The representatives of all Fatizens, formed into The Council, consider ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of the rights of Fatizens to be the only causes of public misfortunes and the corruption of FAT, and have resolved to set forth, in this Declaration, the natural, unalienable and sacred rights of Fatizens.
To the end that the demands of the Fatizens, founded henceforth on these simple and incontestable principles, may always be directed toward the maintenance of FAT and the happiness of all.
Fatizens are born and remain free and equal in rights. Rank distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.
The aim of every friendly association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of FAT. These rights are Liberty, Safety, Access to El Fatador and Resistance to Oppression.
The free communication of ideas and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of FAT. Any Fatizen may therefore speak, write and emote freely, except what is tantamount to the abuse of this liberty in the cases determined by Law.
Freedom consists in being able to do anything that does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of every fatizen has no bounds other than those that ensure to the other fatizens the enjoyment of these same rights. The bounds may be determined only by Law.
The law is the expression of the general will. All the Fatizens have the right of contributing personally to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the Fatizens must be being equal in its eyes.
No fatizen may be accused or detained except in the cases determined by the Law, and following the procedure that it has prescribed. Those who solicit, expedite, carry out, or cause to be carried out arbitrary orders must be punished; but any fatizen summoned or apprehended by virtue of the Law, must give instant obedience; resistance makes him guilty.
The Law must prescribe only the punishments that are strictly and evidently necessary; and no one may be punished except by virtue of a Law drawn up and promulgated before the offense is committed, and legally applied.
As every Fatizen is presumed innocent until he has been declared guilty in fart court, any undue harshness that is not required to secure his person must be severely curbed by Law.
No one may be punished in fart court on account of his opinions, as long as the manifestation of such opinions does not interfere with the established Law and Order.
Since the right to access El Fatador is an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived thereof, unless it is of public necessity, legally noted, and evidently requires it.