Cover Letter for Declaration of Sovereignty

By Marc MkKoy
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Cover let­ter to 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.

Cer­ti­fied Mail Receipts. Dec­la­ra­tion Receipts. Recorder Receipt.  Postage Fees Receipt.

Jan­u­ary 1, 2008

Know all men by these presents that I, Mark McCoy, extend greet­ings to all rep­re­sen­ta­tives, agents, and offi­cers of the United States, and freely and vol­un­tar­ily send the fol­low­ing message:

I am send­ing this let­ter and enclosed Dec­la­ra­tion as a cour­tesy and for your infor­ma­tion. You are receiv­ing this because you are either a duly elected pub­lic ser­vant, or are occu­py­ing a posi­tion cre­ated by an act of law or expe­di­ency. Please feel free to pass this let­ter and the enclosed Dec­la­ra­tion along to whomever you may think would be inter­ested in its con­tents. I would encour­age all who read it to study it thor­oughly. It comes from many years of study, research, and anguish. I have not made this deci­sion lightly. I am fully aware of the impli­ca­tions, ram­i­fi­ca­tions, and pos­si­ble con­se­quences. It flows from the pen of a peace­ful, freedom-loving, inde­pen­dent man who can see the recur­ring pat­tern that has plagued mankind since man first ruled over other men. I have come to believe that I must either acqui­esce to the role of a sub­ject, or take the path oth­ers have bravely trav­elled, often at enor­mous costs to them­selves. I have cho­sen the more dif­fi­cult path of iden­ti­fy­ing and chal­leng­ing that which is con­trary to my lib­erty and conscience.

The enclosed Dec­la­ra­tion is not a legal doc­u­ment. The state­ments made in the Dec­la­ra­tion are not a mat­ter of law or legal­ity. The state­ments made in the Dec­la­ra­tion exist out­side law pro­mul­gated by gov­ern­ment. My Dec­la­ra­tion avers and attests to the Nat­ural Law that binds all Peo­ple and is the antecedent basis and jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for any other moral law. Just as igno­rance of the law is no excuse, by this Dec­la­ra­tion, igno­rance of My Sov­er­eignty, My rights, and My lib­erty, is no excuse.

If we are to believe in the words of those who have come before us, espous­ing and pro­claim­ing the ideas of lib­erty, then all men have by way of their birth, pos­sess com­plete and per­fect title to their per­son, lib­erty, and prop­erty. Such men, seek­ing to form a gov­ern­ment for their mutual ben­e­fit and bind­ing only those who con­sent to its juris­dic­tion, can­not by right or moral­ity bind other men to their will with­out the like-consent of those who they seek to bind. The Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence makes the procla­ma­tion that, “…deriv­ing their just power from the con­sent of the gov­erned. And should any gov­ern­ment become destruc­tive to these ends it shall be the right of the Peo­ple to alter or abol­ish it…” That Dec­la­ra­tion did not ask gov­ern­ment to accept, acknowl­edge, or approve of that state­ment because it does not need accep­tance, acknowl­edge­ment, or approval. It is sim­ply a Dec­la­ra­tion founded in truth, moral­ity, and nature.

I have cho­sen to adopt the spirit of the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence in my Pub­lic Dec­la­ra­tion of Sov­er­eignty, Expa­tri­a­tion, and Dis­so­lu­tion of all Pre­vi­ous Polit­i­cal and National Alle­giance. I believe I have taken rea­son­able mea­sures to ques­tion and chal­lenge that which has been por­trayed to me as law that binds me to per­form cer­tain duties pre­scribed by oth­ers with whom I have not cho­sen to rep­re­sent me or act on my behalf. I am mak­ing known my Dec­la­ra­tion as a peace­ful over­ture to those who have taken lib­er­ties in pre­scrib­ing the lim­its of my lib­er­ties, defin­ing my rights, and restrict­ing my free­dom. I have grown weary of dis­sem­blance, fraud, deceit, threats, and silence, pro­lif­er­ated by sup­posed “ser­vants”, elected and paid by the con­sent­ing gov­erned, all to the detri­ment of those who either con­sent through will, or suc­cumb through ignorance.

Please take note; I am not ask­ing for per­mis­sion; I am not seek­ing approval; I am not peti­tion­ing for acknowl­edge­ment, of My Dec­la­ra­tion. It will stand as My pub­lic procla­ma­tion in clar­i­fy­ing or cor­rect­ing who I am, in rela­tion to what gov­ern­ment has pre­sumed or deemed me to be; it is my peace­ful over­ture to all of Mankind as a rea­son­able, ratio­nal, and con­scionable Man; and it is my firm and true belief that absent my tacit or explicit con­sent, I have the right and power to con­script myself to, or remove myself from, any power that acts in any man­ner what­so­ever, in which case I con­sider the present fed­eral, state, and local gov­ern­ments to be incon­sis­tent with my con­science, rea­son, or moral­ity. My Dec­la­ra­tion is absolute, non-negotiable, and the supreme Law to which I morally bind myself.

Even though I sub­scribe to the teach­ings of Thoreau, King Jr., and Gandhi, I will resist peace­fully, at first, by merely refus­ing to act in a man­ner pre­scribed by arbi­trary power, but if con­fronted with an attempt at coer­cion or com­pul­sion, through force against my per­son, I will resort to what­ever means of self-preservation I may see fit to sum­mon. As Thomas Jef­fer­son said, “Resis­tance to Tyrants is obe­di­ence to God.” It is peace­ful to refuse to act, but it is right­eous to pro­tect that which divin­ity has provided.

Unless a claim can be made that binds or sub­jects me to any pre­sumed author­ity; aris­ing from a doc­u­ment, con­tract, agree­ment, or oath, and which was made with my fully informed, vol­un­tary con­sent, then I am sub­ject to no gov­ern­men­tal author­ity. If gov­ern­ment requires the con­sent of the gov­erned, then this Dec­la­ra­tion con­tests the pre­sump­tion of such con­sent. If I am to be sub­jected to arbi­trary power against my will, then let the world know that this coun­try does not rep­re­sent free­dom, and all liv­ing there­upon the land are not free. In either case, I will assert my inde­pen­dence and exer­cise my free­dom in any man­ner con­sis­tent with my con­science and in oppo­si­tion to any unnat­ural con­struct that would impose restric­tions upon my moral exer­cise of lib­erty. If a claim is to be made, then pub­licly do so or let stand as truth, My Declaration.

I have made it known to the world and all mankind, my peace­ful inten­tions, my thoughts, and my Dec­la­ra­tion. I encour­age you to visit my web­site at http://www.markmccoy.com

Yours in Peace and Lib­erty, or Con­flict and War,

Mark McCoy

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  • chris

    how long did it take for the Dec­la­ra­tion of Sov­er­eignty to become active? i’m new to all this info on DOS and UCC 1–308, but am extremely inter­ested! please con­tact me w/ any addi­tional info and answers you have, it won’t go to waste. THANK YOU, CHRIS

    • Mark McCoy

      Jef­frey,

      Thanks for writ­ing.
      Yes, it is real. You have already been there. You just don’t remem­ber.
      Think back to when you were 10 years old, 12 years old, 16 years old.…

      When did all of the legal encum­brances of the State set them­selves upon you? Was the driver’s license law passed the year you applied for a driver’s license? Was the income tax law passed the year you started work­ing? Do you remem­ber hav­ing a paper route, cut­ting grass, shov­el­ing show.… and NOT pay­ing tax? These things have existed for a time greater than your exis­tence, yet, by nature, you were not bur­dened with any knowl­edge of them. You later chose to bur­den your­self, with the help of teach­ers, par­ents, authorities…

      I may be over­sim­pli­fy­ing but, all of these things were cre­ated by some­one else; some­one you never met or agreed to sub­mit to. How were they able to leg­is­late for “you” when they never met you? Was there a procla­ma­tion which stated all peo­ple now and in the future are bound by the will of the leg­is­la­ture, wher­ever or whomever they may be? Are you bound to the laws of Cal­i­for­nia, Iowa, Mis­souri, China.…? If not, why not? They all claim to have “their laws”. Is it your loca­tion? Can you pick up a hand­ful of dirt and say, “Yes, this is Illi­nois dirt.”? When look­ing at the dirt do all the laws, statutes, ordi­nances, and reg­u­la­tions of the State of Illi­nois make them­selves known to you?

      The fact is, none of this existed before you allowed it to exist. I believe things you do not, but noth­ing I do can impose those beliefs upon you by procla­ma­tion or act of law, no mat­ter if every­body in my fam­ily says so. Why then does the beliefs of oth­ers become any­one elses bur­den because more of them demand it than just you? This is all philo­soph­i­cal, but that’s the way every­thing is.

      Now, when you ask how “real is it”, are you ask­ing what the con­se­quences are for liv­ing this way or the resis­tance met by “author­i­ties”? You have already lived it. We have estab­lished that. You have to clear your thoughts and embrace your­self. I’m sure you know the kind of man you are, but you choose to be another kind of man. It may be expe­di­ence, fear, igno­rance, com­fort, duty, things we have all expe­ri­enced, but deep inside you are who you are. For me, once I peeled away the veneer of what I had adopted as far as beliefs I dis­cov­ered how inhar­mo­nious it was with my con­science. I had but two choices; to sup­press my con­science and con­tinue engag­ing in some­one elses game or be true to myself. The game we often engage in was not cre­ated by us. The rules are time-tested to ben­e­fit those who cre­ated the game. Do not think for a moment the rules were writ­ten with the inten­tions of the rab­ble at heart.

      For the most part, I am left alone. The world is full of igno­rant peo­ple who will do vio­lence and injus­tice whether there is gov­ern­ment or not. It is not the gov­ern­ment, but the peo­ple who hide behind the con­cept for doing injus­tice to their fel­low man. Once you accept that fact you have no fear of it, but them. It is pol­luted thoughts and cor­rupted rea­son that is the threat. I have taken this path because it is true, hon­est, peace­able, and lib­er­at­ing. Doing the things I do with nary an acknowl­edg­ment of the state is exhil­a­rat­ing. I am not lulled into a sense of invin­ci­bil­ity where there may never be reprisals for my audac­ity, but to pos­sess that audac­ity is the sign of a free man. To act upon it with impunity is won­der­ful. To stand defi­ant is peaceful.

      We will all meet our fate at some­time. I say, do what you will, peace­ably and hon­estly; and there should be no regrets. To real­ize the folly of the State and to dis­obey, cor­rect that, to DISAVOW its exis­tence is a moral duty. We are all endowed with the abil­ity to gov­ern our­selves for good or evil. Why must I accept the evil of other men into my heart by arbi­trar­ily fol­low­ing their rules when mine afford me greater free­dom and no haz­ard to mankind?

      Yes, it is real. I live with no regrets despite what­ever “con­se­quences” may greet me. They are not my con­se­quences, but the vio­lent acts of other men who have adopted the state as their exter­nal con­science. Their actions are out­side of my con­trol, but mine are totally within it.

      Feel free to con­tact me back if you wish to chat more. I wish you luck. I am also happy to hear you are even con­tem­plat­ing and ques­tion­ing this. I do not ask oth­ers to fol­low me, since I do not have all the answers, and the ones I do have per­tain only to me, but I only hope for peo­ple to think.

      In peace,

      Mark McCoy