Sovereign Citizen Movement
- Sovereign Citizen Movement
The sovereign citizen movement is a network of American litigants who claim to be "sovereign citizens"; that is, people who have certain rights under English common law and are not accountable to the federal government. The litigants advance this concept in opposition to "federal citizens" who, they believe, have unknowingly forfeited their rights by accepting some aspect of federal law.[cite journal|first=Kevin|last=Carey|title=Too Weird for "The Wire"|journal=Washington Monthly|date=July 2008|url=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2008/0805.carey.html|accessdate=2008-07-19] ]The sovereign citizen concept originated in the Posse Comitatus movement as a teaching of Christian Identity minister William P. Gale. It has gone on to influence the tax protester movement, the Christian Patriot movement and the Redemption movement.
Courts have consistently ruled that the concept of a sovereign citizen has no legal merit.[cite book|first=Bernard J|last=Sussman|title=Idiot Legal Arguments: A Casebook for Dealing with Extremist Legal Arguments|work=Militia Watchdog Archives|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|url=http://www.adl.org/mwd/suss1.asp|accessdate=2007-09-13] ]References
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