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The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States. Sovereign citizens have their own pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of common law and claim to not be ...
The Moorish sovereign citizen movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign citizen movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a small sub-group of sovereign citizens that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America, in that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith.
German counter-extremism official Heiko Homburg states that the Reichsbürger movement is an amalgamation of right-wing extremists, esoterics, and sovereign citizens, and that the movement attracts conspiracy theorists, the economically troubled, and "people who are a little mentally disordered".
Freemen on the land, like sovereign citizens, share the core beliefs commonly seen in pseudolaw. [10] Their theories have been broadly defined as "see[ing] the state as a corporation with no authority over free citizens". [15] Freemen's beliefs are largely based on misunderstandings and wishful thinking, and do not stand up to legal scrutiny. [49]
Strawman theory. The strawman theory (also called the strawman illusion) is a pseudolegal conspiracy theory originating in the redemption/A4V movement and prevalent in antigovernment and tax protester movements such as sovereign citizens and freemen on the land. The theory holds that an individual has two personas, one of flesh and blood and ...
v. t. e. Under United States federal law, a U.S. citizen or national may voluntarily and intentionally give up that status and become an alien with respect to the United States. Relinquishment is distinct from denaturalization, which in U.S. law refers solely to cancellation of illegally procured naturalization.
Sovereigntism, sovereignism or souverainism (from French: souverainisme, pronounced [su.vʁɛ.nism] ⓘ, meaning "the ideology of sovereignty ") is the notion of having control over one's conditions of existence, whether at the level of the self, social group, region, nation or globe. [1] Typically used for describing the acquiring or ...
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. [1][a] Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, [3][4][5] international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality, [6][7] these two notions being conceptually different dimensions of collective membership.