Requirement for Consent

If you never consented to file, because the IRS made it impossible to consent by introducing elements of fraud, per words 1 of art, and duress by threats of penalty, they cannot maintain that you violated that consent and thereby created a cause of 2 action. 3

The average American doesn't understand four important facts about the requirement for consent: 4

1. They don't know their consent is always required by the government per the Declaration of Independence. 5 2. They don’t know that the government almost always gets their agreement but not their consent as required. 6 3. They don’t see the relationship between signing government forms and consent or agreement. They don't understand 7 that the government acting through its forms elicits their agreement to whatever the government is proposing. They 8 don’t understand that this process directly relates to applying to register to vote, casting a ballot, applying for social 9 security, assessing oneself for donations of "income" on the IRS Form 1040, etc. 10 4. They don't know that they can actually withhold their consent from government proposals and demands, either with a 11 simple no, or by "agreeing" [not consenting] and signing government forms or cooperating with the government, the 12 way one might cooperate with a mugger, "under duress." 13 Consent, a concurrence of wills, a meeting of minds, a desire on the part of both parties for something to happen, is 14 necessary and lawfully required whether one is applying for a driver license, responding to a traffic violation, or refusing to 15 convict at the prosecutor's behest in a criminal trial. In criminal trials, withholding consent from the legislature, the 16 prosecutor and the court, is the foundation of jury nullification. That activity is described below: 17

Jury Nullification: Empowering the Jury as the Fourth Branch of Government , Form #09.010 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm

So whether one is responding to a parking ticket, or reprimanding the legislature, prosecutor and court in the jury room, 18 consent of the governed is first and foremost at the heart of responding to all government related activity. 19

The above is completely consistent with the following:

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Reasonable Belief About Income Tax Liability , Form #05.007 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm

7 Things you CANNOT lawfully consent to 21

7.1 God forbids believers to contract away rights to government or civil rulers 14 22

Here is the First Commandment from Exodus 20:1-6:

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1.I, the Lord, am your God, who [acted and] brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

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[Therefore...]

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2.You shall not have other gods besides me.

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God makes it clear that the state gods of Pharaoh could not release them from slavery. Though Pharaoh was obstinate in 27 keeping the Israelites in slavery...he could not prevent the God of Israel from delivering them. 28

Then God claimed the allegiance that the Israelites formerly had for the Pharaoh. Allegiance is a covenant between a 29 people and their protector. From now on God would be the only protector of the Israelites. 30

These are the elements of the First Commandment. And it’s easy enough to recite. However to understand the 31 Commandment, there are four things to take note of so that you can grasp what obligations you incur under this, the first 32 condition of God’s covenant with humanity. 33

14 Adapted from “First Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Choose Slavery to Earthly Government” , Boundaries for Effective Ministry, http://www.boundaries-for-effective-ministry.org/first-commandment.html.

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Copyright Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry, http://sedm.org Form 05.003, Rev. 7-23-2013

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