This Constitution is the first of its kind; it is exclusively for a city and concurrently totally nullifies and voids its preceding state-legislated charter. By the Grace of God and by fellow educated electors inhabiting this city, this Constitution lawfully unchains the people and their government from Roman civil law and de facto British admiralty and statutory jurisprudence; and restores de jure republican governance in perpetuum only under Natural Law and American common law jurisprudence.