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. ...
Mbrs refuse to hold social security cards or driver's licenses and avoid using zip codes....
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
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…
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…
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…...
"..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)