Sign the Declaration


Now, simply by adding your comment with your name and any thoughts you might have to the bottom of this article, you can electronically sign the Shire Society Declaration! While you can be in the Shire as a state of mind, it makes sense to live close to others who believe as you do. You are encouraged to immiGREAT to the Shire.

To learn about how the Shire Society Declaration came to be and to see high resolution versions of the originals, please visit the History page.

Perhaps you’d prefer to sign a physical copy that you can keep? Just grab this PDF and print it out for you and your friends and family to sign!

Shire Society Declaration

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED witnesses to the lesson of history — that no form of political governance may be relied upon to secure the individual rights of life, liberty, or property — now therefore establish and provide certain fundamental precepts measuring our conduct toward one another, and toward others:

FIRST, each individual is the exclusive proprietor of his or her own existence and all products thereof, holding no obligations except those created by consent;

SECOND, no individual or association of individuals, however constituted, has the right to initiate force against any other individual;

THIRD, each individual has the inalienable right of self-defense against the initiation of force;

FOURTH, explicit voluntary association is the only means by which binding obligations may be created, and claims based on association or relationships to which any party did not consent are empty and invalid;

FIFTH, rights are neither collective nor additive in character, and no group can possess rights in excess of those belonging to its individual members;

We hereby declare our commitment to peace, individual sovereignty, and independence, and join the Shire Society.

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JuggaloJoe
JuggaloJoe
12 years ago

Joseph M Davis

Brett
Brett
12 years ago

Brett Harrison Clarke

ooqeru
ooqeru
12 years ago

Signed… because LIBERTY works! Derek J. Hanson

jayphailey
jayphailey
12 years ago

Jay P. Hailey

repairmanjack
repairmanjack
12 years ago

Couldn’t agree more.

SpoonerPhan
SpoonerPhan
12 years ago

Signed!

Butt Genie
Butt Genie
12 years ago

I’m on this forum too now. – Buttholomew K. Genie

Rearden
Rearden
12 years ago

Great ideas Medium term follower of the movement, long time follower of liberty. I pledge my support. SIGNED!!

Kinetics
Kinetics
12 years ago

Signed.

storm1977
storm1977
12 years ago

Glad to join!

William Thieme
William Thieme
12 years ago

I declare my independence from all states.
William Thieme

Comet
Comet
12 years ago

This comment is my signature upon the above Declaration.

I have lived these principles all my adult life, and have successfully asserted them in various dealings with “authorities.” We have a gentleman’s agreement; they respect my rights and I don’t rain on their parade.

It is impossible to obtain a “judgment” that one is free.

However, the facts and law in the public record are that my wife and I are not part of any body politic or corporate, that no contract or other nexus exists by which we have waived any rights, and that any assertion to the contrary naturally arises from fraud.

logicalmynd
11 years ago

It is a healthy practice to advocate anarchy. The USA took a wrong turn the moment any one individual was given authority over, or more rights than, another. Cops, Feds, cabinet members, executive branch, legislative branch, judicial branch, and basically any type of organization that is associated with government can only breed corruption and eventual tyranny. I’ve written countless papers on these matters for a decade, and you got my signature.

-Jeremy Edward Dion

Mike
11 years ago

Signed, though I can only join you in spirit.

smeckma
smeckma
11 years ago

Signed

jbaldwin
jbaldwin
11 years ago

Signed.

Ian St.Clair
Ian St.Clair
11 years ago

Signed, and thank you all.

Charles Jewell
11 years ago

Your still have to disconnect yourself from the US Corporation, by virtue of social security, IRS, or Unemployment Compensation. Everything US. I believe this to be true.

Kianquenseda
Kianquenseda
11 years ago

If all would throw away their money, what would it be worth ? When all the rivers are dammed, all the fish gone, and all the soil wasted, we will come to find out that we cannot eat money.

Haydrien Vantrese
Haydrien Vantrese
11 years ago

It is agreed between all of us that the overall benefit of choosing to
live in a society who’s transactions are all mutually consensual is
significantly higher than the overall benefit of choosing to live in a
society who mutually agree that forcefully taking an individual’s
property and rights through taxation and unjust law can somehow “improve
the common welfare and safety of the public.”

Those who do
not agree fail to understand that by neglecting to adhere to the
principles that the Shire Society has made clear, the result could
affect them to the point that they do not even have the freedom to
choose the principles they would like to live by for they are enslaved
by a government.

DishonestAbe
DishonestAbe
11 years ago

I haven’t been here in a while, but its cool that you don’t have to have a face book account to post here. I fully agree with the aims and goals of the shire society. Consider this my Signature.

Ian Marshall
11 years ago

I’m honored to be here and sign wholeheartedly!

antiquer king
antiquer king
11 years ago

hollo how are you doing find i”m looking for a friend to be with and make me happy to be in my life

antiquer king
antiquer king
11 years ago

hollo

Jess Bernstein
Jess Bernstein
11 years ago

Is leaving a message signing? if so accept this as me signing. Liberty only work for all of us if it is actively defended and pursued. the time for passive citizenry has to end. Wake up before it is to late.

Rory Smith
11 years ago

Rory Clifford Smith

Jeremy
Jeremy
11 years ago

Consider me signed up

druoak01
druoak01
11 years ago

I live in NH now. If I don’t end up going back to Vermont, I’d give serious consideration to living either in Manchester or Keene. Peace!

Greg Gauthier
11 years ago

#3 and #4 are the undeniable logical consequence of #1 and #2. Also, I don’t think the obtuse and dubious notion of “rights” is even necessary. The enumeration of specific entitlements (which is the Stanford definition of the term “right”) will only muddle the core principle. The simple, clear, highly accurate language of moral judgment should suffice: Either it is evil to initiate the use of force, or it is good. If it is evil, then responding in-kind when it occurs, is fully justified. This is all the protection we need.

Barry Hayes
Barry Hayes
11 years ago

I’m in like Flynn.

PJ Shea
PJ Shea
11 years ago

Not signing. I am my own person and do not have to belong to any group to prove I am free to do what I want, when I want. Besides, all y’all will probably end up on some list owned by the government.

Terry Adair
Terry Adair
11 years ago

Signed. Planning to move when I can. Don’t know how soon that can be.

Robert Taylor
11 years ago

The undersigned is hereby declared a member of the Shire Society,
Robert Taylor

Mark Watson
11 years ago

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others”; “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
– Groucho Marx

“The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.”; “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
– H.L. Mencken

“To hell with the State. The State, its employees, contractors, and its community activists are uninvited, hostile intruders in my life. They and the force of their actions against my life, liberty, and property must be defended against sufficient to overcome, or at least as it is in my power to do so. To help secure myself, I offer my service in defense of others’ life, liberty and property against the same.”
– Mark Watson

The Philosophy of Liberty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muHg86Mys7I

Please accept this as my signature to become a member of the Shire.

In Liberty and Voluntary Association,
Mark R. Watson, 09/17/2012
voluntaryist.markrwatson.org

Dean T. Harris
Dean T. Harris
11 years ago

I really hope I’ll be able to make the move to the Shire some day. Looking for a liberty loving lady to become my liberty loving wife, and to help me get a visa. 😉

Dean T. Harris
Flesherton, Ontario (…for the time being)

Michelle Hamilton Williams

Consider this my signature!!

iPat
iPat
11 years ago

I love New Hampshire! It’s been a great place to raise a family, to live, work, and play. Everyday beauty is a part of life here, and Freedom & Liberty folks find their true home. Live Free and Love Life!

Jesse McDonald
11 years ago

Jesse D. McDonald

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Don Duncan
11 years ago

The term “free state project” is an oxymoron. I endorse free streets, free communities, and the Shire society.

Bella111
Bella111
11 years ago

Rebekah A Jones (Bella). Consider this my signature. Moving to Manchester (i think) very soon with nothing left but myself, small dog and suitcase. This will be my final attempt to adapt and overcome what have been overwhelming circumstances, and if I have to start all over with nothing I’d rather do it there, with my liberty intact if not my pride. Any hints, small adaptive living arrangements, ideas for an exchange of labor or intellect while I grab on to my bootstraps…? Advice or leads of all types gratefully welcomed.

Michael Muracco
Michael Muracco
11 years ago

Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.

Brigitte Roberts
11 years ago

You may not be able to EAT money, but you sure can’t buy food without it! It all goes hand in hand in survival. Freedom to America!

Violist Fiftysix
Violist Fiftysix
11 years ago

There is a lot of argument here in regard to this precept or that precept and whether or not any individuals have “The Right” to say or do something that the “rest of us” find unusual. But that is precisely what the United States was founded upon; the RiUght to say “No”. And the Shire Society is continuing that noble concept. Cheers to all, and may this great concept continue forever!?h

Michelle Kinchen Green
11 years ago

I totally agree

Mike Rinderle
11 years ago

I’m in!

Joseph Grabko
11 years ago

Signed, although I am unsure how soon I could afford to move, let alone get a job and place to stay.

yeah
yeah
11 years ago

Unless you renounce your citizenship at a US embassy (they have a piece of paper for you to sign), you’re still bound by the laws of the US. Please visit the nearest embassy and get the fuck out of my country.

Kina Bar
Kina Bar
11 years ago

I agree and sign

Gaylan
Gaylan
11 years ago

I notice many people hanging on to the idea of having a “president” or some form of legislature created by a de facto, but at the same time they claim they are free. That’s nonsense and a misnomer at best.

Can you say double minded, or a state of delusional insanity?

You can NOT have it both ways. Either one will love the freedom of being self governed, or the idea of being governed by another. A man’s actions will always define his need for governance.

Man can not create a de jure “government”. Once it is put on paper it then becomes de facto.

If one claims a title he has deceived himself along with others. Is it not true there is neither male nor female, neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond or free?

I am that I am, and nothing more than the I am that I am. So I can not be a title, name, word, or idea in the form of an expression.

Gaylan
Gaylan
11 years ago
Reply to  yeah

“my country” .. ROFLMAO it don’t belong to you it never has. And If you have some documents that prove otherwise then keep your comments about ownership to your self. You don’t and never have owned anything. You can not pay for anything with a debt note.

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