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If what we have percieved as government is actually a corporation, then we should address it as such and not as "government."

Corp. U.S.

This page examines in detail how the government of the United States became a corporation (known hereafter as "Corp. U.S."). This is arguably the most important part of our history that must be realized if we are to reclaim our country. This page will be continually added to as research continues and more evidence is discovered the elucidates this aspect of American History.

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A Powerful Photo of African Americans Collecting Bones of Soldiers Killed in Battle - Cold Harbor, VA, April 1865.

The Civil War

The Civil War was one of this country's darkest hours. Approximately 620,000 people lost their lives (many to disease), and the country was forever changed. Despite the North's triumph in preserving the Union, the Republic was left particularly vulnerable to subversion. The aftermath of the war is where the history of United States Inc. begins. Accounts of this period focus primarily on reconstruction and freeing the slaves but ignore crucial legal and governmental changes. These neglected changes affect us today as much as or more than any other consequence of the Civil War.

References

General Orders No. 100 can be found here at Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

General Orders No. 100

On April 24th, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued General Orders No. 100 establishing Martial Law. This required states to support the North (conscribe troops and provide money) or be regarded as enemies of the state. It is important to note the first two articles of the Order. The first article explains how to determine whether an area is under the jurisdiction of martial law:

Article 1.
A place, district, or country occupied by an enemy stands, in consequence of the occupation, under the Martial Law of the invading or occupying army, whether any proclamation declaring Martial Law, or any public warning to the inhabitants, has been issued or not. Martial Law is the immediate and direct effect and consequence of occupation or conquest.
The presence of a hostile army proclaims its Martial Law.

Art. 2.
Martial Law does not cease during the hostile occupation, except by special proclamation, ordered by the commander in chief; or by special mention in the treaty of peace concluding the war, when the occupation of a place or territory continues beyond the conclusion of peace as one of the conditions of the same.

Martial law authority is still in effect today. This means that the president retains the ability to act independently of congress (dictatorially) to do anything that is not inconsistent with the Constitution. This is the foundation for today's Presidential Executive Orders. If this was not so, it would be considerably more difficult for a president to establish law independently since the Constitution delegates this responsibility to the legislature. In 1780, before the Constitution was drafted, Massachusetts put a statement into its Constitution that outlined what was to become the theory of division of power for our country:

"In the government of this commonwealth the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them -- to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men."

There is no other suitable explanation for how this division of power can be lawfully violated.

References

The Organic Act can be found here at the Library of Congress (Chapter 62, 16 Statutes at Large, 419).

Or can be downloaded as a pdf (3.1 MB) here .

The Organic Act of 1871

The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 established a private corporation that could carry out the needs of the government under martial law. It was also necessary to protect officials from being held liable for acts carried out during reconstruction. The "District of Colombia" is a corporation owned by the government which trademarked the names "United States" "U.S.A." etc. An excerpt from the Organic Act is provided below showing that the "District of Colombia constituted a body corporate for municipal purposes."

We should remember that this was legally done because the Constitution allows Congress:

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

This Act was revised in 1874, but was passed in 1878 (still "constituting a body corporate") and the District was to be governed by three presidentially appointed commisioners (instead of the presidentially appointed governor and council from the 1871 Act). A Supreme Court Decision (DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. THOMPSON CO., 346 U.S. 100; 1953) verifies this information:

Congress had power to delegate its lawmaking authority to the Legislative Assembly of the municipal corporation created by the Organic Act of 1871 for the government of the District of Columbia.

The creation of "United States Inc." is complete.

Source of Quote:

Financial History of the United States: Fiscal, Monetary, Banking, and Tariff, Including Financial Administration and State and Local Finance. Contributors: Herman E. Krooss - author, Paul Studenski - author. Publisher: McGraw-Hill. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1952. Page Number: 226.

Debt

United States Inc. then began issuing bonds to cover the expenses of running the government because the fiscal resources of the government were diminishing. This situation can be seen in an excerpt from Financial History of the United States:

The gold standard could be maintained only by stopping the drain on the Treasury gold reserve or by devising a means for replenishing it continuously. The problem required one or more of the following: a readjustment of American prices to bring them more into line with international prices, a rebirth of European confidence in American securities, a revival of business activity at home, the retirement of a large part of the paper currency, or the elimination of the Treasury deficit. Manifestly, none of these could be brought about quickly. In the meanwhile, therefore, the administration had to choose between abandoning the gold standard and replenishing its reserve by borrowing gold from private holders. The first choice was not even considered by the Cleveland administration.

But "the families" who were buying these short-term bonds soon came to collect, and the treasury could not cover this expense. A means for repayment was developed by those holding the bonds that included the gold in the treasury (actual government) as well as the assets in United States Inc.'s treasury. Now the government had a problem. They were square, but they still needed money to continue running the government, and those who were able to lend the government money were now aware of the government's inability to repay debt in full. Those who originally bought the bonds offered the government a deal...

The Federal Reserve Read More

The Federal Reserve System provided the government of the United States a way to continue conducting the business of government without admitting their fiscal irresponsibility to the people. United States Inc. and the Federal Reserve, acting as two private corporations, reached an agreement, the Federal Reserve Act, that would allow the government to be appropriately funded while assets were secured.

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