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It describes shared beliefs that sovereign individuals retain a common-law identity exempt from authority, while “federal citizens” are seen as having traded away rights. 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The organizations to which many sovereign citizens belong have a variety of names: Moorish Nation, The Aware Group, Washitaw Nation, the North Carolina American Republic, Republic of United States of America, etc. The same views may be embraced by Freeman, Freemen on the Land, Sons of Liberty, and Aryan Nation. Many sovereign citizens may not affiliate with any of those groups. In one way or another, though, all sovereign citizens, whether tied to an organization or not, adhere to a view that the existing American governmental structure, including the courts and law enforcement, is illegitimate and that they, the sovereign citizens, retain an individual common law identity exempting them from the authority of those fraudulent government institutions.  \nSovereign citizens may issue their own driver’s licenses and vehicle tags, create and file their own liens against government officials who cross them, question judges about the validity of their oaths, challenge the applicability of traffic laws to them and, in extreme cases, resort to violence to protect their imagined rights. They speak an odd quasi-legal language and believe that by not capitalizing names and by writing in red and using certain catch phrases they can avoid any liability in our judicial system. They even think they can lay claim to vast sums of money held by the United States Treasury, based on the premise that the government has secretly pledged them as security for the country’s debts. Based on these beliefs, and a twisted understanding of the Uniform Commercial Code, they try various schemes that they think discharge them from responsibility for their debts.  \nAt their most harmless, sovereign citizens are cranks who talk what seems like gibberish to copsand magistrates and judges and then become law abiding when they face real legal trouble. At a different level, they may severely burden the courts and other government offices with the filing of hundreds and hundreds of pages of nonsensical documents. And at their very worst, they may resort to deadly force to defend their strange beliefs.  \nWhat they believe  \nAlthough the myriad sovereign citizen groups, and individuals not tied to a particular group, all have their own idiosyncrasies in their beliefs, they tend to share some common ideas. The first is that  \nthere are two classes of citizens within the United States. One class is sovereign or “de jure” citizens or“original citizens of the states.” The second class, first created by the Fourteenth Amendment, is federal or U.S. citizens. Sovereign citizens enjoy all the rights of the constitution, but federal citizens do not. Federal citizens, the sovereigns believe, have bargained away their freedoms by accepting benefits from the United States government. Much of what sovereigns do is intended to rescind or denounce that federal citizenship and reclaim their common law sovereign citizen status with all its rights. That helps explain why they refuse to get drivers’ licenses or register vehicles, reject Social Security, avoid using ZIP codes, and may not pay taxes, because those are all forms of contracting with the government and accepting the lesser class of federal citizenship.  \nReconstruction history is important to many sovereign citizens. Their view is that the governments established in southern states after the Civil War were imposed against the will of and without the consent of the citizens and are not lawful. 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