Secession: Take Two

In May of this year, I wrote a sample ordinance of secession of the 2025 New Jersey legislative calendar that gave the reasons for seceding from the United States in response to Donald Trump's numerous crimes.  Sadly, the number of crimes he's committed since then has grown exponentially.  I stepped back from my advocacy from secession while I waited to see the outcome of the gubernatorial election in New Jersey.  Now, as we prepare to enter a new year - a year in which New Jersey will have a new governor, Rebecca Michelle Sherrill, and a year in which Trump could try to illegally invalidate enough of the midterm congressional elections to keep the Republicans in control of Congress - I have written a slightly revised version of my original sample secession ordinance from May.

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STATE OF NEW JERSEY CALENDAR YEAR 2026 

ORDINANCE OF SECESSION 

To dissolve the Union between the State of New Jersey and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of The United States of America." 

WHEREAS, the United States of America on the fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and twenty-four, had elected a multiple-charged and multiple-convicted felon (henceforth to be referred to as "The Leader"), to return to the office of President of the United States, in violation of Section 3 of the fourteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States that prohibits those who have participated in or directed insurrection or rebellion against the Government of the United States from holding public office of the United States; and  

WHEREAS, The Leader, upon taking anew the office of President of the United States, has unilaterally withdrawn from international agreements and organizations, has illegally eviscerated the bureaucratic institutions of said Government in violation of oversight and authority of the Congress of the United States and of the Constitution of United States; and 

WHEREAS, the Federal Government, per orders from The Leader, has used illegally acquired power to deport migrants, has committed crimes against humanity in foreign locales, and has eviscerated rules and regulations in various bureaucracies by executive fiat and without proper procedure, and

WHEREAS, many of the States that have entered into Union under the compact entitled "the Constitution of United States of America" have been adversely affected and injured by such violations of The Leader, which the Congress of the United States has refused to counteract per its Constitutional authority; and 

WHEREAS, the State of New Jersey, having entered into this compact on the eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and eighty-seven upon her own free will, and now is forced to bear witness to efforts by The Leader to breach said compact with intent to cause adversity to States whose Electors did not cast their ballots for him in the Election for the Presidency and the Vice Presidency of the United States having just transpired in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and twenty-four, and 

WHEREAS, it is the responsibility of the Government of the State of New Jersey to remedy adverse and most likely illegal actions of The Leader that go largely unchallenged at the Federal level of Government; 

 NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED, by the Governor, the Assembly, and the Senate of the State of New Jersey and the People of the State of New Jersey, that the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty seven, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the Legislature of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that ratifications of Treaties and entrances into Agreements with various Nations under the Constitution of the United States of America, will remain in force between the State of New Jersey and said Nations, and that ratifications of Treaties and entrances into Agreements under said Constitution illegally invalidated by The Leader, a point of reason for repealing ratification of said Constitution and subsequent amendments, will also remain in force between the State of New Jersey and said Nations, and 

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that the union now subsisting between New Jersey and other States, under the name of "The United States of America," is hereby dissolved.

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Ladies and gentlemen . . . The UNION is DISSOLVED!