HSRP-614
In court records, the claim is that one person is his own sovereign and so not a United States citizen
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
In court records, the claim is that one person is his own sovereign and so not a United States citizen
Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC1 (brief item H01). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "ESTABLISHED". Cook read on govinfo (primary). Gravatt's own page not read; its wording is known only as quoted by three courts (Cook; Cooper via Smith v. Conway and Formanack). A fourth court (Freitas, W.D. Wash. 2025) attributes the companion sentence to Gravatt at 282. Manual check: read Gravatt at 282 on a primary host.
3. What it rests on
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Cook, quoting Gravatt: "The hallmark of the sovereign citizen movement is adherence to the belief that even though the person was born and resides in the United States, "he is his own sovereign and is therefore not a United States citizen."" [SRC-1129] (p. 2)
Sources: SRC-1129 -
Bey: "Bey says he's a "sovereign citizen" and therefore can't lawfully be taxed by Indiana or its subdivisions in the absence of a contract between them and him." [SRC-1130] (slip op. 2)
Sources: SRC-1130 -
Askew: "seeking a declaratory judgment that he is a sovereign citizen—and therefore not subject to the laws of the United States" [SRC-1189] (p. 1)
Sources: SRC-1189
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
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SRC-1129 · PRIORITY · Cook v. Kellogg Community Credit Union, No. 1:23-cv-843 (W.D. Mich.) — United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan (Kent, M.J.) (2024)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S01. CITATION as the block gives it (S01): Cook v. Kellogg Community Credit Union, No. 1:23-cv-843 (W.D. Mich. June 26, 2024) (report and recommendation, Kent, M.J.), ECF No. 20; pinpoints to the slip pages. READ AT: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-miwd-1_23-cv-00843/pdf/USCOURTS-miwd-1_23-cv-00843-0.pdf SCOPE PAGE; PRIMARY.
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SRC-1130 · PRIORITY · Bey v. State of Indiana, 847 F.3d 559 (7th Cir.) — United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Posner, J.) (2017)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S03. CITATION as the block gives it (S03): Bey v. State of Indiana, No. 16-1589 (7th Cir. Feb. 3, 2017) (Posner, J.), slip opinion; reported at 847 F.3d 559 (reporter citation from Kalinowski, SRC-1167 (S51), n. 26; not checked on a reporter page). READ AT: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ca7-16-01589/pdf/USCOURTS-ca7-16-01589-0.pdf SCOPE PAGE + EDITS; PRIMARY.
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SRC-1189 · PRIORITY · Askew v. United States, No. 22-10914 (5th Cir.) — United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (per curiam) (2023)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S74. CITATION as the block gives it (S74): Askew v. United States, No. 22-10914 (5th Cir. Feb. 6, 2023) (per curiam, unpublished). READ AT: https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub/22/22-10914.0.pdf SCOPE H-ONLY; PRIMARY.
5. Counter-evidence
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The content of the claim varies by branch (state citizen, national, Moor, living man); the courts file all of them under the same heading.
Source: none linked in the register
6. Why this grade
ESTABLISHED
The register defines ESTABLISHED as: Supported directly by primary texts or published findings.
7. Correction history
No correction events are recorded. The entry's status is ACTIVE: no later entry amends, supersedes or withdraws it.
8. Related observations
No related observations are linked in the register.
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- Sovereign Citizens“In court records, the claim is that one person is his own sovereign and so not a United States citizen — ESTABLISHED”
Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /sovereign-citizens.
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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"note": "Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC1 (brief item H01). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: \"ESTABLISHED\". Cook read on govinfo (primary). Gravatt's own page not read; its wording is known only as quoted by three courts (Cook; Cooper via Smith v. Conway and Formanack). A fourth court (Freitas, W.D. Wash. 2025) attributes the companion sentence to Gravatt at 282. Manual check: read Gravatt at 282 on a primary host.",
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}Generated from hsrp-research-notes.json (register generated 2026-11-08). Nothing on this page is written by hand. 9 fields not yet recorded.