The IBA is a fully functioning Assembly within The Tennessee General Assembly. It is populated by only qualified American State Citizens that hold no other allegiances to any other county, state, or state of state. The IBA meetings are private as they are not open to everyone except those American State Citizens that meet the singular quality of no other allegiances than to Tennessee. The State Executive Assembly is elected at the State General Assembly as one of the first acts of the State General Assembly each year. The State Executive Assembly continues to function throughout the year and is enabled to conduct routine business for the State, including issuing Public Notices, conducting Elections, overseeing use and sale of State resources such as timber sales and public land leases, preparing ballot initiatives for the General Assembly, and serving as an interface for communications with the Federal Government — including direction of the Federal State of State Corporation, once we get organized to complete the Reconstruction of the Federal States of State. The State Executive Assembly also has the power to call the State General Assembly into Special Session if needed. State Executive Assemblies are basically committees of astute businessmen who have a State Assembly Chairman and a State Treasurer and a State Secretary and State Executive Assembly Members from the land districts within the State. These
are called Postal Areas today to delineate them from the sea-going Postal Districts.
Together the General Assembly, Jural Assembly, and State Executive Assembly conduct the
international business of each State of the Union, and work together to enforce the Public Law,
make decisions about land and natural resources, ensure protection of property rights, postal
roads, free public elections and other business of the State.
We meet once a month on the 4th Monday of the month. See the events calendar for the next scheduled meeting.
Chair: Vacant
Co-chair: Randy
Scribe/Secretary: vacant
The State International Business Assembly is responsible for setting up the State of State organization needed to conduct international business and oversee the day-to-day “within the state” business. The International Business Assembly convenes only when necessary and does not remain in constant session. Meetings are relatively rare events at first, but become increasingly important going forward.
Remember that since each state is actually a nation state, “international issues” are those that exist between states. And when a state interacts with other states as a whole, it is doing so at the level of the “State of State” business organization.
Some examples of international business might be agreements that involve infrastructure connecting bordering states or treaties that involve the agreement of all states.
All 50 State-of-State organizations will join together to reconstruct the Confederation, which acts on behalf of the 50 states as a whole in international trade. (Does international in this case refer to trade with other countries, or between states? If other countries, can we say “global” trade?)
The State of State organization also manages in-state day-to-day business such as infrastructure projects within the state (for example, roads or trash collection), often contracting with private businesses to do so. Since the Business Assembly only assembles when needed, the State of State organization is what “minds the store” when the Business assembly is not in session (so the contractors don’t run amok like the current ones are!)
Why does a County have an International Business Assembly?
You may wonder… if counties can’t actually conduct business directly with other states or countries, why do they need an International Business Assembly? Well, at the county level International Business Assembly acts as a liaison with the State International Business Assembly so that the voices of the people can be heard. It also “minds the county store” in the same way that the state level business assembly minds the state level store. County level infrastructure projects would be overseen by this organization.
Did you know?
Counties are isolated from international affairs to protect them from being picked off one-by-one by foreign interests. Now that’s smart thinking!