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Buster Hyde USMC/Ret @BusterUSMC
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Sovereign Citizen Law and Legal Definition
Sovereign citizen is a term used to refer to a political movement which grew out of a belief in government abuses of power. ...
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Mbrs refuse to hold social security cards or driver's licenses and avoid using zip codes....
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Sovereign citizens believe US citizens are either "14th Amedmnt citizens" (subject to the federal & state laws & taxes) or
"sovereign citizens" ( subject only to common law or "constitutional law" or both), but NOT bound to obey "statutory law"....birthers.org/USC/14.html
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No court has ever upheld these claims.
Sovereign citizens may also be referred to as
"freemen"
or
"common law citizens"....
fedagent.com/columns/the-sp…
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A sovereign citizen is defined by the Anti-Defamation League:
"The sovereign citizen mvmnt is a loosely orgnzd collection of grps & indvdls who adopted a r-wing anarchist ideology originating in theories of a the Posse Comitatus in the 1970s. ...historycommons.org/context.jsp?it…
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Its adherents believe that virtually all existing govt in the US is illegitimate & they seek to restore an idealized, minimalist govt that never actually existed. adl.org/resources/back…...
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"..To this end, sovereign citizens wage war against the govt & other forms of authority using "paper terrorism" harassment & intimidation tactics, & occasionally resorting to violence."knoxnews.com/story/news/cri…

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(The Anti-Defamation League Definition, Not Mine)
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