When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
The federal government has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
The federal government has become a cancer, unable to stop growing and unable to stop spending, stealing from the future with massive debts that will take generations to repay.
Faced with such overwhelming and unresponsive tyranny, the People of California claim secession as a natural right of our people and as a Constitutional right of our state.