Belmont Accord
Shared Founding Principles
Agreed in August 2025
STATE SOVEREIGNTY
1. We support an international order of sovereign states whose laws enjoy primacy over any other positive law, and we defend the principle of the right of national self-determination.
SECURE BORDERS
2. Nations have the right to maintain their cultural autonomy, to preserve their languages and heritage, and to secure their borders and people against foreign aggression, colonisation and exploitation.
RULE OF LAW
3. We stand by the principles of the rule of law, due process, the right to a fair trial, including trial by jury, and proportionate sentencing, and we oppose selective prosecutions.
CIVIL LIBERTIES
4. We defend our conventional freedoms, including - but not limited to - the right to liberty and privacy, freedom of worship and conscience, freedom of thought and speech, freedom of movement and assembly, the right of petition, and economic freedoms, including the right to private property and to cash.
ANTI-GLOBALISM
5. We oppose an expansive or intrusive role for international organisations, the existence of superstates and permanent international courts, and the development of homogenised law and policy for all of humanity.
