The State Department document below was signed by Mr. Nichols on his March 1, 2001 renunciation in Vancouver, Canada. Of special note is line 1, 2, & 4, where it clearly states that he has the "right to renounce" US citizenship and that he will become a "stateless" person if he has no other citizenship upon renunciation. Nichols has now signed this legal document twice along with relinquishing his passport.

citizen, n. 1. A person who, by either birth or naturalization, is a member of a political community, owing allegiance to the community and being entitled to enjoy all its civil rights and protections; a member of the civil state, entitled to all its privileges. - Black's Law Dictionary - Seventh Edition

stateless person. Int'l law. A natural person who is not considered a national by any country. - Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary

"All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development." - 2200A (XXI) International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR)

"But every man is born free, and therefore the son of a citizen, when arrived at the age of reason, may consider whether it is well for him to join the society in which he happens to be by birth. If he does not find that it is to his advantage to remain in it, he has the right to leave it�" - The Law of Nations (International Law)

UPDATE JULY 25 2002

"With the State Department document below, the US defies International Law, Human Rights Law, United States Federal Law & specifically Public Law 103-150 and provides yet more evidence that citizenship is tantamount to modern slavery. This critical document exposes the tyrannical nation/state position that human beings are property and human rights are worthless while claiming citizenship. I hereby reaffirm my lawful rejection of all US claims to ownership of myself and my political status and I demand that all those who honor law recognize my de jure status as a stateless human being." - Ken Nichols

"Whereas, on January 14, 1893, John L. Stevens, the United States Minister assigned to the sovereign and independent Kingdom of Hawaii conspired with a small group of non-Hawaiian residents of the Kingdom of Hawaii including citizens of the United States, to overthrow the indigenous and lawful Government of Hawaii�" UNITED STATES PUBLIC LAW 103-150 (signed into law by President Clinton Nov. 1993)

"Whereas the indigenous Hawaiian people never directly relinquished their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people or over their national lands to the United States, either through their monarchy or through a plebiscite or referendum�" -UNITED STATES PUBLIC LAW 103-150

"The logical consequences of this resolution would be independence." - Senator Slade Gorton on Public Law 103-150

"The Rule of postliminium is that by which the persons and property captured by the enemy are restored to their former status on coming again into the power of the Nation to which they belong." - The Law of Nations (International Law)

The following NOTICE was posted in the legal section of Hawaii's largest newspaper on September 9, 2001. In addition it was legally served to US State and Federal Officials in accordance with International Law. The United States was thereby provided the opportunity to "Object" to the Kingdom of Hawaii's declaration claiming the "the authority to reclaim any and all land within its territorial bounaries." The United States cannot and has not objected because it fears this claim reaching a legitimate international court. This NOTICE proves that the United States cannot lawfully challenge the existence of nor the inherent right to sovereignty of the Hawaiian Nation. I am proud to have sworn my allegiance to this nation and this nation alone.

I hereby state that any "accidents" that may occur to the leaders of this nation or myself is no accident and is almost assuredly at the hands of the cowards within or loyal to the CIA. - Ken Nichols

An Act concerning the Rights of American Citizens in foreign States & the Right of Expatriation
"Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this government has freely received emigrants from all nations, and invested them with the rights of citizenship; and whereas it is claimed that such American citizens, with their descendants, are subjects of foreign states, owing allegiance to the governments thereof; and whereas it is necessary to the maintenance of public peace that this claim of foreign allegiance should be promptly and finally disavowed: Therefore,"

"Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officers of this government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is hereby declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of this government." - United States Federal Law - 15 Statutes At Large, Chapter 249 (Section 1), enacted July 27, 1868

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,..." - United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

"The States Parties to the present Covenant,
Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Recognizing that these rights derive from the inherent dignity of the human person,

Recognizing that, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ideal of free human beings enjoying civil and political freedom and freedom from fear and want can only be achieved if conditions are created whereby everyone may enjoy his civil and political rights, as well as his economic, social and cultural rights,

Considering the obligation of States under the Charter of the United Nations to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and freedoms,

Realizing that the individual, having duties to other individuals and to the community to which he belongs, is under a responsibility to strive for the promotion and observance of the rights recognized in the present Covenant,

Agree upon the following articles:"

PART I - Article 1

"1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development." - United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

"There are certain cases in which a citizen has the absolute right, based upon reasons drawn from the very compact of civil society, to renounce allegiance to his country and abandon it."

Such as, "If the majority of a Nation, or the sovereign who represents it, seek to establish laws in matters to which the compact of society can not oblige all citizens to submit, those to whom the laws are repugnant have the right to withdraw from the society and settle elsewhere." - The Law of Nations

"We have before us the chance for a New World Order, an order where the Rule of Law, not the Law of the Jungle, governs the conduct of nations." - George Bush Sr. - State of the Union address January 1991