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Example illustration of a sovereign citizen homemade license plate. The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists found mainly in English-speaking common law countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
[2] [3] As a result, they may sometimes be referred to as sovereign sheriffs. [4] The movement is related to previous nullification and interposition notions, [1] and promotes such efforts. [5] It has been described as far-right by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [6] The CSPOA has claimed a membership of 400. [3]
The Sovereign Citizen movement is a disparate collection of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of anti-government radicals who believe they're not subject to local or national laws or authority.
The authority for use of police power under American Constitutional law has its roots in English and European common law traditions. [3] Even more fundamentally, use of police power draws on two Latin principles, sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas ("use that which is yours so as not to injure others"), and salus populi suprema lex esto ("the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law ...
A run-of-the-mill traffic stop quickly escalated when a Florida driver claiming to be a sovereign citizen ... on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence, the statement ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Moorish sovereign citizens as an extremist anti-government group. [3] [9] Tactics used by the group include filing false deeds and property claims, [10] false liens against government officials, frivolous legal motions to overwhelm courts, and invented legalese used in court appearances and filings. [2]
Sovereign citizens often retaliate through acts of "paper terrorism," which involves bombarding the legal system with frivolous lawsuits or falsified documents. Violence is the most extreme form ...
However, Justice David Souter, writing for a four-Justice dissent in Alden, said the states surrendered their sovereign immunity when they ratified the Constitution. He read the amendment's text as reflecting a narrow form of sovereign immunity that limited only the diversity jurisdiction of the federal courts.