Town Meetings across the Independent State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations successfully complete ratification of the “hybrid” (People’s/Freeman’s) Constitution.  Article I, Sections 3, 5, 8, 14

• “[N]o man shall be compelled to frequent or to support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever, except in fulfillment of his own voluntary contract … and that every man shall be free to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and to profess and by argument to maintain his opinion in matters of religion. …
• “Every person within this state ought to … obtain right and justice freely and without purchase, completely and without denial; promptly and without delay; conformably to the laws.
• “[A]ll punishments ought to be proportioned to the offence.
• “Every man being presumed innocent, until he is pronounced guilty by the law, no act of severity which is not necessary to secure an accused person shall be permitted.”

And Article II, Sections 1, 2 and 5 extend the Right of Suffrage to State sovereign Citizens of non-Europeans:

• “Every male citizen of the [u]nited States, of the age of twenty-one years, who has had his residence and home in this state for one year, and in the town or city in which he may claim a right to vote. …”
• “The assessors of each town or city shall annually assess upon every person whose name shall be registered [to cast ballots] a tax of one dollar, or such sum as with his other taxes shall amount to one dollar, which registry tax shall be paid into the treasury of such town or city, and be applied to the support of public schools therein; but no compulsory process shall issue for the collection of any registry tax.
• “Persons residing on lands ceded by this state to the United States shall not be entitled to exercise the privilege of electors.”

       [updated 9/12/2026]