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"The assertion of federal rights, [Bill of Rights] when plainly and reasonably made, is not to
be defeated under the name of local practice". --Davis v. Wechsler, 263 US 22, 24.
"Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or
legislation which would abrogate them". -- Miranda v. Arizona, 384 US 436, 491.
"There can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of this exercise of
constitutional rights". -- Sherer v. Cullen, 481 F 946.
“Sovereignty itself is, of course, not subject to law, for it is the author and source of law;” --
Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 US 356, 370 (Undersigned is Sovereign and no court has
challenged that status/standing)
To deprive the People of their sovereignty it is first necessary to get the People to agree to
submit to the authority of the entity they have created. That is done by getting them to claim
they are citizens of that entity (see Const. for the U.S.A., XIV Amendment, for the
definition of a citizen of the United States.)
LICENSING LIBERTY
"No state shall convert a liberty into a license, and charge a fee therefore." -- Murdock v.
Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105
"If the State converts a right (liberty) into a privilege, the citizen can ignore the license and
fee and engage in the right (liberty) with impunity." -- Shuttlesworth v. City of
Birmingham, Alabama, 373 U.S. 262
REMEDY FOR EVERY INJURY
William Blackstone - a legal maxim – Every right when with-held must have a remedy, and
every injury it’s proper redress “...In the third volume of his Commentaries, page 23,
Blackstone states two cases in which a remedy is afforded by mere operation of law. "In all
other cases," he says, it is a general and indisputable rule that where there is a legal right,
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