War for the Motherland

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War for the Motherland
Part of Second Euran War
Date 1684 - Location Constancia, Eura
Belligerents
Imperial State of Constancia	Constancian Free State

The War for the Motherland was an internecine conflict between the democratic-republican and Imperial forces of Constancia, that started in 1684. In the Imperial State of Constancia, it is tersely referred to as the Razjanian Insurgency.

Origins

Constancian Republicanism

The roots of Constancian republicanism can be traced to The Liberal Voice Party, Fileléfthero Kómma Foní, a centrist political party in the Kingdom of Constancia. It was founded during the First Welleys’ Regency in xxxx by a group of liberal-leaning politicians and businesspeople led by Elena Weston. The Liberals uphold the principles of a free market with little or no government intervention and were considered pro-business. They used to be anti-monarchy, but this policy was reversed later.

Republican sentiment was fostered and republican ideals were agitated in Parliament, primarily through the efforts of

There was initial hope with the subsequent rise of the Alexandrian exile, Jaime Augustin Joaquin Primo de Aguilar to the premier post of Autokrator of Constancia, considering his consular policies in the more liberal atmosphere that was the Empire of the Alexandrians. The promulgation of the Magna Carta of with constitutional guarantees, and a more representative Imperial Synkletos but these hopes were dashed and expectations tempered with the establishment of the Primokratía.

The establishment of the nearby Republic of Alduria in 1672 galvanized the democratic and republican elements in Constancian society, particularly the more liberal elite as well as a few members of the Constancian diaspora who had lived in less restrictive nations in Micras.

On 22.XI.1676, the Democratic Alliance, a political movement and loose coalition of Constancian individuals and organizations advocating for constitutionalism, civil and human rights, self-determination, universal suffrage and democratic reforms, consolidated efforts and headquartered in Punta Santiago, Alduria. Funded in part by sympathetic Constancian elite, the Constancian diaspora and other democrats, their efforts resulted in several major victories.

First was the introduction in the 3rd Imperial Synklētos in 1674 of a Bill to amend the Magna Carta by extending the term of an Imperial Synklētos from a mere 9 months, in accordance with Article 42 of the Magna Carta, to seven years. [1]

The second victory was the pushing through of the elections for the Dikastis of the 4th Imperial Synklētos in 1678, where an impressive 54 candidates of the Democratic Alliance were duly elected, ranking second electorally to the Imperial Democratic Party with 92 seats, resulting in a pro-democratic majority in the elected part of the Imperial Synklētos. Such numbers in representation in government had not been seen since the 1st to 4th Synkletos of the Free and Associative Kingdom.

Separatism

Assembly of the Nation

resulted in the formation of the Provisional Government of the Constancian Free State.

On 5.V.1684, at the direction of the Assembly of the Nation, The Free Constancian published A Declaration to the Free Peoples of Micras, and declaring the establishment of the Constancian Free State.

A Declaration to the Free Peoples of Micras

To the Free Peoples of the World, Greeting!

We, duly-elected Representatives of the Free Constancian Peoples, constituted and now sitting as the sovereign Assembly of the Nation, have freely and independently resolved to expose the tyranny and corruption of the Imperial State that continues to inhumanely subjugate our brethren; and do now hereby assert our inalienable and natural right to govern ourselves under the principle of self-determination, and now therefore confidently call upon the free peoples of the world to to uphold her national claim to complete independence as a separate republic and a Free State against the arrogant, deceptive, and misleading pretensions of tyrants and slavedrivers, founded in fraud and force and sustained only by an overwhelming military occupation and the most abhorrent moral deviance.

TO THIS END, the sovereign Assembly of the Constancian Nation has, in session, resolved,

1. That the so-called Imperial State of Constancia has no legitimacy in the eyes of the free and independent Constancian peoples, governing solely by fear, force, fraud and intimidation;

2. That the sovereignty of the Free State is vested solely and principally in the People, from whom all authority to govern emanates;

3. That no prince nor potentate nor tyrant shall ever have authority over a free and sovereign People;

4. That any Individual is welcome to join us and freely take up arms to secure ourselves and to defend our noble cause!

To these sacrosanct principles do we pledge our lives, liberties, freedoms, and our sacred honor!

DONE at the Revolutionary Encampment, Razjania, Constancian Free State, 5.V.1684.

Battles

Operation Red Sand [2]

Razjania Maneuvers

Northern Shield