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Revised: October 29, 1997.

Copyright © 1997 [Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania].
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White Paper on State Citizenship

T. Collins -- 10/04/94

Introduction

I was born a first class citizen. I entered into contracts that, without

my knowledge, made me a second class citizen. I am working on the
legal process of restoring my first class citizenship status.

I was surprised to find that the United States government recognized
two distinct classes of citizens, let alone that my citizenship status
had changed.

At first I did not believe it. It was not until I learned how to use the
law library in the county court house that I was able to confirm my
status. I am not an attorney so this paper should not be considered as
legal advice. It may be used for the basis of your own research. This
paper does not have a copyright, so you can copy all or part of it. This
paper borrows research from other papers without copyrights written
by people across the nation. I will describe the big picture first, then I
will substantiate the claims made and give a more detailed picture
later.

You may find the ideas presented here conflict with the model of
government that you have been taught. You may also find these ideas
impossible to believe. This is understandable. The further you read,
the more you may change the way you filter information about what
the government is doing. If you cannot believe any of this, please set
this paper aside. Sometime in the future, you may come back to this
paper and it may make more sense. I believe that the concepts
described here are true. But, you should not! If you accepted the ideas
in this paper without confirming them from other sources, then you
are a fool! If I can change your model of reality in one paper then
someone else might be able to fill your head with nonsense. Please be
skeptical. Even if you do not agree with the central premise, you may
agree with some of the research. If so, you will still get something out
of this paper. There are many Citizens doing research on the topics
described in this paper. Some will sell the results of their research
while others will practically give it away. This paper does not discuss
some of the more advanced topics (Citizen militia, commercial liens,
common law liens, common law trusts). At the end of this paper, I
will supply you with the names of books, magazines, newspapers,
computer bulletin boards that fill in some of the details that I have
excluded.

The big picture

The United States of America is a unique nation. It was the first
constitutional republic in the world. Before the American Revolution,
the King of England owned all the land in his colonies. The
inhabitants of the colonies were his subjects. When the war was over,
the King signed the Treaty of Peace. In that treaty he said that all the
land in the former colonies was owned by the people and all of his
sovereign powers that he held in the colonies were transferred, not to
the government of the colonies but, to the People of the colonies. This
made all of the Citizens of the colonies sovereigns. This has never
happened before or since in any other country. In other countries, the
government is sovereign. It makes laws for its subject-citizens and it
gives them their rights. In the United States, the People were
sovereigns. The People were endowed, by their creator, with certain
rights and the government was instituted to secure those rights. We
the People, gave a portion of our sovereignty to the state government,
and the states gave a small portion of the sovereignty we gave to them,
to the federal government so that it would be strong enough to defend
the People. The Constitution for the United States of America
describes the powers that the states gave to the federal government. If
the federal government is defined by the Constitution, and the
Constitution says that I am a sovereign, why do I feel like a subject? I
own my house. If I don't pay my property tax the government will go to
a court and remove me from it just as the courts would remove me
from an apartment if I did not pay the rent. Do I really own the land if
someone can take it away from me simply because I don't pay them
for the use of it? Could the King of England have the land taken away
from him if he did not pay a tax? So long as I don't cause injury to
someones person or property or defraud them shouldn't I, as a
sovereign, have the right to do anything I want? Today there are so
many rules and regulations that the government has that I think
nearly everything I do is against some law. What has happened to my
sovereignty? Isn't the government sovereign over me Are there any
sovereign People left in the United States of America?

There are hundreds of thousands of sovereigns in the United States of
America but I am not one of them. The sovereigns own their land in
"allodium." That is, the government does not have a financial interest
in the their land. Because of this they do not need to pay property tax
(school tax, real estate tax). Only the powers granted to the federal
government in the Constitution for the United States of America
define the laws that they have to follow. This is a very small subset of
the laws most of us have to follow. Unless they accept benefits from or
contract with the federal government, they do not have to pay Social
Security tax, federal income tax, or resident individual state income
tax. They do not need to register their cars or get a driver's license
unless they drive commercially. They will not have to get a Health
Security Card. They can own any kind of gun without a license or
permit. They do not have to use the same court system that normal
people do. I am sure that most people reading this are saying to
themselves that this can not be true. I know I did when I first heard of
it. The government recognizes two distinct classes of citizens: a state
Citizen and a federal citizen.

A state Citizen, also called a de jure Citizen, is an individual whose
inalienable natural rights are recognized, secured, and protected by
his/her state Constitution against State actions and against federal
intrusion by the Constitution for the United States of America.

A federal citizen, also called: a 14th Amendment citizen, a citizen of
the United States, a US citizen, a citizen of the District of Columbia,
has civil rights that are almost equal to the natural rights that state
Citizens have. I say almost because civil rights are created by Congress
and can be taken away by Congress. Federal citizens are subjects of
Congress, under their protection as a "resident" of a State, a person
enfranchised to the federal government (the incorporated United
States defined in Article I, section 8, clause 17 of the Constitution).
The individual States may not deny to these persons any federal
privileges or immunities that Congress has granted them. This specific
class of citizen is a federal citizen under admiralty law (International
Law). As such they do not have inalienable common rights
recognized, secured and protected in the Constitutions of the States,
or of the Constitution for the United States of America, such as
"allodial" (absolute) rights to property, the rights to inheritance, the
rights to work and contract, and the right to travel among others.

A federal citizen is a taxable entity like a corporation, and is subject
to pay an excise tax for the privileges that Congress has granted
him/her. The rights that most people believe they have are not natural
rights but civil rights which are actually privileges granted by
Congress. Some of these civil rights parallel the protection of the Bill
of Rights (the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution), but by
researching the civil rights act along with case law decisions involving
those rights, it can be shown that these so-called civil rights do not
include the Ninth or Tenth Amendments and have only limited
application with regard to Amendments One through Eight. If you
accept any benefit from the federal government or you claim any civil
right, you are making an "adhesion contract" with the federal
government. You may not be aware of any adhesion contracts but the
courts are. The other aspect of such a contract is that you will obey
every statute that Congress passes. State Citizens cannot be subjected
to any jurisdiction of law outside the Common Law without their
knowing and willing consent after full disclosure of the terms and
conditions, and such consent must be under agreement/contract
sealed by signature. This is because the Constitution is a
compact/contract created and existing in the jurisdiction of the
Common Law, therefore, any rights secured thereunder or disabilities
limiting the powers of government also exist in the Common Law, and
in no other jurisdiction provided for in that compact!

Federal citizens are presumed to be operating in the jurisdiction of
commercial law because that is the jurisdiction of their
creator-Congress. This is evidenced by the existence of various
contracts and the use of negotiable instruments. All are products of
international law or commercial law[Uniform Commercial Code].
Under Common Law your intent is important; in a court of contract
(commercial law) the only thing that matters is that you live up to the
letter of the contract. Because you have adhesion contracts with
Congress, you can not use the Constitution or Bill of Rights as a
defense because it is irrelevant to the contract. As stated previously,
the contract says you will obey every statute passed by Congress. A
federal citizen does not have access to Common Law.

To restate: state Citizens are bound and protected by the Constitution,
like the founding fathers intended and like we are taught in school
what citizenship means. Federal citizens have made further
agreements with the federal government and are bound by these
contracts.

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