Two Political Jurisdictions:  "National" government v. "Federal/General" government"
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Many people are blissfully unaware that there are actually two mutually exclusive political and legal jurisdictions within United States the country.  Your citizenship status determines which of the two jurisdictions you are a member of and you have an option to adopt either.  This book describes how to regain the model on the right, the “Federal government”, which we also call the “United States of America” throughout this book.  We have prepared a table to compare the two and explain what we mean.  The vast majority of Americans fall under the model on the left, and their own ignorance, fear, and apathy has put them there.  The model on the left treats everyone as part of the federal corporation called the “United States”, which is how the law defines it in 28 U.S.C. §3002(15)(A).  This area is also called “the federal zone” throughout this book.  The “United States” first became a federal corporation in 1871 and you can read this law for yourself right from the Statutes at Large:

http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/16Amend/SpecialLaw/DCCorpStatuesAtLarge.pdf

Congress legislates for two separate legal and political and territorial jurisdictions:

1.        The states of the Union under the requirements of the Constitution of the United States.  In this capacity, it is called the “federal/general government”.

2.        The U.S. government, the District of Columbia, U.S. possessions and territories, and enclaves within the states.  In this capacity, it is called the “national government”.  The authority for this jurisdiction derives from  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the United States Constitution.  All laws passed essentially amount to municipal laws for federal property, and in that capacity, Congress is not restrained by either the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.  We call the collection of all federal territories, possessions, and enclaves within the states “the federal zone” throughout this document.

The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the above when it said:

“It is clear that Congress, as a legislative body, exercise two species of legislative power: the one, limited as to its objects, but extending all over the Union: the other, an absolute, exclusive legislative power over the District of Columbia. The preliminary inquiry in the case now before the Court, is, by virtue of which of these authorities was the law in question passed?”

[392HCohens v. Virginia393H, 19 U.S. 264, 6 Wheat. 265; 5 L.Ed. 257 (1821)]

James Madison, one of our founding fathers, described these two separate jurisdictions in Federalist Paper #39, when he said:

First. In order to ascertain the real character of the government, it may be considered in relation to the foundation on which it is to be established; to the sources from which its ordinary powers are to be drawn; to the operation of those powers; to the extent of them; and to the authority by which future changes in the government are to be introduced.

On examining the first relation, it appears, on one hand, that the Constitution is to be founded on the assent and ratification of the people of America, given by deputies elected for the special purpose; but, on the other, that this assent and ratification is to be given by the people, not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent States to which they respectively belong. It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore, establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act.

That it will be a federal and not a national act, as these terms are understood by the objectors; the act of the people, as forming so many independent States, not as forming one aggregate nation, is obvious from this single consideration, that it is to result neither from the decision of a MAJORITY of the people of the Union, nor from that of a MAJORITY of the States. It must result from the UNANIMOUS assent of the several States that are parties to it, differing no otherwise from their ordinary assent than in its being expressed, not by the legislative authority, but by that of the people themselves. Were the people regarded in this transaction as forming one nation, the will of the majority of the whole people of the United States would bind the minority, in the same manner as the majority in each State must bind the minority; and the will of the majority must be determined either by a comparison of the individual votes, or by considering the will of the majority of the States as evidence of the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these rules have been adopted. Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.

The next relation is, to the sources from which the ordinary powers of government are to be derived. The House of Representatives will derive its powers from the people of America; and the people will be represented in the same proportion, and on the same principle, as they are in the legislature of a particular State. So far the government is NATIONAL, not FEDERAL. The Senate, on the other hand, will derive its powers from the States, as political and coequal societies; and these will be represented on the principle of equality in the Senate, as they now are in the existing Congress. So far the government is FEDERAL, not NATIONAL. The executive power will be derived from a very compound source. The immediate election of the President is to be made by the States in their political characters. The votes allotted to them are in a compound ratio, which considers them partly as distinct and coequal societies, partly as unequal members of the same society. The eventual election, again, is to be made by that branch of the legislature which consists of the national representatives; but in this particular act they are to be thrown into the form of individual delegations, from so many distinct and coequal bodies politic. From this aspect of the government it appears to be of a mixed character, presenting at least as many FEDERAL as NATIONAL features.

The difference between a federal and national government, as it relates to the OPERATION OF THE GOVERNMENT, is supposed to consist in this, that in the former the powers operate on the political bodies composing the Confederacy, in their political capacities; in the latter, on the individual citizens composing the nation, in their individual capacities. On trying the Constitution by this criterion, it falls under the NATIONAL, not the FEDERAL character; though perhaps not so completely as has been understood. In several cases, and particularly in the trial of controversies to which States may be parties, they must be viewed and proceeded against in their collective and political capacities only. So far the national countenance of the government on this side seems to be disfigured by a few federal features. But this blemish is perhaps unavoidable in any plan; and the operation of the government on the people, in their individual capacities, in its ordinary and most essential proceedings, may, on the whole, designate it, in this relation, a NATIONAL government.

But if the government be national with regard to the OPERATION of its powers, it changes its aspect again when we contemplate it in relation to the EXTENT of its powers. The idea of a national government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful government. Among a people consolidated into one nation, this supremacy is completely vested in the national legislature. Among communities united for particular purposes, it is vested partly in the general and partly in the municipal legislatures. In the former case, all local authorities are subordinate to the supreme; and may be controlled, directed, or abolished by it at pleasure. In the latter, the local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the supremacy, no more subject, within their respective spheres, to the general authority, than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere. In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a NATIONAL one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several States a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects. It is true that in controversies relating to the boundary between the two jurisdictions, the tribunal which is ultimately to decide, is to be established under the general government. But this does not change the principle of the case. The decision is to be impartially made, according to the rules of the Constitution; and all the usual and most effectual precautions are taken to secure this impartiality. Some such tribunal is clearly essential to prevent an appeal to the sword and a dissolution of the compact; and that it ought to be established under the general rather than under the local governments, or, to speak more properly, that it could be safely established under the first alone, is a position not likely to be combated.

If we try the Constitution by its last relation to the authority by which amendments are to be made, we find it neither wholly NATIONAL nor wholly FEDERAL. Were it wholly national, the supreme and ultimate authority would reside in the MAJORITY of the people of the Union; and this authority would be competent at all times, like that of a majority of every national society, to alter or abolish its established government. Were it wholly federal, on the other hand, the concurrence of each State in the Union would be essential to every alteration that would be binding on all. The mode provided by the plan of the convention is not founded on either of these principles. In requiring more than a majority, and principles. In requiring more than a majority, and particularly in computing the proportion by STATES, not by CITIZENS, it departs from the NATIONAL and advances towards the FEDERAL character; in rendering the concurrence of less than the whole number of States sufficient, it loses again the FEDERAL and partakes of the NATIONAL character.

The proposed Constitution, therefore, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal Constitution, but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them, again, it is federal, not national; and, finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal nor wholly national.

PUBLIUS.

[Federalist Paper #39, James Madison]

Based on Madison’s comments, a “national government” operates upon and derives its authority from individual citizens whereas a “federal government” operates upon and derives its authority from states.  The only place where the central government may operate directly upon the individual through the authority of law is within federal territory.  Hence, when courts use the word “national government”, they are referring to federal territory only and to no part of any state of the Union.  The federal government has no jurisdiction within a state of the Union and therefore cannot operate directly upon the individual there.

“It is no longer open to question that the general government, unlike the states, Hammer v. Dagenhart, 318H247 U.S. 251, 275 , 38 S.Ct. 529, 3 A.L.R. 649, Ann.Cas.1918E 724, possesses no inherent power in respect of the internal affairs of the states; and emphatically not with regard to legislation.“ 
[Carter v. Carter Coal Co.,
319H298 U.S. 238, 56 S.Ct. 855 (1936)]

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The rights of life and personal liberty are natural rights of man. ‘To secure these rights,’ says the Declaration of Independence, ‘governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.’ The very highest duty of the States, when they entered into the Union under the Constitution, was to protect all persons within their boundaries in the enjoyment of these ‘unalienable rights with which they were endowed by their Creator.’ Sovereignty, for this purpose, rests alone with the States. It is no more the duty or within the power of the United States to punish for a conspiracy *554 to falsely imprison or murder within a State, than it would be to punish for false imprisonment or murder itself.

The fourteenth amendment prohibits a State from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; but this provision does not, any more than the one which precedes it, and which we have just considered, add any thing *555 to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle of republicanism. Every republican government is in duty bound to protect all its citizens in the enjoyment of this principle, if within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the States; and it still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do not deny the right. This the amendment guarantees, but no more. The power of the national government is limited to the enforcement of this guaranty.

[U.S. v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542, 1875 WL 17550 (U.S.,1875)]

These two political/legal jurisdictions, federal territory v. states of the Union, are separate sovereignties, and the Constitution dictates that these two distinct sovereignties  MUST remain separate because of the Separation of Powers Doctrine:

“§79. This sovereignty pertains to the people of the United States as national citizens only, and not as citizens of any other government. There cannot be two separate and independent sovereignties within the same limits or jurisdiction; nor can there be two distinct and separate sources of sovereign authority within the same jurisdiction. The right of commanding in the last resort can be possessed only by one body of people inhabiting the same territory,' and can be executed only by those intrusted with the execution of such authority.”

[Treatise on Government, Joel Tiffany, p. 49, Section 78;
SOURCE:
394Hhttp://famguardian.org/Publications/TreatiseOnGovernment/TreatOnGovt.pdf]

Table 1:  Two Political Jurisdictions within our Country

TWO POLITICAL JURISDICTIONS WITHIN OUR COUNTRY

Characteristic

"National government"

"Federal/general government"
Also called United States” the Corporation "United States of America"
Geographical territory Federal zone 50 states of the Union

God that is worshipped:  See Matt. 6:24

Mammon/man/government (Satan)

Idolatry

One nation under “fraud”

God

One nation under “God"

Freedom and liberty Counterfeit, man-made freedom.

Freedom granted not by God, but by the government.

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?"
[Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVIII, 1782. ME 2:227]

Liberty direct from God Himself:

"Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.
2 Corinthians 3:17 (Bible)

Religious foundation

This government/state is god.  It sets the morals and values of those in its jurisdiction.  These value are ever changing at their whim.

Sovereign Citizens are created by God and are answerable to their Maker who is Omnipotent.  The Bible is the Basis of all Law and moral standards.  In 1820, the USA government purchased 20,000 bibles for distribution.

Sovereign to whom citizens owe “allegiance” Government
 

“Allegiance.  Obligation of fidelity and obedience to government in consideration for protection that government gives.  U.S. v. Kyh, D.C.N.Y., 49 F.Supp 407, 414.  See also Oath of allegiance or loyalty.” 
[Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 74]

“state”, which is the collection of individual sovereigns within a republican form of government.  The People, as individuals, are the "sovereigns":

"The people of this State, as the successors of its former sovereign, are entitled to all the rights which formerly belonged to the King by his prerogative. Through the medium of their Legislature they may exercise all the powers which previous to the Revolution could have been exercised either by the King alone, or by him in conjunction with his Parliament; subject only to those restrictions which have been imposed by the Constitution of this State or of the U.S."
[Lansing v. Smith, 21 D. 89., 4 Wendel 9 (1829) (New York)]

Source of law “The state”, which is mob rule living under a democracy rather than a republic.

"You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.”  [Exodus 23:2, Bible, NKJV]

God, as revealed in the Bible/ten commandments. The sovereign People as individuals, to the extent that they are implementing God’s law, and within the limits prescribed by the Bill of Rights and the Equal rights of others.

(See book Biblical Institutes of Law, by Rousas Rushdoony)

Purpose of law Protect rulers in government from the irate “serfs” and tax “slaves” that they govern and from the inevitable consequences of their tyranny and abuse Protect sovereign people from tyranny in government and from hurting each other

Political hierarchy
(lower number has higher precedence)

1.  Ruler/king (supersedes God)

2.  Legislature

3.  Laws

4.  Subjects/citizens (slaves/serfs of the state)

 

NO GOD.  Atheist or anti-spiritual (remove prayer from schools, because belief in God threatens government authority).

1.  God

2.  World

3.  Man

4.  “We the people”

5.  Grand jury, Elections, Trial jury

6.  U.S. Constitution

7.  Human government & organized church

Political system

Municipal corporation

Totalitarian Socialist democracy

 

Socialism:  1.  any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. 2 a:  a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b:  a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state 3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.” [Merriam Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, ISBN 0-97779-508-8, 1983]

 

Democracy has never been and never can be so desirable as aristocracy or monarchy, but while it lasts, is more bloody than either. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that never did commit suicide." [John Adams, 1815]

 

Republic

Republic:  A commonwealth; that form of government which the administration of affairs is open to all the citizens.  In another sense, it signifies the state, independently of its form of government.” (Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 1302)

Commonwealth:  The public or common weal or welfare… It generally designates, when so employed, a republican frame of government, one in which the welfare and rights of the entire mass of people are the main consideration, rather than the privileges of a class or the will of a monarch; or it may designate the body of citizens living under such a government.”  (Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 278)

 

Status

U.S. continues to be in a permanent state of national emergency since March 9, 1933, and possible as far back as the Civil War.  See Senate report 93-549.

No state of Emergency and is not at war.

Pledge

"I pledge allegiance to the IRS, and to the tyrannical totalitarian oligarchy for which is stands.  One nation, under fraud, indivisible, with slavery, injustice, and atheism for all."

“I pledge allegiance to the united states of America, and to the Republic for which is stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Form of government

De facto (unlawful)

(See our article entitled "How Scoundrels Corrupted Our Republican Form of Government" for details on how our government was rendered unlawful)

De jure (lawful)

Constitution

Constitution of the “United States”

(See http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress)

Constitution of the “United States of America”
(See http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress)

Creator

Merchants, bankers through President Lincoln and his Cohorts by act of treason.  This martial law government is a fiction managing civil affairs

Created by God and sovereign Citizens acting under His delegated authority (see Gen. 1:26 and Gen. 2:15-17 in the Bible)

Origins

Gettysburg Address in 1864 and the Incorporation of District of Columbia by Act of February 21, 1871 under the Emergency War Powers Act and the Reconstruction Act

Started with the Declaration of Independence n 1776, Articles of Confederation in 1778, and the Constitution in 1787

Existence

Still existing as long as:

1.     “state of war” or “emergency” exists.

2.     The President does not terminate “martial” or “emergency” powers by Executive Order or decree, or

3.     The people do not resist submission and terminate by restoring lawful civil courts, processes and procedures under authority of the “inherent political powers” of the people.

Adjournment of Congress sine die occurred in 1861

Governing body

The President (Caesar) rules by Executive Order (Unconstitutional).

 

Congress and the Courts are under the President as branches of the Executive Department.

 

Congress sits by resolution not by positive law.

 

The Judges are actually administrative referees and cannot rule on rights.

"We the People", who rule themselves through their servant elected representatives.  See Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in which he said: A government of the people, for the people, and by the people

 

Three separate Departments for the servants:

1.        Executive.

2.        Legislative-can enact positive law.

3.        Judicial

Citizenship

U.S. citizen” (Chattel Property of the government) are belligerents in the field and are “subject to its jurisdiction” (Washington, D.C.)

 

14th Amendment citizens, implemented by the Civil Rights Act of 1866 for the newly freed slaves (are now the slaves of the corporate government plantation)

(See 8 U.S.C. 1401(a) at 

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html)

national  is “sovereign”, “Freemen”, and “Freeborn”.  Unless that right is given up knowingly, intentionally, and voluntarily.

 

“National of the United States of America” 

 

(see 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)(B) at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1101.html)

Implications of citizenship

"U.S. citizens" were declared enemies of the U.S. by F.D.R. by Executive Order No. 2040 and ratified by Congress on March 9, 1933.  

FDR changed the meaning of The Trading with the Enemy Act of December 6, 1917 by changing the word "without" to citizens "within" the United States

"nationals" are Sovereign citizens who supersede the U.S.  Government is the enemy of liberty and should be kept as small as practical.

“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.   The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.” 
[
Thomas Jefferson]

Jurisdiction

Expands and conquers by deceit and fraud.  Uses “words of art” to deceive the people.

Restricted by the Constitution to the 10 mile square area called Washington D.C., U.S. possessions, such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and its enclaves for forts and arsenals.

Civic duties-qualifications for

Must be a “citizen of the United States” to vote or serve jury duty

Must clarify citizenship when registering to vote and serving jury duty.  In some states, cannot vote or serve jury duty

Vote

Is recommendation only.

Counts like one of the Board of Directors.

Rights and privileges

Inalienable rights.

Rights from the corporate government.

Statutory taxable “privileges”

“Invisible contract” with federal government to “buy” (bribe into existence) these statutory privileges through taxes.

See 48 U.S.C. §1421b:  Statutory Bill of Rights.

 

“The privileges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment protects very few rights because it neither incorporates the Bill of Rights nor protects all rights of individual citizens. Instead, this provision protects only those rights peculiar to being a citizen of the federal government; it does not protect those rights which relate to state citizenship.” [Jones v. Temmer 829 F. Supp. 1226 (Emphasis added.)]

Unalienable Rights.

Rights from God.

Constitutional rights-cannot be taxed

Value of the individual

Bond Servant 

To cover the debt in 1933 and future debt, the corporate government determined and established the value of the future labor of each individual in its jurisdiction to be $630,000. A bond of $630,000 is set on each Certificate of Live Birth. The certificates are bundled together into sets and then placed as securities on the open market. These certificates are then purchased by the Federal Reserve and/or foreign bankers. The purchaser is the "holder" of "Title." This process made each and every person in this jurisdiction a bond servant. 

Freeborn

Freeman
Freeholder
Sovereign
"We the people..."

Welfare/social security

YES: Socialism-allowed and encouraged

NO: Not allowed.  Everyone takes care of themselves

FAMILY

Purpose of sex Recreation and sin.  When children result from such sin, then abortion (murder) frees sexual perverts and fornicators from the consequences of or liability for such sin and maintains their quality of life.  Permissiveness by government of abortion becomes a license to sin without consequence.

Procreation.

Gen. 1:22: "And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

Psalms 127: 4-5:  Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; They shall not be ashamed, But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
Purpose of marriage

An extension of the “welfare state” that financially enslaves men to the state and their wives and thereby undermines male sovereignty in the family. 

Prov. 31:3 says:  Do not give your strength [or sovereignty]  to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
To make families self-governing by creating a chain of authority within them (see Eph. 5:22-24).  Honor God and produce godly offspring. (Malachi 2:15)

Birth certificate

Birth Certificate when the baby's footprint is placed thereon before it touches the land. The certificate is recorded at a County Recorder, then sent to a Secretary of State which sends it to the Bureau of Census of the Commerce Department. This process converts a man's life, labor, and property to an asset of the US government when this person receives a benefit from the government such as a drivers license, food stamps, free mail delivery, etc. This person becomes a fictional persona in commerce. The Birth Certificate is an unrevealed "Trust Instrument" originally designed for the children of the newly freed black slaves after the 14th Amendment. The US has the ability to tax and regulate commerce EVERYWHERE.

 

Education of young

Public schooling (brain washing of the young).  School vouchers not allowed.  This is a central plank in the Communist Manifesto.  Purpose is to create better state "serfs".

Private schooling and school vouchers.  Prayer permitted in schools.

STATES

The word “State”

In U.S. Titles and Codes "State" refers to U.S. possessions such as Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. 

"state" when used by itself refers to the "Republics" of The united states of America

State governments

Politicians of each state formed a new government and incorporated it into the federal US government corporation and are therefore under its jurisdiction. 

 

e.g. "State of California"
corporate California
California State

All of the states are "Republics

 

e.g. "The Republic of California"
"California republic"
"California state"
or just "California" 

Origins of the states

The corporate States are controlled by the corporate US government by its purse strings such as grants, funding, matching funds, revenue sharing, disaster relief, etc. 

 

The citizens of such States are "subjects" and are called "Residents"

Sovereign Citizens created the states (Republics) and are Sovereign over the states. 

The Republics and the people created the USA government and are sovereign over the USA government.

State constitution

The original constitution was revised and adopted by the corporate State of California on May 7, 1879
It has been revised many times hence. 

California was admitted into the union as a Republic on September 9, 1850. The people created the original state constitution to give the government limited powers and to act on behalf of, and for the people.
Called The "Organic" state constitution. 

Rights of citizens in state

A one word change in the original State (California) constitution from "unalienable" to "inalienable" made rights into privileges
"Inalienable" means government given rights. "Unalienable" means God given rights. 

Adjournment sine die occurred in California in April 27, 1863

JUSTICE SYSTEM

Judicial function

Judicial Branch under the President

Judicial Department

Separation of powers

It is not separate, but is an arm of the legislature

Separate from all other Departments

Purpose of federal courts Maximize power and control and revenues of federal government Protect the Constitutional rights of persons domiciled in states of the Union
Constitutional authority for federal courts Article I, II, and IV 
("U.S. District Courts" and "Tax Court")
Article III 
("district courts of the United States" in the District of Columbia, Hawaii, and the Court of Claims)