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A RECEIPT TO MAKE A

Millenium or happy World.

BEING EXTRACTS FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF SPENSONIA.

“The axe is (now) laid unto the Root of the Trees; Every Tree therefore which bringeth not forth good Fruit is hewn down, and cast unto the Fire.” Luke Chap. 3. ver. 9

Declaration of Rights

ARTICLE

  1. All Human Beings are equal by nature, and before the law; and have a continual property in, and inalienable property in the earth, and its natural productions.
  2. The law is the free and solemn expression of the general will. It ought to be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. It cannot order but what is just and useful to society. It cannot forbid but what is hurtful.
  3. Social laws, therefore, can never proscribe natural rights. And every Man, Woman, and Child in society still retain, from the day of their birth, their primogenial right to the soil of their respective Parishes.
  4. Thus, after a parish, out of its rents, has remitted to the state and county, its appointed Share or Poundage towards their expences, and provided for defraying its own proper contingencies, the remainder of the rents is the indisputable joint property of all the Men, Women, and Children having settlement in the parish, and ought to be divided equally among them.

From the Body of the Constitution.

  1. Every man or woman born or otherwise having acquired a settlement in a parish of Spensonia and of the age of twenty-one years complete, is admitted to the exercise of the rights of a Spensonian citizen as far as their sex will allow.
  2. Female Citizens have the same right of suffrage in their respective parishes as the men; because they have equal property in the country, and are equally subject to the laws, and, indeed, they are in every respect, as well on their own account, as on account of their children, as deeply, and in fact more interested in every public transaction. But in consideration of the delicacy of their sex, they are exempted from, and ineligible to, all public employments.
  3. Every man, woman, and child, whether born in wedlock or not (for nature and justice know nothing of illegitimacy) is entitled quarterly to an equal share of the rents of the parish where they have settlement. But before the division the public aids to the state and the county must be deducted, and the expenses of the parish provided for.
  1. The right of property is that which belongs to every Citizen to enjoy and dispose of, according to his pleasure, his property, revenues, labour, and industry.— Here his property in land is excepted, which being inseparably incorporated with that of his fellow parishioners is inalienable.
  1. On quarter-day the rents shall be paid to the Parish-Officers at their
  2. During the ensuing days the parish accounts shall be made up, and after setting aside the poundages due to the state and the county, and settling all parochial business and finding how much of the rent remains to be returned to the people, the accounts shall be minutely printed, including the names of all the men, women, and children, who are entitled to dividends as parishioners, distinguishing those of age to vote by an asterism.
  3. When this business is all duly prepared the parishioners shall be summoned by sound of trumpet*, to come and receive their dividends, which, together with copies of the parish accounts is given to the heads of families, according to the number of their respective house-holds, and to single claimants.
  1. The National Treasury is the central point of the receipts and expences of the common wealth.
  2. it is supplied by a poundage raised quarterly, on the rents of the parishes by the Legislative Body.
  3. This assessment being sufficient for all national purposes, and being sent up by the parishes every quarter without expence, renders revenue laws and officers unnecessary.
  1. The National Accounts are printed yearly, sufficiently minute to give satisfaction, and sent to the parishes.
  1. To promote cleanliness and refresh the Spirits of Men and Labouring Animals, the weeks in Spensonia, are but five Days each; every fifth Day being a Day or Sabbath of Rest. Thus will the fourth Day of the Week be a Market Day, and a Pay-day for Labourers.

See the Rest of the Articles of the Constitution.

The Redeemed from Oppression Triumphant!

Tune, “God Save the King”

I.

Hark! How the Trumpet's* Sound, Proclaims the Land around The Jubilee! Tells all the Poor oppress'd, No more shall they be cess'd, Nor Landlords more molest Their Property.

II.

Rent t'ourselves now we pay, Dreading no Quarter day, Fraught with distress Welcome that day draws near, For then our rents we share, Earth's rightful Lords we are, Ordain'd for this.

III.

How hath the Oppressor| ceased, And all the world releas'd From Misery!

|The Landed Interest

The Fir-trees all rejoice, And Cedars lift their voice, Ceas'd now the Feller's noise, Long rais'd by thee.

IV.

The Sceptre || now is broke, Which with continual Stroke The Nations smote! Hell from beneath doth rise, To meet thy lofty Eyes, From the most pompous size, How brought to nought!

V.

Since then this Jubilee Sets all at Liberty Let us be glad. Behold each one return To their Right, and their own, No more like Doves to mourn By Landlords sad!

||The grievous Power of the Landed Interest.

Tune, “Sally in our Alley.”

Then let us all join Heart in Hand, Through Country Town, and City, Of every Age and every Sex, Young Men and Maidens pretty;

To haste this golden Age's Reign On every Hill and Valley, Then Paradise shall greet our Eyes, Through every Street and Alley.

“Consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.” Judges, Chap. 19 ver. 30

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