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There comes a time when we have to regroup and study some law or books on this subject to see if we have gone off the deep end or are just chasing after something that does not exist. Another way to look at it is, having gone so far in our beliefs that they no longer comport with the truth.

There is much ado of late about citizenship. On one side you have people that claim citizenship makes them sovereign. Which means they that cannot include them in the laws as the laws do not apply to them. The other side says citizenship makes you a part of the system and therefore a slave. I am not going to interject the War Powers argument at all and will stay strictly away from that issue. A paralegal friend has been doing research on this area and the other day he came to me with evidence in a law book written in 1894. It is Titled, A Manual of Elementary Law, by an Instructor of law at the Department of the University of Michigan. In Chapter 3 United States, Local self-government, we find something very interesting that points toward the citizen being a corporate person, in other words, a "legal fiction." Legal fictions usually have their names in all capitals, most notably corporations such as FORD, GM, RCA, STAUFFER CHEM CO., and so forth. Some people argue that people have their names spelled in all capitals by the states on all sorts of documents. Others do not subscribe to that argument.

I have stated often that the term citizen makes you a part of the body politic and therefore subject to the whim of the body politic when you so state you are a member. People as unconstitutional often tout taxation without Representation. However, if the citizen achieves representation, then taxation can take place and he is powerless to stop whatever taxes his body politic can place upon him. A member, even by association, has to abide by the statutes written by the representatives. The statutes must identify those members because they except all others from the statutes. The Representatives have come up with means to identify those subject to the statutes by legal definitions. They do not couch the definitions in common terms. This is where people get confused with definitions because there will always be "legal definitions" and "common definitions."

Well-let we see what the law teacher states in the law book about all this combined material I have just presented, so that understanding it is easy. They wrote this book in a time when they could still write the truth.

"It has been found desirable by all the States to subdivide their territory for the purposes of self-government. All the subordinate political bodies created for this purpose, whether in the form of villages, cities, or towns, are called "municipal corporations." This plan of local self government through public corporations is a natural consequence of the theory of sovereignty in the people."

This looks good on its face. Nevertheless, what if some people do not want any part of it? The law teacher states one very important word in his next sentence that should alert you that people are not sovereign.

"IF the people are sovereign, they have a right to govern themselves."

That word IF, means the people are NOT sovereign, otherwise you would not have to be forced to become a "citizen, person, or member." By the mere fact you live in a town, village or city incorporated, the "representatives" presume you are under their control. This I brought out in The New History of America in a case that stated the only way you can "legally" be coerced into their corporation is by your consent. I quote it here before moving onto the Law book.

" When a change of government takes place, from a monarchial to a republican government, the old form is dissolved. Those who lived under it, and did not choose to become members of the new, had a right to refuse their allegiance to it, and to retire elsewhere. By being a part of the society subject to the old government, they had not entered into any engagement to become subject to any new form the majority might think proper to adopt. That the majority shall prevail is a rule posterior to the formation of government, and results from it. It is not a rule binding upon mankind in their natural state. There, every man is independent of all laws, except those prescribed by nature. He is not bound by any institutions formed by his fellowmen without his consent." CRUDEN v. NEALE, 2 N.C. 338 (1796) 2 S.E. 70. Emphasis added.

After reading the next passage in the Law Book I believe you will totally rethink your position of "citizenship," "body politic" and "member." It will also show why you are considered a "person," which is a "legal entity." Any legal entity is a fiction. How does a State address a "legal fiction" such as FOOD LION, A&P, FORD, CVS, WAL-MART? By capitalization of the name. How do they address you in driver license, voter registration, property tax bills and so forth? How does the IRS address you in Notices, Levy and Liens? You may think this is a trivial matter and pass people off as kooks when addressing this capitalization of their name. Think again after reading this.

"A municipal corporation is a corporate institution, [Are not all corporations subject to the Uniform Commercial Code?] established by a State as an agency of the State in the local government of particular districts. By a corporate institution or body corporate is meant a collection of individual persons who are organized in such a way that a legal personality results distinct from the members that composed it. Footnote 7 This legal personality is possessed of a corporate name by which it is known, and it continues to exist in spite of changes by death or otherwise in its membership.

First remember the above paragraph with the highlighted words. Also remember here we are not talking about private corporations for the law teacher stated,

"A corporation may be formed, as we shall see hereafter, for the conduct of private business. It is then called a "private corporation;" but we are at present interested in those only which are formed for governmental purposes."

We now go to footnote 7, NOT letting go of the fact the law teacher is talking about your town as a corporation, the State as the parent corporation or the United States corporation. I will interject parallels in brackets [ ].

"The exact nature of a corporation can be best understood by an illustration. Let us suppose that five persons [55 signers of the constitution] wish to begin the conduct of a certain business, [read 28 USC 3002 (15)] and think it desirable to do this in a form of a corporation. They agree among themselves to purchase a certain percentage of the stock [US Treasury Notes or Bonds] of the corporation as soon as formed. When the corporation is organized according to law, [The constitutions, State and United States] the five member or stockholders do not become identified with the corporation, but are merely in business relations with it. They are stock holders in it, and as such entitled to their share of the profits. And so it is with a public corporation. Every citizen is in one sense a member of it. And yet he is not identified with it. The corporation continues to exist even though he may die or move out of its jurisdiction. The corporation, whether public or private, is, for the most purposes, a legal entity. It can act only through its agents."

Well I hope you have learned a bitter truth here. You, as a member of that body corporate politic called a "citizen" are part of the corporate structure of the city, town, village, county, township, etc. Being part of that corporate structure, you become a "legal entity" whether you say so or not. What counts is how the government looks at you. Legal entities are fictions. They call fictions "persons." They write all the corporate statutes with the term "person" and not the physical man in mind. This is why they capitalize your name on their documents because they presume that you are their corporate citizen. Therefore, you are of a corporate character and not a physical man.

You may disagree with me because you say, Look I bleed, you cannot say I am not physical. Oh yes they can and they do. You have to read my post on www.atgpress.com on person to get a better understanding to see that you can be both a "legal entity" which is artificial character AND a physical man at the same time.

I now want to revisit my book of 1990 to illustrate what I said then and in comparison to this book just given to me by the para legal on the 28th of December 1999. See how it dovetails directly into what the law teacher stated.
 

"Black's Law 5th Ed. The critical terms to look up are bolded.

This all ties back to a commercial setting of the jurisdiction "state of the forum," to which you must be the United States citizen who is the resident alien in the State of the Union, who, having no unalienable, but only civil rights, are subject to the corporate states dominion because you submitted yourself to the jurisdiction of the United States when voting for the president and elected officials by association. Read 26 USC 7701(a) (1) and find the word association used to define "person.". Read 26 CFR 1.861-8 (F) (3), then see what effectively connected with a trade or business of the United States means.

Are not all residents, a.k.a. persons, required to register their guns? Haven't all "citizens" given up their 2nd Amendment protection of unalienable rights for civil rights? Don't all residents (persons) have a driver license? Don't all residents (persons) pay income taxes? Can people obtain a driver license if they claim to be a nonresident? Explain then how can you ever be, as all patriots claim, A SOVEREIGN CITIZEN? How can you be sovereign in one breath and on the exhalation of the same breath be a citizen subject to the dominion of a government? Read definition of Sovereignty, page 1252 of Blk's Law and remember only sovereigns create government. What was the American before he "resided" in a State? Wasn't he a "free white person?" See Works of John Adams, 213 and Thayer, Cases on Constitutional Law, note on page 459, stated in part:

Now think again. A "free white person" is an oxymoron. Why, you say? Think. A person is a legal fiction in law. A legal fiction is only as free as its creator wants it to be. Therefore a white person can never be free because despite his color he is a "person." Now if you said a "free white MAN." I would agree, but never a free white PERSON. Under a King you are a "subject." Under a President or Governor in this country you are still a "subject" only they use the term "citizen." There is no difference and this is where they have seduced the American people into thinking they are sovereign. Think for a moment that if all were sovereign, there would be no laws, except the Laws of the Almighty, nature’s laws, that you are bound to by any society standards. They understand those laws all over the world. That is why the term was used, "ignorance of the law is no excuse." However, when applied to man made laws that maxim no longer holds water.

The legal profession saw to it that they carried over the maxim to man’s laws, which no man can possibly understand. Yet because of the fraud pulled upon you by the few who incorporated all governments in this country, they make you to believe that you should know all their laws. The real laws that the maxims apply are, to mention a few, thou shall do no murder, thou shall not steal, thou shall not bear a false witness and you know the rest. Therefore, all governments in this country act on fiction. They have to make their grand scheme. You just read from the law book that everything as to be in the artificial character to allow the State or United States to have controlled all the "members." This fraud goes so deep that others in the movement rely solely that they are a citizen and free white person. Now the law book has just toppled those convictions of the people so claiming. Like I say it is time to throw all past misconstructions away and regroup. This is how they are operating today.

FICTION

"The United States Government as such is fictitious and thus includes the States Government, "Fictitious Party" where a suit or action is brought in the name of one who is not in being . . . To bring such a suit is deemed a contempt of

court"; see Blacks Com. 133, Bouvier`s law dict. pg 1215

(1914), and the 1859 edition pg 520, states;

"Such an attempt has been held to be a contempt of court; and Lord Harwicke in such a case committed the parties and their attorneys". emphasis mine

"An entity is intangible and unable to enter a court room to allege charges, or bear witness, against any natural individual. Fictions were invented (created by Roman praetors, who, not having the power to abrogate the law, were nevertheless willing to derogate from it under the pretense of doing equity and justice). Fiction stems from the resource of weakness, which in order to obtain its object, assumed as fact, what is to be contrary to truth and law and when the legislature desires to accomplish an objective they command under the same. Fictions of law owe their origin to the legislative usurpations of the judicial bench (4 Bentham`s Treatise on Judicial Evidence 300) and limitations imposed on their branch by the founding document and laws meant to protect the other branches and Citizens from their evil effects and as such they are not allowed to be carried further than the reasons which introduced them as necessity requires

John Bouvier, law Dictionary Adopted to the Constitution and l of the United States of America. V I,p. 520 (1859), and 6 Cranch 147 4 B Com. 133 which further explained by Justice Story in: US v 1.960 bags of Coffee, 8 Cranch 398,p. 415.

"It seems to be a rule founded on common

sense, well a strict justice, that fictions

of law shall not be permitted to work any

wrong".

(see also 3 blk. com.

"Fictions allow the assumption [assumption=fiction] that a certain thing is true by addition of a quality which is not natural to it in order to aid in its disposition, and which, without the fiction would be repugnant to the law and truth, whereas presumption requires and supplies the proof and evidence of truth and law." [ Vol. 3, Toullier`s works, 86].

Black`s law Dictionary 5th Ed. defines a Fiction of law as:

"Supposition of law that sometimes which is or may be false is true, or that a state of facts exist which has never really taken place. An assumption. Ryan v Motor Credit Co., 30 N.J.Eq. 531, 23 A 2d 607, 621.

Furthermore, a Fictitious Plaintiff is defined as: a person appearing in the complaint yet who in reality does not exist. . .. It is contempt of court to sue in the name of a fictitious party. Fictitious is defined as being: "Founded on a fiction... not real, false, not genuine, non existent, arbitrarily invented and set up.

See Blacks law pg. 562.
 
 

So people, if the State of, or the United States comes after you, the accuser, it is fictitious. Its employees are in contempt of court for bringing and causing wrongs to the Accused, IF the accused are not a "person" who is a "member" such as a "citizen" of the State, city, town or village. IF, however, the accused IS a "citizen" which is a corporate entity, they address that citizen in all capital letters that denote, TO THEM, that they presume that you were a "legal entity" and artificial in character. NOW they throw the whole defense that you put forth out the window and you are bound to all the statutes. They ask it simply, "did you or did you not do as the statute stated?" It is not a restraint upon your Life, Liberty, and property and you cannot entertain any constitutional protection of rights because artificial entities cannot invoke constitution for rights. The purported complaint is based upon legislative Fiction. YOU are a fiction as a citizen because the statutes define you as a person. We require an examination of the legislative definition of State.

STATE

"The States composing the Union of States are sovereign and independent in all things not surrendered to the national government by the Constitution and are considered in principles [by each other] as foreign States due to their domestic independence and rights to exercise supreme dominion and authority within the limits of their Constitution and laws and national and Federal provisions." (1 Story`s Com. on Con Sec. 208; 1 Kent Com. 189 at note b; ). Furthermore, Chief Justice marshal, in Hepburn and Dundas v Ellzey, 2 Cranch 425, expressed the definition of a State in relation to the District of Columbia as:

"...Columbia is a district political society, and is, therefore, a State according to the definition of the writers on general law. This is true; but as the act of Congress obviously uses the term State in reference to that term as in the Constitution, it becomes necessary to inquire whether Columbia is a State in the sense of that instrument. The result of that examination is a conviction that the members of the American Confederacy only are States contemplated in the Constitution...............

These clauses show that the word State is used in the Constitution as designating a member of the Union, and excludes from the term the signification attached to it by the writers on the law of nations. 2 Cranch 452."

The term State or state in its restricted Constitutional and root judicial sense means a member of the States united of the America (union), but the use of the term State as used in the Uniform Commercial Code, statute pursuant to general law or law of nations, pursuant to their context requirements and purpose, have a broader meaning, and may extend to organizations, members, territories, agencies and legal entities of government or within the jurisdictional realm of government. Furthermore, although the law of nations (international law) is a cunning coercement by Congressional mischief, as part of the law of the United States, and fictions, are subject to the express acts of Congress, and statutes, treaties' organic law and Constitutional provision, as superior to cannons of international laws, and the courts are bound to recognize this fact.

The forgoing clearly illustrates that the term State; and the term United States as defined by legislative laws of the District of Columbia including this States legislative body is a fiction of terms. This includes their Uniform Commercial Code statutes/law, when faced or compared with Constitutional, judicial and restricted definitions of State as applies to States of the union following the organic laws of this

It cannot get any plainer than this. So with this I close.

Sincerely,
The Informer

TITLE 8
-HEAD-
    Sec. 1185. Travel control of citizens and aliens

-STATUTE-

    (b) Citizens
      Except as otherwise provided by the President and subject to such
    limitations and exceptions as the President may authorize and
    prescribe, it shall be unlawful for any citizen of the United
    States to depart from or enter, or attempt to depart from or enter,
    the United States unless he bears a valid passport.
    (c) Definitions
      The term 'United States' as used in this section includes the
    Canal Zone, and all territory and waters, continental or insular,
    subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term 'person'
    as used in this section shall be deemed to mean any individual,
    partnership, association, company, or other incorporated body of
    individuals, or corporation, or body politic.
-SOURCE-
    (June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 2, Sec. 215, 66 Stat. 190;
    Oct. 7, 1978, Pub. L. 95-426, title VII, Sec. 707(a)-(d), 92 Stat.
    992, 993.)

-CITE-
    22 USC Sec. 1631

-EXPCITE-
    TITLE 22
    CHAPTER 21
    SUBCHAPTER II

-HEAD-
    Sec. 1631. Definitions

-STATUTE-
      As used in this subchapter the term -
        (1) 'Person' means a natural person, partnership, association,
      other unincorporated body, corporation, or body politic.
        (2) 'Property' means any property, right, or interest.
        (3) 'Treaty of peace', with respect to a country, means the
      treaty of peace with that country signed at Paris, France,
      February 10, 1947, which came into force between that country and
      the United States on September 15, 1947.

CITE-
    22 USC Sec. 1641

-EXPCITE-
    TITLE 22
    CHAPTER 21
    SUBCHAPTER III

-HEAD-
    Sec. 1641. Definitions

-STATUTE-
      As used in this subchapter the term -
        (1) 'Person' means a natural person, partnership, association,
      other unincorporated body, corporation, or body politic.
        (2) 'National of the United States' means (A) a natural person
      who is a citizen of the United States, or who owes permanent
      allegiance to the United States, and (B) a corporation or other
      legal entity which is organized under the laws of the United
      States, any State or Territory thereof, or the District of
      Columbia, if natural persons who are nationals of the United
      States own, directly or indirectly, more than 50 per centum of
      the outstanding capital stock or other beneficial interest in
      such legal entity.  It does not include aliens.

   TITLE 42
    CHAPTER 38
    SUBCHAPTER VII

-HEAD-
    Sec. 3220. Penalties

-STATUTE-
    (a) False statements; security overvaluation
      Whoever makes any statement knowing it to be false, or whoever
    willfully overvalues any security, for the purpose of obtaining for
    himself or for any applicant any financial assistance under section
    3131, 3141, 3142, or 3171 of this title or any extension thereof by
    renewal, deferment or action, or otherwise, or the acceptance,
    release, or substitution of security therefor, or for the purpose
    of influencing in any way the action of the Secretary, or for the
    purpose of obtaining money, property, or anything of value, under
    this chapter, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000
    or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
    (b) Embezzlement; misapplication of funds; false book entries;
        schemes to defraud; speculation
      Whoever, being connected in any capacity with the Secretary, in
    the administration of this chapter (1) embezzles, abstracts,
    purloins, or willfully misapplies any moneys, funds, securities, or
    other things of value, whether belonging to him or pledged or
    otherwise entrusted to him, or (2) with intent to defraud the
    Secretary or any other body politic or corporate, or any
    individual, or to deceive any officer, auditor, or examiner, makes
    any false entry in any book, report, or statement of or to the
    Secretary, or without being duly authorized draws any order or
    issues, puts forth, or assigns any note, debenture, bond, or other
    obligation, or draft, bill of exchange, mortgage, judgment, or
    decree thereof, or (3

 TITLE 48
    CHAPTER 4
    SUBCHAPTER I

-HEAD-
    Sec. 733. Citizens; former Spanish subjects and children; body
        politic; name

-STATUTE-
      All inhabitants continuing to reside in Puerto Rico who were
    Spanish subjects on the 11th day of April 1899, and then resided in
    Puerto Rico, and their children born subsequent thereto, shall be
    deemed and held to be citizens of Puerto Rico, and as such entitled
    to the protection of the United States, except such as shall have
    elected to preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain on or
    before the 11th day of April 1900, in accordance with the
    provisions of the treaty of peace between the United States and
    Spain entered into on the 11th day of April 1899; and they,
    together with such citizens of the United States as may reside in
    Puerto Rico, shall constitute a body politic under the name of the
    People of Puerto Rico, with governmental powers as hereinafter
    conferred, and with power to sue and be sued as such.

-SOURCE-
    (Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, Sec. 7, 31 Stat. 79; May 17, 1932, ch.
    190, 47 Stat. 158.)
 

                              CROSS REFERENCES
      Persons born in Puerto Rico declared citizens of United States,
    see section 1402 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationals

   TITLE 50
    APPENDIX
    TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT OF 1917
    ACT OCT

-HEAD-
    Sec. 38. Shipment of relief supplies; definitions

-STATUTE-
      (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act (sections 1
    to 6, 7 to 39, and 41 to 44 of this Appendix), it shall be lawful,
    at any time after the date of cessation of hostilities with any
    country with which the United States is at war, for any person in
    the United States to donate, or otherwise dispose of to, and to
    transport or deliver to, any person in such country any article or
    articles (including food, clothing, and medicine) intended to be
    used solely to relieve human suffering.
      (b) As used in this section -
        (1) the term 'person' means any individual, partnership,
      association, company, or other unincorporated body of
      individuals, or corporation or body politic;