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are equal under our system of law. In a government of delegated powers, you can’t delegate sovereign immunity to a 1 “government” without ALSO having the SAME power against them. 2

"The question is not what power the federal government ought to have, but what powers, in fact, have been given by the people... The federal union is a government of delegated powers. It has only such as are expressly conferred upon it, and such as are reasonably to be implied from those granted. In this respect, we differ radically from nations where all legislative power, without restriction or limitation, is vested in a parliament or other legislative body subject to no restriction except the discretion of its members. " (Congress)

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[U.S. v. William M. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936) ]

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“Derativa potestas non potest esse major primitiva. The power which is derived cannot be greater than that

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from which it is derived. ”

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SOURCE: http://famguardian.org/Publications/BouvierMaximsOfLaw/BouviersMaxims.htm]

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A violation of the above principal turns government into an unconstitutional civil religion with “supernatural powers” that 13 are greater than their ONLY “natural” source, which is human beings like you who delegated them their powers to begin 14 with. That civil religion is described in: 15

Socialism: The New American Civil Religion , Form #05.016 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm

In a system of government where the Bill of Rights recognizes the sovereignty of all human beings, the only way your 16 rights can be adversely affected is if you consent to lose them or contract them away in exchange for some “ benefit ” . 17 Below is how Black’s Law Dictionary defines “consent”: 18

“consent . A concurrence of wills. Voluntarily yielding the will to the proposition of another; acquiescence or compliance therewith. Agreement; approval; permission; the act or result of coming into harmony or accord. Consent is an act of reason, accompanied with deliberation, the mind weighing as in a balance the good or evil on each side. It means voluntary agreement by a person in the possession and exercise of sufficient mental capacity to make an intelligent choice to do something proposed by another. It supposes a physical power to act, a moral power of acting, and a serious, determined, and free use of these powers. Consent is implied in

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every agreement. It is an act unclouded by fraud, duress, or sometimes even mistake.

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Willingness in fact that an act or an invasion of an interest shall take place. Restatement, Second, Torts §10A.

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As used in the law of rape "consent" means consent of the will, and submission under the influence of fear or terror cannot amount to real consent. There must be an exercise of intelligence based on knowledge of its significance and moral quality and there must be a choice between resistance and assent. And if a woman resists to the point where further resistance would be useless or until her resistance is overcome by force or

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violence, submission thereafter is not "consent".

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See also Acquiescence; Age of consent; Assent; Connivance; Informed consent;" voluntary

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[ Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 305]

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1.2 Consent is the ONLY way PUBLIC civil statutes and PRIVATE contracts can acquire the 34 “ force of law ” 35

Consent, in fact, is what creates ALL law, whether public or private: 36

“ Consensus facit legem.

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Consent makes the law. A contract is a law between the parties, which can acquire force only by consent. ”

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SOURCE: http://famguardian.org/Publications/BouvierMaximsOfLaw/BouviersMaxims.htm]

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Only the criminal laws can impose a universal, nonconsensual obligation or “duty” equally upon everyone, and that duty is 41 to refrain from injuring the equal rights of our sovereign “ neighbor ” . This, in fact, is a fulfillment of the second of two 42 great commandments found in Matt. 22:36-40, which requires us to love our neighbor, because you don’t hurt people you 43 love: 44

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up

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

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