People create governments to serve, not rule. A people’s constitutional government is, by definition, a public trust instituted to serve private sovereign people in Common Law jurisdiction.
A trust forms automatically in law when a property interest is divided. Sovereign people form a public trust when they institute constitutional government. That government is an unincorporated Common Law assembly—a body politic—not an incorporated body corporate. People place trust in the skills of representatives elected into office (not into independent power). Representatives “go in your place.” The people employ them and every government worker. All are public servants working for free men and women of the nation.
Everyone in government service—from head of state to junior employee—derives limited authority from private sovereign people and owes a fiduciary duty as trustee to those beneficiaries.
Sovereignty resides in the People, whose power is the source of law.
Public officers swear allegiance according to law. The head of state is principal trustee of the Law of the Land—de jure Common Law. (For example, New Zealand’s Imperial Laws Application Act 1988 continues the common law of England as part of New Zealand law.) It is the sworn duty of public officers to uphold Common Law embodied in the people.
If delegated authority is turned against the sovereign people, the public trust is betrayed. Monetary, legal, and political corruption has subverted governments incorporated to serve debt-money bondage and extract wealth for elites. Even so, the foundation remains the public trust, over which the people are sovereign.
Every governmental entity, unincorporated or incorporated, is subordinate to every sovereign man or woman and to the sovereign people of every community—creatures subject to creators and to consent.
Freedom begins with realising the public trust exists to serve your life, not consume it. No other man or woman was born your master. Sovereignty is a right in Natural Law, but it is not given—it is exercised, by attention to unalienable rights.
Those who benefit from constitutional governance must maintain it by reasonable means that uphold founding principles. “It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error, it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.” — American Communications Ass’n v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950).