Frivolous Positions: Introduction

1. Introduction The term “frivolous” is defined as follows: Frivolous.  Of little weight or importance.  A pleading is “frivolous” when it is clearly insufficient on its face and does not controvert the material points of the opposite pleading, and is presumably interposed for mere purposes of delay or to embarrass the opponent.  A claim or defense…

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Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548 (1937)

LINK TO CASE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11777818167992631527 SIGNIFICANCE: Declared compelled participation in Social Security by artificial entities BUT NOT HUMAN BEINGS constitutional. Opinion written by Justice Brandeis, a jew. The Findlaw version of this case has some rather compelling admissions in it: ‘I shall not discuss at length the question of power sometimes claimed for the General Government…

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Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967)

LINK TO CASE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2521246303796542623 SIGNIFICANCE: Establishes CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICAL “citizen of the United States***” status in the Fourteenth Amendment as RIGHT that cannot be taken away without your consent rather than a PRIVILEGE that CAN be taken away without your consent.

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Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875)

LINK TO CASE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5117525999793250938 SIGNIFICANCE: Established POLITICAL citizens* of a state as ipso facto also POLITICAL “citizens of the United States”. This forecloses any possibility that anyone can claim that they can be a state political citizen* without also being a national political citizen*.

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

LINK TO CASE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3381955771263111765 SIGNIFICANCE: Establishes the TWO components of citizenship: nationality and civil status (domicile). For an article on this subject, see: REBUTTAL: MSNBC Lies about the Fourteenth Amendment, SEDMhttps://sedm.org/msnbc-lies-about-the-fourteenth-amendment/

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Pennoyer v. Neff, 95 U.S. 714 (1878)

LINK TO CASE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13333263776496540273 SIGNIFICANCE: EXCERPT: 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…

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Milwaukee v. White, 296 U.S. 268 (1935)

LINK TO CASE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5901183028124997123 SIGNIFICANCE: Declare income taxation “quasi-contractual” “Even if the judgment is deemed to be colored by the nature of the obligation whose validity it establishes, and we are free to re-examine it, and, if we find it to be based on an obligation penal in character, to refuse to enforce it outside…

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Lawrence v. State Tax Commission, 286 U.S. 276 (1932)

LINK TO CASE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10241277000101996613 SIGNIFICANCE: Declared all state income taxes as being based on domicile. Appellant, a citizen and resident of Mississippi, brought the present suit to set aside the assessment of a tax upon so much of his net income for 1929 as arose from the construction by him of public highways in the…

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