HSRP-639

Personal jurisdiction rests on presence, not citizenship or heritage

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1. Header

Number: HSRP-639
Category: Natural Law
Grade: ~~WITHDRAWN~~
Status: ~~WITHDRAWN~~
Entry form: Full
First entered: 2026-10-18
Last revised: 2026-11-06
Register entry: https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-639

2. The claim, in full

Personal jurisdiction rests on presence, not citizenship or heritage

WITHDRAWN as OVER-BROAD for this register's standard, on the author's assessment of 2026-11-06, and NOT refuted at source. No pinpoint failed, no quotation was found wrong, no source was retracted.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 A BARE WITHDRAWN WOULD MISREPORT THE HISTORY: the claim was not tested and found wanting, it was judged too broad for this register to carry, and every pinpoint under it stands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-SC26 (brief item H26). THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "ESTABLISHED in positive law; natural law agrees as to presence; jurisdiction gained by forcible abduction — CONTESTED in international law". White is unpublished; Burke (7th Cir. 2005) read only as quoted in White and Taylor-Bey. AMENDED 2026-10-18: Split grade. Ker-Frisbie and Alvarez-Machain (6–3) govern in positive law; the Inter-American Juridical Committee's 1992 opinion against the decision was read only in secondary accounts and is not cited.

3. What it rests on

White: "Neither the citizenship nor the heritage of a defendant constitutes a key ingredient to a district court's jurisdiction in criminal prosecutions" [SRC-1159]

Sources: SRC-1159
Taylor-Bey: "In any event, personal jurisdiction does not require the defendant to be a United States citizen." [SRC-1203]

Sources: SRC-1203
Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. at 670: "The fact of respondent's forcible abduction does not therefore prohibit his trial in a court in the United States for violations of the criminal laws of the United States." [SRC-1273]

Sources: SRC-1273

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

SRC-1159 · PRIORITY · United States v. White, 480 F. App'x 193 (4th Cir.) — United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (per curiam) (2012)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded

Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S43. CITATION as the block gives it (S43): United States v. White, 480 F. App'x 193 (4th Cir. 2012) (per curiam, unpublished). READ AT: https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/114999.U.pdf SCOPE PAGE; PRIMARY. Unpublished; no reporter page pinpoint.
SRC-1203 · PRIORITY · Taylor-Bey v. State, 53 N.E.3d 1230 (Ind. Ct. App.) — Court of Appeals of Indiana (Vaidik, C.J.) (2016)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded

Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S88. CITATION as the block gives it (S88): Taylor-Bey v. State, No. 49A05-1503-CR-123, 53 N.E.3d 1230 (Ind. Ct. App. 2016) (Vaidik, C.J.). READ AT: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3198862/tyreese-taylor-bey-v-state-of-indiana/ SCOPE H-ONLY; PRIMARY. Transcription that does not show the date or docket. In this pass the docket was found in The Indiana Lawyer and the reporter citation in a citation index (which labels the case unverified). ELEMENT(S) OMITTED AS UNCONFIRMED (I08): docket and reporter citation from secondary sources; date to confirm.
SRC-1273 · PRIORITY · United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 — Supreme Court of the United States (Rehnquist, C.J.) (1992)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded

Entered 2026-10-18 by the SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, from source entry S177. CITATION as the block gives it (S177): United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655, 669–70 (1992) (Rehnquist, C.J.) (6–3). READ AT: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep504/usrep504655/usrep504655.pdf ; https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/504/655/ SCOPE H-ONLY; PRIMARY.

5. Counter-evidence

Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. at 669: "Respondent and his amici may be correct that respondent's abduction was "shocking," Tr. of Oral Arg. 40, and that it may be in violation of general international law principles." [SRC-1273]

Sources: SRC-1273

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 CONTESTED, on this reasoning, kept because the withdrawal does not retract it: "ESTABLISHED in positive law; natural law agrees as to presence; jurisdiction gained by forcible abduction — CONTESTED in international law"

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

2026-10-18: The SOVEREIGN CITIZENS amendment, item AH26A — Written by the main block as NEW-SC26, then amended by the amendment block in the same pass. The write-then-amend order is deliberate: the amendment is a separate authorial act and the record's history shows it. Fields changed: Grade; EVIDENCE; COUNTER-EVIDENCE; STATUS NOTES.
2026-11-06: Withdrawn as over-broad; page claim line removed — 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 claim line came off /sovereign-citizens in the same pass. The record, its number, its proof page, its sources and its relations are all retained.
2026-11-06: Status set to WITHDRAWN — Set to match HSRP-617, the closest precedent, which carries WITHDRAWN as both grade and status. The reason is unchanged and unchanged in kind: over-broad for this register's standard on the author's assessment of 2026-11-06, and NOT refuted at source.

Later entries that mention this observation: HSRP-665.

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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