Digging Deeper

Copilot: Duties and Authority of “Ministerial Officers” at the IRS and State Revenue Agencies

By ftsig-admin / April 14, 2026 / Comments Off on Copilot: Duties and Authority of “Ministerial Officers” at the IRS and State Revenue Agencies

INTRODUCTION: This short series of questions: More at: QUESTION 1: 1. Are people in government charged with accepting and processing government paperwork “ministerial officers”. 2. What is a “ministerial officer” 3. What are the limitations placed by law upon ministerial officers”? 4. Provide statutes, cases, and legal authorities supporting each statement. ANSWER 1: Below is…

Copilot: Effects of domicile and coerced civil capacity resulting from Government Identification

By ftsig-admin / April 12, 2026 / Comments Off on Copilot: Effects of domicile and coerced civil capacity resulting from Government Identification

QUESTION 1: Does domicile in a specific place automatically imply being subject to the civil statutory law of that place even though you wish to be protected only by the common law instead of the civil law? ANSWER 1: Short answer: No. Under American law, domicile does not give you the power to choose whether…

Copilot: Authorities Proving that purely POLITICAL status cannot be used to impose or enforce CIVIL obligations absent consent

By ftsig-admin / April 9, 2026 / Comments Off on Copilot: Authorities Proving that purely POLITICAL status cannot be used to impose or enforce CIVIL obligations absent consent

INTRODUCTION: More on this subject at: QUESTION 1: What book or authoritative source describes and proves why political status can’t be used to impose CIVIL obligations? ANSWER 1: Here’s the key thing: there is no single book that directly “proves” political status cannot be used to impose civil obligations, because U.S. courts do not frame…

Copilot: Mapping of Political Questions Doctrine to FTSIG Symbology and Terminology

By ftsig-admin / April 8, 2026 / Comments Off on Copilot: Mapping of Political Questions Doctrine to FTSIG Symbology and Terminology

INTRODUCTION: This series of questions deals with how courts collapse CIVIL and POLITICAL categories into one in order to unlawfully enlarge their jurisdiction and authority and destroy the separation of powers as documented in: Government Conspiracy to Destroy the Separation of Powers, Form #05.023https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/SeparationOfPowers.pdf Montesquieu was the man who engineered the now famous three branch…

Copilot: Legal Relationship Between Fifth Amendment Takings and Civil Regulation

By ftsig-admin / April 6, 2026 / Comments Off on Copilot: Legal Relationship Between Fifth Amendment Takings and Civil Regulation

QUESTION 1: What is the most accurate way consistent with doctrine to describe adverse affects on property rights under the Fifth Amendment to the extent that control over absolutely owned private property is adversely affected by participation in a particular civil statutory benefit or privilege? ANSWER 1: Here’s a way to frame this that stays…

Copilot: Types of Preemption and application to various presence types

By ftsig-admin / April 6, 2026 / Comments Off on Copilot: Types of Preemption and application to various presence types

QUESTION 1: 1. List type types of federal preemption. 2. Add those types to each type of presence in the following: Website Writing Conventions, Section 10: Types of Civil Legal Presencehttps://ftsig.org/introduction/writing-conventions-on-this-website/#10._Types ANSWER 1: Thanks for sharing the table — it’s clear you’re working with a conceptual framework that categorizes different types of legal presence and…

Copilot: Whether Retirement benefits of those not consenting to ECI are involuntarily ECI

By ftsig-admin / April 5, 2026 / Comments Off on Copilot: Whether Retirement benefits of those not consenting to ECI are involuntarily ECI

INTRODUCTION: This series of questions deals with the following scenario: Based on this analysis: More on this subject at: Retirement and Pensions, Form #08.028https://sedm.org/Forms/08-PolicyDocs/RetirementAndPensions.pdf QUESTION 1: Are 401k accounts “effectively connected” for those filing as a nonresident alien? ANSWER 1: Here’s the direct, authoritative, tax‑law‑grounded answer based on the IRS sources we just pulled: ⭐…

Copilot: What is a “gypsy” for the purposes of citizenship?

By ftsig-admin / April 1, 2026 / Comments Off on Copilot: What is a “gypsy” for the purposes of citizenship?

INTRODUCTION: This series of questions seeks a definition of the term “gypsy” used by Justice Barrett and raised during oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court held on 4/1/26. Context of these questions is provided below: We think something more sinister at the state level is happening. We think they have piggy-backed onto the federal…

Why Artificial Intelligence is of ZERO value in telling the truth about CORRUPT judicial doctrine

By ftsig-admin / March 29, 2026 / Comments Off on Why Artificial Intelligence is of ZERO value in telling the truth about CORRUPT judicial doctrine

INTRODUCTION: Microsoft Copilot, Chatgpt 5.4, 3/29/26 The Bill of Rights IS the national common law: “It would be a very curious and unsatisfactory result, if, in construing a provision of constitutional law, always understood to have been adopted for protection and security to the rights of the individual as against the government, and which has…

“CIVIL Statutory Capacity” v. Classical “public officer”

By ftsig-admin / March 27, 2026 / Comments Off on “CIVIL Statutory Capacity” v. Classical “public officer”

INTRODUCTION: This series of questions posed to Microsoft Copilot, Chatgpt 5.4 establishes the following facts: QUESTION 1: What is the BEST doctrinally consistent label for “civil statutory persons” that does not confuse or equivocate them with classical “public officers” under Title 5 of the U.S. code? ANSWER 1: Here’s the cleanest, most doctrinally accurate answer…