As an homage to the rhetoric of the folks who criticize the Episcopal Church from the far right, I would like to put forward this "Modest Proposal" for a response to the Anglican Communion Covenant:

WHEREAS by the grace of God we have established in this country a church both Anglican and Democratic in tradition and practice; and

WHEREAS we enjoy the ministry of bishops, but are no more ruled by them than we are by councils of presbyters or laity; and

WHEREAS we have enjoyed a fellowship with other churches of the Anglican tradition, and hope to continue to do so; and

WHEREAS certain prelates of this church have named themselves Primates and arrogated to themselves powers hitherto unknown in our various churches; and

WHEREAS certain of these Prelates or their minions have entered our borders, “to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us” establishing ‘churches’ on principles hostile to our traditions and order, bringing confusion and disorder to our people and clergy; and

WHEREAS these Prelates, ignorant or inimical to the liberties we have enjoyed in this Church for over 200 years, have caused to be prepared a Covenant, designed to remove our historic rights and practices;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED “though for no other cause, yet for this, That Posterity may know we have not loosely through silence, permitted things to pass away as in a Dream” we have prepared the draft of a response to these Prelates; and

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we submit this draft to the Prelates of the Anglican Communion for their prayerful consideration:

A Draft Response to the Proposed Anglican Communion Covenant

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident….