PROOF OF FACTS: Consent circumscribes the boundary between PUBLIC and PRIVATE, and what is DOMESTIC and FOREIGN
SOURCE: Requirement for Consent, Form ##05.003, Section 1.6; https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/Consent.pdf
The requirement for consent circumscribes the legal boundary between PUBLIC and PRIVATE as well as DOMESTIC and FOREIGN in relation to any and every government. The essence of what a “sovereign” is, in fact, is someone who is legislatively foreign in relation to other sovereigns under the civil law, where a sovereign can be a government, human, church, etc. To wit:
Table 1: Consent as the boundary between PUBLIC and PRIVATE as well as DOMESTIC and FOREIGN
| Description | Without consent to become a statutory citizen | With consent to the civil statutory law |
| Type of right | PRIVATE | PUBLIC |
| Legal status in relation to government | FOREIGN | DOMESTIC |
| Can acquire a statutory status under statutory civil law such as “taxpayer”, “driver”? | NO | YES |
| Presumptions | All rights are private until proven to be consensually donated to the public | All statuses and rights under statutes are presumed to be PUBLIC until proven to be PRIVATE. |
PRIVATE rights by legal definition are beyond the control of all government and have to be left alone as a matter of law. The only exception is when you hurt others, in which case private rights can be taken away without your consent so damages can be paid. The right to be left alone, in fact, is what justice is defined as.
“The power to “legislate generally upon” life, liberty, and property, as opposed to the “power to provide modes of redress” against offensive state action, was “repugnant” to the Constitution. Id., at 15. See also United States v. Reese, 92 U.S. 214, 218 (1876); United States v. Harris, 106 U.S. 629, 639 (1883); James v. Bowman, 190 U.S. 127, 139 (1903). Although the specific holdings of these early cases might have been superseded or modified, see, e.g., Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (1964); United States v. Guest, 383 U.S. 745 (1966), their treatment of Congress’ §5 power as corrective or preventive, not definitional, has not been questioned.”
[City of Boerne v. Florez, Archbishop of San Antonio, 521 U.S. 507 (1997);
SOURCE: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=521&page=507]
Only by VOLUNTARILY connecting PRIVATE rights with PUBLIC rights or civil statutory law can such rights be regulated, taxed, or interfered with. Anyone in government asserting a right over your otherwise PRIVATE property has the burden of showing that you consensually donated it to a public use. This was described by the U.S. Supreme Court as follows:
“Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,- ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;’ and to ‘secure,’ not grant or create, these rights, governments are instituted. That property [or income] which a man has honestly acquired he retains full control of, subject to these limitations: First, that he shall not use it to his neighbor’s injury, and that does not mean that he must use it for his neighbor’s benefit [e.g. SOCIAL SECURITY, Medicare, and every other public “benefit”]; second, that if he devotes it to a public use, he gives to the public a right to control that use; and third, that whenever the public needs require, the public may take it upon payment of due compensation.”
[Budd v. People of State of New York, 143 U.S. 517 (1892);
SOURCE: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=143&page=517]
The U.S. Supreme Court also described how legal entities and persons transition from being FOREIGN to DOMESTIC in relation to a specific court or venue, which is ONLY with their express consent. This process of giving consent is also called a “waiver of sovereign immunity” and it applies equally to governments, states, and the humans occupying them. To wit:
Before we can proceed in this cause we must, therefore, inquire whether we can hear and determine the matters in controversy between the parties, who are two states of this Union, sovereign within their respective boundaries, save that portion of power which they have granted to the federal government, and foreign to each other for all but federal purposes. So they have been considered by this Court, through a long series of years and cases, to the present term; during which, in the case of The Bank of the United States v. Daniels, this Court has declared this to be a fundamental principle of the constitution; and so we shall consider it in deciding on the present motion. 2 Peters, 590, 91.
Those states, in their highest sovereign capacity, in the convention of the people thereof; on whom, by the revolution, the prerogative of the crown, and the transcendant power of parliament devolved, in a plenitude unimpaired by any act, and controllable by no authority, 6 Wheat. 651; 8 Wheat. 584, 88; adopted the constitution, by which they respectively made to the United States a grant of judicial power over controversies between two or more states. By the constitution, it was ordained that this judicial power, in cases where a state was a party, should be exercised by this Court as one of original jurisdiction. The states waived their exemption from judicial power, 6 Wheat. 378, 80, as sovereigns by original and inherent right, by their own grant of its exercise over themselves in such cases, but which they would not grant to any inferior tribunal. By this grant, this Court has acquired jurisdiction over the parties in this cause, by their own consent and delegated authority; as their agent for executing the judicial power of the United States in the cases specified.
[The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Complainants v. the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Defendant, 37 U.S. 657, 12 Pet. 657, 9 L.Ed. 1233 (1838);
SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6577896363025029999]
The idea of the above cite is that all civil subject matters or powers by any government NOT expressly consented to by the object of those powers are foreign and therefore outside the civil legal jurisdiction of that government. This fact is recognized in the Declaration of Independence, which states that all just powers derive from the CONSENT of those governed. The method of providing that consent, in the case of a human, is to select a civil domicile within a specific government and thereby nominate a protector under the civil statutory laws of the territory protected by that government. This fact is recognized in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 17(b), which says that the capacity to sue or be sued is determined by the law of the domicile of the party. Civil statutory laws from places or governments OUTSIDE the domicile of the party may therefore NOT be enforced by a court against the party. This subject is covered further in:
| Why Domicile and Becoming a “Taxpayer” Require Your Consent, Form #05.002 https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/Domicile.pdf |
A very important aspect of domicile is that whether one is domestic and a citizen or foreign and a non-resident under the civil statutory laws is determined SOLELY by one’s domicile, and NOT their nationality. You can be born anywhere in America and yet still be a statutory “non-resident non-person” or “transient foreigner” in relation to any and every state or government within America simply by not choosing or having a domicile within any municipal government in the country. You can also be a statutory “non-resident non-person” in relation to the national government and yet still have a civil domicile within a specific Constitutional state of the Union, because your DOMICILE is foreign, not your nationality.
In law, a “non-resident” is called a “foreigner”, “stranger”, “transient foreigner”, “sojourner”, or “stateless person”. This is an unavoidable result of the fact that states of the Union are:
1. Sovereign in respect to each other and in respect to federal jurisdiction.
2. “foreign countries” or “foreign states” with respect to federal legislative jurisdiction.
“The United States Government is a foreign corporation with respect to a state.” [N.Y. v. re Merriam 36 N.E. 505, 141 N.Y. 479, affirmed 16 S.Ct. 1073, 41 L.Ed. 287]
[19 Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.), Corporations, §884 (2003);
SOURCE: http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/Evidence/Jurisdiction/19CJS883.jpg]
3. Addressed as “states” rather than “States” in federal law because they are foreign.
4. The equivalent of independent nations in respect to federal jurisdiction excepting the subject of foreign affairs.
“The States between each other are sovereign and independent. They are distinct and separate sovereignties, except so far as they have parted with some of the attributes of sovereignty by the Constitution. They continue to be nations, with all their rights, and under all their national obligations, and with all the rights of nations in every particular; except in the surrender by each to the common purposes and objects of the Union, under the Constitution. The rights of each State, when not so yielded up, remain absolute.”
[Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 38 U.S. (13 Pet.) 519, 10 L.Ed. 274 (1839);
SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12567173859272174846]
The Bible shows how the transition from FOREIGN to DOMESTIC and POLITICAL to LEGAL happens in relation to God in the following passage:
2 That at that time ye were without (separated from) Christ, being aliens (shut out) from the commonwealth (Politeo, polis) of Israel, and strangers (xenos or alien) from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God (atheist) in the world (cosmos):
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition (hedge or fence) between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity (hostility), even the law (nomos) of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man (anthropos), so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain (killed) the enmity thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18 For through him we both have access (freedom or right to enter) by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers (xenos or foreigner or alien) and foreigners (one who lives in a place without citizenship), but fellow citizens (sumpolitai: from polis) with the saints, and of the household (domestic, blood kindred) of God;
[Eph. 2:2-19, Bible, KJV (amplified)]
Translations of the words and phrases found above into contemporary legal language:
Table 2: Biblical v. Legal use of terms within the Bible relating to domicile
| # | Bible term | Legal meaning within secular law |
| 1 | “Christ Jesus” | Our political ruler. In secular terms, civil rulers are “kings” under the civil statutory law. |
| 2 | “aliens” | Those with a foreign domicile regardless of the geographical place of birth. |
| 3 | “commonwealth” | political entity or state. |
| 4 | “covenants of promise” | Social Compact. The Social Compact is implemented by the civil statutory law. Criminal law does not require consent to lawfully enforce, so it technically is not a covenant or agreement. |
| 5 | “strangers from the covenants” | Not consenting members of the body politic or the “social compact”. Not protected by the civil statutory law. |
| 6 | “having no hope” | fearful because outside the protection and benefit of your king or ruler. |
| 7 | “without God” | Without a government civil protector. |
| 8 | “middle wall of partition” | Legal boundary between what is just and unjust. The Declaration of Independence says that all just powers of government derive from the CONSENT of the governed. It would be unjust and an act of terrorism to interfere with or even protect the property or rights of those who didn’t consent to RECEIVE the protection. |
| 9 | “the enmity (hostility)” | The jealous insistence of self-government and self-ownership and one’s PRIVATE rather than PUBLIC status. Also, the status of being a criminal under God’s law who has not yet been arrested or incarcerated. Under God’s laws, we are all criminals and deserve death, eternal separation from God, prison, and isolation. That’s the story of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve had to be kicked out of the Garden after they sinned. |
| 10 | “abolished in his flesh . . .even the law (nomos) of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man (anthropos), so making peace;” | Christ abolished the enmity and separation between God and us by becoming a living sacrifice and paying the penalty for our sin demanded by God’s commandments. Hence, we can safely leave the slavery and isolation of our sin and return to fellowship with God. Prisons do the same thing. Criminals must be separated from society by being put in jail. They must fulfill their sentence before they can return to society and fellowship as an equal member once again. |
Before we become Christians, we are legally separated from God and outside of the protection and “benefit” (blessing) of His laws:
1. God’s criminal laws “protect” us. His criminal laws protect us even if we don’t consent to the protection. They attach to the LAND we stand on and therefore are called the “law of the land”. Sin has the effect of “uprooting us” from the “protections” of this “law of the land”:
“For the upright will dwell in the land,
And the blameless will remain in it;
But the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.”[Prov. 2:21-22, Bible, NKJV]
2. God’s civil statutory laws “benefit” or “bless” us. We must consent to become the proper subject of His CIVIL laws, and hence, we must be a party to a COVENANT to receive their “benefits”. Anything that conveys “benefits” or “blessings” is a franchise in legal terminology. Legal evidence of the existence of our covenant with God is the act of baptism. Beyond baptism, our acts of obedience and professed faith also constitutes such legal evidence. James 2.
Being “outside” of the protection of a specific system of law as described below is called being “foreign”, a “stranger”, “stateless”, or a “nonresident” in secular legal terms.
2 That at that time ye were without (separated from) Christ, being aliens (shut out) from the commonwealth (Politeo, polis) of Israel, and strangers (xenos or alien) from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God (atheist) in the world (cosmos):
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition (hedge or fence) between us;
While we are “foreign”, a “stranger”,’ stateless”, and a “nonresident” in relation to God and His laws, we are usually “domestic”, a statutory “person”, and a “subject” in relation to a political ruler. The Apostle Paul refers to the shedding of this legal identity as “putting on the new man”:
The New Man
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
[Eph. 4:17-24, Bible, NKJV]
After we have shed Caesars/Satan’s authority over us, we are no longer under Caesar’s protection:
“But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”
[. . .]
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.”
[Galatians 5:18, Bible, NKJV]
The “new man” referred to above is actually a TRUSTEE POSITION or “office” within the Bible trust indenture, just like all of man’s civil law. The believer then becomes a “foreigner” in relation to Caesar’s civil statutory franchise codes and no longer an AGENT of Caesar, but rather of God. You can only have ONE King and ONE domicile and ONE allegiance at a time, or you have a conflict of interest:
“All the powers of the government [including ALL of its civil enforcement powers against the public] must be carried into operation by individual agency, either through the medium of public officers, or contracts made with [private] individuals.”
[Osborn v. Bank of U.S., 22 U.S. 738 (1824);
SOURCE: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=22&page=738]
To redeem us from the corruption of this pagan system of secular law that enslaves us to worshipping false idols called civil rulers, Christ shed His blood for us. When we accept His free gift of salvation through faith, we become “domestic” in relation to God and “foreign” in relation to the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition (hedge or fence) between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity (hostility), even the law (nomos) of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man (anthropos), so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain (killed) the enmity thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18 For through him we both have access (freedom or right to enter) by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers (xenos or foreigner or alien) and foreigners (one who lives in a place without citizenship), but fellow citizens (sumpolitai: from polis) with the saints, and of the household (domestic, blood kindred) of God;
The Biblical political model for government was based on city-states rather than “states”. Ancient cities had walls around them and a gate controlling entry and exit. To enter the city, you had to be a STATUTORY “citizen”, “resident”, or “member” of the city, and swear allegiance to the ruler.
Blessed are those who do [OBEY] His commandments [LAWS], that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside [the city and its protection] are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
[Rev. 22:14-15, Bible, NKJV]
The only way to avoid committing idolatry is to ensure that God is the King of the city you want to be a member of. The Bible book of Nehemiah describes how such a city can be and was built. It describes the rebuilding of the wall around Jerusalem and the restoration of God as the King of the Israelites. To do this, all the people in the new city had to:
1. Study God’s law.
Now all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded Israel. So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could hear with understanding on the first day of the seventh month. Then he read from it in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate from morning until midday, before the men and women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.
So Ezra the scribe stood on a platform of wood which they had made for the purpose; and beside him, at his right hand, stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Urijah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah; and at his left hand Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up. And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God.
Then all the people answered, “Amen, Amen!” while lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
[Nehemiah 8:1-6, Bible, NKJV]
2. Restore the authority of God’s law by SEPARATING themselves from everyone OUTSIDE, meaning the “foreigners”, “strangers”, and “nonresidents” and confessing their sins. Being SEPARATE and being “sanctified” are equivalent in the context of the Bible. “Sanctified” means “set aside for a purpose”, and that purpose of God’s purpose and obedience to Him and His divine law.
The People Confess Their Sins
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads. Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for one–fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.
[Nehemiah 9:1-3, Bible, NKJV]
The basis for our ministry is, in fact, the rebuilding of this wall of separation between church, which is believers as individual humans, and the secular pagan state, which is the heathens around us. See the following discussion about Nehemiah in:
| SEDM About Us Page, Section 2: Mission Statement http://sedm.org/Ministry/AboutUs.htm |
The Heaven we enter after the final judgment called “The New Jerusalem” is described as such a great city. You can’t enter this walled city without allegiance to its King, who is Jesus, and without obedience to the laws that make it a safe and pleasant place for EVERYONE. If Jesus is your Savior but NOT your Sovereign Lord and KING, then you can’t enter this city!
The New Jerusalem
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal. Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
[Rev. 21:9-21, Bible, NKJV]
The wall keeps the sinners, disobedient, and anarchists (in relation to God’s laws) OUT of the city. These people are NOT subject to the laws applicable WITHIN the city, but instead are “foreign”, a “stranger”, “stateless”, or a “nonresident” in relation to the civil laws of that place. All laws are prima facie territorial, meaning that they DO NOT apply to people not ON that land or at least domiciled there.
The foregoing considerations would lead, in case of doubt, to a construction of any statute as intended to be confined in its operation and effect to the territorial limits over which the lawmaker has general and legitimate power. ‘All legislation is prima facie territorial.’ Ex parte Blain, L. R. 12 Ch. Div. 522, 528; State v. Carter, 27 N.J.L. 499; People v. Merrill, 2 Park. Crim. Rep. 590, 596. Words having universal scope, such as ‘every contract in restraint of trade,’ ‘every person who shall monopolize,’ etc., will be taken, as a matter of course, to mean only everyone subject to such legislation, not all that the legislator subsequently may be able to catch. In the case of the present statute, the improbability of the United States attempting to make acts done in Panama or Costa Rica criminal is obvious, yet the law begins by making criminal the acts for which it gives a right to sue. We think it entirely plain that what the defendant did in Panama or Costa Rica is not within the scope of the statute so far as the present suit is concerned. Other objections of a serious nature are urged, but need not be discussed.
[American Banana Co. v. U.S. Fruit, 213 U.S. 347 at 357-358;
SOURCE: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=213&page=347]
“The canon of construction which teaches that legislation of Congress, unless a contrary intent appears, is meant to apply only within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, Blackmer v. United States, supra, at 437, is a valid approach whereby unexpressed congressional intent may be ascertained. It is based on the assumption that Congress is primarily concerned with domestic conditions.”
[Foley Brothers, Inc. v. Filardo, 336 U.S. 281 (1949);
SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6379131599355318274]
“The laws of Congress in respect to those matters [outside of Constitutionally delegated powers] do not extend into the territorial limits of the states, but have force only in the District of Columbia, and other places that are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the national government.”)
[Caha v. U.S., 152 U.S. 211 (1894);
SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17952967183827344130]
“There is a canon of legislative construction which teaches Congress that, unless a contrary intent appears [legislation] is meant to apply only within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.”)
[U.S. v. Spelar, 338 U.S. 217 at 222;
SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8108676741530631850]
In the case of the civil statutory “codes” or protection franchise, you must not only be ON that land, but must CONSENT to be protected by them by consensually choosing a domicile within the jurisdiction of the “state” that civilly protects that land. If you don’t choose such a domicile on the land in which you have injured someone, then:
- The party you injured and you are both protected only by the Constitution and the Common law.
- You are a “foreign”, a “stranger”, “stateless”, or a “nonresident” in relation to the civil statutory codes of that place.
- Those who attempt to enforce the civil statutory “codes” against a non-resident are guilty of compelling you to contract under the terms of the “social compact”, meaning the civil statutory protection franchise codes.
- Any case law that is quoted against you is merely “political speech” and propaganda designed to deceive you into obedience to franchise codes that don’t apply to you. All case law that is quoted in court must derive from parties “similarly situated”, meaning those who are “nonresidents” under the civil statutory franchise codes. This rule is maliciously violated all the time by corrupt judges intent on usurping authority and committing TREASON.
- If you are a Christian and Jesus is your only King and therefore lawgiver, then you are an agent of a foreign state called “Heaven” and a public officer of the Kingdom of Heaven. You are from the city of “New Jerusalem”.
TITLE 28 > PART IV > CHAPTER 97 > Sec. 1603.
Sec. 1603. – DefinitionsFor purposes of this chapter –
(a) A ”foreign state”, except as used in section 1608 of this title, includes a political subdivision of a foreign state or an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state as defined in subsection (b).
(b) An ”agency or instrumentality of a foreign state” means any entity –
(1) which is a separate legal person, corporate or otherwise, and
(2) which is an organ of a foreign state or political subdivision thereof, or a majority of whose shares or other ownership interest is owned by a foreign state or political subdivision thereof, and
(3) which is neither a citizen of a State of the United States as defined in section 1332 (c) and (d) of this title, nor created under the laws of any third country.
As a public officer, agent, and trustee of God under the Bible trust indenture and someone who is “domestic” in relation to Heaven and “foreign” in relation to Caesar, you are an “ambassador” of God who is subject ONLY to the CIVIL lawgiver you represent.
“Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
[2 Cor. 5:20-21, Bible, NKJV]
“Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.”
[Eph. 6:14-20, Bible, NKJV]
PARTICULAR PERSONS
4. Public Officials and Employees; Members of the Armed Services
§31 Public Officials and Employees
Ambassadors, consuls, and other public officials residing abroad in governmental service do not generally acquire a domicile in the country where their official duties are performed, but retain their original domicile,” although such officials may acquire a domicile at their official residence, if they engage in business or commerce inconsistent with, or extraneous to, their public or diplomatic character.
[Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.), Domicile, §31 (2003);
SOURCE: http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/CitesByTopic/Domicile-28CJS-20051203.pdf]
Jesus even described how we became “foreign”, a “stranger”, “stateless”, or a “nonresident”:
“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of [domiciled within] the world, but I [Jesus] chose you [believers] out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A [public] servant is not greater than his [Sovereign] master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also [as trustees of the public trust]. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him [God] who sent Me.”
[Jesus in John 15:19-21, Bible, NKJV]
The phrase “do not know Him who sent Me” is equivalent to someone who has no commercial or legal relationship with God by virtue of not accepting or nominating Him as their CIVIL protector. These people are domiciled on Earth within Caesar’s jurisdiction rather than in Heaven under God’s civil protection. They are therefore practicing idolatry and are under the control of the “wicked one” as Jesus called Him in Matt. 13, 1 John 2, and 1 John 3. They are “worshipping” a false idol called “Caesar” because they have nominated HIM as their pagan civil lawgiver instead of God. The source of law in any society is the GOD of that society and if Caesar’s law deviates from God’s law, then Caesar is the new pagan god:
Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations [and be OVER them]”.
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have rejected Me [God], that I should not reign over them. According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day—with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods [Kings, in this case]—so they are doing to you also [government becoming idolatry]. Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them.”
[1 Sam. 8:4-9, Bible, NKJV]
The Bible even describes Jesus as NOT having an Earthly domicile:
Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
[Matt. 8:19-20, Bible, NKJV]
Consistent with the above analysis, states of the Union:
1. Are considered legislatively “foreign” in relation to each other.
“For all national purposes embraced by the Federal Constitution, the States and the citizens thereof are one, united under the same sovereign authority, and governed by the same laws. In all other respects the States are necessarily foreign and independent of each other.”
[Buckner v. Finley, 27 U.S. 586, 2 Pet. 586 (1829);
SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3776421873952737551]
Foreign Laws: “The laws of a foreign country or sister state. In conflicts of law, the legal principles of jurisprudence which are part of the law of a sister state or nation. Foreign laws are additions to our own laws, and in that respect are called ‘jus receptum’.”
[Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th Edition, p. 647]
2. Are called “foreign states” in relation to the national government.
Foreign States: “Nations outside of the United States…Term may also refer to another state; i.e. a sister state. The term ‘foreign nations’, …should be construed to mean all nations and states other than that in which the action is brought; and hence, one state of the Union is foreign to another, in that sense.”
[Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th Edition, p. 648]
3. Are called “sovereign” because they are legislatively foreign.
“Generally, the states of the Union sustain toward each other the relationship of independent sovereigns or independent foreign states, except in so far as the United States is paramount as the dominating government, and in so far as the states are bound to recognize the fraternity among sovereignties established by the federal Constitution, as by the provision requiring each state to give full faith and credit to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of the other states…”
[81A Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.), United States, §29 (2003)]
4. Can only surrender their “foreign status” WITH THEIR express consent.
Before we can proceed in this cause we must, therefore, inquire whether we can hear and determine the matters in controversy between the parties, who are two states of this Union, sovereign within their respective boundaries, save that portion of power which they have granted to the federal government, and foreign to each other for all but federal purposes. So they have been considered by this Court, through a long series of years and cases, to the present term; during which, in the case of The Bank of the United States v. Daniels, this Court has declared this to be a fundamental principle of the constitution; and so we shall consider it in deciding on the present motion. 2 Peters, 590, 91.
Those states, in their highest sovereign capacity, in the convention of the people thereof; on whom, by the revolution, the prerogative of the crown, and the transcendant power of parliament devolved, in a plenitude unimpaired by any act, and controllable by no authority, 6 Wheat. 651; 8 Wheat. 584, 88; adopted the constitution, by which they respectively made to the United States a grant of judicial power over controversies between two or more states. By the constitution, it was ordained that this judicial power, in cases where a state was a party, should be exercised by this Court as one of original jurisdiction. The states waived their exemption from judicial power, 6 Wheat. 378, 80, as sovereigns by original and inherent right, by their own grant of its exercise over themselves in such cases, but which they would not grant to any inferior tribunal. By this grant, this Court has acquired jurisdiction over the parties in this cause, by their own consent and delegated authority; as their agent for executing the judicial power of the United States in the cases specified.
[The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Complainants v. the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Defendant, 37 U.S. 657, 12 Pet. 657, 9 L.Ed. 1233 (1838);
SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6577896363025029999]
The same distinctions apply to the PEOPLE within those states in relation to their own state government and even the national government, at least from a CIVIL statutory perspective.
“The United States Government is a foreign corporation with respect to a state.” [N.Y. v. re Merriam 36 N.E. 505, 141 N.Y. 479; affirmed 16 S.Ct. 1073; 41 L. Ed. 287] [underlines added]
[19 Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.), Corporations, §884 (2003);
SOURCE: http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/Evidence/Jurisdiction/19CJS883.jpg]
Why is the national government a “foreign corporation” in respect to a CONSTITUTIONAL state? Because their first and MAIN job is to leave you alone, which means treat you as “foreign”, “stateless”, a “nonresident”, and a “stranger” unless and until you SPECIFICALLY CONSENT, demand, and ask to be civilly protected by selecting a civil domicile. As we have just proven, you are an IDIOT and an idolater of you ask Caesar to do this, according to God.
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be pursued, until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.”
[James Madison, The Federalist No. 51 (1788);
SOURCE: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp]
PAULSEN, ETHICS (Thilly’s translation), chap. 9.
“Justice, as a moral habit, is that tendency of the will and mode of conduct which refrains from disturbing the lives and interests of others, and, as far as possible, hinders such interference on the part of others. This virtue springs from the individual’s respect for his fellows as ends in themselves and as his co equals. The different spheres of interests may be roughly classified as follows: body and life; the family, or the extended individual life; property, or the totality of the instruments of action; honor, or the ideal existence; and finally freedom, or the possibility of fashioning one’s life as an end in itself. The law defends these different spheres, thus giving rise to a corresponding number of spheres of rights, each being protected by a prohibition. . . . To violate the rights, to interfere with the interests of others, is injustice. All injustice is ultimately directed against the life of the neighbor; it is an open avowal that the latter is not an end in itself, having the same value as the individual’s own life. The general formula of the duty of justice may therefore be stated as follows: Do no wrong yourself, and permit no wrong to be done, so far as lies in your power; or, expressed positively: Respect and protect the right.”
[Readings on the History and System of the Common Law, Second Edition, Roscoe Pound, 1925, p. 2]
“The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man’s spiritual nature, of his feelings and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.“
[Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 478 (1928) (Brandeis, J., dissenting);
SOURCE: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=277&invol=438#478
see also Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 210 (1990)]
“Do not strive with [or try to regulate or control or enslave] a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.”
[Prov. 3:30, Bible, NKJV]
“With all [our] blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens–a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.“
[Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:320]
You have to SURRENDER your right to be left alone, fire God as your civil protector, and agree to commit idolatry by asking Caesar for civil protection. Once you ask, he will make you into a public officer working WITHIN his corporation and therefore “domestic”. Nearly all statutory “persons” are public officers, as we exhaustively prove in:
| Why Statutory Civil Law is Law for Government and Not Private Persons, Form #05.037 https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/StatLawGovt.pdf |
If you are not serving WITHIN the above “foreign corporation” of Caesar as a public officer, then you remain “foreign”, a “stranger”, “stateless”, or a “nonresident” in relation to that corporation. While serving WITHIN that corporation as its agent and officer, your effective domicile is the domicile of the corporation, which is the District of Columbia under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 17(b), as we established in Form #05.002, Section 11.3. If you want to REMAIN “foreign”, a “stranger”, “stateless”, or a “nonresident”, then you MUST ensure that you NEVER contract, meaning “fornicate” with The Beast Government (Rev. 19:19) for EITHER civil “protection” or civil “benefits”. In other words, you should NEVER consent to surrender your sovereignty or sovereign immunity to become a statutory “person”, “citizen”, or “resident” under the CIVIL statutory franchise codes:
Commerce. …Intercourse by way of trade and traffic between different peoples or states and the citizens or inhabitants thereof, including not only the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities, but also the instrumentalities [governments] and agencies by which it is promoted and the means and appliances by which it is carried on…”
[Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 269]
“Again, the devil took Him [Jesus] up on an exceedingly high [civil/legal status above all other humans] mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things [“BENEFITS”] I will give You if You will fall down [BELOW Satan but ABOVE other humans] and worship [serve as a PUBLIC OFFICER] me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’”
Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.”
[Matt. 4:8-11, Bible, NKJV]
“I [God] brought you up from Egypt [slavery] and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you. And you shall make no covenant [contract or franchise or agreement of ANY kind] with the inhabitants of this [corrupt pagan] land; you shall tear down their [man/government worshipping socialist] altars.‘ But you have not obeyed Me. Why have you done this?
“Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they will become as thorns [terrorists and persecutors] in your side and their gods will be a snare [slavery!] to you.'”
So it was, when the Angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voices and wept.
[Judges 2:1-4, Bible, NKJV]
“You shall make no covenant [contract or franchise] with them [foreigners, pagans], nor with their [pagan government] gods [laws or judges]. They shall not dwell in your land [and you shall not dwell in theirs by becoming a “resident” or domiciliary in the process of contracting with them], lest they make you sin against Me [God]. For if you serve their [government] gods [under contract or agreement or franchise], it will surely be a snare to you.”
[Exodus 23:32-33, Bible, NKJV]
‘For among My [God’s] people are found wicked [covetous public servant] men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men. As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich. They have grown fat, they are sleek; Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the fatherless [or the innocent, widows, or the nontaxpayer]; Yet they prosper, And the right of the needy they do not defend. Shall I not punish them for these things?’ says the Lord. ‘Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?’
“An astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests [judges in franchise courts that worship government as a pagan deity] rule by their own power; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?”
[Jer. 5:26-31, Bible, NKJV]
“The taxpayer– that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.”
[President Ronald W. Reagan;
SOURCE: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ronald_reagan_101811]
“In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.”
[Voltaire;
SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/author/15138-Voltaire/tag/injustice]
“The more you want [privileges], the more the world can hurt you.”
[Confucius]
“The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake; He will exalt the law and make it honorable. But this is a people robbed and plundered! All of them are snared in [legal] holes [by the sophistry of greedy government lawyers], and they are hidden in prison houses; they are for prey, and no one delivers; for plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”.
Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the Lord, He against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor were they obedient to His law, therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger and the strength of battle; it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not take it to heart.”
[Isaiah 42:21-25, Bible, NKJV]
If we don’t obey the above commandments, then here is the process of corruption that happens in which we will be DESTROYED. This process of corruption is summarized in an ancient maxim of law:
“Protectio trahit subjectionem, subjectio projectionem.
Protection draws to it subjection, subjection, protection. Co. Litt. 65.”[Bouvier’s Maxims of Law, 1856;
SOURCE: https://famguardian.org/Publications/BouvierMaximsOfLaw/BouviersMaxims.htm]
The above maxim of law is described in 1 Sam. 8:19-20:
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles [PROTECT us].”
[1 Sam. 8:19-20, Bible, NKJV]
The result of trusting Egypt/Babylon/District of Columbia for protection, franchises, or privileges is the following:
Israel Demands a King
So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who asked him for a king. And he said, “This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots. He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants. 16 And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men,[a] and your donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants. And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.”
[1 Sam. 8:10-18, Bible, NKJV]
Futile Confidence in Egypt [Babylon]
“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord,
“Who take counsel [legal advice], but not of Me,
And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit,
That they may add sin to sin;
Who walk to go down to Egypt [Babylon],
And have not asked My advice [God’s laws and holy spirit],
To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh [District of Columbia],
And to trust in the shadow [franchises] of Egypt!
Therefore the strength of Pharaoh
Shall be your shame,
And trust in the shadow of Egypt
Shall be your humiliation.
For his princes were at Zoan,
And his ambassadors came to Hanes.
They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit [franchises] them,
Or be help or benefit,
But a shame and also a reproach.”
[Isaiah 30:1-5, Bible, NKJV]
Notice the language “no help or benefit” in the last quote above. God is describing an UNFAIR or UNEQUAL trade wrought out of desperation and which produces “USURY”. We describe this as “the raw deal” scam, which is a euphemism for franchises and the FDR “New Deal”. The Bible reiterates this criticism of the government’s “raw deal scam” in the following:
For thus says the LORD: “ You have sold yourselves for nothing, And you shall be redeemed without money.”
[Isaiah 52:3, Bible, NKJV]
The same unequal sale for nothing happened during the famine in Egypt, and also in the first city Babylon between Nimrod and his “victims”, where he used the PLUNDER to build his tower to celebrate his vanity. Do you see a pattern here? It’s about USURY. For more on the “raw deal scam” and its origin with “protection”, see Form #05.002, Section 8.
The only remedy for the usury is:
- Love. God is love. He who does not love His neighbor does not know God.
- Empathy.
- Equality between the governors and the governed from a civil perspective, so that idolatry toward government is IMPOSSIBLE.
- Requirement for consent of the governed in any and every interaction between the governed and the governors.
- Contentment, which is the opposite of covetousness.
- “Meekness”, which is a synonym for all the above.
For more on who “Babylon the Harlot” and “Mystery Babylon” is, see:
- Your Irresponsible, Lawless, Anarchist Beast Government, Form #05.054
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/YourIrresponsibleLawlessGov.pdf - Devil’s Advocate: Lawyers-What We Are Up Against, SEDM
http://sedm.org/what-we-are-up-against/ - What is Mystery Babylon? Sermons, Sermon tapes 8527a through 8537b-Sheldon Emry
http://sheldonemrylibrary.famguardian.org/CassetteTapedMessages/1985/SheldonEmry/MysteryBabylon/Babylon.htm - What is Mystery Babylon? Book-Sheldon Emry
http://sheldonemrylibrary.famguardian.org/Books/MysteryBabylon/mysterybabylon.htm - Babylon the Great is Falling, Jack Hook
http://famguardian.org/Publications/BabylonTheGreatIsFalling/index.htm