WHAT IS A "U.S. citizen"?

A "U.S. citizen" is a "citizen of the federal government." 
This is what federal court decisions have stated.  Notice
that no *land* is described, e.g., a citizen of a
particular country or state.

The "federal government" is actually a corporation located
in Washington, D.C., which is not a state, but a territory.
A corporation is a *legal fiction*.  It does not have a
physical form, as does a human being.  A corporation
exists only on paper and in he minds of those who created
it and those who acknowledge it as fictional entity.

The U.S. Constitution intended that the federal government
not be allowed to have citizens of its own, but rather that
everyone would be a citizen of one of the "several States."
The federal government realized that it had no control over
state Citizens, and so created a *special* class of
citizen.  This fictional citizen was designed primarily to
protect corporations.

Because a corporation cannot create citizens, "U.S.
citizen" are *franchisees* of the federal government.
Those inalienable rights secured by state constitutions,
and by the U.S. Constitution in the Bill of Rights, are
*not* protected, and do not apply to the "U.S. citizen"
through any constitution -- only through privileges granted
by the federal government.

Prior to the Civil War, landowners and people born on the
land, other than slaves, held citizen status in their
respective states, and thus exercised inalienable rights.
These people, known in law as *state* Citizens," were
commonly called *sovereign* Citizens.  This status has not
changed; the status of a state Citizen is recognized in
courts of law to this day.

This assignment of a Social Security number puts people
within a fictional class designed to be "protected" by the
federal government; these people lose their free and
independent status because of their forced dependence.  In
this manner, "U.S. citizens" are placed under federal
jurisdiction (statutory law), *without* the protection of
either the U.S. Constitution or the various state
constitutions.

A free people do *not* depend on a fictional entity to
provide for them.  The federal government was created to
represent the states of the Union *outside* of the states,
with regard to international diplomacy, for example, *not*
to dictate *to* them.  Under the U.S. Constitution, the
federal government was given *no* police authority within
any of the states.  Though it *was* permitted to enact
certain kinds of laws, these laws were to be enforced by
the *states*.

Because a "U.S. citizen" is a franchise of a corporation
called "the United States" it is a fiction like the
corporation that created it.  This citizen, like its
creator, therefore, is a taxpayer.  This explains why
taxpayers must file yearly tax returns and pay money to the
*Franchise Tax Board (say, in California) for the privilege
of being "U.S. citizens," as well as why a "U.S. citizen"
is treated by the law as a fictional entity called a
*person*.

This broad legal term is used when referring to any
business entity, including a corporation, and sometimes
includes a flesh-and-blood human being who is more
appropriately referred to as a natural person.

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Article from *Perceptions* magazine, Winter 1994, p. 8.
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