Proclamation of Sovereignty

Eighteen years ago, when the first leaders of the revolution convened, they appointed Nazar Vartanian, captain of the Vartanian Freedom Fighters, political leader, and revolutionary firebrand, to author the Nydian *”Proclamation of Sovereignty.”* Vartanian had been chosen for his expertise in law, oratory, and well-known published treatises on sovereignty and independency before the outbreak of revolution. Vartanian had been one of the first to call for the proclamation of a free Nydian state, and the establishment of a republic thereafter, rather than the popular demand for monarchy. Vartanian believed, and still does, that we mustn’t rid ourselves of two tyrants just to simply place a crown upon another. If we should be free, then we must be free in other ways as well. The people should elect a legislature and a head of state in a republican fashion.

While the revolution has been cooling down, with Steinard and Nesskan forces totally leaving Nydian territory, despite there being no official peace, Vartanian has established the highly-regarded *”Federalist Papers”* where he published his *”Proclamation of Sovereignty”* with the authority of the Revolutionary Council all of those years ago. The following is the publication by Vartanian:

> **In General Council Assembly, the year 1152 CE:** | When, in the due course of the events of human history, it becomes a most evident truth, that, a people thus marred by oppression and tyranny delivered unto them by foreign powers, must, in due time, take it upon themselves to act with immediate effect in the favor of total sovereignty and the establishment of a free state comprised thereof themselves. It is the destiny of peoples, of whom have had injury and harm done to them by those of whom rule them without their just consent, to dissolve the powers that bind them together. It is a self-evident truth, for which all beings of this earth are in their right to acknowledge, that, at the creation of all of time and the universe, and the birth of a man or woman, that individual is endowed, by right of birth and by God, rights to life, liberty, and the pursuits of prosperity and property. It is an irrevocable fact, that we, the individuals of innumerable intent, are created equal, without any injustice done to our beliefs, colors, or other features of our intellect. We must, therefore, assume upon the powers of the Earth, deriving our reasons for our rights and actions from nature, and nature’s just and merciful deity, God. We derive our reasons for these actions from the injuries and harm done upon us by the empires of Nesska and Steinard. Slavers and imperialists who, as all can confirm, have ruled a free people with iron fists. Princes, kings, or emperors have committed repeated crimes against the sovereign rights of all peoples, endowed upon them by God at the moment of creation.
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> In many stages of history preceding violent revolution, we have appealed to the laws and the enforcers thereof the previous occupiers of our lands. In the most humble of terms, our revolutionary council, which governs our forces as a provisional government over the course of our war, we have approached the foreign invaders and occupiers with propositions of peace and amity between our peoples, but let it be known that they refused peace and reconciliation. In the place of peace, they have abdicated our sovereign governments, taken our homes and hearths for themselves, raped and reaved our peoples and our lands, and enforced laws for which we do not recognize, and we did not consent to the presence thereof. It has, therefore, become necessary for the cessation of our inadequate deliberation and conference of diplomatic nature.
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> And so, we seize upon our divine right, established previously, to take it upon our persons, in organized forces of varying sizes, and fight this menace who has infected our lands, and declare the bonds which have connected us with our former brethren dissolved in every fashion. Prudence and providence would govern justly that, should they enforce unjust laws upon peoples without necessary representation in their governments, that those very same governments must, with reasonable cause, be immediately altered or abolished. Therefore, we, the peoples of the provinces of Nydia, consisting of those with differing beliefs or features, do ordain and consent to the immediate, righteous establishment and proclamation of the sovereignty of a, as they rightly ought to be, free and independent state. We shall now mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor in our pursuance of our just cause.
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> Signed,
> Mr. Nazar Levon Vartanian, Esq.
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> His Holiness, Patriarch Cyrill III of All-Nydia
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> Dr. Eduard Nazaryan
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> Mr. Nikoloz Genadi Torosyan
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> Mr. Leonti Hagopi Zuyev
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> Mr. Sergei Tarkhnishvili
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