Bilateral Social Compact

One of the projects of the Buncombe County Committee of Safety has been to steward the creation and ratification of the first North Carolina Bilateral Social Compact (NCBSC), as well as the Buncombe County Bilateral Social Compact (BCBSC).

A Bilateral Social Compact (BSC) names and claims rights of the People, many of which are currently being trampled by the de facto government. Naming these rights is a metaphysically important step in (re)claiming them and standing in our Creator-given position at the top of the hierarchy of power, below only Creator; a metaphysically important step in rescinding any ways we may have been manipulated into consenting to giving away our Creator-given authority to govern ourselves.

On paper, the BSC is an agreement between living men and women that we are One People, a body politic, based on the land and ruled by no man, woman, or system (such as statutes and codes) outside of ourselves. It names our shared values so they can be preserved, protected, and upheld.

In practice, the BSC is only as powerful as the degree to which we are collectively embodying it as a body politic, which has many layers to it. In order to realize the true power of this social compact, it will take not just thousands of signatories on paper, but a tipping point of those living on the land in buncombe county (and in North Carolina state, and beyond; but one step at a time) to “know thyself”, as it were; to live in integrity and harmony with self, other, the natural world; with common law, natural law, and God’s law.

For example the current population of buncombe county is approximately 282,000. Different schools of thought hypothesize various thresholds for what percentage of a population needs to adopt a new way of being in order to reach the tipping point for evolutionary change. Meaningful thresholds have been noted as low as 0.3% (just 846 people in buncombe county) and as high as 51% (~144,000 people). So much depends on the unique circumstances… however, one constant that seems reliable is: so long as there is consistency, integrity in service to the whole, persistence, and organic growth, then the power of a conscientious minority is inevitably unstoppable.

The Buncombe County Committee of Safety was founded in September 2022 with seven people, and our membership has steadily grown by more than 1,000% in less than 17 months. The de facto government’s branches may reach far, but it does not have the root structure to support its cancerous growth of overreach. The branches of the Committee of Safety may yet be young, but our root system has been growing for many years and is abundant and strong. The de facto has depleted its own soil along with that of society and nature. Its branches are dead and dying, and sooner or later it will fall on its own; hopefully in a way that causes as little damage as possible. The more of us who tend the soil of our de jure roots, the more ease and grace we’ll experience as our branches grow in service to the evolution of society and governance in this county, in this state, and on this planet.

After many months of refining the NCBSC and cultivating the necessary relationships, we officially recorded the document and our intentions with America First Republic at the first annual State Convention on August 29, 2023. This is a major step towards restoring the Republic at a county, state, and national level. We recorded this state level Bilateral Social Compact for all of North Carolina. The State Convention will be held on the last Tuesday of August each year.

And on March 20, 2024, we ratified and recorded the BCBSC with the state at our first annual County Convention. This county level Bilateral Social Compact is a next important step in cocreating agreements for a thriving society, to be protected and upheld by We the People, via the Committee of Safety. The County Convention will be held on the last Tuesday of February each year.

You can read the NCBSC here, and you can read the BCBSC here. If you’d like to become a signatory to the state and/or county compact, send an email to [email protected] or stay tuned on our events page for details about the next convention.

For clarity: the Buncombe County Committee of Safety and the Bilateral Social Compacts are separate entities. Though the Committee of Safety is stewarding the Compacts, the documents can be signed by anyone who resonates, and can be amended by those signatories who live in the county (for the BCBSC) or the state (for the NCBSC), whether they are a member of the Committee of Safety or not.