The sovereign-citizen claim that governments are secret corporations
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- The Truth About Frivolous Arguments - Section I (A to C) whole source
IRS source for rejected person, all-capital-letter, state citizenship, and United States corporation tax arguments.
- What do judicial officers need to know about sovereign citizens? whole source
Judicial benchbook source listing government-corporation, admiralty-law, birth-certificate, strawman, and all-capital-name sovereign claims.
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- preceded IRS rejects the all-caps strawman name theory 2005 The strawman claim sits inside the larger sovereign-citizen government-corporation argument.
- preceded FBI describes redemption theory as sovereign-citizen fraud 2011 Tax-agency rejection preceded later law-enforcement summaries of redemption theory.
- preceded Meads v Meads names organized pseudolegal commercial arguments 2012 Meads gave courts a broader OPCA framework for the same kind of commercial-pseudolaw package.
- preceded Courts reject admiralty-law and gold-fringe jurisdiction claims 2024 Later cases continue the same rejection of sovereign-citizen jurisdiction theories.
- preceded Judicial benchbooks classify birth-certificate and admiralty claims as pseudolaw 2026 Repeated litigation made the pseudolaw pattern a judicial-training topic.
- preceded TreasuryDirect warns that birth certificate bonds are fictitious 2026 Court training and Treasury fraud warnings describe the same birth-certificate-bond package.
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- this preceded IRS rejects the all-caps strawman name theory