Dec­la­ra­tion sent to City of Collinsville, Illi­nois, Illi­nois Sec­re­tary of State, Mis­souri Sec­re­tary of State, and United States State Depart­ment via Cer­ti­fied U.S. Mail on Jan. 2, 2008. Reg­is­tra­tion Num­bers: 70070220000112930039, 70070220000112930053, 70070220000112930046 and 70070220000112930022, respectively.

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In the course of a life­time, when one dis­cov­ers and sub­mits to a truth that evinces at the con­flu­ence of all which is phys­i­cal, spir­i­tual, and rea­son­able in a nat­ural world; and there find that which had pre­vi­ously been accepted as truth to be a yoke of igno­rance and fear; and those who fit­ted the yoke, secured its place, and assigned its encum­brances, to be inter­lop­ers between would-be-beasts and sov­er­eign beings. Thus, but one recourse presents itself in rem­e­dy­ing the igno­rance born from hav­ing accepted insti­tu­tion­al­ized sanc­ti­mony that per­func­to­rily acknowl­edges a Cre­ator, yet com­pels servi­tude and obe­di­ence to earthly author­ity, with but one choice, that is, to claim a right­ful place in this world which the Supreme Cre­ator has pro­vided for all, as equals amongst all, rulers above none, sov­er­eigns amongst sov­er­eigns, and bound only by the moral duty to live the term of a life as peace­ably and pros­per­ously as pos­si­ble at what­ever cost deemed just and at no expense to any other.

I have met with such a truth, as I have come to know it, under­stand it, embrace it, and now choose to be ruled by it for the rest of My days.I, com­monly known and here­after referred to as, Mark McCoy, given the birth name of Mark McCoy by My nat­ural par­ents, hereby make known to all mem­bers of Mankind, lovers of Lib­erty, chil­dren of Peace and the world; as well as tyrants, oppres­sors, usurpers, rulers, and pre­sumed author­ity, the fol­low­ing Pub­lic Dec­la­ra­tion — Be it known that I, Mark McCoy, am in full con­trol of My phys­i­cal and men­tal fac­ul­ties. Be it known that I, Mark McCoy, make the fol­low­ing Dec­la­ra­tion vol­un­tar­ily, freely, and absent any out­side influ­ence, coer­cion, or duress. Be it known that I, Mark McCoy, accept full respon­si­bil­ity for My life and the actions taken in the exer­cise thereof. Be it known that I, Mark McCoy, am healthy, fit, of no phys­i­cal or men­tal inca­pac­ity what­so­ever, and am fully aware, edu­cated, informed, and knowl­edge­able. Be it known that I, Mark McCoy, stand before My Cre­ator; thank­ful for all of the power and free­dom I pos­sess as a con­se­quence of My birth; and in doing so avow to sub­mit to NO earthly author­ity, be it polit­i­cal, soci­etal, or oth­er­wise unnat­ural, and will with every fiber of My being resist to the death any attempt of con­scrip­tion, recruit­ment, account­abil­ity, alle­giance, oblig­a­tion, sub­mis­sion, com­pli­ance, or sub­or­di­na­tion by any man, woman, per­son, or entity. Be it known that I, Mark McCoy, desire peace, tol­er­ance, free­dom, lib­erty, and account­abil­ity for Myself and all mankind and that I will stand fast against any power, will, or force that may result in my trans­gress­ing from those prin­ci­ples. Be it known that I, Mark McCoy, believe and affirm that I am ulti­mately respon­si­ble for My actions in this life, sub­ject to the Supreme Arbiter of the Uni­verse, and as such will not allow oth­ers to guide or com­mand Me to act in ways incon­sis­tent with My Con­science for which I will per­son­ally be held to account. Be it known that I, Mark McCoy, will sub­mit only to the pains of pun­ish­ment for trans­gress­ing upon the like rights, prop­erty, and lib­erty of free-born, nat­ural beings. All other edicts, laws, reg­u­la­tions, or meth­ods of con­trol are dis­avowed and incon­se­quen­tial in the exer­cise of My life. Be it known that I, Mark McCoy, hereby set forth the fol­low­ing state­ments in Declar­ing My Sov­er­eignty, claim­ing My Expa­tri­a­tion, and Dis­solv­ing all pre­vi­ous National and Polit­i­cal Allegiance:

I am a natural-born, inde­pen­dent, free-man who, at the time of My birth, entered this world under the care of My nat­ural par­ents and in full pos­ses­sion of all the rights, fac­ul­ties, free­doms, and power I would ever pos­sess for the term of My nat­ural life.

I aver only to a nat­ural world, and dis­avow con­structs, arti­fices, and enti­ties cre­ated by the mind and hand of man when such may deem to bind or sub­ject Me to any power exer­cised thereunder.

I under­stand, believe, and have come to know that there is NO power on this earth supe­rior to the per­sonal power endowed to Me by My Cre­ator. There may be supe­rior force designed to com­pel My obe­di­ence and com­pli­ance, but such force, when exer­cised by unjust power, is noth­ing more than naked aggres­sion, tyranny, and evil.

I reserve My nat­ural right to exer­cise any and all means of self-defense with any and all weapons or devices at My dis­posal against any and all aggres­sors that may result in harm or death to Myself or oth­ers who may assail Me.

I reserve My right to pos­sess any­thing I may call “prop­erty”, that I have acquired by My own just, peace­ful efforts, and which may con­sist of any plant, ani­mal, min­eral, com­po­si­tion, machine, device, drug, weapon, or prod­uct. I may pos­sess such for My own pur­poses, defined by My own inten­tions, and that which does not pose an imme­di­ate threat or harm to the life or prop­erty of another. Any attempt to deprive Me of My “prop­erty” will be met with defense thereof to what­ever extent nec­es­sary to pre­serve such.

I unequiv­o­cally declare that I am the Supreme earthly author­ity over My phys­i­cal per­son; spir­i­tu­ally bound to My Cre­ator, and sub­ject only to the just adju­di­ca­tion by My Cre­ator for all My earthly trans­gres­sions. I am a Sov­er­eign power unto Myself, pos­ing no threat what­so­ever to the just exer­cise of the like Sov­er­eignty of other autonomous, self-determinate People.

I admit to hav­ing sub­mit­ted to the demands and will of oth­ers who exer­cised influ­ence and author­ity over Me, at times to My detri­ment, with­out My full informed con­sent; but rather out of intim­i­da­tion, fear, and ignorance.

I do not acknowl­edge any author­ity, power, or juris­dic­tion as a con­se­quence of My phys­i­cal pres­ence, wher­ever such may be claimed; nor sub­mit to any of the afore­men­tioned as a con­se­quence of My actions in enjoy­ing or exer­cis­ing any of My nat­ural rights in a peace­able manner.

I do not seek the con­sent, acknowl­edg­ment, approval, per­mis­sion, or recog­ni­tion of any­body or any­thing in My dis­play of honor or obe­di­ence to My Cre­ator; the man­ner in which I wor­ship; or the actions I may take in the exer­cise of any and all gifts, bless­ings, free­dom, or rights I believe are bestowed by Him. I believe it is My right and duty to defend, with force if nec­es­sary, any intru­sion or inter­fer­ence with My rela­tion­ship with My Creator.

I have not adopted or accepted any def­i­n­i­tion of rights, lib­erty, free­doms, or iden­tity pro­mul­gated by any earthly power. I have not attempted to enu­mer­ate any of My rights, as endowed by My Cre­ator, for such a list would be too exhaus­tive to under­take and pos­si­bly con­strued by oth­ers to be a defin­i­tive list of My rights, which are inde­scrib­able, bound­less, and beyond the com­pre­hen­sion of arti­fi­cial constructs.

It is My belief and under­stand­ing that the man-made arti­fice known as “gov­ern­ment”, once served a pur­pose in effect­ing a con­sent­ing People’s desire for the mutual pro­tec­tion of life, lib­erty, and prop­erty. It is My belief that gov­ern­ment is an anachro­nis­tic relic of a time where cir­cum­stances induced peo­ple to trade Nat­ural Rights for priv­i­leges and ben­e­fits derived from the Civil Power. It is My belief that a pat­tern exists where gov­ern­ment no longer oper­ates under the intended desire of con­sent­ing Peo­ple for the mutual pro­tec­tion of life, lib­erty, and prop­erty, but has devi­ated to a course of abuse, vio­lence, theft, deceit, fraud, and coer­cion; oper­at­ing to the detri­ment of those who choose to not con­sent, and to the ben­e­fit of those who seek out gov­ern­ment as a proxy for effect­ing the pur­suit and fur­ther­ance of var­i­ous self-interests.

I believe the ONLY legit­i­mate func­tion of gov­ern­ment, of any kind, to be for the mutual ben­e­fit of those explic­itly form­ing such gov­ern­ment and sub­mit­ting to its juris­dic­tion for the sole pur­pose of pro­tect­ing life, lib­erty, and prop­erty. Any other action under­taken in the name of ANY gov­ern­ment that is incon­sis­tent with the afore­said con­cepts is unjust, unlaw­ful, repug­nant, and non-binding upon any Sov­er­eign man or woman.

I believe that gov­ern­ment is NOT sov­er­eign; that sov­er­eignty begins with the Cre­ator; is bestowed to those he cre­ates; and can­not be sur­ren­dered, waived, trans­ferred, or assigned to any unnat­ural entity that may then pos­sess sov­er­eignty supe­rior or equal to that which cre­ated it. There­fore, it is NOT pos­si­ble for gov­ern­ment to claim the sta­tus of a sov­er­eign as com­pared to that of the Peo­ple who choose to cre­ate such government.

I rec­og­nize and under­stand that gov­ern­ment has orga­nized and mobi­lized a force com­prised of indi­vid­u­als who are armed, trained, and pre­sum­ably empow­ered with “author­ity” to enforce laws, edicts, procla­ma­tions, rules, ordi­nances, and reg­u­la­tions in the name of “pub­lic safety”, “national secu­rity”, “com­mon good”, “police power”, and other con­trivances used to pla­cate peo­ple into accept­ing an armed, stand­ing pres­ence designed to com­pel obe­di­ence and com­pli­ance. I rec­og­nize and under­stand that those indi­vid­u­als com­pris­ing this force are morally bound, oblig­ated, and rea­son­able in adher­ing to the laws of nature and respect­ing the sov­er­eignty of oth­ers. They are assumed to be rea­son­able and respon­si­ble for their indi­vid­ual actions. I there­fore assume that any action taken upon them, against My life, lib­erty, or prop­erty, is pur­pose­ful, inten­tional, and delib­er­ate. I will deem any action taken by them, against My life, lib­erty, or prop­erty, to be an act of war. I will defend with force to what­ever degree and with any means at My dis­posal, and to what­ever con­se­quence pos­si­ble, My life, lib­erty, and prop­erty against any and all actors exer­cis­ing such force.

I do not believe that I am a U.S. cit­i­zen, a cit­i­zen of the United States, a statu­tory res­i­dent, a statu­tory per­son, a tax­payer, or any other crea­ture, fic­tion, sub­ject, or def­i­n­i­tion found in statutes, codes, ordi­nances, or any­where else that does not rec­og­nize a nat­ural, free-born man. This state­ment shall serve as My Dec­la­ra­tion of Expa­tri­a­tion from the cor­po­rate gov­ern­ment of the United States. I fur­ther­more seek no ben­e­fit, exer­cise no priv­i­lege, pledge no alle­giance, lend no sup­port, swear not to defend, nor oth­er­wise sub­mit Myself to any author­ity or juris­dic­tion of the cor­po­rate gov­ern­ment of the United States.

I am not the holder of, in pos­ses­sion of, claim no prop­erty right to, nor accept as Mine any Social Secu­rity Num­ber, Tax­payer Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Num­ber, Dri­vers License Num­ber, or other iden­ti­fy­ing num­ber used in admin­is­ter­ing priv­i­leges and ben­e­fits by gov­ern­ment. Any prior ref­er­ence to such num­bers was in error and ascribed to igno­rance, and all such num­bers, being the prop­erty of those agen­cies issu­ing such, are here­after sur­ren­dered and rescinded.

My name is not acknowl­edged by me to be MARK MCCOY. I am not the holder of, in pos­ses­sion of, claim no prop­erty right to, nor accept as Mine, any gov­ern­ment issued or com­mer­cial doc­u­ment bear­ing a name “MARK MCCOY”. I do not acknowl­edge nor accept any­thing to rep­re­sent My name if I have not affixed My sig­na­ture as rep­re­sent­ing My name. I can­not be required, nor com­pelled, to affix My sig­na­ture to any­thing against My will, under direc­tion or demand of another, under threat, duress, or coer­cion. I do not claim to have a name, but I choose to use a name. My name is My way of hav­ing oth­ers refer to My per­son. Any gov­ern­ment issued, or com­mer­cial doc­u­ment, bear­ing a name MARK MCCOY, does not reflect My name, since the name MARK MCCOY was affixed to such doc­u­ments by the issu­ing entity and are there­fore not Mine, but instead the prop­erty of the issu­ing entity. Any doc­u­ments pre­vi­ously pro­mul­gated by gov­ern­ment or com­mer­cial enti­ties was done so under fraud, deceit, or coer­cion and are not bind­ing upon Me. I will honor what­ever con­trac­tual agree­ments I have made pur­suant to My vol­un­tar­ily affix­ing My sig­na­ture to such doc­u­ments, pro­vided a sub­stan­ti­a­tion for any law­ful claim can with­stand objec­tions based on fraud, duress, or coercion.

I claim as Mine, and Mine alone, ALL of the prod­ucts of my indus­try; aris­ing from my labor and effort in My nat­ural capac­ity, and thereby do NOT accept or acknowl­edge ANY oblig­a­tion or duty, either morally or law­fully, to remit ANY tax or fee for what­ever prop­erty, com­pen­sa­tion, wage, or value I receive in the mar­ket­place, through pri­vate con­tracts, for the efforts or prod­ucts result­ing in the appli­ca­tion of My phys­i­cal or men­tal labor.

I am not bound by ANY hold­ing of ANY court where I was not a will­ing party to a case giv­ing rise to such hold­ing. NO court, or body of men, can define My rights; define MY under­stand­ing of what is rea­son­able; define My under­stand­ing of pri­vacy; or oth­er­wise make any deter­mi­na­tion, define stan­dards, or bind Me to any other opin­ion not of My own.

I do not aver to the the­ory of sub­mit­ting to the “will of the major­ity”, “the bet­ter­ment of soci­ety”, “the greater good”, or other con­trived plat­i­tudes used to invoke emo­tion and cir­cum­vent logic in manip­u­lat­ing the will of the major­ity to com­pel and con­trol the will of the indi­vid­ual. It is My belief that soci­ety can­not exist, absent fully autonomous, inde­pen­dent, and sov­er­eign indi­vid­u­als who may choose to become a mem­ber of soci­ety through choice rather than being con­scripted through coer­cion or fraud.

I hereby renounce, reject, dis­avow, rescind, and refute any and all prior express or implied alle­giance to the United States, the United States of Amer­ica, the State of Illi­nois, the State of Mis­souri (as well as any other deriva­tions of a “State of….”, any polit­i­cal body, orga­ni­za­tion, asso­ci­a­tion, or orga­nized soci­ety that I have not pur­pose­fully, explic­itly, and inten­tion­ally joined. I reject any and all cit­i­zen­ship of any and all juris­dic­tions found within the polit­i­cal bound­aries under the con­trol of, or defined as, the United States, the United States of Amer­ica, and any polit­i­cal body, sub­di­vi­sion or entity thereof.

I reject any and all pre­vi­ous appli­ca­tions and issuances of any and all licenses or per­mits for actions exer­cised by Me of a per­sonal, non-commercial nature. I hereby refuse to par­take or engage in any scheme, pro­gram, plan, or man­date requir­ing My coerced par­tic­i­pa­tion, in vio­la­tion of My free-will. Any claim, con­scrip­tion, adhe­sion, or duty under any pre­vi­ous license or per­mit is null and void.

I believe, as evi­denced by the actions of any and all gov­ern­ment that exists within the bound­aries known as the United States or any of the sev­eral States com­pris­ing the United States, that such gov­ern­ment is anti­thet­i­cal to the con­cepts of life, lib­erty, and prop­erty for sov­er­eign indi­vid­u­als. I believe such gov­ern­ment is with­out law­ful author­ity to act on behalf of any­one or any­thing against My per­son. I believe that such gov­ern­ment has been shown to be vio­lent, oppres­sive, deceit­ful, thiev­ing, bru­tal, impe­ri­al­is­tic, mur­der­ous, harm­ful, neg­li­gent, and con­trary to My life, lib­erty and prop­erty. I believe that such gov­ern­ment is not of My doing; and I refuse to par­tic­i­pate or assist, in any man­ner what­so­ever, in lend­ing My energy, per­mis­sion, power, prop­erty, or con­sent to such a cre­ation. I believe that such gov­ern­ment, as well as those who act under its author­ity against My life, lib­erty, and prop­erty, to be My enemy. I believe a state of war now, and for some time, exists between Myself and “gov­ern­ment”. I cau­tion and admon­ish such gov­ern­ment, as well as actors oper­at­ing under the pre­sumed author­ity of such, to cease, desist, and forego any and all involve­ment with Myself, absent an explicit arrange­ment, agree­ment, con­tract, duty, or rela­tion­ship made with My fully-informed con­sent. I make this attempt at peace­ful over­ture, as a rea­son­able, con­sci­en­tious, peace­ful, ratio­nal, and sen­tient being. Any refusal to accept, or act under, this peace­ful over­ture will be deemed an act of war, aggres­sion, tyranny, and vio­lence towards Myself. I will defend, with like-force, to what­ever end, and with what­ever means, My life, lib­erty, prop­erty, should I choose.

I believe that I have made every rea­son­able attempt humanly pos­si­ble to make known My thoughts, beliefs, and actions; assert My posi­tion and iden­tify Myself to all as a rea­son­able, ratio­nal, con­sci­en­tious, respon­si­ble, peace­ful, and under­stand­ing Man. I have peti­tioned the gov­ern­ment. I have sought the coun­sel of those who are deemed to be “learned” and with author­ity. I have stud­ied and edu­cated Myself in the ways of moral­ity, phi­los­o­phy, law, and soci­ety. I have availed Myself to the estab­lished sys­tem in good-faith, adher­ing to estab­lished rules, and sought jus­tice. I have been met with only threats, lies, vio­lence, deceit, silence and injury. I can do no more, absent a peace­ful Dec­la­ra­tion, before being forced to resort to armed revolt.

Be it know that I, Mark McCoy, desire peace, respect life, and am will­ing to defend AT ALL COSTS that which is Mine. I am first a child of My Cre­ator, sec­ond an earthly sen­tient being, third a man, fourth a mem­ber of My cho­sen soci­ety, and last a mem­ber of a polit­i­cal body. I will avail Myself to pro­tect and defend all just, right­eous, and moral indi­vid­u­als who seek My aid in pre­serv­ing their like life, lib­erty, and prop­erty. I abhor igno­rance, intol­er­ance, vio­lence, tyranny, oppres­sion, apa­thy, aggres­sion, and evil in what­ever form, or acted upon in what­ever name or author­ity. My time on this earth is tem­po­rary and sub­ject to the terms set forth by My Cre­ator. I have but one duty, and that is to live in accor­dance with the con­science I am blessed with. As a result of such exer­cise, mankind and soci­ety will incur no bur­den on My behalf, suf­fer no injury, and be none dimin­ished. All of My actions are vol­un­tar­ily, pur­pose­ful, and wholly My respon­si­bil­ity. I claim no respon­si­bil­ity for the feel­ings, thoughts, or acts of oth­ers who make them­selves sub­ject to what­ever exter­nal influ­ence may be per­ceived by My autonomous actions. I believe I have a duty, as a con­di­tion of the boun­ti­ful gifts which My Cre­ator has bestowed upon Me, to avail Myself to oth­ers who find com­fort, value, and knowl­edge in My gifts and who seek to share in that bounty which I enjoy. I will give char­i­ta­bly, gen­er­ously, and gra­ciously, as dic­tated by My will and capac­ity alone, and in what­ever man­ner I deem fit for My benefit.

There­fore, to a can­did world be known that I, Mark McCoy, hav­ing exhausted all rea­son­able means at My dis­posal to claim and assert My nat­ural rights to self-determination, auton­omy, sov­er­eignty, and free­dom; and as a last resort, make the afore­said state­ment as My Pub­lic Dec­la­ra­tion of Sov­er­eignty, Expa­tri­a­tion, and Dis­so­lu­tion of all Pre­vi­ous National and Polit­i­cal Alle­giance; and will with all the power pos­sessed by Me through My Cre­ator, swear that I will act and live accord­ing to the dic­tates of My con­science, in a rea­son­able, respon­si­ble, peace­able, and ratio­nal man­ner; will do inten­tional harm to any no other or their prop­erty; and be account­able only to My Cre­ator for My earthly trans­gres­sions, sub­mit­ting Myself to just atone­ment and com­pen­sa­tion for any inten­tional acts against, or breaches of duty to, the life, lib­erty, or prop­erty of another.

So help Me God!

Mark McCoy

Decem­ber 26, 2007