estate or condition forever he be, shall be put out of his lands or tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned nor disinherited, without being brought in to answer by due process of law: (5) and by another statute made in the two and fortieth year of the reign of the said King Edward the Third, it is enacted, That no man be put to answer, without presentment before justices, or matter of record, or by due process and writ original, according to the old law of the land, and if any thing  be done to the contrary, it shall be void in law, and holden for error : (6) and by another statute made in the six and thirtieth year of the same King Edward the Third, it is amongst other things enacted, That all pleas which shall be pleaded in any courts before any of the King's justices, or in his other places, or before any of his other ministers, or in the courts and places of any other lords within the realm, shall be entered and enrolled in Latin : (7) and whereas by the statute made in the third year of King Henry the Seventh, power is given to the chancellor, the lord treasurer of England for the time being, arid the keeper of the King's privy seal, or two of them, calling unto them a bishop and a temporal lord of the King's most honourable council, and the two chief justices of the King's bench and common pleas for the time being, or other two justices in their absence, to proceed as in that act is expressed, for the punishment of some particular offences therein mentioned : (8) arid by the statute made in the one and twentieth year of King Henry the Eighth, the president of the council is associated to join with the lord chancellor and other judges in the said statute of the  Third of Henry the Seventh mentioned : (9) but the said judges have not kept themselves to the points limited by the said statute, but have undertaken to punish where no law doth warrant, and to make decrees for things having no such authority, and to inflict heavier punishments than by any law is warranted.

II.  And for asmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said judges, or in the court commonly called the star-chamber, may have their proper. remedy and redress, and their due punishment and correction, by the common law of the land, and the ordinary course of justice elsewhere : (2) and forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing tire erection and continuance of that court do now cease  (3) and the proceedings, censures and decrees of that court, have by experience been found to be an intolerable burthen to the subjects, and the means to introduce an arbitrary power and government  (4) and forasmuch as the council-table hath of late time assumed unto itself a power to intermeddle in civil causes and matters only of private interest between party and party, and have adventured to determine of the estates and liberties of the subject, contrary to the law of the land and the rights and privileges of the subject, by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniencies have arisen and happened, and much incertainty by means of such proceedings liath been conceived concerning mens rights and estates ; for settling whereof, and preventing the like in time to come.