Ulster Covenant
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<entity_0>, commonly known as the <entity_4>, was signed by nearly 500,000 people on and before <entity_2>, in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill introduced by the British Government in the same year. The <entity_5> was first drafted by <entity_3>, a prominent unionist and businessman from Belfast. Sir Edward Carson was the first person to sign the <entity_5> at Belfast City Hall with a silver pen, followed by The 6th Marquess of Londonderry (the former Lord Lieutenant of <entity_1>), representatives of the Protestant churches, and then by Sir James Craig. The <entity_4> is immortalised in Rudyard Kipling's poem "Ulster <entity_2>". On <entity_2>, the Ulster Unionist Council voted in favour of a resolution pledging itself to the <entity_5>. Both the <entity_5> and Declaration are held by the Public Record Office of Northern <entity_1> (PRONI). A British <entity_5>, similar to the <entity_4> in opposition to the Home Rule Bill, received two million signatures in 1914. BEING CONVINCED in our consciences that Home Rule would be disastrous to the material well-being of Ulster as well as of the whole of <entity_1>, subversive of our civil and religious freedom, destructive of our citizenship, and perilous to the unity of the Empire, we, whose names are underwritten, men of Ulster, loyal subjects of His Gracious Majesty King George V., humbly relying on the God whom our fathers in days of stress and trial confidently trusted, do hereby pledge ourselves in solemn <entity_5>, throughout this our time of threatened calamity, to stand by one another in defending, for ourselves and our children, our cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom, and in using all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in <entity_1>. The <entity_4> was used as a template for the "Natal <entity_5>", signed in 1955 by 33,000 British-descended Natalians against the nationalist South African government's intention of declaring the Union a republic.
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