If governments are instituted among men to secure rights, such as life, liberty and private property ownership, then how did America's governments get the power to conscript?
From Day One, the militia, defined as all able bodied male citizens between 17 and 45, were obligated to train, fight, and die (if necessary) on command.
Answer: Consent.
In the Declaration of Independence, it states that government has two jobs:
1. Secure rights, and
2. Govern those who consent.
And if you've given consent, you waived job #1.
So how did the militia give consent to be obligated to train, fight and die?
By claiming citizenship.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no law that imposes citizenship at birth. Because citizenship has mandatory civic duties - jury duty, militia duty, and so on. To impose involuntary servitude is unconstitutional, pursuant to the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Now you know why the government asks you to declare your citizenship.
In the Articles of Confederation (IV), it refers to "free inhabitants" who were distinct from the "free citizens". Another name for inhabitants who are not citizens : American nationals.
In case you were not exposed to American law in your Socialist Studies, consider that American people (not citizens) are sovereign.
"People are supreme, not the state."
Waring v. the Mayor of Savannah, 60 GA at 93.
"The people of the state, as the successors of its former sovereign, are entitled to all the rights which formerly belonged to the king by his own prerogative."
Lansing v. Smith, (1829) 4 Wendell 9, (NY)
"At the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people and they are truly the sovereigns of the country."
Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall. 440, 463
"It will be admitted on all hands that with the exception of the powers granted to the states and the federal government, through the Constitutions, the people of the several states are unconditionally sovereign within their respective states."
Ohio L. Ins. & T. Co. v. Debolt 16 How. 416, 14 L.Ed. 997
In America, however, the case is widely different. Our government is founded upon compact. Sovereignty was, and is, in the people.
Glass vs The Sloop Betsey, 3 Dall 6 (1794)
"GOVERNMENT (Republican Government)- One in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whom those powers are specially delegated."
- - - Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, P. 695
Did you give consent, knowingly, willingly and intentionally?
Did you change from the republican form of government to the democratic form?
Did you voluntarily surrender your Creator's endowment for access to entitlements under FICA / Socialist In Security?
Who told you that you were born a "U.S. citizen"?
CITIZEN - ... Citizens are members of a political community who, in their associative capacity, have established or submitted themselves to the dominion of government for the promotion of the general welfare and the protection of their individual as well as collective rights.
- - - Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Ed. p.244
SUBJECT - One that owes allegiance to a sovereign and is governed by his laws. ...Men in free governments are subjects as well as citizens; as citizens they enjoy rights and franchises; as subjects they are bound to obey the laws. The term is little used, in this sense, in countries enjoying a republican form of government.
- - - Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 1425
"... the term 'citizen,' in the United States, is analogous to the term "subject" in the common law; the change of phrase has resulted from the change in government. ... he who before was a "subject of the King" is now a citizen of the State."
State v. Manuel, 20 N.C. 144 (1838)
Sovereign people have rights and powers.Subject citizens have government granted privileges and immunities.
Which one are you?
Hat Tip: Jeff Ganaposki - AAM
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