All sovereign citizens believe the same basic thing: whether by choice, birth, or grammatical trickery, they have somehow become “sovereign” and separate from the laws of the United States. A sovereign citizen facing a tax evasion charge, for example, might claim that a gold-fringed flag in a courtroom means the judge is operating under maritime law, and thus unable to enforce laws on land. This approach means that sovereign citizens can get into hopeless, sometimes comical situations during police stops or court hearings. Compilations with names like “Sovereign citizens getting owned” have
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