Treaty on the Creation of the United Commonwealth of Continental States
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Treaty to declare and create a multinational Landonist state under the United Commonwealth |
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| Signed |
April 20 1922 |
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| Location |
 Chicago, Illinois |
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| Effective |
May 1. 1922 |
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| Parties |
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| Languages |
English |
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The Treaty on the Creation of the United Commonwealth of Continental States, commonly known as the Union Treaty, is one of the principal documents of the modern United Commonwealth. It legalized a union of the three Continental republics that had existed since 1917 during the Continental Revolutionary War and created a centralized federal government, with centralized government functions and authority in Chicago as one sovereign state under the United Commonwealth.
Its adoption formally created the United Commonwealth of Continental States, while the United Commonwealth of America under the Federalists was dissolved. Remnants of the Federalist government sought refuge and exile in Antilles, which remained under Federalist control and continued to operate as the semi-recognized continuation of the United Commonwealth of America. The treaty also replaced the sovereign governments of some North American-based sovereign states with subnational Continental republics, most notably with the Northeast Union being transformed into the sub-national Congregationalist States and Okaloosa, which established itself as an independent republic before signing the Union Treaty. The treaty annulled the United Commonwealth's agreement to the Treaty of Salinas, which was originally signed at the conclusion of the War of Contingency to guarantee the independence of North American states outside the United Commonwealth's Faithful Nine territories.
The Union Treaty would be signed and affirmed by delegates of the three major Marxist-Landonist republics that emerged following the conclusion of the Continental Revolutionary War: the Provisional Socialist United Commonwealth, Okaloosa, and the Congregationalist States. A majority of the treaty's provisions were personally written by Aeneas Warren, leader of the Continentalist Party, who envisioned a continent-spanning continentalist state that comprised of a series of sub-national continental republics. The Union Treaty would de jure act as the nation's guiding document until the provisions promised in the treaty were officially enshrined into a Continental constitution later in the year.
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