What is “Government”?
1. Definition
On this site, the term “government” we define as follows:
- “Government” =everything that is PUBLIC. It is synonymous with the legal fiction “United States”.
- Government is a PUBLIC Membership Association (PMA) you have to CONSENT to join. That act of consent is called an election in the I.R.C. The W-4 form is effectively a “request” to participate in the withholding for federal programs.
- Those who have CIVILLY/LEGALLY joined through and EXPRESS ELECTION become:
3.1. Members and citizens of the United StatesP. but ALSO . . .
3.2. CIVIL OFFICERS and AGENTS of the collective body politic serving WITHIN the Executive Branch under the Secretary of the Treasury as a volunteer. - The act of JOINING causes:
4.1. A surrender of sovereignty and sovereign immunity under the Minimum Contacts Doctrine of the Supreme Court and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). See:
Acquiring a Civil Status, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/civil-political-jurisdiction/acquiring-a-civil-status/
4.2. An exercise of your First Amendment rights that no government can lawfully interfere with.
4.3. An act of contracting, where the CIVIL statutory law is the contract or “social compact”. See:
The REAL Social Compact, Form #08030
https://sedm.org/Forms/08-PolicyDocs/TheRealSocialCompact.pdf
4.4. A waiver of some but not all formerly PRIVATE rights, as described in:
Membership in a Specific Class, Status, or Group As a Cause for Loss of Rights, SEDM
https://sedm.org/membership-in-a-specific-class-status-or-group-as-a-cause-for-loss-of-rights/ - Consenting members are called CIVIL “citizens” and “residents” but NEVER POLITICAL ONLY “citizens”. Those who are POLITICAL but not CIVIL “citizens” remain PRIVATE and never PUBLIC. See:
Why You are a Political Citizen but CIVIL Non-Citizen, National, and Nonresident Alien, Form #05.006
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/WhyANational.pdf - “Government” can only tax or regulate PUBLIC property, which includes civil statuses such as “citizen” that it legislatively creates as well as any private property you donate to them by “effectively connecting” it.
- VOLUNTARY CIVIL STATUTORY franchises are the only lawful method of CIVILLY regulating or taxing you or your property. See:
Government Instituted Slavery Using Franchises, Form #05.030
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/Franchises.pdf - You can lawfully avoid taxation by never CIVILLY associating through either a domicile or election of any kind. Those who do this are called “nonresident aliens”. Thus, they RETAIN their entirely PRIVATE and DEFAULT and legislatively but not constitutionally FOREIGN status under the constitution. This LACK of elections is recognized in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(31).
- If you are not ALLOWED to CIVILLY or LEGALLY disassociate and claim “nonresident alien” status and not elect to convert your PRIVATE property through an Effectively Connected status, then you are DEPRIVED of the right of PRIVATE property in the Fifth Amendment and you certainly do not and cannot “own” yourself. You are therefore a slave of someone else. Property ownership, after all, includes the right to EXCLUDE any and all others from using or benefitting from your property. A slave is someone who either doesn’t own themself or can’t own private property. See:
What is a “Slave”?, SEDM
https://sedm.org/what-is-a-slave/
The above summary is fully recognized by the Declaration of Independence, which says that all JUST powers of government derive from the CONSENT of the governed. Where there is no consent, EVERYTHING government does to you is inherently UNJUST, with the exception of the criminal law itself, of course. THIS is fully consistent with why we say that ALL civil statutory law is law for government ONLY, meaning VOLUNTARY MEMBERS of the “public” only:
Why Statutory Civil Law is Law for Government and Not Private Persons, Form #05.037
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/StatLawGovt.pdf
For PROOF that “United States” is synonymous with “government” or at least “includes” government, see:
PROOF OF FACTS: “United States” INCLUDES (not means) the government, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/proof-of-facts-united-states-includes-the-government/
LEGAL IGNORANCE about this subject is GUARANTEED to make you a SLAVE of government! GUARANTEED!
“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]
This subject is LITERALLY the ROOT of all Third Rail Issues. See:
Third Rail Government Issues, Form #08.032
https://sedm.org/Forms/08-PolicyDocs/ThirdRailIssues.pdf
Avoidance of third rail issues by those in government who are corrupt is summarized in the following scripture:
“For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men— 16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for [d]vice, but as bondservants of God. 17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.”
[1 Peter 2:15-17, Bible, NKJV]
All government corruption and unjust political power DEPEND for their entire existence on the fact that you DO NOT know this definition!
For a description of the symbology we use on this site to describe the various COMPONENTS or CHARACTERISTICS of the term “government” see:
Site Symbology for Political Terms “United States”, “State”, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/site-symbology-for-political-terms-united-states-state/
The study of how the above various COMPONENTS of “government” relate to government as a whole is called “mereology”:
Wikipedia: Mereology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereology
2. When does “government” CEASE to be “government”?
1. In a state, domicile has EVERYTHING to do with taxation. And domicile is voluntary.
2. Federal is different. Its purely election and not domicile.
3. BUT the constitution doesn’t expressly authorize elections that break down the separation between public and private. The constitutional right to contract, specifically addressed in the Contract Clause (Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution), prohibits states from passing laws that impair the obligation of contracts. This means states cannot enact laws that alter the terms or enforceability of existing contracts. While the clause protects against state actions, it does not shield contracts from federal laws. HOWEVER, the right to contract or NOT contract is NOT unlimited, because its exercise STILL cannot be permitted to destroy the separation between PUBLIC and PRIVATE or the separation of powers itself.
Government Conspiracy to Destroy the Separation of Powers, Form #05.023
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/SeparationOfPowers.pdf
4. Yes, you can consent to join the government by a formal oath or political election. But to do so:
4.1. Purely by IMPLIED consent by you unilaterally filling out a tax form.
4.2. Not having a lawful oath or appointment or
4.3 A written formal evidence of an acceptance BY THE GOVERNMENT exercised within the delegated authority of the acceptance agent is not authorized.
The combination of the above produces a DE FACTO government.
The absolute constitutional separation of public and private is sacrosanct. The entire oath of public officers depends on that separation and them protecting it. Here’s a demonstration of that:
All the following activities implement a de facto government:
- Compelling a domicile.
- Adding to definitions using “includes” with an undefined context.
- Using implied consent to EVADE documenting formal acceptance or
- Not administering oaths or appointments in compliance with Title 5 among those who HAVE consented.
- Changing your civil status without your consent in violation of the First Amendment. This is identity theft:
Identity Theft Affidavit, Form #14.020
https://sedm.org/Forms/14-PropProtection/Identity_Theft_Affidavit-f14039.pdf - Interfering with YOUR ability to do any of above to THEM to acquire rights over them if they refuse to surrender their right to engage in them. This is a requirement of equal protection and equal treatment.
It’s just a scam and a fraud if they make the consent invisible by avoiding these legal formalities.
“An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been passed.”
Note: “creates no office”=”U.S. person”
CIVIL STATUS=office.
That SCAM is exhaustively documented in:
De Facto Government Scam, Form #05.043
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/DeFactoGov.pdf
If all just powers originate from CONSENT, and they hide the consent to make it INVISIBLE/IMPLIED so you aren’t aware that they need it to enforce, is ANYTHING JUST beyond that point?
NO!
If EVERYONE received “REASONABLE, UNAMBIGUOUS NOTICE” that being a “U.S. person” was voluntary and forced you to EXPRESSLY rather than IMPLIEDLY volunteer and take a lawful oath, do you think people would continue to elect themselves into this office?
HELL NO!
Ronald Reagan was famous for saying the following:
“The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service exam.”
So THAT is the real secret which makes the CONSENT secret.
Can a government established to protect private property and private rights make a profitable business out of alienating ANY of those rights or control over your property in order to pay for the delivery of the protection?
NO!
The FIRST step in protecting PRIVATE property is to keep it from being converted to PUBLIC property by the security guard. If he won’t protect it, why should you hire him with “taxes” to protect you from anyone ELSE?
Like any business, they don’t need to own or control ANY of your property to protect it. Thus, REGISTERING your car or your body with an SSN works a purpose OPPOSITE of government.
Would you hire a security guard to protect your property if the fine print of the contract for his services required him to OWN all the property and simply rent it out to you for a fee called “taxes”.
HELL NO! NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND would hire a security guard under those terms. Only if the security guard had a MONOPOLY on their services would people even BEGIN to go down that road, and only by force or coercion beyond that point. Thus, the “social compact” is fatally flawed and works a purpose OPPOSITE of establishing government to begin with.
All of these notions are why constitutional rights MUST be inalienable, at least insofar as the relationship between PRIVATE and PUBLIC are concerned. The ONLY geographic place you are even ALLOWED to alienate those rights is where they DON’T apply, which means federal territory or abroad.
If you’re not either abroad or residing on federal territory, every effort to entice you to give up those rights, which are PRIVATE property, transforms the “government” from a PROTECTOR to a PREDATOR!
Of this section some people have asked:
Isn’t all this already on SEDM?
Our answer:
Because if you have to define something, the only way you can prevent equivocation and sophistry by legal predators is to define BOTH what it IS, and what is IS NOT so there is no room for judicial grandstanding to illegally expand definitions by fiat or using presumptions.