SOURCE: Hot to Keep Your Property Private, Form #09.085

A central goal of the SEDM Ministry and Website (http://sedm.org) is to restore and keep you and all your property private and protected by the Constitution and common law rather than civil statutory law. This document will explain the simple basics of how this is done. These techniques are not well known but need to be. We have taken the time to simplify them as much as possible to appeal to the broadest possible audience.

1. Conversion techniques

As we have shown throughout this document, the conversion from PRIVATE to PUBLIC happens by one of TWO means:

Convert the civil status of the PROPERTY. This is done, for instance, by:
1.1. Calling the earnings “wages” when filing a W-4 as a private man or woman per 26 U.S.C. §3402(p).
1.2. “Effectively connecting” earnings to the “trade or business” franchise as a nonresident alien. In effect, the earnings are converted from PRIVATE to PUBLIC to procure the PRIVILEGE of some kind of deduction as a benefit or advantage. This is done by placing the earnings on the 1040NR form instead of the Schedule NEC, for instance.
Convert the civil status of the OWNER (jurisdiction over the PERSON). This is done, for instance, by changing your DEFAULT civil status of “nonresident alien” as a state national by “electing” to be treated as a PRIVILEGED STATUTORY “citizen” or “resident”, who file a 1040 instead of a 1040NR and can then take privileged “deductions” under 26 U.S.C. §162. The cost of PROCURING this “benefit” or privilege is that the character of your earnings changes from being taxable only from U.S. sources in 26 U.S.C. §872 to being taxable on your worldwide EARNINGS UNDER 26 U.S.C. §61 and §861. NOT a good deal.

The following court case acknowledges the above two mechanisms to convert PRIVATE property to PUBLIC property:

“In the case of the federal government where the individual is either a United States citizen or an alien residing in the taxing jurisdiction, the tax under section 1 of the Code is based upon jurisdiction over the person; where the individual is an alien [LEGISLATIVELY OR CONSTITUTIONALLY “foreign”, INCLUDING states of the Union] not residing in the taxing jurisdiction [the “geographical United States”, meaning the District of Columbia per 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(9) and (a)(10), the tax under section 871 of the Code is based upon jurisdiction over the [PUBLIC] property or income of the nonresident individual [GEOGRAPHICALLY and PHYSICALLY] located or earned in the taxing jurisdiction”

[Great Cruz Bay, Inc., St. John v. Wheatley, 495 F.2d. 301, 307 (3d Cir. 1974)]

An “EXCLUSION” happens when any of the following methods are employed to reduce taxable income without invoking an “EXEMPTION” or “DEDUCTION” under 26 U.S.C. §162:

Avoiding clouding the ownership or title to the payment as “property” by:
1.1. Not getting involved in or accepting payments from sources within the geographical “United States” under 26 U.S.C. §872(a).
1.2. Not getting involved in or accepting payments from activities involving a “trader or business” under 26 U.S.C. §872(b).
Avoiding clouding the civil status of the OWNER of the income by connecting him, her, or it to a public office or “trade or business” by pursuing a civil status that is a privilege, such as STATUTORY “citizen” or STATUTORY “resident” in 26 C.F.R. §1.1-1(a). These two civil statuses are voluntary and avoidable PRIVILEGES. Those who don’t consent to them simply declare themselves as “nonresident aliens”, which does not have any civil statutory duties, liabilities, or obligations directly attached to it. See:

Lawfully Avoiding Government Obligations Course, Form #12.040
https://sedm.org/LibertyU/AvoidGovernmentObligations.pdf

Once property is converted from PRIVATE to PUBLIC as described in item 1, those in possession of it “may be treated as” public officers. This is because a “public officer” is legally defined as someone in charge of the PROPERTY of the public:

“Public Office.[. . .Where, by virtue of law, a person is clothed, not as an incidental or transient authority, but for such time as de- notes duration and continuance, with Independent power to control the property of the public“

[Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 1235]

The authority to exercise DIRECT, CIVIL legislative control over those in charge of the “property of the public” originates from Constitution Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2, which says:

Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2

Congress shall have the power to make all needful rules respecting the Territory and Other Property of the United States.

Statutes at 5 U.S.C. §553(a)(2) and 44 U.S.C. §1505(a) implement the above method of DIRECT LEGISLATIVE CONTROL over those in possession of PUBLIC property WITHOUT the need for implementing regulations.

Below is an example from our website to accomplish item 1 above:

“2. Earnings in this section come ONLY from the statutory geographical “United States” as defined in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(9) and (a)(10) and 4 U.S.C. §110(d).

3. Earnings from any place OTHER than the statutory geographical “United States” are purposefully excluded under 26 U.S.C. §872. They don’t need to be exempt, because they are excluded from being listed in the schedule NEC. This means all earnings received from geographical sources outside the STATUTORY, but not CONSTITUTIONAL “United States” are purposefully not listed in this section. This includes all of my earnings, because I do not do business with or in the statutory geographical “United States”.”

[1040NR Attachment, Form #09.077, Section 6: Schedule NEC Information; https://sedm.org/Forms/09-Procs/1040NR-Attachment.pdf]

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5. Effectively connected” means otherwise private property CONSENSUALLY donated to a public use, a public purpose, or a public office within the national and not state government, and thus connected to the statutory “trade or business” defined in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(26) as “the functions of a public office”. None of God’s entirely private property under my stewardship falls into this category. All of Gods’ property is absolutely owned private property protected by the constitution and defined as a “foreign estate” under 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(31) and the First Amendment separation of church and state. Ownership of “trade or business” property, on the other hand, is QUALIFIED (shared) rather than ABSOLUTE (singular). “Trade or business” property ownership or control is shared by the officer occupying the office and its government parens patriae, Creator, and owner. A portion of the shared ownership becomes a kickback (called a return) to compensate its trustee for his or her services.

[1040NR Attachment, Form #09.077, Section 7: Definitions; https://sedm.org/Forms/09-Procs/1040NR-Attachment.pdf]

Below is an example from our website to accomplish item 2 above:

8. The term “U.S. citizen” is defined in 8 U.S.C. §1401, 26 C.F.R. §31.3121(e)-1(b), and 26 C.F.R. §1.1-1(c). Regulation at 26 C.F.R. §1.1-1(c) identifies 8 U.S.C. §1401-1459 as the source of the definition for “citizen”, and none of the statutes referenced identifies a “citizen” as a CONSTITUTIONAL citizen mentioned in the Fourteenth Amendment. The “United States” in the Constitution includes states of the Union and excludes that mentioned in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(9) and (a)(10). The “citizen” status in the I.R.C. is privileged and statutory and is always geographical in this context and therefore is tied to the statutory geographical “United States” defined in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(9) and (a)(10) and 4 U.S.C. §110(d). Because liability is attached to this status in 26 C.F.R. §1.1-1(a), it must be voluntary or unconstitutional slavery and human trafficking is the result. Those who don’t volunteer would drop back to “nonresident alien” civil status, which doesn’t have a direct liability associated with it. This inference is consistent with Great Cruz Bay, Inc., St. John v. Wheatley, 495 F.2d. 301, 307 (3d Cir. 1974). The D.C. circuit court even held that the range of statutes cited in 26 C.F.R. §1.1-1(c) defining what a “citizen” was did NOT include constitutional citizens, when it held: ““Finally, this Court is mindful of the years of past practice in which territorial citizenship has been treated as a statutory [PRIVILEGE!], and not a constitutional, right. In the unincorporated territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, birthright citizenship was conferred upon their inhabitants by various statutes many years after the United States acquired them. See Amicus Br. at 10-11. If the Citizenship Clause guaranteed birthright citizenship in unincorporated territories, these statutes [8 U.S.C. §1401-1459 mentioned in 26 C.F.R. §1.1-1(c)] would have been unnecessary.” Tuaua v. U.S.A, 951 F.Supp.2d. 88 (2013). OF COURSE the government can tax privileges. I would never argue with that. However, privileges are voluntary and avoidable or we have unconstitutional slavery, and I therefore choose to avoid them. And if I can’t make that choice, I’m a slave. All just powers, according to the Declaration of Independence, derive from the CONSENT of the governed. I consent to NOTHING. Anything not consensual in a civil context is therefore inherently UNJUST. To equivocate between CONSTITUTIONAL and STATUTORY “citizens”, which are mutually exclusive and non-overlapping, is to essentially KIDNAP the identity of people in states of the Union to federal territory without their consent and enslave them, in violation of Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution. Identity theft is a criminal offense in violation of 18 U.S.C. §911 in the case of a statutory “U.S. Citizen” franchise/privilege. More at: Citizenship Status v. Tax Status, http://sedm.org/Forms/10-Emancipation/CitizenshipStatusVTaxStatus/CitizenshipVTaxStatus.htm.

[1040NR Attachment, Form #09.077, Section 7: Definitions; https://sedm.org/Forms/09-Procs/1040NR-Attachment.pdf]

2. Words, definitions, and context on government forms are KEY

Based on the above, the words you use to describe either yourself or your property on government forms are CRUCIAL and are the essence of how the VOLUNTARY or CONSENSUAL conversion happens. The following factors influence the outcome of such a conversion:

Whether the content of the original uncompleted form provided by the government is credible and admissible evidence in court under the Federal Rules of Evidence.
The CONTEXT of the terms on the form: Whether STATUTORY or CONSTITUTIONAL or PRIVATE (defined by you).
Who has the legal authority to write the definition of the terms on the form. This authority can come ONLY from absolute ownership of the property affected by the definitions.
The express delegated authority of those in government who INTERPRET the CONTEXT and MEANING of terms on government forms you prepare, sign, and submit to the government.

On the above, we frequently say that the following:

“He who write EITHER the rules OR the definitions of the terms always wins.”

You only need to control ONE of the two above things to win in any legal dispute involving information on government forms and its affect on you or your property:

Laws (rules) that govern the use of the information on the form.
Definitions of the terms on the form.

3. Rules of the Game

In order to win at this chess game, you must remember the central premise of sovereignty:

1. You at least START OUT absolutely owning yourself and all your property. That is the implication of the Bill of Rights, in fact.

2. You are the ONLY lawful source of definitions that might adversely affect that absolute ownership interest.

3. If you let someone ELSE write CIVIL STATUTORY definitions that adversely impact that ownership, you have surrendered some degree of ownership and/or control of the things affected by the definitions.

4. The act of WRITING a definition is an act of CREATION.

5. The CREATOR of a thing is the OWNER. That act of CREATION in fact occurs in the DEFINITIONS.

6. The DEFINITIONS are the part of the law or rules that create the CIVIL STATUS or RES which then becomes the SUBJECT of privileges or rights.

7. You cannot PURSUE the PRIVILEGES or rights attached to a civil status also implicitly accept the OBLIGATIONS attached to the CIVIL STATUS. Obligations and privileges ALWAYS go together, kind of like love and marriage.

8. Government didn’t create you.

8.1. The only thing they CAN CIVILLY create is legislation that creates CIVIL STATUSES to which both OBLIGATIONS and PRIVILEGES attach.

8.2. The CIVIL PRIVILEGES become “BAIT” to entice you to accept the CIVIL OBLIGATIONS that also attach to the CIVIL STATUS.

8.3. CIVIL OBLIGAGATIONS, therefore, are the “CONSIDERATION” you pay to PROCURE the “PRIVILEGES” attached to all CIVIL STATUSES.

8.4. When government CREATES a civil status through legislation, they call that legislation a “BILL”. By doing so, they are BILLING YOU with CIVIL OBLIGATIONS that literally PAY for the PRIVILEGES attached to the CIVIL STATUS appearing in the definitions within the legislation.

9. ALL CIVIL legislation should therefore in effect be treated as an OFFER under the Uniform Commercial Code that you have a right to NOT accept:

9.1. The GOVERNMENT offering the civil legislation is the Merchant under U.C.C. 2-104(1).

9.2. You as the PRIVATE HUMAN CUSTOMER of the CIVIL PRIVILEGES they created are the Buyer under U.CC. 2-103(1)(a).

9.3. An “acceptance” must occur either EXPRESS (vocally or in writing) or IMPLIED (through action) before the OFFER acquires the “force of law” and may be adjudicated in a court of law. See:

Requirement for Consent, Form #05.003
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/Consent.pdf

10. You have a RIGHT to NOT ACCEPT a government “benefit”, which implies that you have a right to not RECEIVE or be the SUBJECT of any CIVIL STATUTORY PRIVILEGE. By rejecting CIVIL PRIVILEGES, you also avoid the CORRESPONDING CIVIL OBLIGATIONS attached to the privileges.

11. Private humans are the “customers” of all CIVIL legislation and the customer is always right.

11.1. You should NEVER leave it up to ANYONE but you to decide or define what a “benefit” is, and ESPECIALLY in the context of any CIVIL privilege.

11.2. If you allow anyone in government to DEFINE or DECIDE FOR YOU what a “benefit” is, then they can make you into a CIVIL STATUTORY “CUSTOMER” of their franchises without your express consent. THIS is how you become a SLAVE: Imposing CIVIL obligations upon you without your express consent.

12. Most of the time, you engage in the above process using government forms that you must fill out and sign under penalty of perjury to request a CIVIL PRIVILEGE and the CIVIL OBLIGATIONS that go with the PRIVILEGE.

12.1. The forms contain NO actionable legal definitions or information.

12.2. The forms are WRITTEN by the Merchant offering the CIVIL PRIVILEGE in such a way as to prejudice your rights.

12.3. The interpretation of the forms is left to the SUBJECTIVE judgment of the Merchant BECAUSE there is no actionable definitions holding them accountable for the accuracy of what is on the form.

13. You are the ONLY one who signs government forms and the only WITNESS when the form is submitted, because YOU and ONLY YOU sign the perjury statement.

13.1. Thus, you are the CREATOR of the entire form and the language on it.

13.2. While acting as the CREATOR, you control both the DEFINITIONS and the RULES that pertain to the form because the government is NOT LEGALLY ACCOUNTABLE for the accuracy or content of any part of the form and is not a fact witness when the form is submitted.

14. Based on the above, the CIVIL STATUTORY LAW functions, in effect as a CONTRACTING device. Courts call this process of contracting “the social compact”:

14.1. The CIVIL STATUTORY law behaves as the equivalent of a Private Membership Association (PMA).

14.2. There are LOTS of different CLUBS or FRANCHISES you can join under the CIVIL STATUTORY LAW.

14.3. Each CLUB or FRANCHISE you join makes you a “MEMBER” with a CIVIL STATUS to which OBLIGATIONS and PRIVILEGES attach.

14.4. The U.S. Supreme COURT has held that pursuing these various forms of “membership” is the MAIN way that you SURRENDER constitutional rights.

14.5. Some CLUBS or FRANCHISES come BUNDLED with membership in OTHER CLUBS or FRANCHISES. For instance: You can’t get a driver license these days WITHOUT becoming a member of the following OTHER CLUBS or FRANCHISES

14.5.1. The “RESIDENCE” or “RESIDENT” club.

14.5.2. The “DOMICILE” club.

14.5.3. The Social Security CLUB, by not being able to complete the application process WITHOUT supplying a Social Security Number.

14.5.4. The “MUST PAY CHILD SUPPORT CLUB”. If your child support from a divorce is not paid up, they will either NO ISSUE a NEW license or RESCIND an EXISTING license.

14.5.5. The “MUST PAY TRAFFIC TICKTETS CLUB”. If all your parking tickets are not fully paid, they will either NO ISSUE a NEW license or RESCIND an EXISTING license.

14.5.6. The “Military Draft REGISRATION CLUB”. The national government uses DMV license databases to register and draft new people into the military.

14.5.7. The “Jury Pool CLUB”. States select jurists mainly from the DMV license database.

14.5.8. The “ELIGIBLE FOR CAR INSURANCE CLUB”. Few if any car insurance companies will insure those WITHOUT state driver licenses.

On a HUMAN and interpersonal level in all your PRIVATE dealings with others, the entire above process is completely invisible and even INSTINCTUAL almost all the time. It becomes a little more formal when you operate in the business world using contracts. The implementation of the above process in the context of government is the most formal and procedural of all, and is almost NEVER discussed. It is just PRESUMED. The fact that it is PRESUMED makes it difficult to perceive, explain, and learn for the average Joe. Hence, this document.

Understanding the above rules is the ONLY way you will EVER win with the SOPHISTS who designed this whole SPRINGE called “government” to trap and enslave you:

springe

[ sprinj ]

noun

1. a snare for catching small game.

verb (used with object),springed, spring·ing.

2. to catch in a springe.

verb (used without object),springed, spring·ing.

3. to set a springe or springes.

[Dictionary.com: Springe, Downloaded 2/26/24; https://www.dictionary.com/browse/springe]

We didn’t make of the above descriptive word. The first use we encountered was by a judge running the “springe network” called “government” when reading caselaw!

4. Origin and History of the Game

The RULES of this game discussed in the prior sections are not new. They have been around since the BEGINNING of civilization in the FIRST city mentioned in the Bible: Babylon. Below are its various incarnations over time:

4.1. Civilization 1.0: Biblical Babylon

1. This was the original model for all cities: An area of land with a wall around it and gates to enter and leave.

“Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.”

[Rev. 22:14, Bible, NKJV]

2. In the Bible, God’s kingdom works the same way:

2.1. God owns the Heaven and the Earth because he created them.

The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all its fullness, You have founded them.
The north and the south, You have created them;
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name.

[Psalm 89:11-12, Bible, NKJV]

2.2. Because all matter is God’s creation and property, we are mere temporary users and trustees who need his permission to use or benefit from His property.

2.3. The Bible acts as a “trust indenture” and delegation of authority order to all those using HIS and ONLY HIS property, which is all matter. See:

Delegation of Authority Order from God to Christians, Form #13.007
https://sedm.org/Forms/13-SelfFamilyChurchGovnce/DelOfAuthority.pdf

2.4. The mayor of cities are PREDATORS rather than PROTECTORS. Nimrod was the first mayor or king mentioned in the Bible describes him as “a mighty under”, because he hunted MEN! Gen. 10:9.

3. Out of a desire to IMITATE and BE EQUAL to God in authority and rights just like SATAN, a group of investors gets together, buys some land, and builds a wall around it made of brick.

The Fall of Lucifer

“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’

[Isaiah 14:12-14, Bible, NKJV]

4. The evil covetous Satanic investors out of the lust for power and money hire a bunch of mercenaries who work on commission to get people to sign up for a “protection racket” inside the wall called a “city”. Today, these people are concentrated in the Federal Reserve, who are puppeteers of the politicians.

5. The investors tell the mercenaries to go outside the wall at night in plain cloths and rape and pillage everyone outside with impunity.

6. When daybreak comes, the marauders assemble inside the city, put on their knight armor and mask to be anonymous, get on their horses, and go outside the city to the place they marauded the previous night.

7. The knights in armor tell people they raided the previous night that its dangerous out there and that they can get better “protection” inside the city.

8. The people ask the knights in armor what the cost of the protection is.

9. The knights in armor say they have to:

9.1. Bow down and swear allegiance to the king.

9.2. Move into the city.

9.3. Pay tribute annually.

9.4. Follow the CIVIL CLUB RULES for all beneficiaries of king’s protection.

9.5. Volunteer to defend the city by signing up for the military draft.

10. The Rancher or king then authors a set of “club rules” for people living inside the city called “THE CIVIL STATUTORY CODE”.

10.1. This was the first “Private Membership Association (PMA)”, in fact, and it was given the name “the Social Compact”. See:

The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right, Jean Rousseau
PDF: https://famguardian.org/Publications/TheSocialContract-Rousseau/The_social_contract.pdf
HTML: https://famguardian.org/Publications/TheSocialContract-Rousseau/Rousseau%20Social%20Contract.htm
Constitution Research: http://constitution.famguardian.org/1-Authors/jjr/socon.htm
Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=exNPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0

10.2. These rules are exhaustive and, ever expanding, and in no way constitute a fair exchange of consideration under the “social compact”. Rather, they are an “adhesion contract” in which the Merchant can write all the terms and there is no choice or competition. In modern times, this adhesion contract is referred to as a violation of what is called the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine of the U.S. Supreme Court.

10.3. The King is the sole arbiter of what goes into the contract, and can “bundle” anything and everything he wants into it in a process that we call “weaponization of government”. For a definition of this term, see:

SEDM Disclaimer, Section 4.30: Weaponization of Government
https://sedm.org/disclaimer.htm#4.30._Weaponization_of_government

11. Everyone who is tired of being harassed nightly by the marauders in fake knights armor outfits swears allegiance to the king, moves into the city, buys HIGH PRICED lots in the city, and builds a home they RENT from the King using PROPERTY TAXES.

12. No one can leave or enter the city without going through the city gates. Everyone is now CATTLE and the Rancher is the group of investors or their STEALTH representative, the Mayor or King of the “City state”.

12.1. The king stages tax collectors at the gate.

12.2. You can’t enter or leave the city without paying your tribute.

12.3. If a foreigner approaches the gates to do business with the CATTLE inside, they are required to conduct all business and trading at the gate in the view of the king’s revenue collectors at the gate, and “EXCISE” or CUT a portion of the commerce from the transaction as tribute to the Rancher.

13. The Rancher, I mean Mayor or King, gets everyone together in the town square and gives them a pep talk so they will be deceived into thinking they are FREE. This is called “free range farming”. More prospective clients are recruited to join for free based on PERCEIVED but not ACTUAL “benefit”. See:

The Jones Plantation, Larken Rose
https://sedm.org/jones-plantation-movie-w-larken-rose/

4.2. Civilization 2.0: The Romans

1. The Rancher decides it’s too expensive to maintain the walls, that no one likes to feel like they are caged in a farm called a city.

2. The Rancher tears down the walls around the city, saves the bricks, and uses them to make cobblestone roads like the Romans that are so convenient that no one wants to travel anywhere without them.

3. The Rancher builds fences so that travelers have to go through toll booths, that double as guard posts.

3.1. You can’t enter or leave through the toll booth without paying your tribute.

3.2. If a foreigner approaches the gates to do business with the CATTLE inside, they are required to conduct all business and trading at the toll booth in the view of the king’s revenue collectors at the gate, and “EXCISE” or CUT a portion of the commerce from the transaction as tribute to the Rancher. That’s what an “excise tax” is.

4.3. Civilization 3.0. Modern governments

This phase of civilization was described by the U.S. Supreme Court as follows:

In Udny v. Udny, (1869) L.R. 1 H.L.Sc. 441, the point decided was one of inheritance, depending upon the question whether the domicile of the father was in England or in Scotland, he being in either alternative a British subject. Lord Chancellor Hatherley said: “The question of naturalization and of allegiance is distinct from that of domicil.” p. 452. Lord Westbury, in the passage relied on by the counsel for the United States, began by saying: “The law of England, and of almost all civilized countries, ascribes to each individual at his birth two distinct legal states or conditions: one, by virtue of which he becomes the subject of some particular country, binding him by the tie of natural allegiance, and which may be called his political status; another, by virtue of which he has ascribed to him the character of a citizen of some particular country, and as such is possessed of certain municipal rights, and subject to certain obligations, which latter character is the civil status or condition of the individual, and may be quite different from his political status.” And then, while maintaining that the civil status is universally governed by the single principle of domicil, domicilium, the criterion established by international law for the purpose of determining civil status, and the basis on which “the personal rights of the party, that is to say, the law which determines his majority or minority, his marriage, succession, testacy or intestacy, 657*657 must depend;” he yet distinctly recognized that a man’s political status, his country, patria, and his “nationality, that is, natural allegiance,” “may depend on different laws in different countries.” pp. 457, 460. He evidently used the word “citizen,” not as equivalent to “subject,” but rather to “inhabitant;” and had no thought of impeaching the established rule that all persons born under British dominion are natural-born subjects.

[United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)]

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The several States of the Union are not, it is true, in every respect independent, many of the rights and powers which originally belonged to them being now vested in the government created by the Constitution. But, except as restrained and limited by that instrument, they possess and exercise the authority of independent States, and the principles of public law to which we have referred are applicable to them. One of these principles is, that every State possesses exclusive jurisdiction and sovereignty over persons and property within its territory. As a consequence, every State has the power to determine for itself the civil status and capacities of its inhabitants; to prescribe the subjects upon which they may contract, the forms and solemnities with which their contracts shall be executed, the rights and obligations arising from them, and the mode in which their validity shall be determined and their obligations enforced; and also to regulate the manner and conditions upon which property situated within such territory, both personal and real, may be acquired, enjoyed, and transferred. The other principle of public law referred to follows from the one mentioned; that is, that no State can exercise direct jurisdiction and authority over persons or property without its territory. Story, Confl. Laws, c. 2; Wheat. Int. Law, pt. 2, c. 2. The several States are of equal dignity and authority, and the independence of one implies the exclusion of power from all others. And so it is laid down by jurists, as an elementary principle, that the laws of one State have no operation outside of its territory, except so far as is allowed by comity; and that no tribunal established by it can extend its process beyond that territory so as to subject either persons or property to its decisions. “Any exertion of authority of this sort beyond this limit,” says Story, “is a mere nullity, and incapable of binding 723*723 such persons or property in any other tribunals.” Story, Confl. Laws, sect. 539.

But as contracts made in one State may be enforceable only in another State, and property may be held by non-residents, the exercise of the jurisdiction which every State is admitted to possess over persons and property within its own territory will often affect persons and property without it. To any influence exerted in this way by a State affecting persons resident or property situated elsewhere, no objection can be justly taken; whilst any direct exertion of authority upon them, in an attempt to give ex-territorial operation to its laws, or to enforce an ex-territorial jurisdiction by its tribunals, would be deemed an encroachment upon the independence of the State in which the persons are domiciled or the property is situated, and be resisted as usurpation.

Thus the State, through its tribunals, may compel persons domiciled within its limits to execute, in pursuance of their contracts respecting property elsewhere situated, instruments in such form and with such solemnities as to transfer the title, so far as such formalities can be complied with; and the exercise of this jurisdiction in no manner interferes with the supreme control over the property by the State within which it is situated. Penn v. Lord Baltimore, 1 Ves. 444; Massie v. Watts, 6 Cranch, 148; Watkins v. Holman, 16 Pet. 25; Corbett v. Nutt, 10 Wall. 464.

So the State, through its tribunals, may subject property situated within its limits owned by non-residents to the payment of the demand of its own citizens against them; and the exercise of this jurisdiction in no respect infringes upon the sovereignty of the State where the owners are domiciled. Every State owes protection to its own citizens; and, when non-residents deal with them, it is a legitimate and just exercise of authority to hold and appropriate any property owned by such non-residents to satisfy the claims of its citizens. It is in virtue of the State’s jurisdiction over the property of the non-resident situated within its limits that its tribunals can inquire into that non-resident’s obligations to its own citizens, and the inquiry can then be carried only to the extent necessary to control the disposition of the property. If the non-resident 724 *724 have no property in the State, there is nothing upon which the tribunals can adjudicate.

These views are not new. They have been frequently expressed, with more or less distinctness, in opinions of eminent judges, and have been carried into adjudications in numerous cases. Thus, in Picquet v. Swan, 5 Mas. 35, Mr. Justice Story said: —

“Where a party is within a territory, he may justly be subjected to its process, and bound personally by the judgment pronounced on such process against him. Where he is not within such territory, and is not personally subject to its laws, if, on account of his supposed or actual property being within the territory, process by the local laws may, by attachment, go to compel his appearance, and for his default to appear judgment may be pronounced against him, such a judgment must, upon general principles, be deemed only to bind him to the extent of such property, and cannot have the effect of a conclusive judgment in personam, for the plain reason, that, except so far as the property is concerned, it is a judgment coram non judice.”

[Pennoyer v. Neff, 95 U.S. 714 (1878); SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13333263776496540273]

Note the admission above that the state may ONLY compel people with a VOLUNTARY domicile who are therefore VOLUNTARY club members, and not ALL PEOPLE, in how they contract:

“Thus the State, through its tribunals, may compel persons domiciled within its limits to execute, in pursuance of their contracts respecting property elsewhere situated, instruments in such form and with such solemnities as to transfer the title, so far as such formalities can be complied with”

So the main thing that CIVIL governments do using the CIVIL law as a Private Membership Association (PMA) in order to GOVERN CIVILLY and not CRIMINALLY is to control the “civil status” (Form #13.008) of the people within their territory. The civil status constitutes any one of several “membership roles” or “franchise statuses” that people have who conduct business or contracting on their territory, such as civil statutory “person”, “citizen”, “resident”, etc.

HOWEVER, the state’s control over “civil status” may NOT be used compel people to acquire ANY civil status or compel domicile (membership) itself, because that would be a violation of the First Amendment right of freedom from compelled association. This very important limitation on the state’s authority is probably the MOST IMPORTANT Third Rail Issue there is. If they COMPEL domicile, it is a crime, and you don’t need a domicile to enforce the criminal laws. Mere physical presence on the territory of the sovereign and the commission of a criminal act is sufficient to prosecute. See:

Identity Theft Affidavit, Form #14.020
https://sedm.org/Forms/14-PropProtection/Identity_Theft_Affidavit-f14039.pdf
Third Rail Government Issues, Form #08.032
https://sedm.org/Forms/08-PolicyDocs/ThirdRailIssues.pdf
Your Exclusive Right to Declare or Establish Your Civil Status, Form #13.008
https://sedm.org/Forms/13-SelfFamilyChurchGovnce/RightToDeclStatus.pdf

Below is how this third phase of civilization works:

1. The government publicizes all the crime and corruption in the city to make people distrust each other and distrust conducting commerce with each other unsupervised by the government.

2. The government says to avoid the rampant corruption in commerce, everyone must be issued government identification. See:

Hot Issues: Identification and Identity Theft, SEDM
https://sedm.org/identification/

3. Government identification is only available to “citizens”, who are VOLUNTARY members of the King’s CIVIL “protection franchise”.

3.1. They must produce evidence that they have paid their yearly tribute before they can be issued the identification.

3.2. If they refuse to present the evidence, they will literally starve to death because of their inability to conduct commerce.

4. A name was given to these CONSENTING members called:

4.1. “DOMICILE” in the case of people born in the city. These are called “citizens”.

4.2. “RESIDENCE” to aliens born outside the city. These are called “residents”.

The above two terms are exhaustively defined and explored in:

Why Domicile and Becoming a “Taxpayer” Require Your Consent, Form #05.002
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/Domicile.pdf

5. Then the government:

5.1. Fools EVERYONE into getting government ID for club members through legal deception:

Legal Deception, Propaganda, and Fraud, Form #05.014
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/LegalDecPropFraud.pdf

5.2. Issues CITIZEN and RESIDENT identification documents and cards to all members of the King’s CIVIL protection franchise club “citizens” of the city. This deputizes them as agents and officers of the King. See:

Why Statutory Civil Law is Law for Government and Not Private Persons, Form #05.037
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/StatLawGovt.pdf

Now EVERYONE with government ID is one of the King’s revenue collectors when conducting commerce. If they don’t act as such, they are deprived of the ID and starve to death without the ability to conduct commerce. In modern times, this phenomenon is called “economic sanctions”.

5.3. Orders all CATTLE to conduct all commerce using ONLY the identification cards to protect people from fraud.

5.4. Criminalizes commerce being conducted WITHOUT government ID.

5.5. Commits CRIMINAL IDENTITY THEFT against anyone who does not want the privileges, in order to make them LOOK like consenting club members of the King’s protection racket. See:

Government Identity Theft, Form #05.046
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/GovernmentIdentityTheft.pdf

6. The fences forcing travelers to go through the toll booths are removed. They are no longer necessary, because now all commercial transactions are under the purview of the King because those conducting them are AGENTS or OFFICERS of the King.

7. Through property taxes, and zoning regulations, land within every city is transitioned from absolute ownership to qualified ownership and a moiety. Thus, the king or Rancher now owns and controls at least a part of the house people live and sleep in. They will lose that house if they don’t cooperate under the CIVIL STATUTORY law with the King.

8. The king creates public schools for people to send their kids to.

8.1. These public schools are just like the original boarding schools that the children of the American Indians were sent to in order to socialize them in the white man’s ways and remove them from the control of their parents so that they would be CIVILIZED enough to leave the reservation and give the land back to the national government.

8.2. Public schools are patterned the same way as the Indian boarding schools.

8.3. The study of law is removed from these schools so that “graduates” will be compliant docile government pets who always follow orders and never questions authority.

8.4. This treatment is a little better than the African Slaves, who weren’t allowed to get any education. The main difference is that the subjects of study are filtered so that anything that would LEGALLY empower the students with education about law is REMOVED from study so that those living on the government plantation can never reach “escape velocity” to leave it’s orbit. See:

How to Leave the Government Farm, Form #12.020
YOUTUBE: http://youtu.be/Mp1gJ3iF2Ik
LOCAL COPY: https://sedm.org/media/how-to-leave-the-government-farm/

9. CATTLE now falsely believe they are free. However:

9.1. In the back of their mind there is this unspoken fear that if they try to conduct commerce without a government sanctioned ID or refuse to pay their annual tribute to GET the ID, they will be targeted for the worst form of economic sanction and will therefore starve to death and not be able to conduct commerce to sustain their life or will be jailed for conducting commerce without government ID.

9.2. Anyone who reveals the truth about this government ID scam is targeted for “selective enforcement” by the “political junkyard dog”, the IRS. Their money and resources are STOLEN so they can’t afford to hire a lawyer. They can’t defend themselves and prosecute the wrongdoers because they weren’t allowed to learn law in the public FOOL school. Without economic power, they are completely silenced.

9.3. The cattle on the farm are taught to have closed minds and believe they know everything they need to know. Anyone who attempts to leave the plantation is then “cancelled” and branded as a FREAK, an OUTCAST, and literally CRAZY. See:

Secular Praise of the Main Virtue of Christianity: HUMILITY, SEDM
https://sedm.org/secular-praise-of-the-main-virtue-of-christianity-humility/

10. If you go to the government and insist only on NONRESIDENT ID, they will tell you there is NO SUCH THING. Thus, there is no way to conduct commerce WITHOUT asking for government ID, becoming a club member called a “CITIZEN” or “RESIDENT”, and paying annual tribute.

11. Paid government shills are hired by the Rancher to slander anyone who wants to teach the slaves to leave like SEDM and spread disinformation. This keeps people from leaving and keeps the sheep in the government corral following their GOVERNMENT shepherd.

Now do you know why the following proverb is our favorite?:

“The only thing new under the sun is the history you do not know and deliberately were not taught in the public FOOL system.”

5. Winning the Game

To win at the game:

1. You must START with the following premise:

“People of all races, genders, political beliefs, sexual orientations, and nearly all religions are welcome here. All are treated equally under REAL “law”. The only way to remain truly free and equal under the civil law is to avoid seeking government civil services, benefits, property, special or civil status, exemptions, privileges, or special treatment. All such pursuits of government services or property require individual and lawful consent to a franchise and the surrender of inalienable constitutional rights AND EQUALITY in the process, and should therefore be AVOIDED. The rights and equality given up are the “cost” of procuring the “benefit” or property from the government, in fact. Nothing in life is truly “free”. Anyone who claims that such “benefits” or property should be free and cost them nothing is a thief who wants to use the government as a means to STEAL on his or her behalf. All just rights spring from responsibilities/obligations under the laws of a higher power. If that higher power is God, you can be truly and objectively free. If it is government, you are guaranteed to be a slave because they can lawfully set the cost of their property as high as they want as a Merchant under the U.C.C. If you want it really bad from people with a monopoly, then you will get it REALLY bad. Bend over. There are NO constitutional limits on the price government can charge for their monopoly services or property. Those who want no responsibilities can have no real/PRIVATE rights, but only privileges dispensed to wards of the state which are disguised to LOOK like unalienable rights. Obligations and rights are two sides of the same coin, just like self-ownership and personal responsibility. For the biblical version of this paragraph, read 1 Sam. 8:10-22. For the reason God answered Samuel by telling him to allow the people to have a king, read Deut. 28:43-51, which is God’s curse upon those who allow a king above them. Click Here (https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/Evidence/HowScCorruptOurRepubGovt.htm) for a detailed description of the legal, moral, and spiritual consequences of violating this paragraph.”

[SEDM Opening Page; http://sedm.org]

2. Next, you must read and follow the following free document on our website:

Path to Freedom, Form #09.015
https://sedm.org/Forms/09-Procs/PathToFreedom.pdf

3. Ignorance of the law manufactured in the public FOOL system is the main thing keeping you in bondage and servitude.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

[Hosea 4:6, Bible, NKJV]

4. You must LEARN THE LAW, because the law is your main defense in a world where the legal profession and the government have become a secret priesthood with superior or supernatural powers which seek to enslave and economically enslave you:

Devil’s Advocate: Lawyers, SEDM
http://sedm.org/what-we-are-up-against/

5. We must renew our religious faith and commitment to biblical principles that are the origin of remedy and motivation to pursue the remedy. See:

Why Learn Law?, SEDM
https://sedm.org/home/why-we-must-personally-learn-follow-and-enforce-the-law/

6. We must step forward and take RESPONSIBILITY for ourselves and not abuse our powers as a jurist or voter to TRANSFER that responsibility to anyone else. Self-ownership and personal responsibility are two sides of the SAME coin.

7. We must avoid ANY and ALL government privileges and franchises because they interfere with our absolute ownership of OURSELVES and our property, including:

CIVIL domicile.
Marriage licenses.
Driver licenses.
Professional licenses.
Government “benefits” of every description.

8. We must NEVER surrender absolute ownership or control over our body or our property to any government:

8.1. We must maintain PERFECT separation between us as PRIVATE and the government as PUBLIC. See:

Separation Between Public and Private Course, Form #12.025
https://sedm.org/LibertyU/SeparatingPublicPrivate.pdf

8.2. Don’t fill out government forms asking for PUBLIC property. Government property with CIVIL legal strings attached are called “PRIVILEGES”.

8.3. If we are COMPELLED under threat of starving to death to fill out government forms, we must use the following as a guide:

Avoiding Traps in Government Forms Course, Form #12.023
https://sedm.org/LibertyU/AvoidingTrapsGovForms.pdf

8.4. Don’t pursue ANY civil statutory status, such as “person”, “individual”, “taxpayer”, “driver”, “spouse” (under the family code), etc.

8.4. Every communication with any government, and especially on a government form, should define the MEANING and CONTEXT of every word of art that might be abused by the recipient to commit CRIMINAL IDENTITY THEFT upon us so as to convert our status from PRIVATE to PUBLIC. See:

Government Identity Theft, Form #05.046
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/GovernmentIdentityTheft.pdf

9. We must take the CEO chair of our life and stop behaving passively like a government pet:

9.1. Ownership includes RESPONSIBILITY. You can’t own yourself without taking complete, exclusive, and personal responsibility for yourself.

9.2. Acting like an OWNER of yourself means NEVER allowing ANYONE to write any CIVIL STATUTORY definition that impairs you of any degree of ownership or control over your absolutely owned private property.

9.2.1. The ORIGIN Of the right to author such definitions is OWNERSHIP.

9.2.2. Any attempt to write definitions that impairs control over your PRIVATE property is a TAKING.

More on the above earlier in section 13.

9.3. We must always assume the following statuses that presuppose NO civil statutory jurisdiction:

9.3.1. Legislatively but not constitutionally “foreign” under 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(31). See:

“Sovereign” = “Foreign”, Family Guardian Fellowship
https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Freedom/Sovereignty/Sovereign=Foreign.htm

9.3.2. “nonresident”. See:

Non-Resident Non-Person Position, Form #05.020
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/NonresidentNonPersonPosition.pdf

9.3.3. “stateless”.

9.3.4. “transient foreigner”.

9.3.5. “idiot”. See:

Are You an “Idiot”?, SEDM
https://sedm.org/are-you-an-idiot-we-are/

9.3.6. No civil domicile within the exclusive jurisdiction of the venue. See:

Why Domicile and Becoming a “Taxpayer” Require Your Consent, Form #05.002
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/Domicile.pdf

9.3.7. Protected only COMMON LAW, constitution (Bill of Rights) and EQUITY jurisdiction and not civil statutory franchise codes. See:

Hot Issues: Common Law and Equity Litigation, SEDM
https://sedm.org/common-law-litigation/

9.4. We must “reserve our rights” on every government form. U.C.C. §1-308.

9.5. We must ALWAYS approach every government as a MERCHANT selling our private property on ONLY our terms and NEVER their terms. Government must always be a BUYER and never a Merchant. See:

Path to Freedom, Form #09.015, Sections 5.5-5.7
https://sedm.org/Forms/09-Procs/PathToFreedom.pdf

9.6. We must insist that ALL forms of consent MUST EXPRESS and IN WRITING and never IMPLIED through action.

9.7. We must remember that all just governmental powers are derived from powers delegated by the SOVEREIGN PEOPLE. The COLLECTIVE sovereignty called the “State” cannot have any more authority than a single individual under the concept of equality of protection and of treatment. See:

Requirement for Equal Protection and Equal Treatment, Form #05.033
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/EqualProtection.pdf

9.8. We must insist on the EQUAL right of acquiring rights over government by EXACTLY the same mechanisms as they acquire rights over you, and ESPECIALLY in the case where consent is IMPLIED rather than EXPRESS.

9.8.1. We should accuse them of being HYPOCRITES if they impute superior rights to themselves that the people do not have.

9.8.2. We should insist that they satisfy the burden of proving the origin of any and every CIVIL STATUTORY right originated from your express consent in a form you defined. Any attempt to use IMPLIED consent that you can’t use on them by the same mechanism is THEFT and tyranny.

9.9. We must impose conditions on the commercial use of our name and likeness and property in a way that benefits anyone but us. Those conditions are described in:

Injury Defense Franchise and Agreement, Form #06.027
https://sedm.org/Forms/06-AvoidingFranch/InjuryDefenseFranchise.pdf

9.10. Passively letting government take over our life presupposes that we have surrendered ownership and our sovereignty with it:

“SUB SILENTIO. Under silence; without any notice being taken. Passing a thing sub silentio may be evidence of consent”

[Black’s Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, p. 1593]

“Qui tacet consentire videtur.
He who is silent appears to consent. Jenk. Cent. 32.”

[Bouvier’s Maxims of Law, 1856;
SOURCE: http://famguardian.org/Publications/BouvierMaximsOfLaw/BouviersMaxims.htm]

“Procuration.. Agency; proxy; the act of constituting another one’s attorney in fact. The act by which one person gives power to another to act in his place, as he could do himself. Action under a power of attorney or other constitution of agency. Indorsing a bill or note “by procuration” is doing it as proxy for another or by his authority. The use of the word procuration (usually, per procuratione, or abbreviated to per proc. or p. p.) on a promissory note by an agent is notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign.

An express procuration is one made by the express consent of the parties. An implied or tacit procuration takes place when an individual sees another managing his affairs and does not interfere to prevent it. Procurations are also divided into those which contain absolute power, or a general authority, and those which give only a limited power. Also, the act or offence of procuring women for lewd purposes. See also Proctor.”

[Black’s Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, pp. 1086-1087]

9.11. We must STOP trusting government for ANYTHING:

9.12. We must, at every turn, CHALLENGE authority and demand proof of its origin traceable to our express consent in some form.

On the above, Thomas Jefferson famously said:

“When the people fear the government, there is Tyranny. When the government fears the people there is Liberty.”

10. If called upon to provide a Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification Number, we must:

10.1. Read and understand the following:

About SSNs and TINs on Government Forms and Correspondence, Form #05.012
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/AboutSSNsAndTINs.pdf

10.2. Place a notice on any form we are called to fill out defining SSN and TIN as being NONSTATUTORY and a license to the government under the terms of Form #06.027 rather than the other way around.

10.3. Qualify all terms on the form as being in the private, common law, and constitutional context and NEVER in their civil statutory context.

10.4. Include a waiver of any and all rights to receive any and all government benefits, because they cannot lawfully be offered within the exclusive jurisdiction of a constitutional state. See:

10.4.1. Why You Aren’t Eligible for Social Security, Form #06.001
https://sedm.org/Forms/06-AvoidingFranch/SSNotEligible.pdf

10.4.2. Why It is Illegal for Me to Request or Use a Taxpayer Identification Number, Form #04.201
https://sedm.org/Forms/04-Tax/2-Withholding/WhyTINIllegal.pdf

HOW TO: How to keep your property PRIVATE

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