HSRP-637
Each counter-authority places sovereignty in the people as a body; no authority found gives one citizen, alone, a sovereignty that exempts him from law
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
Each counter-authority places sovereignty in the people as a body; no authority found gives one citizen, alone, a sovereignty that exempts him from law
WITHDRAWN as OVER-BROAD for this register's standard, on the author's assessment of 2026-11-06, and NOT refuted at source. No pinpoint failed, no quotation was found wrong, no source was retracted. PAGE CLAIM LINE REMOVED FROM /sovereign-citizens ON 2026-11-06 in the same pass, as off-scope to that page's subject. This record therefore prints on no page. A BARE WITHDRAWN WOULD MISREPORT THE HISTORY: the claim was not tested and found wanting, it was judged too broad for this register to carry, and every pinpoint under it stands verified. WHAT WAS **NOT** DONE, recorded so a later reader does not infer it: the object was not deleted, the number was not reused or retired, the proof page was not removed, no source record was altered, and no relation on any other record was cut. PRIOR NOTE, KEPT IN FULL: Cited on: /sovereign-citizens. Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, tag NEW-SC24 (brief item H24). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "PROBABLE". PROBABLE: The American-texts pass (limited search) and the case-law pass (WORKING, absence across a non-exhaustive pass). Wilson 456–57 wording PROBABLE until checked on the govinfo scan.
3. What it rests on
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Wilson, 2 U.S. at 456: "In this sense, the term can receive no application, for it has no object in the Constitution of the United states." [SRC-1153]
Sources: SRC-1153 -
Wilson, 2 U.S. at 456: "If one freeman, an original sovereign, may do all this, why may not an aggregate of free men, a collection of original sovereigns, do this likewise?" [SRC-1153]
Sources: SRC-1153 -
Perez, 356 U.S. at 65 (dissent): "Whatever may be the scope of its powers to regulate the conduct and affairs of all persons within its jurisdiction, a government of the people cannot take away their citizenship" [SRC-1156]
Sources: SRC-1156 -
Netolitzky, p. 799: "(2) "sovereign," in the sense that Sovereign Citizens perceive state authority as "second-hand," and to only exist as delegated by "We the People."" [SRC-1157]
Sources: SRC-1157
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
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SRC-1153 · PRIORITY · Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 — Supreme Court of the United States (Jay, C.J., and Wilson, J.) (1793)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S36. CITATION as the block gives it (S36): Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (1793): Jay, C.J., at 471–72; Wilson, J., at 456–57. Jay: READ AT: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chisholm_v._Georgia/Separate_Jay ; https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-05-02-0251 ; https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/2/419/case.html ; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USREPORTS-2/pdf/USREPORTS-2-419.pdf SCOPE PAGE + EDITS; SECONDARY. Jay was read on transcriptions: Wikisource (Dallas text) and Founders Online (1793 pamphlet text). Their words agree; their punctuation differs. The govinfo text layer ends before Jay. Wilson at 456–57 was read on Justia only, so the wording is PROBABLE until checked on the govinfo scan. The "binds himself" sentence was read on the govinfo text layer. The holding was reversed by the Eleventh Amendment (SRC-1144 (S21)). Not yet verified.
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SRC-1156 · PRIORITY · Perez v. Brownell, 356 U.S. 44 — Supreme Court of the United States (Warren, C.J., dissenting) (1958)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S39. CITATION as the block gives it (S39): Perez v. Brownell, 356 U.S. 44 (1958) (Warren, C.J., dissenting). READ AT: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USREPORTS-356/pdf/USREPORTS-356-44.pdf SCOPE PAGE; PRIMARY. A dissent. Perez was overruled by Afroyim v. Rusk (1967); the overruling sentence was not re-read.
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SRC-1157 · PRIORITY · The Dead Sleep Quiet: History of the Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument Phenomenon in Canada – Part II — Netolitzky, Donald J. (2023)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S40. CITATION as the block gives it (S40): Donald J. Netolitzky, "The Dead Sleep Quiet: History of the Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument Phenomenon in Canada – Part II" (2023) 60:3 Alta L Rev 795. READ AT: https://albertalawreview.com/index.php/ALR/article/download/2737/2686 SCOPE PAGE; SECONDARY.
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SRC-1201 · PRIORITY · Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 — Supreme Court of the United States (1857)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recordedEntered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S86. CITATION as the block gives it (S86): Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393, 404 (1857). READ AT: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USREPORTS-60/pdf/USREPORTS-60-393-2.pdf SCOPE H-ONLY; PRIMARY. The citizenship holding was overturned by the Fourteenth Amendment (Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. at 73).
5. Counter-evidence
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Wilson's strongest individual-sovereign line (2 U.S. 458), read on Justia in the site check (its context was not recorded): "The sovereign, when traced to his source, must be found in the man." [SRC-1153] At 456 he calls each freeman "an original sovereign", bound by law because "he binds himself".
Sources: SRC-1153 -
Dred Scott (holding repudiated): "every citizen is one of this people, and a constituent member of this sovereignty" [SRC-1201] (60 U.S. at 404)
Sources: SRC-1201
6. Why this grade
WITHDRAWN as OVER-BROAD for this register's standard, on the author's assessment of 2026-11-06, and NOT refuted at source. No pinpoint failed, no quotation was found wrong, no source was retracted. THE GRADE THIS REPLACES WAS PROBABLE, on this reasoning, kept because the withdrawal does not retract it: "PROBABLE"
The register defines WITHDRAWN as: The entry was withdrawn on evidentiary review with nothing replacing it; retained on the record rather than deleted.
7. Correction history
Later entries that mention this observation: HSRP-626, HSRP-635.
8. Related observations
No related observations are linked in the register.
9. Where this appears on the site
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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