The Texas Assembly, Annotated

The federal government has operated continuously since 1789 — Congress in session every year, unbroken presidential succession, an uninterrupted federal judiciary. No court has recognized any period of "abeyance." The 14th Amendment (1868) was ratified under Article V and treated as valid by every court since.

The Articles of Confederation were superseded by the Constitution in 1789; the Confederation Congress dissolved itself. No surviving entity called "the States of America" operates under the Articles. "The United States of America" is the name used in the Constitution itself (Art. I, § 1), not a DBA of a separate holding company.

No court recognizes a legal distinction based on article capitalization. State governments were reorganized under the Reconstruction Acts and readmitted; Texas was readmitted March 30, 1870. The Supreme Court affirmed the continuity of state government.

Reconstruction ended politically by 1877. All former Confederate states regained full representation. No authority supports the idea that Reconstruction remains "open" or that private assemblies may complete it. The Guarantee Clause commits questions of republican government to Congress, not private bodies.

A historical-narrative claim. No treaty, statute, or adjudicated finding establishes covert British or French control of U.S. institutions. The Treaty of Paris (1783) established U.S. sovereignty; later treaties resolved remaining disputes. No court has recognized foreign sovereign control over U.S. domestic governance.

Curricula are set by state boards under state law. The Assembly's historical claims (abeyance, substitution, British control) are not part of the academic historical consensus. The "suppression" claim is unfalsifiable as stated — it treats the absence of corroboration as proof of a cover-up.

The Constitution distributes sovereign attributes between the federal government and the states. States are not fully sovereign — they ceded enumerated powers via ratification. The Supremacy Clause and 10th Amendment define the boundary; states cannot unilaterally nullify federal law.

Federal courts operate under Article III, not a separate "admiralty" system that excludes land claims. Admiralty jurisdiction (28 U.S.C. § 1333) applies specifically to maritime cases. The "land/soil vs. sea/admiralty" binary has no basis in the jurisdictional statutes or in judicial interpretation.

U.S. citizenship arises automatically at birth within U.S. territory (14th Amendment § 1; 8 U.S.C. § 1401). There is no administrative mechanism to "misidentify" citizenship and no parallel "American State National" status that exempts anyone from federal jurisdiction. Note: "state national" in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(21) means permanent allegiance to the U.S. or a U.S. territory — not a non-federal exemption.

The 14th Amendment makes U.S. citizenship primary and state citizenship derivative. Its Privileges-or-Immunities, Due-Process, and Equal-Protection Clauses are constitutional guarantees applying to U.S. citizens. Characterizing federal citizenship as rights-poor inverts the actual structure.

There is no doctrine of mutual exclusivity. The 14th Amendment establishes dual citizenship (federal and state) as the default. Joining a private assembly does not alter citizenship under federal law.

Federal district courts have general federal jurisdiction, not exclusively admiralty jurisdiction; state courts have general jurisdiction over state-law claims. The related "gold-fringe flag = admiralty" argument has been explicitly rejected.

Private citizens cannot create courts with binding authority. Judicial power is vested by Article III (federal) and state constitutions. Self-constituted "common law courts" cannot issue enforceable orders, subpoenas, or judgments. People who have issued such documents have faced criminal charges for impersonating judicial officers and filing fraudulent liens.

Filing a "declaration of political status" with a notary or private recorder does not change citizenship under federal or state law. The IRS, SSA, state DMVs, and courts are not bound by privately recorded declarations. Courts consistently hold that unilateral "status corrections" via private documents have no legal effect.

A notary attests to a signature — not to the truth or legal effect of the contents. Recording a document with a county clerk does not make its claims valid.

Actual renunciation of U.S. citizenship requires a specific statutory procedure: appearance before a U.S. consular officer abroad (8 U.S.C. § 1481(a)(5)), or in limited circumstances an officer designated by the Attorney General within the U.S. (§ 1481(a)(6)).

Filing fraudulent documents with county recorders can itself be a criminal offense.

The Global Family Group is not a chartered bank under the National Bank Act (12 U.S.C. § 21 et seq.), not regulated by the OCC, FDIC, or any state banking authority, and does not appear in the FDIC BankFind database. Deposits are not FDIC-insured.

Issuing an "AFD" instrument pegged to gold and promising "5,000 automatic monthly deposits" raises issues under fictitious-obligations law (18 U.S.C. § 514), mail/wire fraud if representations are materially false (18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343), and state money-transmission licensing (Tex. Fin. Code § 151.301).

No SEC or CFTC filing for "AFD" as a security or commodity has been identified. "Asset backed 100% Indemnified" is marketing language, not a regulated guarantee.

Private organizations cannot exercise law-enforcement authority. Peace officers derive authority from state statute (Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Art. 2.12 enumerates who qualifies). A self-designated task force has no arrest, detention, search, or seizure power. Exercising such powers risks charges for impersonating a public servant (§ 37.11) and unlawful restraint (§ 20.02).

Texas sheriffs are elected under Tex. Const. Art. V, § 23 and Tex. Local Gov't Code § 85.001. A "soil jurisdiction sheriff" chosen by a private assembly has no legal authority; asserting law-enforcement power under that title is impersonation of a public servant.

The 100-mile zone references a real CBP policy (8 C.F.R. § 287.1(a)(2); INA § 287(a)(3)), criticized by the ACLU and others. But expanded CBP authority near borders creates no legal basis for private parallel law enforcement. The argument transplants a genuine civil-liberties concern into a framework it does not support.

Texas public offices are created by the Texas Constitution and filled through statutory election or appointment. A private assembly cannot "fill" a public office; claiming to hold one without lawful election or appointment is impersonation of a public servant.

"Unincorporated" status confers no governmental authority. Unincorporated associations are recognized in Texas (Tex. Bus. Org. Code § 252.001 et seq.) as private organizations — with no sovereign immunity, no taxing power, no police power, and no judicial authority.