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Article I. Declaration of Rights (a/o 12 October 1997)

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Section 1 - All political power is inherent in the people, and all governments exist by the will of the people. The people of Texas retain the right to alter, reform, or abolish their government in any manner they believe proper, at any time.

Section 2 - Every individual has the inherent inalienable, absolute, inviolable right to life from physical conception to natural death.

Section 3 - Every individual has the inherent inalienable, absolute, inviolable right to liberty, which is the unrestrained exercise of free will, which shall never be infringed provided the exercise thereof does not violate the rights of any other individual.

Section 4 - Every individual's body, life, reputation, labor, ideas, thoughts, and possessions that the individual has lawfully created or acquired are that individual's property.

Section 5 - Every individual has at all times the right to defend the life, liberty, or property of any individual using whatever force is necessary, through whatever means available, including the use of deadly force.

Section 6 - Every individual has at all times the inherent inalienable, absolute, inviolable right to own, use, and carry arms of any description.

Section 7 - No individual shall be deprived of any right without due process of law as defined in this constitution.


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