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NATION In American constitutional law the word "state" is applied to the several members
of the American Union, while the word "nation" is applied to the whole body of the people

embraced within the jurisdiction of the federal government. -- Cooley, Const.Lim. 1;
Texas v. White, 7 Wall. 720, 19 L. Ed. 227.

PRIVILEGE [Black's Law 4th edition, 1891] is merely an accessory of the debt which it

secures, and falls with the extinguishment of the debt.

PERSONS [Black's Law 4th edition, 1891] are divided by Iaw into natural and artificial. ...

"corporations" or "bodies politic." Quasi municipal corporations - Bodies politic and
corporate, created for the sole purpose of performing one or more municipal functions.

WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish
justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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.

PEOPLE are supreme, not the state. [Waring vs. the Mayor of Savanah]; The state cannot

diminish rights of the people. [Hertado v. California]; ...at the Revolution, the sovereignty
devolved on the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are

sovereigns without subjects...with none to govern but themselves. -- CHISHOLM v.
GEORGIA:

The people of this State, as the successors of its former sovereign, are entitled to all the
rights which formerly belonged to the King by his prerogative. -- Lansing v. Smith

ORDAIN to enact a constitution or law. -- State v. Dallas City

KING is the sovereign, ruler, holds the highest executive power, aka the People;

“Sovereignty itself is, of course, not subject to law, for it is the author and source of law;

but in our system, while sovereign powers are delegated to the agencies of government,

sovereignty itself remains with the people, by whom and for whom all government exists
and acts And the law is the definition and limitation of power…” -- Yick Wo v. Hopkins

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