OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: U.S. Corporate Takeover... of the United States of America

"Criminal jurisdiction of the federal courts is restricted to federal reservations over which the Federal Government has exclusive jurisdiction, as well as to forts, magazines, arsenal, dockyards or other needful buildings." United States Code, Title 18 45 1, Par. 3d.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary: "Territory: "A part of the country separated from the rest and subject to a particular jurisdiction. A portion of the country subject to and belonging to the United States which is not within the boundary of any state or the District of Columbia. 262 U.S. 122; 3 Wheat 336, 390...The United States has supreme sovereignty over territory, [i.e. DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgins Islands, etc] and congress has full and complete legislative authority over its people and government. (Not over the sovereign 50 states, or people) 136 U.S. 1... In Relation to the United States: "...It is held as a well-established doctrine that the territories of the United States are entirely subject to the legislative authority of congress. They are not organized under the constitution, nor subject to its complex distribution of powers of government as the organic law, but are a creation exclusively of the legislative department, and subject to its [Congress'] supervision and control..." 96 Fed. Rep. 456, citing 16 How. 1 Kent, 243, 359, 1 Pet. 511164; 101 U.S. 129; 114 U.S. 15; 136 U.S. 1; 143 U.S. 135; 141 U.S. 174; 152 U.S. 1.

What this is stating, with dozens of other cases and legal definitions to substantiate, the United States is a corporate structure which has authority ONLY in its own borders... that of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, etc., and NOT the 50 states, except where the States have LEGALLY ceded certain land to the federal government.. I.E. The Corporate United States. The Corporate United States has little more authority over the states or you and me than Microsoft Corporation has.

Consider: To work for, or live within the Federal Government jurisdiction... the corporate United States, IS A PRIVILEGE, and with privileges, comes a cost. They can tax as they wish, make any laws they wish, etc., because they are outside the union, the 50 states... they are a separate entity.

Over the decades, this entity began creeping outside its borders, like an invading enemy, sneaking its way into States, exercising a slow stranglehold over the States and Counties and Peoples. This is HOW "Federal authority" has usurped the legal and lawful powers of the States and people. THIS is also how they try to implement IRS and any other Federal Control, like gun control, health care, or any other Federal agency control over all Americans... by entering into "agreements" with States, (like receiving money... a privilege remember, with strings attached for this privilege) and by We, the People, willingly but ignorantly handing over our freedom and sovereignty TO this cancerous government.

Today, what do we see? We see this U.S. Corporate body taking over other various smaller corporations... auto industry, banking industry, the health care industry, attempting to control all water sources... hostile takeovers if there ever was any. This single corporation is NOT our friend, and has in its sights, total takeover of our freedoms and rights. Can't we see this already shaping up? Would we allow another corporation to create such a "monopoly" over all we do? How many such monopolies did the U.S. Corporation break up in the past, perhaps planning all this long ago?

Remember WHY the founding fathers created the Constitution in the first place? To prevent exactly this from happening because they knew it would without the "chains of the Constitution."

What of the 50 united States?

"Each [state] declared itself sovereign and independent, according to the limits of its territory... The soil and sovereignty within their acknowledged limits were as much theirs at the Declaration of Independence as at this very hour." Harcourt v. Gaillard, 25 U.S. (12 Wheat, 523, 526, 527).

"Prior to the adoption of the Federal Constitution, states possessed unlimited and unrestricted sovereignty and retained the same afterward. Upon entering the Union they retained all their original power and sovereignty, except such as was surrendered to the Federal government or they were expressly prohibited from exercising by the United States Constitution." Blair v. Ridgely, 97 D. 218, 249. S.P. People v. Coleman, 60 D. 581. (Emphasis mine).

The original states in the union were viewed as separate "nations." Just like the European union, the members are all separate nations with their own laws and borders. Our states were intended to always be separate, and never forming ONE nation. It is a Union... UNITED but separate. Why do you think we all have our own Governors, Representatives, Legislatures, Judicial systems? WE ARE SOVEREIGN NATION/STATES, meant to be independent from the Federal/Corporate government even though we all agreed on a united "serving" government as our Founding Fathers intended.

This federal corporate encroachment has been welcomed by States... and was a means for States to also apply unconstitutional income taxes, various licenses, and the host of controls over us that are clearly unconstitutional in nature, and to get monies for pet projects and for government growth... in other words, a means for the Federal corporation to gain more and more control over states and each state's citizens. We all blindly accepted it, but it must stop.

The largest grab of power by the Federal government was the 14th Amendment. This amendment essentially created U.S. citizenship, as compared to State Citizenship. Remember, the slaves brought to this country had no state citizenship since they were not born in any state, therefore, the genius government decided to create this amendment making the slaves citizens of the corporate "United States," but in doing so, they swept every natural born American, from every state, into this U.S. corporate Citizenship, creating a dual citizenship for us all:

"It is quite clear, then, that there is a citizenship of the United States and a citizenship of a State, which are distinct from each other and which depend upon different characteristics or circumstances in the individual." [Slaughter House Cases, 83 U.S. 36] (1873).

"One may be a citizen of a State and yet not a citizen of the United States." Thomas v. State, 15 Ind. 449; Cory v. Carter, 48 Ind. 327 (17 Am. R. 738); McCarthy v. Froelke, 63 Ind. 507; In Re Wehlitz, 16 Wis. 443. McDonel v. State, 90 Ind. 320, 323, 1883.

"Thus, from an abundance of case law, buttressed by this lengthy and definitive government treatise on this issue, the 'jurisdiction of the United States' is carefully circumscribed and defined as a very precise portion of America." (Jurisdiction Over Federal Areas Within The States: Report of the Interdepartmental Committee for the Study of Jurisdiction Over Federal Areas Within the States, Part II. June 1957)

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