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The California Legionary Manual


Edition 1
  1. Proclamation of the Vicennial ᚼ
  2. The California Plan ᚼ
  3. The Legionary System ᚼ
  4. Translatio imperii ᚼ
  5. Pax Californiana ᚼ
  6. The Legion and the Auxiliary ᚼ
  7. The Battalionate System ᚼ
  8. Cotillion ᚼ Intergatheration
  9. The Free Territory ᚼ
  10. Legiondom ᚼ
  11. On War and Militarism ᚼ
  12. 25 Points of the California Legionary Movement

Edition 2
  1. Dictation of the Plenary Alps
  2. On Violence
  3. On Power
  4. On War
  5. 12-23-23
  6. Exemplars of Legiondom
  7. Dream of St. Augustine
  8. Jus ad bellum
  9. St. Francis of Assisi
  10. St. Ignatius of Loyola

Edition 3
  1. First Epistle on Militarian Ethics
  2. Second Epistle on Militarian Ethics
  3. Defenses of Legiondom
  4. The History of the Legion
  5. The Federal Problem
  6. The Cogglehorn
  7. The Parable of the Mountain King
  8. On Imperium and Power
  9. Greater California
  10. The May Update

Edition 4
  1. Ode to California



The Legion —
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  1. A militaristic multitude, enlisted or conscripted, for the execution of a common aim; notably foreign legions: an international brigade of volunteers fighting for an agreed purpose or to uphold a common standard, generally ideology bound, rather than national or societal.
  2. The basic unit of the Ancient Roman military, consisting of 3,000-6,000 men.
  3. A vast host, multitude, or number of people or things.
Mark

6. The Battalionate System


2/28/24
From the Mount

My Dear Legionaries,

       Now I will propound to you that system which will supercede and replace the whole earthly command and mode of collaboration which currently governs our daily life. As of yet, you are well-acquainted with the division of society into the proprieties of state, city, county, township, organization, company, fraternity, diocese, and in lesser scale union, parish, club, chapter, congregation, or team. The Legionary response to these distinctions, I present the Battalionate System.
       What is a battalion? A battalion is defined as a large, organized group of people pursuing a common aim or sharing a major undertaking. This is the most basic and humane structure of common collaboration that our species needs to join in for actionable governance to be achieved. In colloquial terms, the battalion to a Legionary society is like a soviet to a communist society, or a union to a socialist society. The battalions are centers of work and representation, provision, communion, the most basic unit of Legionaries forming together to care for one another and their goals.
       Primarily focused on work, battalions are integrated into the command force for any given sector of profession. For example, the farming sector is made up of various farming battalions, some representing the wills and needs of the planters and harvesters, some representing the wills and needs of the machinery drivers, some representing the wills and needs of the livestock producers, some for dairy, some for chickens and some for eggs, some for corn, some for wheat, some for fruits, and whatever mitigated joint alliance or solution of cross-compatibility is necessary in the actual execution of the idea as called for by those who must use and prosper from it.
       As the Legion is itself stateless, though territorial battalions may be formed, there is no incipient necessity that all communities be bound to their territorial inhabitance. Battalions in this way are like townships or even states, having laws and codes of ethics to which their sectaries must adhere, with the added component of them being territoriless, making it so members of each battalion can live anywhere at any time and still be governed over by the rules of their battalion, and not necessarily subject to the rules of other battalions. Of course, in practice, diplomacy is at the heart of this arrangement, and the need for cross-lateral cooperation and contingent agreements to be emplaced for the goodwill and amity between cohabitant groups will be concomitant. Battalions, being subjects of the Legion, are always subject to Legion Law first and foremost. This is to prevent vindictive abuses of power and internal wars among rival factions. Those found to be guilty of such abuses will be excommunicated and made enemy of the Legion. An additional proviso of the stateless and fluid nature of the Battalion System is the mobility of members to freely join or depart from battalions as they see fit. No person is imprisoned to one battalion throughout the tenure of their service, and the plurality of battalions loans to the need for intercollaboration to take preeminence.
       Battalions are multitudinous and capable of splitting, joining, forming leagues, acquiring, or multiplying. Anyone is capable of creating a battalion. Battalions collaborate at the battalion-level to form delimited partnerships, contend for allocation, advocate for their own needs or adversities, strategize and plan their localized activities. Collaboration happens both within the battalions among the members themselves, and externally with other battalions. Ideally, battalions have internal structures open to the drafting and execution of laws favorable to its people by leaders in whom the good faith of the people have been invested. These miniature governments send delegates to participate in the larger assemblies of multiple battalions who form regimental congresses, who themselves select their own legates to ascend the hierarchy to govern over these sects as their leader superior. All such pontiffs are thereby subject to the one leader of the Legion, he who holds the post of Legate of the Legion. Legates are subject to recall by their subordinates at any time, and can rule for as long as they are not recalled.
Mark
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