Let's Get Started

Words and Terms have two definitions:

A Common Use definition and a Legal/Lawful definition. Because of this we will often refer to the Black’s Law Dictionary in order to confirm the Legal/Lawful definition of a word, verses its common use definition when appropriate. This is for reference purposes only, and we must for the sake of exactness, rely primarily upon the Legal/Lawful definition.

Black's Law Dictionaries ( 9 editions) can be downloaded from the Library located in The Learning Center.

Citizenship in its purest form comes in two types:

• A citizen who is a member of the people in a state as part of the final authority over the government of that state as a body politic.
• And a citizen subject, who is subject to and owned by a government or sovereign that created the citizenship status.

A “Political Status” is a status that can be one of these two types. There are functionally 3 types of political status:

• A “Sovereign” (A King, Emperor, Government, or Nation)
• A “Citizen” (A member of a State who is a member of the governing body of people with political rights. Think “We the People” or “Kingship Shared by Many”)
• A “Citizen Subject” (A subject in voluntary or involuntary servitude to a Sovereign)

There are political statuses that are subject to another status/government and those that aren’t. Each nation has its own political statuses, including the United States of America.

There are two types of citizens:
• One who owes allegiance to, is subject to, and is a vassal to a government or sovereign.
• One who is a member of a self-governing state, that as a body is the final governing authority of a government limited to delegated powers and authority by members of the people.

This distinction being made between in both Black’s Law Dictionary(Legal) and Merriam-Webster Dictionary(Common Speak). There’s a “citizen” and a “citizen subject”. A citizen subject is a vassal to the government/sovereign, owing total faith and obedience, but with a citizen (member of a people/state) the roles are reversed and the government is controlled and limited by the citizens of the state for their purposes.
Congress acknowledges two distinct political statuses(4) in our nation, citizens of the states and citizens of the United States, going all the way back to 1872.

So, what are these two citizenships? And what type are they? Are they citizens or citizen subjects? It’s also unlikely you’ve ever been asked if you’re a state citizen, so let’s start with what we know by figuring out what a U.S. Citizen is.

1. Citizenship/Citizen Definition
2. State Definition
3. Allegiance Definition
4. Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 Annotated
5. The Slaughterhouse Cases (1872)

The U.S. Citizenship status was created after the Civil War when the 13th amendment wasn’t enough to ensure the proper treatment of ex-slaves. While “slavery” was abolished by the 13th amendment, southern states would still pass local laws prohibiting Negros from participating in their states, or receiving proper benefits from their states.

Even then, before the 14th amendment, negro slaves did not qualify to become “American Citizens” short of a modification to the Constitution.

The 14th amendment, then, was passed and the “U.S. Citizen” status was born. This status transferred primary citizenship from the individual states to the Congress and the Federal Government for those who bore this status, which allowed the Federal Government the power it needed to protect the Negros from states with discriminatory laws.

These protections however were limited at first, as “Jim Crow” laws were passed in the individual states that restricted and tightly controlled the “Alien U.S. Citizens/Negro Citizens” relative to the state ctitizens.

We then had two types political statuses in the nation: The U.S. Citizens who were granted civil rights and protections under the 14th amendment and “State Citizens” under the original Constitution and other founding documents of our nation which pre-existed the 14th amendment, who were the “People” of each state with full political rights.

With the legal precedent given by Brown v. Board of Education the “separate but equal” doctrine was eradicated and the “rights” of a U.S. Citizen was equalized with that of a “State Citizen”, which disallowed the states to treat their citizens differently than U.S. Citizens.

To this day the U.S. code clearly declares that “All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall enjoy the same rights as white citizens”. This perspective on history is further confirmed by the case US v Wong Kim Ark. The Slaughterhouse Cases also make it quite clear that U.S. Citizenship is Federal Citizenship.

Now that we got the background down, is a U.S. Citizen a citizen or a citizen subject?

Well, the United States code specifies quite clearly that a U.S. Citizen owes permanent allegiance to the United States, which means they are a Citizen Subject who is subject to Congress and the Federal Government for protection against their state. This is a classic formula for Allegiance.
But what is the other citizenship status? This “state citizen”?

1. Dred Scott vs. Sandford
2. The American Civil War
3. The 13^th Amendment
4. History of Law Article
5. The 14^th Amendment
6. Colgate vs. Harvey (1935)
7. Plessy vs. Ferguson
8. Brown vs. Board of Education
9. U.S. Code reference to “White” citizens
10. National of the United States Code Definitions
11. U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark
12. Library of Congress Article: Reconstruction and Rights
13. The Slaughterhouse Cases (1872)

While the old court cases are replete with references to “state citizenship”, there’s no reference to it in modern code. There is however, a definition in the U.S.C. that is close.

The US Code says quite clearly the definition of a “national”, which is a person owing allegiance to a state. Merriam Webster Defines a national as someone who may or may not have allegiance, but has the protection of a nation without the formal responsibilities of citizenship. In Title 26 the IRS defines two types of persons: U.S. citizens and “non-resident aliens”. The U.S.C defines an alien as anyone who isn’t a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National, while non-resident is defined as someone who is not considered under jurisdiction. Residency is used to describe a subject who is obliged to live on his lords land.

It is highly implied, then, that a “non-resident alien” who does not “reside” in the U.S., the legal definition not the common definition, by the definition of residence from Blacks Law Dictionary as not owing the United States (the Federal Government) tenancy could be a “national”.

It’s important to differentiate between these titles:

A U.S. Citizen or U.S. National owes permanent allegiance to the United States (Federal Government), as noted by . This is a Federal Citizen, and is a person in an agreement of allegiance with the Federal Government against their state as a person subject to their fuedal courts.

A national may or may not owe allegiance, but has the protections of, a specific state. In the case of our nation, its one of the individual states of the union. This is a state citizen, or “National” and is a member of the people, with authority over persons and things as a member of a body politic with political power for political purposes..

So when it comes to the type of citizen a national is, which are they? A citizen or citizen subject?

A “free inhabitant” as defined in our articles of confederation falls under this definition as the original citizenship of our nation and as a non-subject citizen. In the articles it’s implied that these citizens of the states aren’t subject to the state, as they can freely move between the states. Since they aren’t subject, it’s safe to say they are likely the free members of the states, also referred to as “the people”. The U.S.C. defines a national as having permanent allegiance to a state, so for all intents and purposes, the people hold permanent allegiance to themselves.

“People” is also a term associated with “state”, as previously noted. Our founding documents are also heavily focused on defining limited powers for our governments, and anything unspecified belongs to the people or to the state. This is a common structure for a “state”.

When working with the Federal Government, the term “national” seems to be the most accurate definition that they carry in their codes for what the original constitutional state citizen is, as a national is a member of a nation and the original state citizenship would constitute being a member of the nation with rights derived from Nature and Nature’s God.

A U.S. Citizen is a “Person” under the 14th amendment, and is distinct from a member of the people. These are the persons maintained by congress outside of the constitution.

1. National and National of the United States Definitions
2. Title 26 Jurisdictional Statement on Income Tax
3. Non-Resident Definition
4. Residency
5. McDonel vs. State, 90 Ind. 320 (1883)
6. The Articles of Confederation
7. Robert E. Lees Response to being asked to lead the North
8. United States v. Hall
9. The Declaration of Independence (1776)
10. State, Nation, People Definition
11. Downes v. Bidwell

Looking back on the definitions of state, people, and nation the people are the political force behind their nation. These three definitions are the trifecta that defines what a National is.

Since the U.S.C. defines a “national” as an individual who owes permanent allegiance to a state, and is a holder of political power in our nation the term national fits very nicely. A national is a member of the people, who as a body politic creates government for the enforcement of their will over things and persons in their territory, and for all intents and purposes is the nation.

In short, a national owes permanent alliance to themselves, at least as a body politic. This makes it quite clear that persons are distinct from people, as a person under the 14^th amendment can’t be a member of the “people” in the eyes of the Federal Government, as noted that federal citizenship takes primacy.

The reconstruction era was a troubling time, and the solution decided was just as troubling and extraordinary as the time it took place in.

As incredible as our Bill of Rights were, they could not be extended to include the freed slaves, as due to the disposition of the southern states they would freely discriminate against the freed slaves as they had no political status, were not citizens of the state, and had no protection.

That is when the Federal Government passed the 14th amendment and gave the freed black slaves a political status and protection as Federal Citizens. To grant that protection however, the Federal Government needed exclusive jurisdiction outside of and over the states on persons under the 14th amendment. Thus, when the Federal Government went to incorporating the Bill of Rights into the Rights of the freed slaves, they only brought over the ones that allowed total control and protection over the U.S. Citizen against their state.

The protections left out are as follows:

• Third Amendment: Soldiers of the U.S. Military may freely quarter themselves within the homes of U.S. Citizens.
• Fifth Amendment: You may be convicted of a crime WITHOUT a grand jury, which means that your conviction is determined not by your neighbors, but by the Federal Government.
• Sixth Amendment: In the same line as the 5th, the Federal Government is the final authority on your conviction.
• Seventh Amendment: No jury or common law, Federal Government has final authority.
• Ninth and Tenth Amendment: Not even mentioned, not incorporated, never will be. Any rights unspecified by default belong to the Federal Government, and the Constitution may be
  construed to deny rights retained by the people.
  • Even those included are reduced to mere privileges, as exercising many of these rights requires a license.

Common Law protections are critical, because the common law traditions do not require input from the Federal Government for your conviction unless it is in matters constitutionally granted to the control of the Federal Government.

On the other hand, a National, or the original state citizen, is only under the jurisdiction of their original state and retains all their natural rights and constitutional protections as defined by their state constitutions and national founding documents.

It would be accurate to describe a U.S. Citizen as a stripped-down version of a National when talking in terms of rights, as their rights come from the Federal Government and can be rejected at any time on a case by case basis. Typically however, these “rights” are sold as privileges in the form of licenses.

This is contrary to a National whose rights come from Nature and Nature’s God and are constitutionally protected. Since a Nationals Rights do not come from government they can’t be lawfully rejected by government because government doesn’t grant them, but in fact the government gets its rights and powers from Nationals, also known as the people.

1. Library of Congress Article: Reconstruction and Rights
2. The Bill of Rights Summary
3. The 14^th Amendment
4. Incorporation Doctrine
5. Definitions of License and Permission

While our nation was founded to be multiple independent and sovereign states, there by necessity must be an entity to represent them as a whole and manage aspects similar among all of them. This began with the articles of association which formed our Union.

Over time, this union was refined, and the “Federal Government” updated to perfect the union between the states.

We’ve always dictated that the Federal Government is separate, and stays out of the affairs of the individual states outside of its enumerated powers. It’s geographical jurisdiction is hard limited to 10 square miles in our constitution.

With the creation of the 14th Amendment, however, the Federal Government was given direct jurisdiction over a body of persons, circumventing state jurisdiction and the 10 square miles limitation.

We find however continued evidence that the “United States” is a “Federal Corporation”. It seems likely that this corporation was originally created to be a Municipal Government for the District of Columbia, and grew from there. This leads to a VERY confusing statement in the UCC.

The IRS in its code REALLY dances hard around calling the United States limited actual jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, and as noted previously only has direct authority over Citizens of the United States and Residents, and uses confusing language to specify its geographical limitations.

In short, the “United States” is our Federal Government. A U.S. Citizen is, per the 14th amendment, primarily subject to the Federal Government/United States, and NOT their state. A U.S. Citizen receives, exclusively, Civil Rights under the 14th amendment(12) from the Federal Government per the Incorporation Doctrine, and no constitutional protections.

1. March 4, 1861: First Inaugural Address - Abraham Lincoln
2. Constitution of the United States of America
3. The Slaughterhouse Cases (1872)
4. Volume 20: Corpus Juris Sec. § 1785
5. Definition of Government
6. 28 U.S. Code § 1746 : Within and Without the United States
7. The 14^th Amendment
8. 28 U.S. Code § 3002
9. An Act to provide a Government for the District of Columbia
10. UCC § 9-307. LOCATION OF DEBTOR
11. 26 U.S. Code § 7701 : United States Definition
12. Civil Rights and Civil Action Definitions

Our nation is the vast community of people living on this land in North America.

The “United States of America” is the name of our nation, declared in the Articles of Confederation and Declaration of Independence, then acknowledged by the global community in the Treaty of Paris.

Throughout these documents, the term “United States” is used as shorthand for the “United States of America”.

This carried on at least up to the 13th amendment in 1865 but 3 years later during the Reconstruction something happened. In the effort of protecting freed slaves from the invasion of their states, the sovereignty of the states was overruled by creating a political status in which Congress could protect them from the states.

This solved the problem for the freed slaves, but it shifted the balance of power greatly from the states to Congress and the Federal Government over those who were Citizens of the United States. Any powers in regards to these citizens instead of falling to the states and common law by default, fell to the Federal Government.

This is the point in which the “United States” and the “United States of America” split, between the 13th and the 14th amendment, proven by the reference to “their jurisdiction” in the 13th amendment changing to “the jurisdiction” in the 14th.

Nationals, or Citizens of the United States of America as citizens of a state, enjoy Rights provided by Nature and Natures God, and are not subject to these rights being revoked by the Federal Government, or any government as they aren’t granted by any such entity. These rights are enumerated in the Bill of Rights and protected, and under the 13th amendment suspended only if duly convicted of a crime. These natural rights are practiced through common law customs.

Should the Federal or State Governments exceed their jurisdiction, the Citizen of the United States of America (National/State Citizen) has ground to stand on to defend their rights, as the rights do not come from governments to begin with.

A U.S. Citizen on the other hand owes permanent allegiance to the Federal Government for protection against their state. They are subject, and their “rights” are actually revocable privileges. The purpose of this is so the Federal Government has jurisdiction to protect its citizens from invasion from the states. This primacy is noted in the definition of citizen.

1. Definition of Nation
2. The Declaration of Independence (1776)
3. The Articles of Confederation (1777)
4. The Treaty of Paris (1783)
5. The Constitution of the United States of America (1787)
6. The Bill of Rights (1789)
7. The 13^th Amendment (1865)
8. The Reconstruction (1865-1877)
9. The 14^th Amendment (1868)
10. Definition of Natural Rights, Black’s Law Dictionary 4^th Edition Page 1487
11. Citizenship/Citizen Definition

In order for jurisdiction to exist, there MUST be authority. Authority is granted by a principal to an agent who acts in the stead of said principal. Jurisdiction allows a governing body to enact and enforce laws upon a governed people or persons.

All jurisdiction can be traced all the way back to a source, and that source can be one of two places:

• God (Nature’s God, Nature, Fate, Etc)
  • Timeless, unchanging, thousands of years of precedence
• Man (Federal Government, Local Government, King)
  • Ever changing, revocable

Jurisdiction granted to agents and is governed by the Laws of Agency. The question though is what is the nature of the jurisdictional relationship? Who is subject and who is master?

1. Definition of Jurisdiction
2. Definition of Authority
3. Definitions of Agent and Agency
4. Definition of Principal

While there are many jurisdictions in our nation, the two big ones that overshadow everything are:

• The jurisdiction of the people and our nation as members of our states
  • The “citizens” of the individual states are called “nationals”, and are subject to the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God
  • Second to that, they are subject to their state to the extent that they govern the state through the medium of organized government
  • God is the final authority and lawgiver
• The jurisdiction of the United States (Federal Government)
  • The “citizens” of the United States are U.S. Citizens, U.S. Nationals, and Residents, and are subject to the United States (Federal Government)
  • The Federal Government is the final authority and lawgiver
    

U.S. Citizenship status was created by Congress with the ratification of the 14th Amendment, and as such is subject directly to congress. Nationals are subject to God first, their state second.

Being a subject or owing allegiance means you are owned by a sovereign.

Congress, since the conception of the 14th amendment all the way up to modern day distinguish between U.S. Citizens and State Citizens (nationals).

Congress and the Federal Government only have explicit jurisdiction over 10 square miles, and only limited powers outside of that. Anything not specified is delegated to the states, or to the people. But with the creation of the 14th amendment political status that is completely subject to congress these limitations are circumvented.

These two jurisdictions were spoken of plainly on the supreme court.

1. The 13^th Amendment
2. The 14^th Amendment
3. Definition of ALLEGIANCE
4. Legal Residence
5. Obligation
6. Rights, Duties, and Citizenship
7. Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 Annotated
8. The Slaughterhouse Cases (1872)
9. Congress’s Limitation to 10 Square Miles
10. The 10^th Amendment
11. Downes vs. Bidwell

The reason why Congress/The United States/Federal Government/District of Columbia have jurisdiction over you is because one of their agents asked you:

• Are you a Citizen of the United States?
  • Are you seeking protection from your state?
• Are you a Resident?
  • Are you temporarily or permanently within the jurisdiction of the United States (Federal Government) and its private fuedal/manorial courts?

And you say yes to both of these questions. Saying yes you consent to being within the direct jurisdiction of Congress/The United States/Federal Government/District of Columbia.

Why is this important?

• Because that means you’re subject to the U.S.C. in its exactness, constitutional or not, which is 60,000 pages in length.
• You’re also subject to the C.F.R., which is always changing, but in 2020 rested at 71,222 pages in length.
• This is all enforced using fuedal courts against you personally.

As a national however, you are one of the original citizens and member of We the People, and any laws levied against you are subject to the United States Organic Statutes at Large, which includes Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and amendments to the Constitution.

A U.S. Citizen/Resident doesn’t have these protections. In fact, the purpose of the U.S.C. and C.F.R. is to govern U.S. Citizens and Residents, excluding positive law titles which are pulled unchanged from the United States Statutes at Large and do apply to nationals.

This is clear, because the Federal Government’s jurisdictional statement on who’s income shall be taxed only includes U.S. Citizens and residents, in spite of the constitution making it quite clear that a capitation tax shall not occur. The 16th amendment allows congress to tax incomes, but it does not specify that it affects The People/state citizens, so by omission only affects those that the Federal Government has direct jurisdiction over thanks to the 10th amendment, and spelled out clearly in Title 26 C.F.R.

You say yes to these questions you enter a state of voluntary servitude, circumventing the 13th amendment that outlaws involuntary servitude, but not voluntary servitude. So many people now say yes that federal law enforcement, the Federal Government, courts, and a Direct Income Tax that now they simply assume you’re a U.S. Citizen, and we’ve been under these regulations for so long we just assume it’s normal.

1. Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 Annotated
2. Rights and Duties
3. Residency
4. Income Tax Jurisdictional Statement
5. United States Code Size
6. The Code of Federal Regulations
7. United States Organic Statutes at Large
8. The Constitutional Efficacy of Federal Income Tax

One more piece of evidence for you, straight from the IRS Manual: https://www.irs.gov/irm/part1/irm_01-005-002#idm140242529490048

1.5.2.2 (01-14-2015)

Background [...]

• Our system of taxation depends on the taxpayers' belief that: The tax laws they follow apply to everyone.

The IRS will respect and protect their rights under the law.

Also:

31 USC 321(d)(2): General authority of the Secretary

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31- section321&num=0&edition=prelim

(d)(1) The Secretary of the Treasury may accept, hold, administer, and use gifts and bequests of property, both real and personal, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the work of the Department of the Treasury. Gifts and bequests of money and the proceeds from sales of other property received as gifts or bequests shall be deposited in the Treasury in a separate fund and shall be disbursed on order of the Secretary of the Treasury. Property accepted under this paragraph, and the proceeds thereof, shall be used as nearly as possible in accordance with the terms of the gift or bequest.

(2) For purposes of the Federal income, estate, and gift taxes, property accepted under paragraph (1) shall be considered as a gift or bequest to or for the use of the United States.

Did you know that your taxes were based on your belief in the Federal Government, and that it was considered a “gift or bequest”?

This is because involuntary servitude is forbidden, per the 13^h amendment. So when you “volunteer” to be a 14^th amendment citizen of the United States, you volunteer to gift your income and your belief to the Federal Government.

A “national, and not a citizen of the United States” is someone who is still one of the original state citizens and has not volunteered into the Federal Governments feudal control for protections against their state.

The chain of authority in our nation is as follows:

God → Nationals → States → Federal Government

We receive our Rights from God, which we then create governments of our individual states to exercise our political powers, and the Federal Government was created to represent our nation outside of our country and handle common tasks for the states.

However, over time and with the implementation of the U.S. Citizen status, the following has been set up:

The Federal Government → U.S.Citizens → States

The Federal Government has final authority on U.S. Citizens, which in all matters concerning these citizens, the sovereignty of the states are overruled. This gives by extension absolute authority of the states over to the Federal Government.