The chieftaincy of the American people is a traditional institution, which is to say that it is organized by virtue of tradition. There is no formal document signed, dated and sealed, that creates the chieftaincy of the Americans; the chieftaincy is, instead, a product of tradition. To say that something is "traditional" is to infer that it has existence not because someone at some point in time invented it, but because it is organized according to long-standing principles that have universal recognition.

The practices of the republic impose a mindset that only recognizes enacted legislation as valid, called "positivist legislation," whereas the common law that actually governs the daily practices of the American people derives of a customary inheritance, that has been upheld by the judiciary as fundamental legal principles. It is this customary inheritance that constitutes the inalienable rights of the people of the nation, which pre-date the formation of the republic, and which the republic was devised as a means of limiting.

The chieftaincy is an ancient position based upon the principle of seniority, that is known universally in tribal nations. The oldest members of the tribe succeed to leadership roles in the nation, often as a council of chiefs, or council of elders. The origins of the word "senate" derive of the same roots as the words senior and seniority. The basis of this origin derives from the early reality that children are born to parents, who naturally assume the authority to govern their children, who in turn naturally accept it. These relationships are voluntary in nature, and when multiple generations accumulate in an area, it led to the creation of whole villages and regions that were literally related to each other by descent from common ancestors. On a practical basis, especially during the earliest times -- when humanity felt itself up against the forces of nature, as well as the boundaries of foreign tribes -- leadership was accepted as necessary in the organization of human society, the first leaders being elected from among the council of chiefs, but eventually leadership tended to descend according to the rules of primogeniture, or to the first born. The oldest son would succeed to the role of paramount chief, or chief of chiefs, which in European civilization came to be called kingship. As multi-ethnic societies came into existence, in the crossroads of the world's migrations, the formation of national kingships represented the union and merging of various ethnicities of particular geographical regions, as culturally-distinct national societies. Kingship came to represent both national identity as well as national independence.

The American society at the time of its independence from Great Britain was a polarized society. The early republic was hierarchical and bore the pretenses of a police state set up to preserve slavery. Even New England, which has been put forward as the cradle of American individualism and democratic traditions, with town hall meetings and all, was dominated by an elite of merchants, clergy and attorneys, who profited from the slave trade. Additionally, the Revolution that led to independence was not a progressive movement, but a reactionary movement. The ideals of freedom 20^th Century Americans are taught about, were NOT popular with the Founding Fathers, who were the outright lords and masters of (between them) thousands of slaves, dependent tenants, women and children, whose estates and plantations were largely on lands taken from native Americans, whom the republic they founded "Removed."

Not only was American society divided by social classes, it was also divided by "races," or ethnicities (scientifically, there is only ONE race, the human race, and differences in skin tone or cultural practices are incidental). Yet even within the ethnicities each community was divided from within by differing religions, prejudices, rivalries, and the very roles individuals play in the family based upon gender, or age. The republic not only did NOT ameliorate these injustices, but was in fact designed to prolong them, with the intention of preserving the status quo. The landed, propertied gentry who incited the War for Independence were not motivated by patriotism; there was no America as a nation at the time, America was merely a geographical location. Instead, the Founding Fathers were motivated by greed. But when independence was secured, Americans began down the long road towards a social union, which would be impossible for two centuries due wholly to the institution of the republic, which recognized that the social union of the American people would make the republic obsolete.

Contrary to conventional wisdom the republic did not hasten the process of the emancipation of the slaves of America, or the abolition of slavery. Instead, the republic profited from a tax on the slave trade until 1808, and it prolonged the perpetuation of slavery until 1864. In contrast England abolished slavery in 1772, causing American slaves to desert their masters to get to port cities, because if they could make landfall in Great Britain, they would be freed; a source of great resentment in America against the English. This was again provoked when British generals, during the Revolution, issued proclamations abolishing slavery in the American colonies, causing African-American slaves to desert en masse to set out for the British lines.

What today constitutes the American people, due largely to the current generation's having been born American, was not possible earlier due to the fact that past generations lived in a heightened state of tension, largely caused by the political system. The ethnic communities of America existed in close proximity to one another, but they were constantly agitated by a republic whose only hallmark was its origin in a reactionary movement to preserve the privileges of the Founding Fathers, in other words, to keep everyone in their "place." Elections not only did not bring the American people together into a true national cultural union, they, in fact, polarized the society on a regular basis. The first polarization came about because only propertied white men were allowed to vote. This was due to the original paranoia of the Founders that the vote should be restricted to property-owners, no matter how insignificant the outcome may be to the status of the great landowners (as a result of the republic's privatization of power, leaving only ceremonial power in the hands of the President), to guarantee the protection of the property ownership institution, but also to make sure that the propertyless would be unable to gain control of the political system.

Later, when the Federal Government was able to exploit land seized from native Americans and the Mexican nation, by allowing white people to "homestead" it, so that racism took over the role property ownership had served earlier as the means of controlling the political system, the franchise was opened up, so that by 1830 most white men were able to vote, without property restrictions. Women of all races would not be able to vote for another 90 years! By the late 1800s, African Americans were no longer slaves, but they were not really able to join the mainstream American society as full-fledged members until the 1960s. Of course, the vote really had very little influence all along, but the reluctance to allow adult nationals to exercise it as a right, is illustrative of the republic's reactionary nature.

Mexican Americans also went through a process of having to demand ordinary legal protections that were afforded other Americans, during the so-called Civil Rights Era; and native Americans, who were forced to accept American citizenship, are still stigmatized and victimized by a republic which has no institutional memory of native Americans as human beings entitled to the right to be treated with dignity. All of this history is recited as evidence that up until the last decade of the 20^th Century, there was no authentic cultural union of people who could legitimately call themselves, "the American people." The emergence of a homogenous American national cultural union is only now taking place in the end of the 20^th Century, and in recognition of that emergence, and to encourage the consummation of the formation of a true American nation, the hereditary and traditional Chief of the Ely family - an American family that arrived in America on the Mayflower - as a pioneer in the restoration of traditional authority in America, invoked the ancient and venerable tradition of chieftaincy by creating the Nation of America on 11 April, 1993, by the so-called "Cry of Stillwater Bay." On that day - the tradition has it - the Chief declared, "I hereby found the American Nation!" on the cliffs overlooking Stillwater Bay, at Dana Point, California.

This established the Chief as the de facto chief of the American people, as chief of all Americans based upon a private and personal relationship he invited by his inauguration of the Nation of America. Those American nationals who accept the chieftaincy of the Chief of Americans become entitled to the protection of the Chief, which amounts to protection in all things to which virtue entitles the individual.

In May, 1993, with the issuance of the Nationalist Manifesto, the Chief of the American Nation established a claim to succeed to the vacant throne of the last king of America, George III, and established a procedure for the restoration of the Crown, (based on the Restoration of 1660 as a model), and the legal dissolution of the republic. On 2 January, 1994, the Chief of the Americans assumed the style of Regent of the United States, inaugurating the Regency of the United States of America, establishing the only bona fide legal opposition movement in American history since the Founding Fathers imposed the republic on the country.

The Regent, as chief, bears a personal responsibility for the welfare of every single American national. The President of the republic is only the President for four years, and he doesn't know who he represents, because he is elected by secret ballot, therefore making it impossible for the President to establish a relationship with any citizen, by which the President is bound to perform in the best interest of the citizen. The President symbolizes leadership, but the Regent must actually bear the burden of leading. The Regent is regent for life, or until a parliament of the nation restores the Crown, and settles the succession on him, so that the Regent is made the lawful king. The Regent cannot rely on dramatic gestures, he must merely serve, and fulfill the duties and obligations incumbent upon the bearer of the responsibilities and burdens of the common law authority of the institution of the Crown.

The President of the republic has relationships with bureaucracies: the Cabinet; the Congress; the Supreme Court; the agencies of the Executive; and the state governments. The Regent, on the other hand, as a chieftain, has a direct and personal relationship with every American national as an individual. As Americans, each and every one can appeal to his or her chief to give them aid and comfort. Americans, like Englishmen, are entitled by folkright to the benefits of government by law, which includes common law rights to invoke the protection of the King's Mercy, the King's Justice and the King's Peace. The Presidency does not possess the authority to provide the American people with the common law rights to Mercy, Justice or Peace. Whereas, it is the Regent's solemn and exclusive obligation to do so.

OATH BY THE REGENT

THE BIRTHRIGHT: The Common Law Kingdom of the United States of America