Your Sovereignty

All men and women are born equal sovereigns, carrying unalienable rights, responsibilities, and credit (commercial energy). A child is born as sovereign holder in due course of a private estate—rights, body, soul, creations, and real and intellectual property.

Sovereign people on the land may assemble and form a sovereign government “of the people, by the people, for the people” under Common Law—the Law of the Land. When they do so with rights they already hold, they delegate some inherent powers to their de jure government and its agencies through oath-bound public servants. That government is raised by a lawful constitution as a body politic; a fictional corporation is raised by legal incorporation as a body corporate. A sovereign government of the people has no jurisdiction over any living man or woman without fully informed, freely given consent, subject to due process of law.

Government can, however, register artificial legal persons and then control those “creatures of the State” with statutory contracts under Admiralty/Maritime jurisdiction—the Law of the Sea. A man or woman who contracts with the State, freely or by accident, consents to act in a public capacity as an artificial legal person controlled by the State. Privileges granted to that person cannot exceed the unalienable rights living men and women already hold. Those rights are limited only by the Common Law duty not to harm other living people, and by common-sense duty toward the living Earth and its natural laws.

“Sovereignty itself is, of course, not subject to law, for it is the author and source of law; but in our system, while sovereign powers are delegated to the agencies of government, sovereignty itself remains with the people, by whom and for whom all government exists and acts. And the law is the definition and limitation of power.” — Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356.

“People are supreme, not the State.” — Waring v. the Mayor of Savannah, 60 Georgia at 93.

“The people of the State do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.” — Added Stats. 1953, c. 1588, p. 3270, sec. 1.

“The people are the recognized source of all authority, state or municipal, and to this authority it must come at last, whether immediately or by circuitous route.” — Barnes v. District of Columbia, 91 U.S. 540, 545.

“The government is but an agency to the State,” — the State being the sovereign people. — State v. Chase, 175 Minn. 259, 220 N.W. 951, 953.

“The rights of the individual are not derived from governmental agencies, either municipal, state, or federal, or even from the Constitution. They exist inherently in every man, by endowment of the Creator, and are merely reaffirmed in the Constitution, and restricted only to the extent that they have been voluntarily surrendered by the citizenship to the agencies of government. The people’s rights are not derived from the government, but the government’s authority comes from the people.” — City of Dallas v. Mitchell, 245 S.W. 944, 945–46 (1922).

“A constitution is designated as a supreme enactment, a fundamental act of legislation by the people of the State. A constitution is legislation direct from the people acting in their sovereign capacity, while a statute is legislation from their representatives, subject to limitations prescribed by the superior authority.” — Ellingham v. Dye, 178 Ind. 336; and related authorities.

“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).

A sovereign government cannot also be a corporation: sovereignty is the source of law; a corporation is a creature of law. Sovereign people, as the source of law, may create legal fictions—artificial persons, companies, trusts, societies, foundations—but a sovereign government and its sovereign agencies are, by definition, unincorporated.

Yet central-bank nations are incorporated, so de jure nations are often unoccupied by oath-keeping representatives of the sovereign people.

De jure Common Law (Law of the Land) governments have been displaced by de facto Admiralty/Maritime (Law of the Sea) operators—private mercenaries, in substance, administering fraudulent bankruptcies. An incorporated government in the international Law of the Sea is foreign to the Law of the Land. Every sovereign man or woman oppressed by such a structure is a victim of treason against the people’s sovereignty.