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The very basis of the government’s police powers, in fact, is only to provide a remedy for past harm but not to compel any 1 other behavior. Since the Constitution in the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1 mandates “equal protection of the laws” to 2 everyone, then all laws dealing with such protection must be “public” and affect everyone equally in society: 3

“ Public law . A general classification of law, consisting generally of constitutional, administrative, criminal, and international law, concerned with the organization of the state, the relations between the state and the people who compose it, the responsibilities of public officers to the state, to each other, and to private persons, and the relations of states to one another. An act which relates to the public as a whole. It may be (1) general (applying to all persons within the jurisdiction), (2) local (applying to a geographical area), or (3) special

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(relating to an organization which is charged with a public interest).

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That portion of law that defines rights and duties with either the operation of government, or the relationships

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between the government and the individuals, associations, and corporations.

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That branch or department of law which is concerned with the state in its political or sovereign capacity, including constitutional and administrative law, and with the definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where the state is regarded as the subject of the right or object of the duty, --including criminal law and criminal procedure, --and the law of the state, considered in its quasi private personality, i.e., as capable of holding or exercising rights, or acquiring and dealing with property, in the character of an individual. That portion of law which is concerned with political conditions; that is to say, with the powers, rights, duties, capacities, and incapacities which are peculiar to political superiors, supreme and subordinate. In one sense, a designation given to international law, as distinguished from the laws of a particular nation or state. In another sense, a law or statute that applies to the people generally of the nation or state adopting or enacting it, is denominated a public law, as contradistinguished from a private law, affecting an individual or a small

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See also General law. Compare Private bill; Private law; Special law.”

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[ Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 1230]

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In a Republican form of government, passage of all public laws requires the explicit consent of the governed. That consent 25 is provided through our elected representatives and is provided collectively rather than individually. Any measure passed 26 by a legislature which: 27

1. Does not limit itself to prohibiting and punishing harmful behaviors. 28 2. Does not apply to everyone equally (equal protection of the laws). 29 3. Was passed without the consent of the governed. 30

. . .is therefore voluntary and cannot be called a “Public law”. Any law that does not confine itself strictly to public 31 protection and which is enforced through the police powers of the state is classified as “Private Law”, “Special Law”, 32 “Administrative Law”, or “Civil Law”. The only way that such measures can adversely affect our rights or become 33 enforceable against anyone is by the exercise of our private right to contract. We must consent individually to anything that 34 does not demonstrably prevent harm. Anything that we privately consent to and which affects only those who consent is 35 called “private law”. 36

“ Private law. That portion of the law which defines, regulates, enforces, and administers relationships among individuals, associations, and corporations. As used in contradistinction to public law, the term means all that part of the law which is administered between citizen and citizen, or which is concerned with the definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where both the person in whom the right inheres and the person upon whom the obligation is incident are private individuals. See also Private bill; Special law. Compare

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Since the foundation of this country, the U.S. Congress has had two sections of laws they pass in the Statutes at Large: 44 Public Law and Private Law. Every year, the Statutes at Large are published in two volumes: Public Law and Private Law. 45 In many cases, a bill they pass will identify itself as “public law” and be published in the volume labeled “Public law” 46 when in fact it has provisions that are actually “private law”. Then they will obfuscate the definitions or not include 47 definitions, called “words of art”, so as to fool you into thinking that what is actually a private law is a public law. In 48 effect, they will procure your consent through constructive fraud and deceit using the very words of the law itself. 49

“ Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law , have fellowship with You? They gather together against the life of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. But the Lord has been my defense, and my God the rock of my refuge. He has brought on them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own

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