Nationality v. Domicile

Below is a summary of the interplay between “nationality” and “domicile”:

  1. Nationality:
    1. Is a political status.
    2. Is a product of birth or naturalization.
    3. Is NONGEOGRAPHICAL. You can have ALLEGIANCE ANYWHERE you physically are.
    4. Is not necessarily consensual or discretionary.  For instance, acquiring nationality by birth in a specific place was not a matter of choice whereas acquiring it by naturalization is.
    5. Is defined by the Constitution, which is a political document, or by Title 8 of the U.S. Code.
    6. Is synonymous with being a “national” within statutory law.
    7. Is associated with a specific COUNTRY.
    8. Is called a “political citizen” or a “citizen of the United States in a political sense” by the courts to distinguish it from a STATUTORY citizen.  See Powe v. United States, 109 F.2d. 147 (1940).
  2. Domicile:
    1. Is a civil status.
    2. Is ALWAYS GEOGRAPHICAL. You can’t have a domicile that is NOT tied to a specific physical geographical place.
    3. Is ALWAYS tied to definitions relating to the GEOGRAPHICAL context for the word used. For instance “U.S. person” in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(30).
    4. Always requires your consent and therefore is discretionary. 
    5. Is not even addressed in the constitution.
    6. Is defined by civil statutory law RATHER than the constitution.
    7. Is in NO WAY connected with one’s nationality.
    8. Is usually connected with the word “person”, “citizen”, “resident”, or “inhabitant” in statutory law.
    9. Is associated with a specific COUNTY and a STATE rather than a COUNTRY.
    10. Implies one is a “SUBJECT” of a SPECIFIC MUNICIPAL but not NATIONAL government.

Without absolute command over the following topics, and discussion about law or challenge to the income tax is the ultimate folly. Even knowing that taxation works under the concepts of property law will do you zero good. Without knowing these subjects THOROUGHLY, you cannot even get to first base with banks, brokerages, title companies, or the government—which are all full of people who also do not understand the following four concepts.

  1. Political sense
  2. Geographical sense
  3. Citizenship
  4. Nationality

For the purposes of this website:

Statutory TermOriginOur
terminology		Mainstream
court terminology
“citizen”26 C.F.R. §1.1-1(c)Citizen*Statutory political class
“citizen” of the “United StatesGOV“26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(30)(A)
26 C.F.R. §1.1-1(a) and (b)		Citizen**+DStatutory domestic civil subclass of the statutory political class.

NOTES:

  1. The “+D” at the end of “citizen**” in the above table means a “Domestic Election” that turns a purely political “citizen*” into a CIVIL statutory citizen INTERNAL to the United StatesGOV.
  2. The need for differences between Our Terminology and Mainstream Court Terminology is explained in:
    Microsoft Copilot: How do you suggest improving our terminology relating to “civil status” in order to reduce the possibility of frivolous accusations?, FTSIG
    https://ftsig.org/microsoft-copilot-how-do-you-suggest-improving-our-terminology-relating-to-civil-status-in-order-to-reduce-the-possibility-of-frivolous-accusations/
  3. For a detailed mapping of our terminology to mainstream court terminology, see:
    Writing Conventions on This Website, Section 11: Mapping of Site Terminology to Prevailing Legal Terminology
    https://ftsig.org/introduction/writing-conventions-on-this-website/#11._Mapping
  4. On this website, there is no such thing as a United StatesG for the reasons described below:
    FRIVOLOUS SUBJECT: There is such thing as a “citizen of the United StatesG” on this website, FTSIG
    https://ftsig.org/frivolous-subject-there-is-such-thing-as-a-citizen-of-the-united-statesg-on-this-website/