After all, whether a right is removed by force, or by subterfuge and/or coercive force, the right is still forever taken." ~ (Ed Lewis, 2/12/01)

Article IV, Section. 4. of the Constitution for the United States of America states:

�The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.�

This, in part, meets with the directives established in the Preamble, that ~

�The People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.� (My emphasis)

As can be seen, the Constitution for the United States of America was instituted and the nation of Republics or States of the Union united in order to meet common needs, those needs being the common defense of Liberty and the securement of the sense of well-being that accompanies Liberty.

The Constitution is, therefore, a document between the People of the many States (who also established State governments for the same reasons) which created the corporate federal government known in the Constitution as the United States Government:

�The United States Government is a Foreign Corporation with Respect to the 50 states.� Volume 20, Corpus. Juris Sec., Section 1785.

And,

�The United States Government is a foreign corporation with respect to a state.� NY re: Merriam 36 N.E. 5051441 S. Ct. 1973, 41 L. E. 287.

Jurisdiction of the United States Government is defined clearly in Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution where it states:

�To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings -- And" (in Clause 18)

�To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."

The "foregoing Powers" given to the United States Government are to lay uniform taxes in the form of imposts, duties and excises to pay the debts of the Government, to borrow money on the credit of the United States, to regulate commerce with foreign nations and between States A (including Indian Tribes), naturalization and bankruptcies throughout the United States, coin money and regulate it, deal with counterfeiting, establish post offices and post roads, and to provide for the common defense of the many States.

Clause 16 of Article I, Section 8, as does other clauses in the Constitution indicates a separation of �United States� and �States� when it states: �...in the service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively...� This is also indicated in Clause 17, then in Section 10, Clauses 1, 2, and 3 in which States are prohibited acts permitted by the United States [government]

In fact, throughout the Constitution, the separation of United States from the States is clearly seen. One of the clearest separations is in Article I, Section 2, Clause 1, which states:

�The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the Service of the United States; ...�

One can see from this that the President of the United States only gains control over the many State militia when the militia are called upon and put into service for the United States.

Thus, the United States in the seat of government, the District of Columbia. Its jurisdiction is only over this small area, territories, possessions, States of the United States (does not refer to the States of the United States of America) and federal enclaves established by Clause 17 ~

�The United States has no constitutional capacity to exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty or eminent domain, within the limits of the state (Alabama case) or elsewhere, except in the cases in which it is expressly granted...� Pollard v. Hogan, 44 U.S.C. 212, 221, 223.

And, yet, the people of the many states are responding to federal laws as if they apply to them. Just a few categories of federal United States� laws being applied to the sovereign Republics known as the many or several States are those concerning firearms, drugs (including tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs deemed illegal), direct taxation without apportionment, interstate commerce, education, private travel, private conveyances, and communication. This has also had the result that States and political subdivions of States have also applied the laws and converted Rights to privileges, including licenses for doing business, driving your private vehicles for private and non-commercial use, getting married, unlawful taxation in a direct fashion on property owned, and so on.

States, and political subdivisions of, do so just for the fees and unconstitutional punishments for violating unconstitutional laws. Every fee charged is a form of a direct tax on your property since your property includes all Real, tangible and intangible (such as your talent to drive, owning and operating a business, and marrying the person of your choice). These are all Rights, not privileges, and, therefore, no fee nor tax may be imposed.

Since not all people own Real property and since Real property is actually only that that is obtained through privilege, the fee is a direct tax as it is laid directly on the individual and his income. In Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 158 U.S. 691 (1895), which has never been overturned, it is stated:

"First. We adhere to the opinion already announced, that, taxes on real estate being indisputably direct taxes, taxes on rents or income of real estate, are equally direct taxes (two separate taxes)."

Direct tax is prohibited by the Constitution in Article I, Section 9, Clause 4. Add to this this question ~ what can one pay with anyway? Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 clearly states that no State ~

�...may make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; ...�

How have these laws evolved? Why, it has been done by subterfuge and fear created through armed marauders invading people�s homes and lives, including those of the federal, State and local governments.

It has been done through establishing fears by all levels of government taking people�s property unlawfully for debts that never lawfully existed.

It has been done by imprisoning those who have the nerve to speak out against government atrocities and constitutional violations.

It is done �under color of law� which is as real a War as any armed conflict that might result in loss of Rights.

�Under color of law� means simply that government principles and agents of exceed their actual authority, violate their oaths of office, and convert Rights to privileges. As such, it is a War against the principles this nation was founded on. It is a War resulting in the Constitution being ignored even though every government official or agent of is required to take an Oath of Office to uphold the Constitution of the united States of America.

To reiterate, when the oath of office is violated by officials and agents of any level of government, and unconstitutional laws made and enforced, it is a act of War against the unalienable, self-evident rights of the people those officials are bound to protect. It is Treason and must be treated as such.

�Treason. 1. Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign [the people], especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies. 2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.� (Amer. Heritage Dict.)

Every official and agent of any government level violating his oath is working to undermine Liberty and circumvent the Constitution which secures all unalienable, self-evident rights of Man. It is no different than an armed invasion resulting in the rights being removed except that so far the bloodshed has been done primarily by government agents, and is not as great as it would be during an extensive open invasion by an armed force which caused the People to take up arms and repel the invader.

We are simply being invaded quietly and subversively from without by the United States and from within by our own State and political subdivisions, including county and city (town) governments. This is exactly what each level of government is set up to prevent, the removal of rights from the sovereign people by enemies foreign and domestic. Any State government could stop the invasion by the United States. It could simply order that all unconstitutional laws be ignored, that the State will provide the necessary defense including mobilizing the militia, which is all the people. But, the States do not do this as they are on the gravy train of power and unlawful taking of people�s property, including what we call �money.�

The people could stop the infringements by State and lesser governments by firing every official who endorses and supports the enforcement of any unconstitutional law. Actually, nearly all legislation by the States and subdivision is unconstitutional and has been done under color of law. When one learns how to read the statutes/ordinances, the sheer number of Rights being removed or seriously impaired by language meant to defraud is mind boggling. Our forefathers must surely be rolling over and over in their graves while screaming in disbelief and agony.

But, it seems the people have forgotten their place in the Republic for of government. The people, meaning each individual, are Sovereign over all levels of government and have the final authority. Government cannot lawfully make any law which in any way infringes upon the rights of the people. It is a unlawful and a Title 18 crime to do so. The People are the fourth arm of government and is the arm that is intended to lower the hammer on those in the other three arms who would destroy this nation built on the rights of Man.

The only laws, other than indirect taxation to support the government, that should exist are those for restitution to a victim which may include punishing any person who infringes upon the rights of other (but not before the fact). If there isn�t any infringement, there is not a definable crime or violation of any sorts as all crimes must have a victim and the victim must have been intentionally damaged.

By People forgetting their duties as the sovereign, the US Government, the many State governments, and the hundreds of political subdivision's of government have infringed, and are in the process of doing so, upon nearly all unalienable, self-evident rights given to us by our Creator and secured by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the United States of America and our various state constitutions.

And, that, Ladies and Gentleman, is a state of War against the Rights of Man and the People of this union of states. It is a war in which the government's obligatory process of protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness extends only to it and its foreign backers while oppression and tyranny are forced upon the people at the point of guns held by government trained killers.

And the casualties continue to mount.